Section 1156 - Farming
The planting area set aside by the commander of the Chinese peacekeeping force for Sun Nanzheng is not small, with thousands of square meters.
After all, that's a good thing.
Grow and eat by themselves, solve some of the supply difficulties on the spot, and the soldiers can also eat all kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables from their hometowns, so that a fool will refuse Sun Nanzheng's request.
If you can't finish eating, you can also give it away, win over the relationship, and moisturize things silently, and you can save it little by little.
"From here to there, it's all mine, and it can expand outward, and this piece to the root of the wall is all mine. ”
Sun Nanzheng was gesturing with a sapper shovel.
The sky and the earth are big, and the land is the largest, and if he points to the east, those soldiers will not go west.
"Are there enough seeds?"
Li Bai compared it according to the artilleryman's skill of measuring the distance, and found that the land in front of him was far more than the 1,000 square meters that Sun Nanzheng said, and the actual area had to be at least doubled.
I'm afraid that the seeds brought by Sun Fatzi may not be enough.
"Uh! It's okay, you can divide the plants! Potatoes and sweet potatoes, one big piece, wrapped around me, as long as the harvest is finished, it must be all enough. ”
Sun Nanzheng patted his chest, this is just the right professional counterpart, the seeds he brought are not hybrids, which means that the advantages of good breeds can continue to be inherited, no matter how many generations of reproduction, no deterioration will occur.
If the best ones are selected, the quality of the improved varieties can be further improved.
"Prepare the land first, if there is a tractor, if not, it is okay to get an iron plow. ”
Li Bai felt that his little sapper shoveled and dug ditches to make up for it, and if he turned over the ground and piled up ridges, the amount of work would be large.
Damn, I was dragged into the water by this dead fat man.
"Let's do it first, I'll go and plug it. ”
Sun Nanzheng didn't care at all, he carried the sapper shovel on his shoulder, took two steps, directly cut the shovel to the ground, dragged it back step by step, using the shovel as a pen and the ground as a map, and drew the plot out first.
From simple to complex, if you want to use all the land here, it is not a matter of one or two days.
Fortunately, it is located at the equator, hot all year round, only divided into dry and rainy seasons, the temperature does not change much, you can cultivate at any time, and the seeds can be sown to live.
As long as it is collected for one season, Xiao will follow Cao Gui next, and it will basically be fine.
He picked several stakes with skin, smashed them into the ground one by one, and then hung ropes to divide the land.
Sun Nanzheng was holding a pen and paper to draw, pointing and chanting words in his mouth.
"This piece is planted with melons, winter melons, nans, vegetable melons, cucumbers, watermelons, along with some radish, carrots and green and white radish, side planting hanging fruits, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, green peppers, bell peppers, corn, small tomatoes can be planted a little, and then leafy vegetables, celery, celery, cabbage, Chinese cabbage, cabbage, bait, cauliflower, broccoli, asparagus, leeks, kale, lettuce, the rest of the small potatoes, red sweet potatoes, peanuts, soybeans, well, green onions, ginger, garlic, chives, if the water is enough, open another rice field, and sprinkle some chrysanthemum in other corners, shepherd's cabbage and marantou. ”
In the end, it is an expert from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and all kinds of vegetables and fruits are treasured in one mouth.
Most of the common leafy vegetables on the market are actually cruciferous, and there are quite a few seed varieties brought this time, otherwise he would not be pretending to be forced but stupid B like this.
After planning the land, carefully folded it, and stuffed it back into his pocket with the pen, Sun Fatzi pointed to one of the pieces of land and shouted: "Dig up all the soil loose, pick out all the stones, and pile them into a loosening ridge one step wide and one foot high, the length is not limited, beware of snakes." ”
It is easy to control the moisture in the soil when planting vegetables on the soil ridges, it is not easy to rot the roots, and the root vegetables are also easy to harvest.
The last sentence is to be careful that there are snakes is purely superfluous, within a radius of two miles, most of the snakes, insects, rats and ants are dead, and only some of the edges are lucky to escape, but they are dead and refuse to come back.
The soldiers who were sent to follow Sun Nanzheng to tidy up the land were all good at earthwork, digging bunkers and tunnels, which was not a problem at all, except for picking up stones a little troublesomely, and piling soil ridges was like playing.
But there is such a tedious work, and Li Bai!
I picked up a small tree finger, inserted it into the soil, and gently and skillfully picked out stones of various sizes, skimmed them on the ditch, and then shoveled them away with a sapper shovel.
The crackling stones kept cutting across the parabola, falling in the distance, and gradually piling higher and higher.
Li Bai's hand made Sun Nanzheng and the soldiers who helped amaze, after such a pinch of the soil, the quality of the soil ridge immediately improved a lot, if fertilizer is applied, it is no different from the cooked land that has been recuperated for many years.
Fertilizer is very easy to get, plant ash, human feces and urine, even money does not need to be spent, as long as you save together to compost, pay attention to adjust the pH, don't look at the stinking sky, but get into the soil ridge can definitely make the growth momentum of farming to a higher level.
Otherwise, there will be a good saying, crops and flowers, all rely on fertilizer, if you can't use it, the hard work is all in vain.
The sun is setting below the horizon.
The planned planting land in the camp of the Chinese peacekeepers finally has some appearance.
Sun Nan was planting seeds in the first few soil ridges, gently pounding the handle of the sapper shovel, throwing the seeds soaked in rooting water into it, covering it with soft soil, and basically it was over.
If it doesn't rain, pour some water mixed with rooting powder every two days.
Temperatures and soil moisture will naturally cause seeds to sprout, and regular fertilization, pests and disease checks and soil nutrients will help the crops grow healthily.
Sun Nanzheng was busy with people for a week before he cleaned up all the ridges.
The first seeds planted have already poked out of the soil with fat cotyledons, and a little bit of green is delightful.
However, there are also some wildfires that can't burn the weeds that can not be burned out, just pull them all out with your heart, and cut the grass to get rid of the roots, as an agricultural expert, Sun Nanzheng will not be soft.
Many soldiers would often come and watch, waiting for the first vegetables to grow.
After all, people are in a foreign country, the water and soil are very different, if you don't want to open canned food, you can only go to the local customs to take local materials, what the locals eat, Chinese people can only eat.
It's so messy, who knows what the hell they've eaten that day, as bad as they want.
Therefore, the arrival of Sun Fatzi became the most popular one among the nine entourage, and he really solved the problem of food for the Chinese peacekeeping troops.
The growth of various crops in the vegetable field was on the right track, but Sun Nanzheng was sent out.
After all, Somalia and neighboring countries have just broken out of locust plagues, and the people have no food to eat, and to solve the food crisis, it is not enough to rely on transportation, but also to rely on Chinese agricultural experts to help them become self-reliant.
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