Chapter 621: Spring Farming
In order to have a good harvest during the years of natural disasters, in addition to hardworking farmers, fertile soil, high-quality water sources, biological agents to kill pests and diseases, and greenhouses to prevent rainstorms, high-quality seeds are also needed.
When the base selects land outside the safe zone to build a territory, the soil and water source issues are taken into consideration.
The soil and water quality in the northern area are good. The rivers flowing through here are low-pollution water. During the non-rainstorm or snowstorm period, the content of chlorine in the water is between 14-17‰, which can be used to irrigate farmland directly. However, if you want to prevent the quality of crops from declining, it is best to filter the water before irrigation.
The cost of filtering irrigation water is too high, so except for the seventh territory, the lords directly use river water for irrigation. This also increases the chlorine content of crops during growth, increases the content of chlorine in plants, and reduces quality.
This means that the biggest obstacle for lords to expand production is the lack of sufficient high-quality seeds.
In the territory where it is unable to build a standardized greenhouse that can isolate the harmful elements, the lords can only select the 1% cultivatable optimized seeds from the crops planted as the seeds for the next crop.
If the cultivatable optimized seeds do not appear, they can only use points to buy seeds sold by the territory management department or other lords at a high price.
The emergence of Gaoyi element soil can alleviate this problem to a certain extent. Because the content of harmful elements in the crops planted in Gaoyi element soil increases slowly or even does not increase, this provides conditions for the lords to cultivate high-quality seeds in their own territories.
In other words, Gaoyi element soil can maintain the stability of seeds at a low cost and even cultivate better seeds.
The Gaoyi element soil in Xiaqing's territory forms a narrow strip that is not straight and arranged along the direction of the flow of unpolluted underground spring water.
The pollution-free spring is located at the top of the low-slope planting area. The spring winds upward for more than 200 meters to the high-slope planting area. At the top of the high-slope planting area is the big cypress tree of Yang Lao Da. 250 meters north of the big cypress tree is the northern isolation zone.
This planting area was organized into 25 terraces by Xia Qing, 12 on the high slope and 13 on the low slope. Although there are many terraces, the area of each terrace is only about 50 square meters, and the total area of the terraces is only 1.7 acres.
Other territories in the Territory Alliance also have Gaoyi element planting areas. This is a secret in the territory, and everyone tacitly does not ask each other. Therefore, Xia Qing does not know how much Gaoyi element planting area there is in the respective territories of the alliance members.
However, Xia Qing speculates that they should not have as much as himself, because there is no pollution-free spring in their territory.
These 1.7 acres of terraces were divided into two greenhouses on the high slope and the low slope by Xia Qing, which were firmly protected, carefully served and intended to be used efficiently.
She wants to use these terraces to improve the quality of crop seeds while maintaining the quality of the existing types of crops in the territory, so this spring, all the crop varieties planted in her territory will be planted in the terraces.
Xia Qing has promised her idol that she will use three years to raise the Yi element content of spinach to more than 9, so this spring, the first crop to be planted in her terraces is high Yi element spinach.
In order not to be too conspicuous, Xia Qing only plans to plant 150 high Yi element green light spinach seeds in the terraces this year, which is exactly the number of seeds issued to the lord by the base. However, she is not planting the second generation seeds cultivated by the base, but the first generation seeds native to her terraces.
This amount of spinach does not occupy a terrace, and Xia Qing will plant the remaining place with the element-susceptible plant she exchanged-Green Light Purple Sweet Potato.
The whole process of the growth of the element-susceptible plant needs to be isolated from the element, and Xia Qing also plans to use Yi stone to protect her spinach seedlings during the growth process, so these two plants can be planted in the same terrace.
Although she made a fortune, Xia Qing now has nearly 100 Yishi, but she does not have a stable source of Yishi, so she needs to use it carefully. Now she is looking forward to the Queen's confinement and Broken Waist Wolf coming to visit her quickly. She has prepared a large refrigerator, a microscope, and a cotton pad, waiting for Broken Waist Wolf to come and exchange.
