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Chapter 354 New Vegetation
The concept in the book is ecological balance. The ideal state is to create the most balanced and perfect planting method without using any human technology, including chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
Zhao Yeqing originally thought the same way. Things that were to be imported should be grown in the most organic way possible. Even insect pests were removed by flushing water or picking them manually.
The most I can do is use some orange peel essential oil and tobacco water like the year before last.
But both of these things are of little use against this year's pest infestation.
You can try this method in the book.
Zhao Yeqing closed the book and ran outside the yard. He ran to the fish pond and found the ten ducks playing happily inside.
The weather has been hot recently, so the ducks will stay inside to swim and cool down during the day.
He used a long pole to catch up all the ducks in the pond. The ducks have grown up a lot now and will be adults in less than a month.
As the ducks grow up, their coat color changes significantly, and you can tell at a glance that they are a group of teal ducks.
The male and female blue-headed ducks are very easy to distinguish. Only the male duck's head is green, while the female duck's body is brown with gray spots. There are a total of seven males and three females among these ten ducks.
Usually when these ducks play in the fish pond, they are allowed to play until evening before being driven back. Today, they were driven back not long after they started playing, and they were somewhat reluctant.
The ducks were driven to the greenhouse in the backyard. Mu Xi opened the door of the greenhouse fence and let the ducks go inside.
This place is usually sealed. This is the first time for the duck to come in. At first, he was a little wary. After seeing the bugs on the fruit trees in the next second, he rushed forward and started to peck at the bugs on the fruit trees. He was very fast. So fast, Zhao Yeqing could vaguely see the afterimage.
The peppers and tomatoes have grown taller, and the vines of climbing crops such as cucumbers and loofahs are on shelves more than one meter high. The insects and ducks at high places cannot eat them, so they want to fly up and eat them. Mu Xi quickly stepped forward to stop him.
If a swarm of bees pounced on it, the plants and shelves would probably be crushed.
Zhao Yeqing connected the long hose to the faucet, pulled it into the greenhouse in the courtyard, pinched the opening of the water pipe to increase the water pressure, and flushed the insects from high places to the ground.
The water splashing on the ducks will not scare them away. Instead, they will go under the shelf to eat the insects washed to the ground, while enjoying the cold water washing their bodies. After eating the food under the shelf, they will shake off the water droplets on their feathers and go away. Go somewhere else.
Both ducks and chickens can catch insects, but if you put chickens in the vegetable garden, the fruits and vegetables inside will not be preserved. They will be like weeds in the backyard and will be eaten up by them, one bite at a time.
The duck, which had been eating contentedly in the greenhouse in the courtyard, waddled out and walked outside the courtyard again, planning to enter the fish pond again.
The two of them didn't stop him. After all, the weather was still hot. Soaking in the pool would not only relieve the heat, but also become food for the fish after pooping in the pool.
A small pool was dug next to the fish pond, and a lot of snails were placed in the small pool.
Now that the rice fields are about to be harvested, the water in the rice fields has been drained, and Zhao Yeqing threw the snails inside into the newly dug pond, covering about two square meters.
A small amount of rice field silt is spread at the bottom of the pond to allow the snails to adapt to the new environment faster. A few stones are also placed inside to make it easier for the snails to climb up and rest.
It only took less than half an hour to dig this pond. I planned to give it a try first. It didn’t matter whether I could feed it or not. It didn’t cost much anyway.
Unexpectedly, this snail had good adaptability. Not only did it not die, it also laid eggs on the stone. When Zhao Yeqing fed the fish every day, he would throw some chopped vegetable leaves into the pond as feed.
The small pond where the snails are raised is slightly surrounded by bamboo poles to prevent ducks from walking in, otherwise all the snails they managed to raise will become their feed.
Late August, early September.
The rice in the rice fields has finally finished filling and can be harvested.
Zhao Yeqing finally let go of the hanging stone in his heart. After all, it rained very frequently recently. Sometimes it would rain three times in a row in a row.
Under the nourishment of this climate, the meadow vegetation that the two people had worried about would gradually decrease due to too many herbivores was completely impossible to happen again.
The weather at noon now does not exceed 35 degrees. The climate is warm and the air is humid. The wheat has only been harvested for less than a month, and the weeds in the wheat fields are already halfway up to the calves.
There are also many new plants in the meadow and nearby woods. It is not known whether the seeds were brought here by the wind or by the fur of animals.
After harvesting the rice, the two of them wanted to take advantage of their free time to harvest some hemp and come back to rub the rope in case of emergency.
When we walked outside the pine forest, we actually saw a small patch of ramie near the original ramie field.
There was absolutely no such thing around here before, and you could only find a few in the sunny woods at the foot of the mountain.
The meadow is at a high altitude, with extremely cold winters and extremely hot summers. This thing has never grown here before, and they have never seen it in the past few years they have lived here.
Most of them are distributed in Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fuzhou provinces, and the largest number are in Yunnan Province.
In the past, colleagues from Yunnan Province brought this plant over and fried it in the company during team building. They washed the green leaves, wrapped them in batter on both sides and threw them into a frying pan.
Also made fake bean sprouts triangle rice dumplings and fake bean sprouts stir-fried beef.
This plant is a close relative of pepper and has a special aroma. It has a unique flavor when fried.
Zhao Yeqing didn't expect that she could still eat this food despite the climate change.
"There is a pine forest next to it. There are animals here from time to time. I guess they were brought here by the animals. Let's make sure it's safe first."
The two of them looked at the footprints of surrounding animals and asked Xiao Hei who was brought out to patrol the area. When they saw that it was wagging its tail and didn't look like an animal, they felt relieved and touched its head.
After harvesting a cartload of ramie and returning home, Zhao Yeqing did not forget to pick a basket of fake bean leaves. Zhao Yeqing also dug up two plants and took them back to plant.
With the new ingredients, it will be the dinner at home.
Fried bean sprouts leaves are definitely a must, and then make a stir-fried bean sprouts meat and bean sprouts leaf soup.
Piper bean is warm in nature. If you eat more of it, it will not cause internal heat or chill your stomach. It has a slightly bitter taste and a refreshing aroma, which is very suitable for summer when there is little appetite.
Zhao Yeqing took out the portion he needed to cook from the basket, and gave the rest to Mu Xi to dry and store in the original owner's house.
In addition to being used as a food ingredient, this fake rhizome is also a medicinal material that can treat injuries, bruises, swelling and pain, and can also treat the most common colds and colds.
The two of them thought that the false beetroot leaves were a surprise, but they didn't expect that the 'tropical rainforest' would bring them much more surprises than that.