Jiandan immediately frowned,
"Didn't I just say that you would come and help me plant the watermelons in a few days? There are so many, and if you don't help me, I will be exhausted."
Based on Jiandan's limited agricultural knowledge, these dozens of trees will not mature at the same time. Some will mature earlier and some later. If the line is stretched, it will take more than a month in the countryside for this seedling to complete its mission this year.
Besides, she wants to eat watermelons, and there is another piece in the base. Planting these is just a matter of convenience, so as to avoid being caught by others and having trouble explaining.
In addition to these dozens of trees, there are also some seeds given by Wang Guihua and the old lady of the Liu family, such as squash, horned melon, hanging melon, sunflower seeds, and goji berries. She has scattered a lot of them. There are also more than a dozen sweet stalk seeds that the old lady found out for who knows how many years. None of them were wasted. No ridges were made, but they were planted one by one, full of them.
Now the squash is ready to eat, and the squash and hanging melon have grown quite big. The sweet stalks are also as tall as her. It is estimated that they will be ready to eat in more than a month.
When the seedlings first emerged, she heard that this thing would not grow too densely, so she deliberately spaced the seedlings out. She was reluctant to throw away the ones she picked out, and she planted them all by the wall if there was space.
(Thinning is also called seedling thinning. For both protected and open-field sowing, the sowing amount greatly exceeds the amount of seedlings left, resulting in crowded seedlings. To ensure that the seedlings have enough growth space and nutrient area, some seedlings should be removed in time, and strong seedlings should be selected to ensure that the seedlings have enough air circulation and sufficient sunlight. Proper thinning and settling can avoid crowded seedlings, mutual shading, save soil moisture and nutrients, and help cultivate strong seedlings.
As the saying goes, it is too dense, it can't grow, it can't grow big, and it competes for nutrition.)
It can be said that there is no waste of space in her back garden. Everything growing in the corners is edible. She is very happy. There will be a big harvest in autumn. Didn't you see the shock of the two children just now?
She knows that for this kind of land, she has a lot of strength, but she may not be as good as these two children in other aspects. For example, which are seedlings and which are weeds in the field, children of this age can basically point to one point. You know, when they first started weeding, those new educated youths couldn't tell them apart after three days.
The two children immediately patted their chests,
"No, no, come, we'll come in two days,"
"Yes, come and pat the watermelon, we'll help you."
Liu Weimin was so angry that he almost laughed. They were really children. They didn't understand what he was saying. Did I ask you to help pat the watermelon? Did I ask you to eat it?
"Hmph, you made a lot of people cry, but you're hiding to eat delicious food?"
Heidan immediately got down to the ground and rushed over,
"Grandpa!"
Liu Weimin quickly stretched out his hand and stepped back several steps,
"Stop, look at your claws,"
The watermelon was cut into large pieces. The two children held them in both hands. Not only their faces, hands, arms, and fronts were all red with juice. Liu Weimin was very disgusted.
Hu Zi also stood up and greeted,
"Uncle Weimin."
Jian Jian went back to the house and brought out another plate,
"Uncle, try it, it's just ripe, I picked it."
Seeing the eager eyes of the two children, he refused cruelly,
"You can't eat it anymore, your stomach will explode if you eat more.
The water in the basin over there is sun-dried, go wash your hands and face."
Walking from the village office to here, although it was evening, the air was stuffy and irritable. When I first saw this red and steaming thing, I thought I was dazzled and rubbed my eyes,
"Emma, this, this precious thing, how can you bear to buy it? And give it to them to eat?"
I swallowed my saliva in a way that I thought was hidden, and thought about it, it's not right,
"Hey, no, where did you buy this thing? There is no way the commune can sell it? Besides, What month is it now? Oh, no, when did you go to the county again? "
He was still muttering to himself,
"Did I remember it wrong? Why did I remember that this thing would not be ready until August?"
After washing his hands and face, Heidan came over and heard his grandfather whispering there, and he corrected him with his chest puffed out,
"Grandpa, I didn't buy it, but my sister planted it herself, so many, and they are green, green balls."
Jiandan didn't expect him to react like this, and stood there for a while before remembering to put the plate down,
"Uncle, what are you thinking about? Come and try it, it's just ripe, and I didn't send it to you. I just said that I would let Heidan and Huzi come over to help me pat it in a few days, and pick all the ripe ones."
"Yeah, sister, I will definitely come."
Heidan agreed on the side, and Liu Weimin didn't know what to say. Have you two discussed it?
Suddenly, he remembered what he heard when he just entered the yard. It seemed that he didn't pay attention to them just because they were asked to shoot the watermelon.
"Can you grow watermelons?"
"I didn't care," Jian Dan said with a smile.
"How can I grow watermelons? I just didn't like the empty wall, so I scattered all the remaining seeds and didn't care. I saw the result."
Just tell me if this is irritating or not. After hearing this, Liu Weimin sat on Heidan's stool without any courtesy, picked up a piece of watermelon and bit it. The viciousness was as if he regarded the watermelon as an irritating little bastard, but then he was stunned.
"Is this the watermelon you grew?"
Jian Dan was stunned. What does it mean? Can you taste the difference?
"Why is it so sweet?"
......
Jian Dan's mouth twitched. I thought he had discovered something?
"Maybe, the seeds are good?"
After being frightened by Jiandan, the children in Liujiatun dared not run to the river. Not to mention the children, even the adults were like a curse before going there. No matter whether it was the parents or the brothers, sisters-in-law or wives, everyone would say,
"Didn't I tell you? Those who drowned were all good at swimming. The only thing missing at home is the water for you to take a bath?"
The children would also watch him with their eyes wide open,
"Dad, you don't listen, I won't let you go to the river. If you don't listen again, I'll tell Uncle Weimin."
Such words appeared in more than one family. For a while, the atmosphere in Liujiatun was particularly harmonious.
Jiandan was not lying to the children. Her watermelons were planted early and gradually began to ripen. Although they were not as good as the ones she took out that day, the sweetness filled the room when one was cut open.
Two days later, the two children came as promised. Huzi brought his sister Xiaohua. Xiaohua was six years old like Heidan, and they were familiar with each other, so he was not afraid of being bullied.
"Sister Jian, we are all here to help you take pictures of the watermelon!"
The other vegetables in the garden were still growing, and it was not time to pull the vines out of the garden (a common term in farming, the harvest period of the vegetable garden or fruits and vegetables is about to end, and the vines are pulled out), so Jian Jian didn't plan to rush, and she cleared the path near the watermelon vines early, so that children could pass smoothly.