The third crop to be cultivated in the terraces is peanuts.
Xia Qing harvested 35 green peanuts and 170 yellow peanuts in the terraces last year; thanks to the red squirrel, Xia Qing harvested 195 green peanuts and 315 yellow peanuts in the hidden valley. In addition to the peanuts she exchanged for her idol, she only ate a small amount of peanuts this past winter, and most of the mature peanuts were kept as seeds. Therefore, Xia Qing now has 9,200 green peanuts and 12,000 yellow peanuts that can be sown.
It is not that there are many seeds, and how many seedlings can grow, because there is also a limit on the germination rate.
The peanuts grew out by themselves last spring, so Xia Qing didn't know what the germination rate was at that time. In order to accurately calculate the germination rate of peanuts, Xia Qing used unpolluted spring water to germinate the peanut seedlings last winter, and found that the germination rate of green light peanuts was about 50%, and that of yellow light peanuts was about 35%.
This germination rate is the lowest among all the crop seeds Xia Qing has. Even the yellow light potatoes that can dance after the dangerous evolution have a germination rate of 40%. As a crop that can be pressed for oil, the germination rate of yellow light sunflower seeds is as high as 80%!
The germination rate is low, but it needs to be taken care of. In order to spread the risk, Xia Qing plans to plant two plots of green peanuts and one plot of yellow peanuts in the terraced fields, and the rest of the peanuts will be planted in her one-acre land in the hidden valley.
The fourth crop that Xia Qing wants to plant in the terraced fields is green soybeans.
The soybeans that Xia Qing harvested in the territory last year were a metamorphosed variety after evolution, and they were so hard that they could not be eaten at all. She now has 350 green soybeans in exchange for green eggs with Li Si, and three pounds were given to her by Zhang San from Territory No. 9 after Territory No. 9 secretly sent evolved water rats into Territory No. 3 and was captured by Xia Qing. Xia Qing plans to plant soybeans in two terraced fields, and the rest will be planted in the cultivated land at the foot of the mountain.
The fifth crop to be planted in the terraced fields is yellow sunflowers. The purpose of planting yellow sunflowers is to use high-yi element soil and unpolluted spring water, plus a little bit of luck, to gamble on the 1% of cultivatable optimized species and improve the quality of sunflower seeds.
The sixth crop to be planted in the terraces is the yellow light potato, which is planted for the same reason as the yellow light sunflower.
Then there are the important food crops that need to ensure and improve the quality of seeds: wheat, rice and corn, as well as the important economic crop cotton. These four should also be planted in the terraces.
Then there are the green light perilla and green light alfalfa that the sheep boss likes to eat. These two should also be planted in a terrace. There is also a green light pumpkin that looks messy but tastes good and has a high yield, and it should also be planted in a terrace.
The remaining four terraces should be planted with vegetables such as garlic, ginger, onion, water celery, cucumber, beans, tomatoes, etc. that need to ensure and improve the quality, as well as the chrysanthemums collected by Xia Qing in Valley No. 2 and the mint and other medicinal materials exchanged with Xin Yu. Xia Qing will not trade the vegetables from these four terraces to others. In addition to herself, the sheep boss and the sick wolf, at most they will be provided to her idol Zhang San and her teacher Luo Pei who taught her shooting.
Zhang San will definitely exchange from time to time. Luo Pei has almost recovered. In the future, he will definitely spend most of his time on missions outside and rarely stay in the territory. Therefore, Xia Qing had no chance to honor her teacher.
In short, all the existing crop varieties in Xia Qing's territory must be planted in the terraced fields to ensure that she can eat high-quality food while ensuring and improving the stability of these crop seeds as much as possible.
It is conceivable how busy Xia Qing will be during the planting period after the rain. So she must make all the preparations before the rain, and wait until the climate is suitable after the rain, and start soaking and sowing seeds immediately.
While Xia Qing was busy with farm work, Yang Jin and Luo Pei took a helicopter and escorted Tang Rui, Tang Zheng and other five people back to Huisan Safety Zone. (End of this chapter)