In the Tenth Year After the Natural Disaster, Follow me to Farm Chapter 621

To have a good harvest during natural disasters, in addition to hard-working farmers, fertile soil, high-quality water sources, biological agents to kill pests and diseases, and greenhouses to block rainwater, you also need high-quality seeds.

When the base selects land outside the safety zone to enclose its territory, it takes soil and water issues into consideration.

The soil and water quality in the northern zone are good. The river flowing through here is low-pollution water. During the non-rain or snow period, the water element content is between 14-17‰, and it can directly irrigate farmland. However, if you want to prevent the quality of crops from deteriorating, it is best to filter the water before irrigating.

The cost of filtering irrigation water is too high, so, except for Territory No. 7, the lords use river water directly for irrigation. This also causes the crops to be exposed to more chlorine elements during the growth process. The content of chlorine elements in the plants increases and the quality decreases.

This means that the biggest obstacle for the lords to expand production is the lack of sufficient high-quality seeds.

In territories that are unable to build standardized greenhouses that can isolate the elements, the lords can only select cultivated optimized species with a probability of 1% from the crops grown as seeds for the next crop.

If cultivable optimized seeds do not appear, you can only use points to purchase seeds at a high price from the territory management department or other lords.

The emergence of Gaoyi element soil can alleviate this problem to a certain extent. Because the crops grown in Gaoyi element soil increase slowly or even not at all, the content of the element in the plants provides conditions for the lords to cultivate high-quality seeds in their own territories.

In other words, Gaoyi element soil can maintain the stability of seeds at low cost and even cultivate better quality seeds.

The Gaoyi elemental soil in Xia Qing's territory formed a narrow and non-straight strip along the direction of the flow of underground unpolluted spring water.

The pollution-free spring is located at the top of the low-slope planting zone. The spring winds upwards for more than 200 meters, which is the high-slope planting zone. The top of the high-slope planting zone is Yanglaoda's big chrysanthemum tree. 250 meters further north of the big chrysanthemum tree is the northern isolation zone.

This planting area was organized by Xia Qing into 25 terraces, 12 on high slopes and 13 on low slopes. Although there are many terraces, the area of each terrace is only about 50 square meters, and the total area of the terraces is only 1.7 acres.

Other territories within the territory alliance also have Gao Yi element planting areas. This is a secret within the territory, and everyone tacitly does not inquire about each other. Therefore, Xia Qing does not know how large the area of Gaoyi element cultivation areas are within the respective territories of the alliance members.

However, Xia Qing speculated that none of them should have as many as him because there were no pollution-free springs in their territory.

The 1.7 acres of terraced fields were divided into two greenhouses, high **** and low slope, by Xia Qing. They were firmly protected, carefully cared for and planned to be used efficiently.

She wants to use these terraces to improve the quality of crop seeds while maintaining the quality of the existing crops in her territory. Therefore, this spring, some of all the crop varieties grown in her territory will be planted in the terraces.

Xia Qing has promised her idol that she will use three years to increase the Yi element content of spinach to above 9, so this spring, the first crop to be planted in her terraces will be spinach with high Yi element.

In order not to be eye-catching, Xia Qing only plans to plant 150 Gao Yi element green spinach seeds in the terraces this year. This number happens to be the number of seeds distributed to the lord by the base. However, what she planted was not the second-generation seeds cultivated at the base, but the first-generation seeds native to her terraces.

This amount of spinach doesn't take up enough of a terraced field, and Xia Qing wants to plant the rest of the land with a plant that's susceptible to the chemical element she obtained in exchange—Green Lantern Purple Sweet Potato.

Plants susceptible to the elements need to be isolated from the elements during their entire growth process. Xia Qing also plans to use Yi stones to protect her spinach seedlings during the entire growth process, so the two plants can be planted together in the same terrace. Although she made a fortune, Xia Qing now has nearly a hundred pieces of gold stones, but she does not have a stable source of gold stones, so she needs to use them carefully. Now she is looking forward to the Queen's confinement and the Broken Waist Wolf to come visit her soon. She has prepared a large refrigerator, a microscope, and cotton mats, and is just waiting for the Broken Waist Wolf to come and exchange them.

