Chapter 234 New Plants

"Hmm, delicious."

Jeanna picked a fruit, put it in her mouth, bit it, and the slightly sweet juice splashed.

A trace of joy flashed in her pupils.

She picked another ripe fruit and fed it to the elf lady standing beside her.

"Hmm."

After preliminary experiments, only three of the thirty plants are more suitable for promotion and cultivation in the territory.

It cannot conflict with the existing plants planted in the territory, that is, it cannot offset the dominant range of the plants, and it must be able to adapt to the territory environment, with acceptable yields and low care difficulty.

Crisp leafy vegetables are also the plant seeds that the priest recommended to Ji Lin for the first time. They can be picked in 30 days. He really didn't lie. This kind of green leafy vegetable has broad and thin leaves with serrated shapes. Press the veins and break it, and it seems to hear a very crisp breaking sound. Except for the plant fiber at the root that is too hard to eat, all other parts of the plant are edible.

Beetroot vegetables, unlike the former, the edible part of the beetroot is underground and can be fully mature in 70 days. There are large tooth-like leaves growing on the ground, and underground there are large rhizomes that look like sweet potatoes, but they are softer and more tender - closer to beets than potato plants.

The last type is spice leaves, which are used as spices. They can be picked in 60 days. The leaves are slightly spicy and pungent. When they are crushed and placed in front of the nose, a fragrance overflows. It cannot be used as a substitute for peppers, but it can be used as a spice seasoning.

"Ji, since there are early-maturing plants, should the land on the other side of the river be replanted?"

Jeanna poked the white mist floating in front of her, and the elemental spirit made a "bo" sound and shook back, struggling to express its dissatisfaction with its amorphous body.

"If you want to plant, you can also try it?"

Ji Lin thought, thinking that only half of the land was used, and there was another half, he couldn't help but feel sorry in his heart.

As the fields on this side of the territory were opened up to both sides, more and more fields were planted with crops, and the problem of too wide a planting area and too long commuting time was also on the table.

Most people walk to work. The beasts pulling carts have to get up early in the morning to take a cart of people to work, but even if the beasts of burden in the entire territory are put into use, it is just a drop in the bucket. The number of staff in the agricultural area, including the agricultural product processing area, has reached more than 4,000, and it is still increasing.

It often takes half an hour or even an hour for the people in the territory to walk from the entrance of the agricultural area to reach the farmland they are responsible for cultivating. If the land on the other side of the river can be used, the people in the territory can reach their jobs faster.

Ji Lin ate the ripe fruit that Jeanna handed to him, and felt that this plant, which was only the size of a thumb but resembled a small tomato, could also be planted in the territory.

It looks like a tomato and tastes like a tomato.

The land on the other side of the river suffered from floods during the flood season. Now more than three months have passed, and the accumulated water that spread on the plain during the flood season has also merged into the ground. Leaving one wet depression after another, the plant ecology that originally belonged to the floodplain is closer to small wetlands and small swamps after being covered with water.

Fortunately, because there is a large enough buffer area, the water covering this flat plain did not carry away nutrients from it, but was retained on the plain, leaving the nutrients in the water. However, these silt areas full of water are not suitable for the cultivation of ordinary plants, nor for the work of the people.

It is obviously impossible to grow ginger and radish in the soil with such sufficient water, they will be suffocated and rot in the soil. The only plant that can be grown in the territory in the soil with such high water content is rice, and other untested plants... It's hard to say.

To manage the other side of the river bank and let the other side play its due agricultural value, a nine-kilometer-long flood control dam must be built at the same time. Use flood control dams to resist flooding and protect the river banks on both sides from the damage of flooding during the annual flood season.

Otherwise, you can only plant some early-maturing plants that complete growth and fruiting within 2-4 months, 60 days to 120 days, and sow and harvest in the gaps during the annual flood season.

Farmland can also be placed on this kind of land, just like on a sky island. Depending on the soil and environment, farmland will also show different adaptive properties.

‘Farmland (swamp field)’

‘It is recommended to plant swamp or aquatic plants’

‘The soil here has absorbed excessive water. Although it is nutritious, it is not suitable for growing ordinary plants. Maybe you can use it to grow some special plants? ’

Although Ji Lin can use the opportunity of seed selection with the era upgrade to buy lotus seeds, he wants to keep this opportunity with the era upgrade to get soybean, corn or potato seeds, and then promote them in the territory.

Wheat, rice, soybean, corn, potato, perfect!

It can be used as industrial raw materials and can also be used to process various foods.

“Since there are plants that can grow here...are there any plants that can grow in the swamp?”

Jeanna poked the fog and asked them softly.

The elemental elves shook their heads and didn’t quite understand what she meant by swamp.

The elf lady walked to the side, took out the water scoop she usually used for watering, scooped up a scoop and poured it on the ground, then stepped back two steps to let the elemental elves come over.

The land soaked with a lot of water immediately became soft and rotten.

The elemental elf surrounded a small piece of muddy swamp that was soaked and rotten, and the mud flew into the air and was swallowed by it. It stood up and flew to another experimental field that specialized in growing vines. The experimental field was full of branches for the plants to climb. It picked the fruit with difficulty and held it up to show Jeanna.

The slightly purple fruit exuded a full luster in the sun.

The caravan from the Holy City brought them 30 kinds of seeds and plants that were more popular, including plants with relatively high yields in basic environments. Basically all plants can germinate and grow normally, but not all of them can bear fruit.

Miss Elf thought for a moment and said to Jeanna.

"This is wisteria fruit. It only takes about 90 days to grow and bear fruit, and the fruit yield is low. Then it bears fruit every 90 days, which is more suitable for growing in a relatively humid environment."