sbdcsierra Chapter 422: No Insects in the Rice Fields
Chapter 422: No Insects in the Rice Fields
People don’t quite understand, “How can it become fat? Won’t it grow again after pulling it out?”
Zhou Guo said, "How could it grow again? Look, I have drained all the water into these ditches and left them to dry for a few days. When the sun is dry, the soil will crack and the grass inside will naturally rot. Then it will become excellent base fertilizer. Come on, hurry up, let's finish weeding this field in one morning, otherwise the ground will be dry and we won't be able to weed."
Ask people to go to the fields happily, and one person can work for four or five days!
You have to start pulling it out piece by piece. Well, more people means better.
Everyone looked at each other and had to go down and do what Zhou Guo did, burying the grass deep in the field. Although they had never done this before, everyone believed that what she said was true. It was better this way, as they didn't have to stand up to throw the grass, and it was more efficient.
Except for Zhou Guo, everyone else was used to doing farm work and could finish the job faster than her in a few seconds. However, this job was really delicate and the whole family worked for a whole morning before finally finishing the farm work.
Zhou Guo put his hands on his waist and breathed a sigh of relief. "Fortunately, fortunately, we have finished it. If we hadn't finished it, we wouldn't be able to go back to eat. We have to work while the ground is still wet and muddy."
Everyone couldn't help laughing.
Zhou Gu said: "If you don't know, you'd think you're an old farmer who knows so much."
Zhou Xing said with a proud look on her face: "She has been tortured by the fertilizer in the backyard for some time. The fertilizer has not fermented, but she came up with this idea. It's amazing that you can think of it. Who dares to do that?"
Li didn't quite understand the large ditches in the middle of the four sides. "If you want to dry the fields, why don't you just drain the water? Why dig all these?"
Zhou Guo shook off the mud on his hands and said, "I'm afraid that if I let it out suddenly, the water in the field will dry up all of a sudden. It will be difficult to pull out the weeds. Besides, it has been a long time since it rained, and the water in the river has gone down a lot. We have to save the water, right? Digging this deep ditch can also let the rice roots breathe, killing two birds with one stone."
Li frowned in thought after listening to her. Since she could give reasons for everything, there was nothing she could teach her. Maybe next year the ten acres of wheat fields would really have to be handed over to her.
After dinner, the family came again. Fortunately, the remaining one acre of land was divided into two small fields, so there was no need to rush. There was still time to release and pull out the weeds.
It took the family a day and a half to weed all the land.
When they were working, villagers who passed by also came to watch. They were very surprised by their novel way of processing grass and kept paying close attention.
From then on, Zhou Guo would go to the fields twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening, and sometimes once at noon.
I saw the thin mud in the field slowly drying up, the soil slowly cracking, revealing large cracks, the white roots of the seedlings turning up, the green color of the seedlings becoming much lighter, and the leaves standing upright.
She released the water from the deep ditch back into the rice fields, and if there was not enough water, she brought water from the river.
The soil, which had been dry for so many days, was poured with water. It absorbed the moisture and immediately broke into pieces. Two or three days later, the wilted seedlings became full of vitality again and looked very different from before.
The Li family members were amazed. It turned out that this method could really work. "These seedlings look better than the fields your grandfather dried!"
The others' eyes widened. They had already forgotten, "Really? Better than what Grandpa, an old farmer, grows? No way?"
I don't really believe it.
After finishing the work, Zhou Guo hid in the backyard again. He had completely ignored the wheat field and really couldn't spare the energy to do so.
People come to play at home every day. When the adults see her composting, dozens of large and small piles, and writing something with a pen and paper, they are a little confused and ask Li, "What is your Guoguo doing? Why do I see her in the backyard every time I come? It's been more than a month, right? Isn't she playing enough?"
Li sighed when she talked about this. "She is making compost. She wants to get some dead branches, rotten leaves and soil from the mountain, weeds and poisonous mushrooms from the field, and manure from the pen. She wants to pile them together and make a compost pile."
It's heartbreaking to talk about it. If it weren't for the two acres of paddy fields, she would have gone crazy and would have huddled in the back all day long. She had used up a thick stack of paper and sometimes even forgot to eat.
"Ouch! Is she fermenting manure?!" Everyone was shocked when they heard this, and slapped their thighs and said, "If she really ferments it like this, then we...then we won't be short of manure, if we don't have a shortage of manure..."
I can’t even imagine what would happen if there was no lack of fat!
Everyone was shocked. "Can the branches, rotten leaves and weeds on the mountain really be used as fertilizer?"
Li said helplessly: "That's right, he's so busy that he doesn't even have time to eat or play. It's been so long, but he's still the same. I think it's too late!"
She said it firmly, so that the villagers wouldn't get high hopes and come to ask about it every few days.
Everyone was disappointed.
"Yes, I've never heard that these can be used as fertilizer. But, didn't you bury the grass when you weeded the fields last time? Did the weeds grow back later?"
I have really seen this with my own eyes. The villagers are also very concerned about these two acres of land. They watch them all day long and the seedlings are growing better and better. The most important thing is that from the time they were small seedlings to now, I have never seen any insects on these rice leaves. There are no insects at all.
Everyone remembered and asked, "Besides, how come your rice seedlings have never had any bugs? There are a lot more bugs in our wheat field. These days, the whole family goes to the fields and we don't need to feed our chickens. They are laying eggs."
Speaking of this, Li was also confused. "I can't figure it out either. Apart from applying a lot of fertilizer, there's nothing special. We didn't use anything else. Either the two acres of land are good, so there are no insects, or there was a lot of snow last winter, and all the insects in the ground were frozen to death?"
Although there were insects in their wheat fields, generally speaking, there were not as many as in other families. I remembered that as soon as the snow stopped last year, Zhou Guo carried a shovel and hoe to the field and pressed the snow into the ground. Could it be this reason?
In fact, the weather this year is a bit dry. Although it has rained a few times in the past few months, it was not much each time and the water in the river has also receded.
Every family watered the fields in the same way, but their wheat seedlings seemed to grow better than others.
The others obviously didn't believe this reason. "Our fields are all in the same place. Your field is covered with so much snow, and so is mine. We are under the same sky. How can the snow in your field be different from ours?"
Li looked at Wang Fugui's wife who was pregnant and said, "Your wheat fields have fewer insects, and they are not just ours. Maybe we were lucky, and the two plots we were lucky enough to get were better."
Wang Fugui's wife thought about it and clapped her hands, saying, "I know. Last winter, when our head saw the snow stop, your Zhou Guo carried a shovel and hoe to the field to press the snow. You may not have noticed it, but our head noticed it and thought there was no loss, so he followed behind and did it because he had nothing else to do. Do you think this is the reason, huh?"