Chapter 52 I almost forgot to plant vegetables
Recently there was a rumor in Weissenburg that the girl that the young master liked ran home. He was not normal in his mind due to grief and anger, and said that he would plant vegetables now. .
Everyone who had just heard this rumor looked at the autumn clothes on their bodies, and then laughed.
The time has entered October, autumn sowing has ended, and it is too late to plant vegetables now that will only grow some leaves before winter comes in November.
People just laughed it off and just treated it like a young master acting like a child, and it would be fine after a while.
One person also thought that Frederick was fooling around, until the principal actually took him to the fields.
At Weisenberg University, Diesel was first responsible for personnel placement and other work, and then he was busy with the research tasks assigned by the president. He did not leave the campus until today to report on the progress of the work. Unexpectedly, he was arrested as soon as he arrived at the manor. Go work in the vegetable fields.
Living in a stone castle in winter is uncomfortable, so every October everyone will move to a manor outside the city until March next year.
"Blow up the well?" Diesel asked, pointing to the grass beside the river.
"Yes." Frederick replied, "The rivers in this manor will all freeze in winter, and several deep wells need to be dug for winter use."
Diesel looked at the vegetable patch next to where the rammed earth wall was being built, and asked doubtfully: "Principal, do you really want to grow vegetables in the cold weather?"
Such a question Frederick had heard too much recently and replied a little impatiently: "Just do as I say. If you have the ability to grow vegetables, don't eat them."
Seeing this situation, Diesel said I agreed, it was just a piece of cake anyway.
He waved the magic wand in his hand, chanted a magic spell in his mouth, and in the blink of an eye, several blue cones appeared above the grass.
The first cone in the middle fell and was instantly inserted into the grass. Then there was a loud noise, and the soil erupted from the ground like a volcanic eruption.
Then other cones entered the hole one after another. After a series of explosions, a hole with a diameter of about 2 meters and a depth of about 9 meters was dug.
Diesel said proudly: "This is the latest magic I improved according to the principal's suggestion. It can make a large number of shock waves concentrated in one direction, which is just used to blast out the soil."
Frederick asked happily: "Okay, can the magic circle be miniaturized?"
Diesel replied: "This is a bit difficult at the moment."
Frederick nodded and would discuss the research on magic later. Now he called for people to reinforce the walls of the well.
"I have some things to do this morning." He said to Diesel, "I'll take a look at your results in the afternoon."
There was something very important that he was so busy that he forgot about it. Luo remembered it when he reported to him the dried vegetables and pickled vegetables stored this winter.
Diesel naturally agreed and was also curious about what the principal was doing.
Then he was assigned to blow up several wells.
When Diesel finished his work, a convoy came to the vegetable field.
BASF personally followed the convoy, and the carriage was filled with bundles of transparent slime film.
“Principal!” BASF said mysteriously as soon as he jumped off the carriage, “Please come to our workshop when you have time, there’s a surprise!” Frederick didn’t ask what the surprise was, so he thought of it. Nor can I say it.
He pointed to a vegetable patch where rammed earth walls and wooden shelves had been built and said: "Pull a cart of film over there and see if it can be erected this morning." A greenhouse. "
No one was talking nonsense. BASF asked the carriage to pull the film to the vegetable field, and Frederick asked the stewards to summon the tenant farmers to work.
This vegetable field is 50 meters long and 5 meters wide. There are wooden shelves that are high in the north and low in the south. There is a thick rammed earth wall 4 meters high on the north side. There are several wooden doors and wooden windows on the wall. .
Frederick and the steward of the manor went to measure the size, and BASF asked someone to move a roll of greenhouse from the car and unfold it on the edge of the field.
“It’s so tall!” Diesel asked BASF in surprise, “How did you do it?”
The roll of film now unfolded is 3 meters wide and the length is estimated to be 20 meters. meters, the thickness is 1 mm.
“It’s easy.” BASF said proudly, “I prepared a slate floor more than 3 meters wide and 5 meters long. I poured the slime glue on it and asked people to spread it out first and then use it. The scraper with fixed height wheels scrapes over it, and when it cools down it becomes a large piece of film.”
"When the next piece is made, the three finger-width pieces left from the previous piece will be melted together with the new piece. When it cools down, it will become one big piece."
Diesel saw it after his gesture. The film has thicker marks at regular intervals.
Frederick measured the size of the film needed for the greenhouse, and then began to splice the film.
Sign up a small fire and boil the cut film in an iron pot. After boiling, use a brush to brush the overlap between the two films while it is still hot. Press them tightly before cooling and solidifying. A big chunk.
The spliced film was rolled into a large piece, and a large number of people carried it to the rammed earth wall. As soon as they let go, the film rolled over and spread on the wooden frame that had been set up.
The adults fixed the membrane, the rammed earth wall, and the ground. Some girls about the same age as Frederick tied ropes around their waists and carefully slid to the top of the slippery and sloping shed, holding awls in their hands. , tied with thin hemp ropes on his arms, and worked with the adults in the greenhouse to tie the film to the wooden frame, and finally applied a thick layer of slime glue to the thin hemp ropes and the perforated areas.
Everyone was busy until noon and finally put up the membrane of the greenhouse. The sun was quite strong today, and a group of people gathered here for a while and felt quite hot.
Diesel said in surprise: "It seems like you can really grow vegetables in the winter."
Frederick smiled and said: "Not even close, we need straw curtains to cover the shed at night. , prepare a carbon stove, and hang a thick curtain behind the door and ventilation window. "
"In the past, when it snowed, it was necessary to remove the snow in time. The most important thing is to do a good job in safety education, otherwise it is likely to cause carbon dioxide. Gas poisoning.”
The coldest winter here in Wesenland is about minus ten degrees Celsius, with strong winds and a lot of snowfall.
Over the past thousands of years, countless people have died from carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide poisoning while warming themselves by fires at home. However, the development of alchemy was limited. People only discovered carbon dioxide that can make limestone turbid, and called it carbon dioxide. gas.
These two points are what Frederick is most worried about, so the slope of the roof of the greenhouse is very large to facilitate the snow falling, but the snow must be removed in time when it snows heavily; at the same time, several windows are opened on the rammed earth wall. Open it when necessary to reduce the carbon dioxide concentration in the greenhouse and adjust the humidity at the same time.
Frederick said a few words to the steward of the manor, and let him manage the subsequent greenhouse construction. After each greenhouse was built, the farmer immediately prepared the ground inside, fertilized it and planted some lettuce. Green leafy vegetables with short growth cycles such as lettuce, lettuce and arugula.
(End of this chapter)