Well, actually in Fang Xiaoyue's world, in large-scale cultivation under scientific management, it is common for potato yields to be as high as four to five thousand kilograms per mu.
In some large potato counties, yields of 6,000 or even 10,000 kilograms per mu have been achieved by using detoxified potatoes, special potato fertilizers and adapting the fields.
Of course, in a place like Taoyuan Valley, it is easy to achieve a thousand catties per mu. In addition, the fields are already very fertile, and perhaps even more is possible.
Since they could still grow for one season, Fang Xiaoyue did not waste time. The next day, she had people move the potatoes out of the stone chamber, cut them into seed pieces according to the number of buds, and put them in the sun to warm.
Potatoes have a certain period of dormancy during harvest.
It can take as long as four or five months, as short as one month, and some can germinate right after harvesting.
During the dormant period, potatoes will not sprout, which also gives the potatoes time to reserve.
But no matter how long the dormant period is, when the temperature is high, the dormant period will be lifted quickly.
This is also the key to why Fang Xiaoyue bought potatoes and put them in the kitchen, and they sprouted in a short time.
After some high-temperature treatment, some seed blocks began to germinate after a few days.
These seed blocks were quickly planted in newly reclaimed fields by eager villagers.
According to the regular seeding rate, more than 240 kilograms of seed blocks are needed per acre of potatoes.
But in order to plant more potatoes next year, these seed blocks are sown evenly in the Taoyuan Path.
With the efforts of hundreds of people, 200 acres of new farmland were reclaimed on Taoyuan Trail in just a few days, and an additional 300 acres of new land were reclaimed one after another.
This is also their limit.
The total area of Taoyuan Trail is 1.5 square kilometers, but after excluding swamps, streams, and some wild plants that need to be preserved, there is only 0.7 square kilometers left that can be cultivated, which is about a thousand acres.
Fang Xiaoyue felt that there was no need to cultivate the remaining 500 acres. When the potato vines grew up, they would cut the vines into sections and plant them directly.
Anyway, the vitality of this potato is tenacious and it can grow happily on uncultivated land. At most, the yield will be lower.
Of course, even if the vines are cut into sections, it will take some time to plant them on the five hundred acres that have been cultivated.
The remaining five hundred acres will probably only be available next year.
After the potatoes are planted, it is up to the hard-working villagers to manage them. Fang Xiaoyue only needs to tell them some management methods for fertilizing and watering.
What really requires his energy is the rice and wheat that are about to be harvested in Taoyuan Valley.
No matter how large the potato output is, it can't compare to rice. Flour is delicious.
If you want to quickly harvest, thresh, dry and store rice and wheat in the sunny and rainy Shiwanda Mountain climate, you will definitely not be able to just rely on the old methods of the villagers.
For this reason, Fang Xiaoyue personally made more than ten wooden threshing machines.
As for the harvester, he can do it, but it will be very troublesome. After all, this thing is no better than potatoes. Potatoes can also be said to be a crop that has never been seen in the mountains. This harvester is too far ahead of the historical process of this aspect.
Besides, with the number of people in the valley, it wouldn't be appropriate for a harvester to harvest while others stand aside and watch the fun.
For more than a week, Taoyuan Valley worked together to harvest all the rice and wheat into warehouses.
With the new grain, the voices in Taoyuan Valley were filled with a bit more joy.
When everyone started to prepare for the unique local harvest festival, Fang Xiaoyue returned to the wooden house leisurely, took out a small pot, filled it with water, put it on the fire, and then took two golden black potatoes, washed them, threw them in, and covered them. Cover the pot and simmer.
While waiting for the potatoes to be boiled, Fang Xiaoyue sat down and meditated.
This is necessary. If you want to quickly raise the level of a monk, you cannot rely solely on destiny points.
Besides, he only has 60 destiny points left now. It's okay to use them to gamble on dice luck, but it's impossible to do anything else.
After meditating for about a moment, Fang Xiaoyue slowly opened her eyes and focused her gaze on the small pot.
But what surprised him was that the water in the small pot had long been boiled dry, and the small pot was burning red, but the Golden Crow potatoes inside were still red, with no trace of burning at all.
this?
After thinking for a while, he picked out a potato with chopsticks and observed it.
The Golden Crow potatoes still only emit a faint heat, no different from before they were put in.
With a gentle touch of the hand, the information about Golden Crow Potato immediately came into mind.
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Golden Crow potatoes that have absorbed a little heat: Potatoes that contain a trace of Golden Crow blood. Eating this potato has a very small chance of obtaining Golden Crow blood.
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Um? The name of the potato has changed.
After thinking for a while, Fang Xiaoyue simply put the two Golden Crow potatoes into the fire, and then added some firewood.
Obviously, this potato can absorb heat, and he guessed that the Golden Crow potato may undergo some changes after absorbing heat.
Of course, whether there will really be changes remains to be seen.
After the fire burned fiercely for half an hour, the fire gradually weakened. Fang Xiaoyue dug out one of the potatoes, stretched out his hand on it, and got new information.
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Golden Crow potatoes that have absorbed a lot of heat: Potatoes that contain a trace of Golden Crow blood. Eating this potato has a slight chance of obtaining Golden Crow blood.
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It’s exactly what I guessed!
After this Golden Crow potato absorbed a lot of heat, not only the name changed, but also the introduction information changed.
If the original Golden Crow potatoes are eaten, there is a very small chance of acquiring Golden Crow bloodline.
The current Golden Crow Potato has a slight chance of obtaining the Golden Crow bloodline.
The probability of obtaining Golden Crow bloodline has increased!
If he wasn't worried about attracting too much attention, Fang Xiaoyue would have wanted to send these Golden Crow potatoes to the small blast furnace for calcination.
After all, compared to firewood, which only has a high temperature of three to four hundred degrees, the temperature in a small blast furnace is at least thousands!
There is no doubt that the efficiency will be much higher.
Of course, the temperature is not enough, so time will come up.
In order to save firewood and avoid constantly going out to find firewood, Fang Xiaoyue dug a pit, put all the Golden Crow potatoes in it, and lit a bonfire on it.
In the next three days, he did not leave except for asking his sons to carry firewood.
Even when it rained suddenly after nightfall the next day, he quickly built a tent for the bonfire.
Of course, it is very worrying for his various behaviors to fall in the eyes of his own son.
Is daddy sick? Something wrong with your brain?
If Fang Xiaoyue hadn't behaved more strangely, they might have called the doctor in the valley for a consultation.
Well, maybe the dignity that Dad had established in the past prevented them from acting rashly.
