"Sweet potato seedlings are inserted into the soil like this, and then buried with soil, and then you just need to wait for the vines to grow out and get rid of the surrounding weeds." Li Tianyang took immortality and wealth to teach Niu Laohan how to cultivate sweet potatoes.

"Then, then you don't need to fertilize and get rid of insects?" The first time he planted sweet potatoes, Niu Laohan was still not very relieved.

"You can rest assured, the biggest advantage of this sweet potato is that you don't have to take care of it too much, as long as the seeds are planted and survived, you can basically have a harvest in three or five months!" Li Tianyang gave Niu Lao Han a package ticket, looking confident.

Seven or eight out of ten of the lands that the displaced people and Li Tianyang cultivated themselves were planted with sweet potatoes, just because the labor cost of these sweet potatoes was low and the requirements for land fertility were not great, which was just suitable for planting on these newly opened land. Therefore, Li Tianyang helped everyone to farm at the same time, but also taught the homeless people how to plant sweet potatoes, after all, sweet potatoes are not a native of the Ming Dynasty, for the common people, it is a strange species.

Moreover, Li Tianyang also has deep considerations, the farm has already been opened, unlike in Tanmen, due to the restrictions of land, the farm in Tanmen camp has not been able to expand production. However, here, a large number of primeval forests are waiting for Li Tianyang to develop them, so from the beginning, Li Tianyang has designed the site of the farm to be very large, of course, limited by the shortage of manpower, so far only the breeding of chickens and ducks has entered the right track, and the breeding of pigs, cattle, sheep and other livestock has been in a small scale of breeding.

After a period of time, when the lives of the displaced people are on the right track, and the natives are used to camp life, Li Tianyang can recruit people from among them to help with breeding. The cultivation of sweet potatoes, then, became a great source of feed for the farms, and the animals were raised on a large scale no more than poultry, and consumed much more food per day than the entire population of the camp needed. Sweet potato vines, on the other hand, are the most suitable and readily available source of feed.

In addition, there is another factor, which is the incentive for Li Tianyang to make up his mind to let the camp grow sweet potatoes on a large scale.

Ever since learning of the drought in Shandong and Henan, Li Tianyang has been thinking about how to use this opportunity to help the camp get the most value. The so-called value, in terms of today's camps, is actually that the population labor force is somewhat attractive to everyone. In order to get more labor, then the preliminary preparation work must be sufficient, and food is the most important part of it.

Among the crops that Li Tianyang and they mastered, there were only a few crops that grew quickly and had abundant yields, and the most prominent of them was the sweet potato crop. As mentioned earlier, although the yield of corn and potatoes is a little higher than that of rice and wheat, the actual yield is not much higher. Moreover, compared to other crops, sweet potatoes have a much shorter ripening period, and in general, as long as the fertility is sufficient, one season can be harvested in more than three months. At the end of the year, the displaced people can grow at least two or more crops, which is definitely more than enough to meet their daily consumption, and they can also have surplus food to provide to the camp to contribute to Li Tianyang's support for them to take in refugees.

"By the way, Uncle Niu, every household in the camp will be allocated a batch of good fertilizer, if you have time, go to the camp and find Gan Dabiao and them to sign for it." Li Tianyang suddenly remembered something and mentioned it to Niu Jinbao: "If you can't move, find these two guys behind me, and they will help you transport them to the ground." ”

"Where do you dare to bother you, you can't finish your own things, and you still think about us." Niu Laohan looked at the person in front of him gratefully, and was moved by the other party's care: "My son's illness is also about to be cured, just let them collect it themselves when the time comes!" ”

"That's good, when they come back, you have to supervise them, don't drink raw water anymore, and pay more attention to your hygiene habits!"

"Don't worry, after this illness, see if they dare to take these regulations you set as child's play!" When the old man heard this, he was terrified.

I have never thought about paying attention to hygiene in my life, and I have been bound by all kinds of rules and regulations when I came to the island, and anyone who wants to put it on me will be very uncomfortable.

Not to mention washing your face and brushing your teeth every morning, most people will do these things, but there is no such beautiful toothbrush for them to use.

Before the meal, everyone must force hand washing, otherwise they can't give the meal, which is really troublesome, even at home, who doesn't grab the chopsticks to eat when the meal arrives, and don't eat with their hands, as long as the chopsticks are clean, it's over?

The excavated well water cannot be drunk casually, it must be boiled before drinking; Fresh fruits that have been picked cannot be eaten casually, but must be washed with water; The fresh seafood in the river and sea cannot be eaten raw, and must be fully cooked before it can be eaten; Domestic garbage cannot be dumped casually, and must be dumped in the designated garbage pond......

Even when you go to the toilet, you have to go to the toilet in the prescribed thatched house, and you can no longer find a corner to solve it on the spot as before! !

Everything is so fresh and so cumbersome, it is really troublesome and troublesome for these vulgar homeless people. Therefore, when there is supervision on the surface, everyone does a good job, at least remember that there are these rules there; But once in the dark, without supervision, everyone still goes their own way, how they used to do it, and they still do it now.

This is one of the reasons why more and more people are getting sick today.

It was only then that the homeless people paid attention to these rules set up in the camp, and they were so lowly that they would regret it only when they felt the pain.

As for the ration fertilizer mentioned by Li Tianyang, it is actually the output of the thatched houses in the camp, and the manure produced by five or six hundred people every day is not a small amount, except for transporting a batch of manure to the nitrate making field, the rest is to add a lot of broken leaves and weeds for fermentation and fertilization. By now, a large amount of farm manure has been hoarded outside the camp, just to add food to these freshly planted potato seedlings.

Of course, the fertilizer is not free, and although the displaced people also participate in the production of this fertilizer (they themselves produce a lot of manure), the biggest contributors are the camp teenagers. Therefore, in return, when each household receives this manure, it also has to reclaim a few more acres of wasteland for the camp; You can not take it, but they don't know what the grain in your field will look like.

For the sake of their own land, the displaced people gritted their teeth, received a piece of manure, and buried it under the potato seedlings.