Chapter 168 168. Shopping for watermelon seedlings
Laojiang soaked their feet. The three of them felt warm all over, but what was even hotter was the hearts of Song Youde and Song Sancheng.
Nothing else but the fact that two new tricycles are in the yard makes it hard for them not to be excited!
Even Old Man Li didn't leave, but sat aside and waited with relish.
Only Cousin Seven, who was preparing to prepare dinner, snorted coldly:
"There are no leftover buns in the kennel! It's not dark yet. It would be great to go do some more work. You have to show off that you have a car."
We are all brothers, and the seventh cousin has always been the same. Everyone is used to this character.
Song Youde's beard curled up:
"What do you know? This is my granddaughter's filial piety to me! Besides, I haven't had much work recently..."
"Haha ! ”
The seventh cousin also sneered: "I heard last night that you said that watermelons were to be planted in the peach grove. Where are the watermelon seedlings?" "
"You also said that you would plant some more loofah pumpkins in the corners over there. Have you planted them all?"
"Didn't you say that we are going to pick white fungus today?"
He had prepared rock sugar lily, dried lotus seeds, and even after waiting for a whole day, he didn’t see a piece of white fungus!
Song Sancheng was a little unconvinced by what he said: "Cousin, there is farm work every day, why don't we take a break? Right, my daughter?"
What can Song Tan say?
On one side is the arrogant chef, and on the other side is his biological father and grandfather.
She simply got in the car again:
"What about that, Brother Yanping, you are watching them practice driving, and you are not allowed to go through the ditches and bumps. I will go to the town to take a look at the roads. Watermelon seedlings, I just heard from the courier guy this morning that someone is selling them.”
Zhang Yanping quickly shouted: "Don't look at it in the town! I know a seedling seller who sells watermelons grafted with pumpkin seedlings, unicorn melons, stone seam melons, and seedless melons. They are all big and sweet!"< br>
“No, no, no.”
Song Tan also started the car: “I like the old variety of watermelon with flower skin. I grow it at home and don’t choose these.”
It's not that the grafted one is not good, the grafted one must have advantages in terms of nutrient delivery and growth, but the problem is that her spiritual energy is thin and her agricultural experience is all about native species. It's better to be conservative at the moment.
Zhang Yanping is not as good at farm work as she is!
At this moment, he just nodded pretendingly: "Jin Yingzi has also heard the news. Maybe it will be shipped in two days. Don't worry."
Song Tan is not in a hurry.
It is also good to have an alternating period of planting, so that the flowers can continue to bloom and the bees will be full.
It is true that she said she wanted to see the watermelon seedlings.
People who are more diligent start sowing early melons in March. She waits until early April and wants to catch early melons on the market, so she has to choose other people's finished seedlings.
Fortunately, it is not far from the town. In recent years, greenhouses and seedling bases have been built in large areas of farmland. Now it is easy to choose some popular seedlings.
It was only around two o'clock in the afternoon. By the time she came back after picking out the seeds, her father and her grandfather would probably be almost done driving.
Everyone happened to be going up the mountain to plant watermelon seedlings when the sun was not so hot.
The land was plowed when peach trees were planted. Now you only need to dig holes for planting. After all, it is spiritual, extensive management, and simple.
Driving from home to the town, it was much closer than the city. In just over 20 minutes, the car had arrived at the greenhouse agreed upon in advance.
Now that the weather is perfect, plastic films have been rolled up in several greenhouses to allow the plants to ventilate and maintain light.
When I entered the shed, I saw that everything was green and green, which was very pleasant.
“You want to buy watermelon seedlings?”
The uncle who came in was dark-skinned. When he saw Song Tan, he couldn’t help but be stunned for a moment, and then peeked behind her before finally daring to It was determined that the person who was going to farm in front of me was this beautiful girl with snow-white skin. Song Tan nodded:
"Yes, I am from Yunqiao Village. My family has rented an orchard this year, and I want to plant some watermelons in the orchard."
"Oh," the boss then came back to his senses: "I am from Yunqiao Village. I know. Do you want to plant the orchard? Then you will use far fewer seedlings than usual. Come on, let’s take a look at the seedlings.”
The boss is familiar with it. A familiar person took her into the greenhouse next door: "We are all fellow villagers, and I won't cheat you. If anything happens, just come here to see me. I can run away, but my greenhouse can't run away either. Once the planting is done, you can still return it next year." Come.”
Song Tan nodded.
She knew what the boss meant, so she wanted to buy with confidence and give her a verbal guarantee.
For folks in the countryside, although some people choose to cheat people, most of the time, if you want to do local business for a long time, you care about reputation.
"Why does this seedling look a little weak?"
Word of mouth is word of mouth, reality is reality, Song Tan did not hesitate to ask questions.
The boss is sincere: "This is an early-maturing seedling, and the melons will be small. It can be sold at the end of May or early June."
"Don't look at this seedling as it is a bit weak, that's just the way it is. , it’s not a matter of planting. If you go back and plant a vine, keep one vine on each plant, the fruit will definitely be sweet, I won’t let you down.”
"Normally, a thousand seedlings like this can be planted in one acre of land. But if you want to interplant, then eight hundred, it depends on you."
"But if you want to plant more sparsely, If you don't choose such a small seedling, you should choose another variety with a stronger seedling."
He turned right and entered another greenhouse: "Look, this medium-ripened one is better than the one in front. It takes a month to plant, but you can keep two vines of this kind of melon, and one can produce two or three melons.”
“If you want to interplant this with fruit trees, the cost will be three hundred to five per acre. One hundred trees, no more, the vines are too strong and take up space.”
“There are better ones, but this kind, I tell you the truth, girl, not many people buy this seedling now. ”
Why?
The watermelon it bears is too big.
“Nowadays, there are only two, three or four people in a family, and melons that are too big can’t be eaten in one sitting. It’s hard to stuff them in the refrigerator. Generally, the ones that are sold are not as good as small watermelons.”
This It's true that Song Tan wouldn't be grateful when he saw such a big melon. Because they are really big, they all look like big winter melons.
If you put winter melon in the supermarket and only buy one at a time for cooking, you can imagine how many people need to eat this watermelon?
In his current big family, it can be digested, but the problem is that it is really inconvenient to take out.
She turned her head without hesitation: "Is the melon produced by your smallest seedling a little smaller?"
"Yes," the boss said truthfully.
“If you sell early melons, you choose small seedlings. I’m not trying to trick you. Look at how expensive watermelons were when they first came on the market! It’s hard to sell a big melon, so it has to be this small. ”
“When the weather gets hotter, we can sell these later-ripening varieties, which are larger, cheaper, and not painful to eat. ”
What he talked about was his own experience, and Song Tan listened carefully.
Look at these days, everyone who sells melon seedlings must first understand the market clearly. They are really gaining knowledge every day.
Nowadays, watermelon seedlings grafted with pumpkin seedlings are not used in large-scale planting.
The big watermelon is really, really hard to consume.
The day of the monthly tribulation has also come. Go to bed early today and work hard to make up for it tomorrow.
Although the update is a little late this month, the number of words is actually enough... except that Wan Guifei is missing.
(End of this chapter)