Alpine Orchard - Chapter 62

[Chapter 62 Technical Communication]

Back home at night.

My mother really did it, staring at Ye Mo, and asked him to call…

Ye Mo held the phone, hesitated, and still called.

Ye Mo originally thought that he would not be nervous, but when he held the phone, he felt uneasy, and the phone connected: “Hello?”

“Ah?”

“Have you eaten yet?” Ye Mo said.

Lin Xiaomian said in a sweet voice, “I just had dinner, and you.”

“Me too.”

“Oh.”

Ye Mo didn’t know what to say, and his mind seemed to go blank: “That, that… What are you doing.”

“Feed the crayfish.”

“Crayfish?”

“Well, feed the crayfish.” Lin Xiaomian said, “What about you?”

“Walking outside.” Ye Mo said, “I also just had dinner , take a walk outside, digest. Do you raise crayfish at home?”

“Yeah.”

“How many crayfish do you raise?” ”

More than four acres, rice field crayfish.”

“What do lobsters eat?”

“Feed.”

“Rice field How much lobster can be produced per acre?”

“I don’t know, the first year I raised lobsters in the rice fields. It used to be a special shrimp pond, but this year I let rice be planted, and rice and shrimps are mixed together.” Lin Xiaomian’s voice today is extraordinarily soft.

“The current crayfish, can I eat it?” Ye Mo asked. He couldn’t find another topic, so he could only chat awkwardly.

“It’s edible. But the crayfish are small and don’t have much meat. The crayfish will be fatter in August…”

“Your feet don’t hurt anymore, do they?”

“The swelling is gone, no more pain.” Lin Xiaomian said. It still hurts when I walk, but it won’t get better so quickly.

I just chatted about various topics for half an hour, got home, took a shower…and went to bed.

The next day, I had breakfast.

“Uncle, Second Uncle… Uncle Liu, Uncle Qian…” Eleven people came to help today. 7 men, 4 women…

and villagers who came to collect firewood.

Before, it was said that the water, electricity, and three links in Changzhu Village.

There are running water pipes, but only for irrigation purposes, not for drinking directly.

Most of the households in Changzhu Village have dug wells. Mostly two or three households have one well, and if they live in a remote place, each household has one well.

Electricity is connected to every household.

As for gas, there are natural gas pipes in the village, but not every household has installed natural gas.

Many local families do not use natural gas, but use wood-fired stoves and mobile stoves at home.

In Changzhu Village, many people work at home. Everyone moves around a lot…

every household has a mobile stove with a pot on it. That kind of movable stove can be said to be found in every household here…

Neighbors walk around very frequently, and many people can often be seen gathering around the mobile stove to eat.

Ye Mo cut down the shrubs here, as well as the hundreds of acres of mango trees before, and the firewood was chopped back by the villagers to make firewood.

Ye Mo’s parents also packed some firewood for the family.

Roasting chicken, stewing meat, and even stir-frying in a firewood pot is better than cooking with natural gas.

In one morning, dozens of acres of land were cleaned up.

Ye Ran went out to buy vegetables after ten o’clock, and then went home to cook.

At noon, everyone sits together and eats.

“Ye Mo, how much does it cost per mu for the sprinkler irrigation system?” Yun Xiuzhi asked.

“More than one thousand yuan per mu.” Ye Mo said.

“Did you buy the water pipes and nozzles online?” Niu Yougui asked.

“Yeah. Buy water pipes and sprinklers online, and then install them yourself. It’s not artificial… It costs about 1,200 yuan per mu.”

“My family has a 9-mu pomegranate garden on a big hillside. I don’t know if I can get this irrigation system. .” Niu Yougui said.

“Of course.”

Father Ye poured them beer and said, “Drip irrigation is the best way to irrigate large fruit trees. Drip irrigation saves water, and the effect is better than sprinkler irrigation. If you want to irrigate orchards, it is best It is best to use drip irrigation.”

The biggest advantage of using drip irrigation is to save water.

Although the irrigation water for orchards here is cheap, 1 ton of water costs 70 cents. But if every household uses sprinkler irrigation, the water in Niujiaoling Reservoir will definitely not be enough.

The water from Niujiaoling Reservoir irrigates an area of about 30,000 mu.

Then, from the perspective of irrigation, the effect of drip irrigation is better, and it can also be used for water and fertilizer management.

Dad Ye talked about the advantages and disadvantages of drip irrigation and sprinkler irrigation: “The area of Ye Mo’s sprinkler irrigation is only five or six hundred acres. The sprinkler irrigation here is mainly used to raise grass. After that, the more than one thousand acres will be all Use drip irrigation…”

“We heard that the orchard planting grass is not good, and you are specially raising grass here?” Qian Peng asked doubts.

“Grass planting in orchards has both advantages and disadvantages. It depends on whether the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, or the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. For example, Yumin Orchard, the land there is relatively flat, without steep slopes, easy to irrigate, and full of small fruit trees, so there is no need to plant grass specially, but it needs to be provided for. Weeding in the orchard. If you plant grass, the grass will take away the nutrients of the fruit trees… But when the fruit trees grow up, the diameter of the fruit trees is about 10 centimeters, and you can also plant grass.”

Ye Mo’s father continued: “But for orchards on hillsides, it’s better to plant grass. For example, the orchards on the back hills of your side have to plant grass. Planting grass protects slopes, prevents soil erosion, and can also lock soil moisture and reduce irrigation times. The hillside orchards are mainly planted with white clover and alfalfa, which can not only lock water and prevent soil erosion, but also increase soil fertility to a certain extent.”

Qian Peng said with a smile: “We have planted grass on the hillside before, but The grass grows so well, it feels like it has eaten a lot of fertilizer from us… Then we saw that other orchards were weeding, so we killed the grass.”

“In Dongmen Town, the relatively flat orchards usually don’t Planting grass. But in the orchard on the hillside, the technicians asked us to plant grass in the orchard… What I just said was also told by the previous technicians.” Ye Dad said: “Is there no technical station in the local area?”

“The town There is a technical station on the Internet, which has trained us before. But it is just learning a little superficiality, and there is no special guidance for technicians in the countryside.”

“Whether fruit trees can produce high yields or not depends on management. How to fertilize, how to prune… pruning Fruit tree branches, that is really a technical job. A mango tree, if the shape of the tree is corrected, the yield will be much higher.” Ye Pa went to their mango orchard before and found many problems.

The local mango production is low, not without reason.

After eating, we continued to chat for a while, and then we were going back to rest.

Aunt Yun pulled Ye Mo aside, and said in a low voice, “Have you

called

Xiao Mian?”

“It’s pretty good. It’s just…”

Aunt Yun smiled and said, “Little girls, sometimes you say things that you don’t mean. Keep in touch. When you’re free, make an appointment to have fun, and you’ll get to know her.”

“Hey, good. Yes.” Ye Mo nodded with a smile.

“You’re a big man, take the initiative.” Aunt Yun pursed her lips and said with a smile.

“Yes. Thank you, Aunt Yun…”

(end of this chapter)