February 10, the first day of the first lunar month. Sending off several batches of relatives and friends who came to pay New Year's greetings one after another, Liu Honghai hurriedly ate a few dumplings, stepped on the electric tricycle, added the accelerator, drove out of the village, and drove to the greenhouse, and the sound of the tricycle bumping was quickly drowned in the laughter and laughter of the streets and alleys.
In Baliwan Village, Houyanji Town, Yuncheng County, there is a tradition of growing cucumbers for many years, and Liu Honghai is almost the first batch of melon farmers. Today, he is going to apply organic fertilizer to the cucumbers in four greenhouses and turn them deep to "welcome" the upcoming batch of melon seedlings.
Parking the car at the door of the shed, Liu Honghai picked up the shovel, got into it with his waist bent, and continued yesterday's progress. Although many people in the village started using machinery, he insisted on turning the ground by hand.
This allows the organic fertilizer to be fed into the soil more evenly. Liu Honghai believes that it is necessary to ensure that the fertilizer is turned into a depth of about 10 centimeters, otherwise it will affect the growth of melon seedlings. Every movement of bending over and getting up, every lifting of the wet soil that was turned out, made him feel more steady.
Liu Honghai is turning the ground.
It takes about two days to complete all the deep turning tasks, and in these two days, Liu Honghai is "alone". He said that the preparations before the festival and the human relations after the festival are inseparable from people at home, and these are all controlled by his wife.
A relative came to visit and found Liu Honghai in the greenhouse.
When taking the lead in farming, for Liu Honghai, it seems to be heavier than the festival. He said that in the past few days, it is necessary to step up deep turning, spreading drip irrigation belts, and covering mulch film, so as to create a suitable environment for the growth of seedlings that can be shipped at any time. Because if you sow one day earlier, you will harvest one day earlier, and you will have more say in the market.
Liu Honghai checked the soil quality while turning the ground.
In Baliwan Village, a well-known greenhouse vegetable planting village, there are 680 solar greenhouses, conjoined arch sheds, large and small arch sheds, and the village party branch has developed 736 households and 2,040 members of the professional cooperative. At the end of the year, it is a critical period for the management of many greenhouse crops, and there are not a few families like Liu Honghai's family with a "clear division of labor", and it is not uncommon to see tricycles with farm tools in the fields.
As a "veteran", Liu Honghai's experience is "grasping a lot". However, in recent years, the village party branch has often invited experts to provide guidance, and Liu Honghai has followed to learn and explore how to obtain higher benefits from the land. Last year, the yield of these cucumbers per mu reached more than 30,000 catties. The high yield has made Liu Honghai a famous "melon king" around him, and when he mentions it, he has pride written on his face.
Liu Honghai talked about the "achievements" of planting.
When the cucumbers are off the market, the "melon king" will also plant some tomatoes, cabbage or bitter chrysanthemum, two or three crops a year. "Depending on the situation, sometimes you need to take a break. Liu Honghai said that when he rested, he would hardly give himself a "holiday", taking advantage of these months, going out to do some odd jobs, because of his experience, mostly engaged in some planting management work, "two or three months, can earn a year's fertilizer money." ”
I'm 67, so I'm not too big. While chatting, Liu Honghai mentioned. The years of labor did not make him look too vicissitudes, but more lean and flexible, but he said that because of the perennial hoeing and maintaining a posture and uneven force, he now often has pain in one side of his hip and leg, which is the only problem in his body.
Zhou Tong, a popular newspaper and rural mass reporter