In spring, all things revive, and birds and beasts also usher in a period of reproduction. This is true for beasts, and in fact, it is also true for humans. In spring, it is very easy to get ready to take action.
No, Huang Dazhi has taken a fancy to the blind date and is ready to get married. Gao Mingwan has also taken a fancy to the blind date and is ready to get married.
Huang Dazhi's wedding is very close. The wedding day will come in more than 20 days, but Gao Mingwan's wedding will have to wait a little longer. Wang Xiuxiu's birthday is in June, and the Wang family hopes to let Wang Xiuxiu celebrate her birthday at home. , remarried.
But things didn't go well in the following days, so we had to postpone the wedding until August.
During this time, they had to be busy preparing for their wedding, buying a house and purchasing various wedding supplies. Gao Mingcheng, a married man, seemed a bit leisurely.
The fruit trees bought from Shimen Village have already been planted. After two spring rains, the fruit seedlings are growing well and there are no problems.
But when Gao Mingcheng inspected a batch of sugar oranges planted last fall, he found that several trees were infested with borers.
Orange trees are the most susceptible to borers. Anyone who has planted fruit trees should be familiar with this. Once a fruit tree is borer, it must be treated as soon as possible, otherwise, the fruit tree will die easily.
In addition to orange trees, peach trees are also the most susceptible to insects.
In later generations, peach gum has also become a beauty product and is sought after by people. But how is peach gum produced? It means that the tree is infected by insects, or is infected by fungi or bacteria, causing damage to the skin. Then the bark will ooze glue, and the glue will gather together to become golden peach gum. It will take longer to hang on the tree. Over time, it will turn brown.
Once a peach tree becomes gummy, the yield of peaches will be reduced, and the gummy part will also rot, or even cause the entire branch or peach tree to wither.
Therefore, planting fruit trees does not mean that you don’t have to manage them after you plant them.
Field management is also very troublesome. Once you don't manage it, the fruit trees will either die, produce few fruits, or have sour fruits.
Gao Mingcheng's batch of peach trees had just been planted. They were healthy and disease-free, but it was hard to say what would happen later.
Many beauties saw Gao Mingcheng holding a thick wire and asked curiously: "What are you doing with this?"
Gao Mingcheng said: "The orange tree is infested with worms. I will use this to dig out the wormholes and then catch the worms out."
"By the way, we still need to get pesticides." Gao Mingcheng remembered that he didn't get pesticides, so he went to the miscellaneous room where pesticides and agricultural tools were placed, and got pesticides and some cotton.
"Let me go and take a look with you." Duo Meipo said with interest.
During the time she returned to the countryside, she lived quite comfortably. Gao Mingcheng prepared all the meals. Knowing that she couldn't eat rice and meat, he gave her vegetarian meals every meal, so although she still felt hungry, she was less hungry than before. But it's much better.
"Okay, you can follow and watch, but when the medicine is applied, walk away a little." Gao Mingcheng ordered, and then brought many beautiful things to the tree with insects.
How to check whether a tree has insects? Peach trees, apricot trees, cherry trees, etc. all secrete gum. As long as you see these gums, you will know that there is a problem with the tree and it must be treated in time.
But for trees that don't secrete glue, you have to look at other places to see if the branches and leaves are wilted, and if there are insect droppings under the roots.
These trees were planted not long ago, and even if there are insects, they are not big. Therefore, from the outside, the wormholes are small, and the insect feces excreted is also small.
Gao Mingcheng pointed to the root of one of the trees and said: "Look at this small pile of sawdust-like things. These are insect excrement. We need to empty out all the insect excrement in the tree hole later, and then Catch the bugs out again.”
As he spoke, he knelt down and started working with the thick wire in his hand.
Under his flexible control, the insect-eaten hole was hollowed out bit by bit. Because the tree was small and the insects were small, the hole was not big. Soon, the thick wire stabbed an insect and pulled it out of the hole. Drag it out.
The insect is not completely dead yet, and its body is still squirming and struggling.
"Well, it's a beetle larvae. It's very delicious when fried. But it seems that pregnant women can't eat it." Gao Mingcheng showed it to many beauties. Many beauties saw the white and fat beetle larvae still twisting. When I moved, I felt nauseated, turned my head to the side and retched.
Gao Mingcheng regretfully killed the insect and buried it with soil.
This pregnant woman really can't afford to be hurt.
"Duomei, you'd better go somewhere else for a walk." Gao Mingcheng said, and then he was going to dip cotton in pesticide, then use branches to stuff it into the wormhole and smear pesticide everywhere.
Pesticides can kill insects, but if you just take out the bugs, you can't cure them. After applying pesticides, Gao Mingcheng blocked the wormholes with wet mud.
This is just like bandaging a person's injury. Blocking the hole with mud can prevent ants from crawling in and building nests, and it can also prevent other bugs from laying eggs in tree holes.
Duo Mei walked to the side to see the growth of other fruit trees. After there was no interference, Gao Mingcheng moved faster, and soon he caught a few beetle larvae.
One of the worms was as fat as a little finger and was full of protein!
Gao Mingcheng swallowed inexplicably, remembering that he really ate all kinds of bugs when he was a child. The living conditions at that time were so poor that he often didn't have enough to eat. When he was half a child, he would cry hungry no matter how much he ate.
As a result, the insects and bird eggs in the mountains suffered. He ate them all, such as bamboo insects, beetle larvae, cicadas, locusts, and kudzu bugs.
If you don't have the conditions to fry it, just put it on the fire and roast it, then eat it while it's hot. It's very fragrant.
Gao Mingcheng recalled his childhood, but he had no intention of eating these bugs. He was afraid that after seeing them, many beauties would even dislike the cooking pot.
But he didn't throw away the bugs either. He packed them in a wider leaf and planned to take them back to the chickens. Chickens would like to lay more eggs after eating bugs with high protein content.
When passing by his vegetable field, he saw a lot of weeds growing in the field, including many dandelions.
It is indeed a good thing for all things to revive in spring, but for farmers, going to the fields to weed has become a daily routine. Otherwise, if you haven't weeded for three to five days, you will be lucky enough to experience Tao Yuanming's style of field life - the grass is abundant and the bean sprouts are sparse. .
Tao Yuanming was not short of money, so he could grow grass and bean sprouts, but farmers who relied on the land to make a living did not dare to do this. They had to hoe weeds and fertilize diligently, hoping that the crops would thrive and produce food.
Gao Mingcheng also planted the vegetables that should be planted in the ground. He would come back to the village every now and then, so vegetables had to be planted.
If country people go to buy groceries, they will be laughed at.
Gao Mingcheng first put the bugs, pesticides and other things back home. As soon as the bugs were thrown on the ground, a fat hen rushed up quickly and pecked at the bugs on the ground to eat. Other hens also swarmed up and enjoyed the meal. Huh.
Gao Mingcheng went out again with a hoe and a bamboo basket. He planned to get some dandelions to eat. The dandelions in the field now are very tender and are an edible wild vegetable. When the dandelions grow bigger, they will be another kind of wild vegetable. Herbal medicine can be used as medicine.
But for children, the deepest impression of dandelion must be its seeds.
The seeds are white balls with a cute fluffy appearance. When the wind blows, the seeds fall off and go away with the wind.
The seeds are like parachutes. Wherever they land, a large number of dandelions will grow next year.
(End of chapter)
