Chapter 467: Digging for Medicinal Materials
Growing medicinal materials, especially perennial medicinal materials, is much better than growing food!
Whether it is wheat, rice or beans, the harvest is basically half a year. In this half year, the fields are plowed, soiled, planted, fertilized, weeded and watered in the middle, and finally harvested. Except for the middle part, everything is time-consuming, and it can't be done in a day. Relax.
And every household is concentrated together, so it’s difficult to invite people! There are two seasons in the year, and there is very little slack time.
Medicinal materials can be grown, especially Polygonum multiflorum is a perennial plant. The specific growth time of wild plant is not fixed, but if it is cultivated artificially, the ideal harvest time is about two or three years. Polygonum multiflorum can still grow after that, but the weight it can grow is limited. ;
It’s OK to harvest early, you’ll just lose some weight, it depends on your choice.
Shuiqing and a few in the village were planted last year. It has been almost two years since this autumn. The harvest is nothing and the loss is not big. However, for the sake of sustainable development, only two-thirds of the acres are harvested, and the rest will be harvested next year;
The vacant land can be planted this year and can be harvested the year after next. Harvesting once every two or three years will make people relaxed and maximize the benefits of medicinal materials.
Most of the people in the village planted their crops late, so they planned to harvest only half of the acres. Fortunately, there was a bumper potato harvest last year and there was enough food to eat. They only need a few acres of land to grow food. The rest are all used to grow medicinal materials. Half of the acres are used to grow medicinal materials. The number is also impressive!
The same is true for yams. The densely planted fields will be harvested this year, while the sparsely planted fields will not be harvested this year. This is because Shui Qing said that if you don’t harvest in the first year, the yams will sprout again and grow roots in the next spring. The yam will grow longer and longer. many.
The most important thing is that these two medicinal materials can continue to grow when placed in the soil. Unlike rice, wheat and beans, which are not collected quickly after maturity, they will easily sprout, mold and rot when soaked in water, so there is no need to rush to harvest.
The autumn harvest is a big deal for farmers who make a living from the land!
It was the first time to collect medicinal materials. No one in the village had any experience, but out of solemnity, they chose the sixth day of September to dig.
The first thing to be dug was Shuiqing's family's land. Her land was the first to be planted last year, which is equivalent to two years old.
All the men, women and children from the village came. The old village chief Fan Qiye and other elderly people stood at the front. Men and women surrounded them, and the young men and women stood on the ridge of the field and stood on tiptoe to watch.
"God, I'm a little nervous. Polygonum multiflorum. In the past, one could be sold for several taels of silver! It's so expensive, but now we can grow it too?" Aunt Zhang patted her chest, extremely excited.
Jinniu quickly corrected: "That's the number of years! Mom, didn't Uncle Ding say that our years are short, each one doesn't weigh much, and it's not calculated by one, but by age and weight."
Aunt Zhang said angrily to her son: "Can I not know? I am only excited because the weight is calculated! Especially if we grow it ourselves, we will know how much it weighs right away."
Ding Heli has already told the villagers that fresh Polygonum multiflorum is 450 cents per catty for good quality and old, and 210 cents per catty for short-term varieties. This year, the medicinal materials shop will purchase it according to this amount. If you don't like the medicinal materials shop, If the purchase price is cheap, you can go to Fucheng to find a drug store to sell it!
How could they go to Fucheng to find a drug store to sell it? Not to mention the fact that the capital is far away and not to mention the exhaustion of traveling back and forth, who doesn’t have someone to deliver medicinal materials? I still don’t know the price of medicinal materials.
This price is much better than what you get at the drug store. Besides, if you sell the medicinal materials to your own village medicinal shop and prepare them, you can get paid by your own family for preparing them. When you go out to deliver the goods, you have to do it yourself. You can earn three cents for a piece of medicinal materials. What else is there to be dissatisfied about? If you are still dissatisfied, God might take back this good thing!
Others thought so too.
"Needless to say, our life is short, and the quality is probably not that good, but two hundred and ten cents per pound is not bad. Now I just want to know what is the difference between what Shuiqing's family has grown for two years and what our family has grown for one year? If it is too If it's too big, let's sell less this year and keep it in the ground for one more year. If the difference is not big, then we will have to work hard for a few more years!" Granny Xu's eyes fell on Feng Da who was gathering Polygonum multiflorum vines in the front to prepare for digging! , speak out everyone’s thoughts.
People who planted Polygonum multiflorum this year all nodded!
They have never planted it before and have no experience.
In fact, the entire village was inexperienced. If Shuiqing's family had not taken the lead and solved the problem of food and clothing, they would not have dared to use all their land to grow medicinal materials even though they knew that Polygonum multiflorum yam was valuable!
These days, thanks to Shuiqing providing them with a way to earn money, otherwise they would be easily anxious and worried about this and that even if they had to stay in the fields every day to check.
With a source of making money, we don’t have to worry about food and clothing. All we have to do is focus on making money.
It's just that making money is making money. Today is the time to check and accept the results. You are about to know the harvest. Can you not be nervous and excited? !
Shui Qing, who was at the front of the crowd, had no experience in planting Polygonum multiflorum. In the past, seeds were scattered on the mountains, from trees and weeds. It was difficult to estimate the yield per acre, and most of them relied on fraud in the mall, making it impossible to count.
But although she has no planting experience, she has planting books to learn about.
Wild Polygonum multiflorum generally grows for ten years and can reach about eight taels. Artificially planted Polygonum multiflorum can grow to eight taels in two or three years due to the fluffy soil and fertilization and weeding.
Her land had been plowed several times, and the soil was soft, and farmyard manure made from the excrement of chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, pigs, cattle, and sheep had been applied many times;
More than a dozen men from Feng Damancang come here to weed weeds from time to time. It can be said that the land is fluffy, fertilized and weeded, and the harvest should not be too bad...
As Feng Da dug a few more hoes, he brought out a fist-sized lump, and the crowd was excited!
"Look! It's really grown!"
"It's as big as a fist, how come it looks so much like a potato?"
"I guess it weighs five or six taels?"
The crowd was discussing enthusiastically and was extremely excited.
Feng Da quickly dug a few more hoes, and several fist-sized lumps came out. He happily bent down to pick them up and held them in front of Shui Qing. After Shui Qing took one, he handed it to the old village chief Fan Qiye and others to watch.
The old village chief Fan Qiye and others took it in their hands and looked at it carefully. After a long time, they breathed a sigh of relief and said excitedly: "It's really Polygonum multiflorum!"
"We successfully planted Polygonum multiflorum."
"I didn't expect Polygonum multiflorum to be grown like rice and wheat."
Shui Qing thought silently in his heart, not only can it be grown, but the yield per mu is also very high!
According to books, the yield per mu of fresh Polygonum multiflorum can reach 2,000 kilograms, that is, 4,000 catties!
Shanshui Village naturally cannot compare with China's scientific and large-scale planting, but it should not be difficult to achieve half the yield per mu of the same variety, that is, 2,000 kilograms; and the yield per mu is calculated based on the two or three years of growth of Polygonum multiflorum. If the years are not enough, it will naturally not be achieved. After one year, the yield per mu should be about 700 to 800 kilograms.