The third crop that needs to be cultivated in terraced fields is peanuts.

Last year, Xia Qing harvested 35 green peanuts and 170 yellow peanuts in the terraced fields; thanks to the red squirrels, Xia Qing harvested 195 green peanuts and 315 yellow peanuts in the hidden valley. Except for those exchanged for idols, she only ate a small amount of peanuts this past winter, and she kept most of the ripe peanuts as seeds. Therefore, Xia Qing now has 9,200 green-light peanuts and 12,000 yellow-light peanuts that can be sown.

It doesn't matter how many seeds you have, how many seedlings will grow, because there is also a limit on the germination rate.

Last spring's peanuts were drilled by themselves, so Xia Qing didn't know what the germination rate was at that time. In order to accurately measure the germination rate of peanuts, Xia Qing used unpolluted spring water to propagate peanut seedlings last winter. He found that the germination rate of green-light peanuts was about 50% and that of yellow-light peanuts was about 35%.

This germination rate is the lowest among all the crop seeds Xia Qing owns. Even the yellow potatoes that have evolved to dance have a germination rate of 40%. As a crop that can extract oil, the seed germination rate of yellow light sunflower is as high as 80%!

The germination rate is low, so you need to take good care of it. In order to spread the risk, Xia Qing plans to plant two green-light peanuts and one yellow-light peanut in the terraces, and the remaining peanuts will be planted in her one acre of land in the hidden valley.

The fourth crop that Xia Qing wants to plant in the terraces is green soybeans.

The soybeans Xia Qing harvested in the territory last year were an evolved and perverted variety that was too hard to eat. The 350 Green Lantern Soybeans she currently owns were exchanged with Li Si using Green Lantern Eggs. The three kilograms were obtained by Zhang San from Territory Nine after Territory Nine secretly sent evolutionary water rats into Territory Three and were captured by Xia Qing. . Xia Qing plans to plant soybeans on two terraces and plant the rest on the cultivated land at the foot of the mountain.

The fifth type to be planted in terraced fields is yellow light sunflowers. The purpose of planting yellow light sunflowers is to use Gaoyi element soil, non-polluted spring water, and a little bit of luck to bet on the 1% that can be cultivated and optimized to improve the quality of sunflower seeds.

The sixth crop to be grown in terraces is the yellow potato, grown for the same reason as the yellow sunflower.

Then there are the important food crops that need to ensure and improve their seed quality: wheat, rice and corn, as well as the important cash crop cotton. Some of these four must also be planted in terraced fields.

Then, there are green perilla and green alfalfa that the sheep boss likes to eat. Both of them also need a terrace. There are also green lantern pumpkins that, although they look messy, taste good and have high yields, they need to be planted on a terraced field.

The remaining four terraces must be planted with garlic, ginger, onions, cress, cucumbers, beans, tomatoes and other vegetables that need to be guaranteed and improved in quality, as well as the chrysanthemums Xia Qing collected in Valley No. 2 and the mint exchanged with Xin Yu Waiting for medicinal materials. Xia Qing will not trade the vegetables from these four terraces. Apart from eating them for herself, the sheep boss and the sick wolf, she will only provide them to her idol Zhang San and Luo Pei, her teacher who taught her marksmanship.

Zhang San will definitely exchange things from time to time. Luo Pei has almost recovered. He will definitely spend most of his time outside performing tasks and rarely stay in the territory. Therefore, Xia Qing has no chance if she wants to be filial to her teacher.

In short, all existing crop varieties in Xia Qing's territory must be planted in terraced fields to ensure that she can eat high-quality food while also ensuring and improving the stability of these crop seeds as much as possible.

One can imagine how busy Xia Qing will be during the planting period after the rains. Therefore, she had to make all the preliminary preparations she could before it rained. When the weather became suitable after the rain, she would immediately start soaking and sowing seeds.

While Xia Qing was busy with farm work, Yang Jin and Luo Pei took a helicopter and escorted five people, including Tang Rui and Tang Zheng, back to the Huisan Safety Zone. (End of chapter)

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