Chapter 79 [079] The end of the summer harvest
This will be done until mid-June before the rice fields can be completed.
Instead of growing crops such as buckwheat, millet, and sorghum, their family chose corn with higher yields.
In six acres of land, two acres of rice are planted, two acres of land are planted with corn, and in the remaining two acres of land, one acre of land is planted with sweet potatoes in the first half and sesame in the second half. In the last acre of land, water spinach, celery, cabbage, radish, beans, cucumber and other vegetables are planted with vegetables. It is considered as winter reserved vegetables. If it can be sold, it is OK to sell it.
As for the sweet potatoes at home, the sweet potato fields they have replanted on the river beach, they are currently eating the same food and replanting them. This crop will have to be harvested until October or before the frost fall. The harvested batch of sweet potatoes are gradually made into sweet potato starch and vermicelli as a winter reserve.
Of course, this was what she estimated. As for what her family thought, it depends on her parents' decision.
Most of the vegetables in the small vegetable fields in front of the door and behind the house have become their summer staple food.
There is no chance to pickle or store it. First of all, this pickle requires salt. If you buy salt, you will be limited to purchase. You can't buy too much at one time. Moreover, it is also large grain salt. The finer salt is more expensive.
On their side, the large grains of salt cost 8 cents per pound and fine salt 2 cents per pound, so the salt jars of every household are basically large coarse salt. Coarse salt can only be bought at a time. Fine salt is even more harsh and can only be bought at a time. Fortunately, although she limited purchases, it was not limited to people and had no grain book to register. If she went there for two more people, or went there the next day, she didn't say anything.
Like the first batch of cowpeas, later generations like to pickle them and make them sour or sour, which is commonly known as kimchi, which is the most famous of Sichuan Province.
Unfortunately, they were very hungry at that time, so they could not keep it and pickle it. If they chose the more tender ones later and made some sour beans, it would be OK. But in the final analysis, they were still poor and had no extra to pickle. So she guessed that the vegetables her mother planted in that acre of land were mostly prepared for winter.
In addition to cowpeas, they can be pickled, such as cucumbers, green onions, peppers, persimmons, and garlic sprouts, while various green vegetables can be made into dried plums.
As long as you want, there is basically nothing you can't keep. The key is not to think about it, because every day, vegetables, sweet potatoes and potatoes are their staple foods and cannot be kept at all. Now wheat is coming down, but you still need to pay the public grain. After paying the public grain, the rest will be considered their own home.
Now that the date for delivering public food has not been decided, everyone naturally dare not eat the sea sauerk, and they are still repeatedly drying it every day.
The only thing I can breathe a sigh of relief is that the grain in the field has been sown, and only regular fertilization and weeding are needed.
And not only their family members were exhausted during this period, but even other families in the village were like this.
My uncle's one-month vacation should be over, because just returning, it would take five or six days to go on the road.
This time when my uncle came back, he didn't bring too much stuff. Even the allowance was replaced by bean dregs and sent home. However, when he was about to leave, my uncle cried because there was nothing to prepare for him at home. There was no meat, and there was not even an egg. He could only use the newly-departed wheat to bake some dry cakes for my uncle and let him take them on the way to eat.
My uncle didn’t choose anything, and even felt that he was so happy to eat white noodles. As for the pickled pickles, they were all fresh vegetables from the house. What else could he choose?
Chapter completed!