Chapter 29 What potatoes can be eaten and what potatoes cannot be eaten
Zhang Dabiao and Ding Wei both wanted to dig a seedling with their own hands, and they stared with burning eyes at the potato seedlings on the ridge whose leaves had begun to turn yellow.
"Okay, Liu Qiang, give each of them a shovel." Chen Xiao agreed. As long as they dug it out, his mission would be accomplished, no matter who did it.
As long as the amount dug is not too much, it will not affect the prerequisite of harvesting in front of the people sent by the headquarters.
Ding Wei and Zhang Dabiao looked at the shovel handed to them, then looked at the potato vines with yellow leaves on the ridges, and shook their heads.
"No, no, no, no...what if we damage it by digging with the shovel?" The two of them resolutely refused to use the shovel and started digging directly.
Fortunately, the land in northwest Shanxi is generally not compacted but rather quite loose, so it is not difficult to dig a ridge with your hands.
Both Zhang Dabiao and Ding Wei moved very cautiously. If you didn't know better, you would think they were looking for old mountain ginseng in the forest of Daxing in Northeast China!
He was so cautious that he didn't even want to remove the tiny whiskers, for fear that any big movement would hurt the treasure buried in the soil.
Chen Xiao ignored them and concentrated on building his own kiln. It was not a brick kiln or a tile kiln, but a kiln used for roasting and stewing sweet potatoes, potatoes, taro and the like, which was very common in the south .
Using pieces of mud, they piled up a forty-to-fifty-centimeter-high, arched earthen kiln, and it was soon completed.
Then he lit a fire inside, and the fire burned very fiercely. His goal was to use the fire to burn the earth blocks that made up the kiln red.
By the time he had built the kiln and started the fire, Ding Wei and Zhang Dabiao had finally dug out a seedling each.
The two grown men looked at the potatoes piled at their feet, their lips trembling with excitement. There were too many, so many that the potatoes produced from one vine could be piled into a small pile.
"say!"
Liu Qiang had already prepared the bags and weighing rod nearby, and he quickly handed them over when he heard the call.
Having experienced it himself, he knew it was too surprising, too unbelievable. At this moment, he could not trust anyone else and could only trust the weight he weighed.
Both Zhang Dabiao and Ding Wei were people who knew how to weigh things. The potato stalk that Zhang Dabiao dug yielded six kilograms of eggs, while the seedling that Ding Wei dug weighed a full ten kilograms.
So amazing!
Such a high-yield crop is unprecedented.
"How can there be so many? There are 200 plants here, occupying only two mu of land.
According to the yield of these three trees, 200 trees should produce 1,500 to 1,600 kilograms. If it is one acre of land, it will be 8,000 kilograms!"
After Ding Wei finished the calculation, he was really shocked. How is it possible to have a yield of 8,000 kilograms per mu?
“Don’t think that the yield is always so high, that’s because this kind of potato has never been grown on this land, and they are new here for the sake of novelty.
After several generations, the potato seeds will adapt to the land and degenerate, and their yield will gradually decrease.
In addition, this batch of potatoes has the fertilizer I applied, but the next batch will not have fertilizer, so the yield may drop a little.
However, I have asked Li Yunlong to hand over the information on fertilizers. I wonder if you have asked people to research it?
If there is no next batch of potatoes, the yield per mu will probably drop to around 5,000 to 6,000 kilograms.
However, since it was the first time planting, there were too few seeds. Originally, we should have planted about 300 to 400 plants on one acre of land, but now we have only planted 200 plants on two acres of land. The spacing is too large and the land utilization rate is too low.
Therefore, if there are enough seeds to plant in batches, even without chemical fertilizers, one acre of land should be planted with 3,000 to 4,000 plants, and the yield can be maintained at around 3,000 to 5,000 kilograms. If there are chemical fertilizers , it may be able to reach 8,000 to 10,000 kilograms. "
Chen Xiao was taking precautions in advance. After all, the high-yield seed status blessed by the system would gradually disappear after about three or four generations and return to normal yield.
And he also saw a question: "Liu Qiang, please remember this.
Next time you dig potatoes, do it before 9:00 a.m. or after 5:00 p.m.
Alternatively, you can dig the potatoes only on cloudy days to avoid direct exposure to the sun.
Once potatoes are exposed to direct sunlight, they will photosynthesize with the sunlight and produce a substance called solanine.
The potatoes will turn green, which is poisonous at this time. If the green color is not too dark, you can peel off the green part and eat it normally.
However, if the green color of the potato is too dark, it proves that the solanine content in the potato is too high and has caused harm to the body. It is not recommended to eat it, but it can be used for planting.
So if you go out and teach people how to grow potatoes, you must tell them what weather conditions are best for digging potatoes.
What kind of potatoes can be eaten and what kind of potatoes cannot be eaten. "
"yes!"
When Liu Qiang heard the seriousness of the matter, he quickly took out his notebook and started writing. This was his habit. He would remember everything new he learned from Chen Xiao, and then go back and start studying with the whole platoon.
Now, this topic, which concerns food safety and human life, is the subject of meeting and study.
Ding Wei and Zhang Dabiao heard this and asked, "Is this food poisonous?"
Chen Xiao didn't care: "As long as its skin isn't green, it's fine!
There is another crop in the south called cassava, which is even more toxic.
But that thing is now the staple food of ordinary people in the south, especially in Guangdong and Guangxi regions.
It is also sad that many people in rice-growing areas cannot afford rice.”
Chen Xiao sighed as he threw the small potatoes in his hand into the already red-hot kiln, one after another.
He threw it in as he pleased, and also threw in the potatoes that Ding Wei and Zhang Dabiao had dug out.
Ding Wei then noticed his actions, and his eyes widened instantly. He felt a surge of blood from the soles of his feet rushing straight to his forehead and pupils.
He rushed over with bloodshot eyes, with only one thought in his mind, which was to snatch the potato from Chen Xiao's hand.
Zhang Dabiao reacted a bit slower, but he reacted in the same way and pounced on him like a tiger pouncing on its prey.
But it was obvious that they all overestimated themselves, and Chen Xiao held them up in each of his hands like chickens.
"What do you two want to do?"
Zhang Dabiao then remembered that this was not the first time he had fought with Chen Xiao, and every time he was treated like a child by Chen Xiao, so he gave up resisting after being picked up by Chen Xiao.
Ding Wei, on the other hand, was still struggling, trying to pry Chen Xiao's hands open. He was still thinking about the potatoes that Chen Xiao had just thrown into the red-hot kiln.
Maybe you can dig it out and plant it...
"Captain, stop struggling. Your strength is not even enough for a scholar to pry it apart with just one finger.
You said, scholar, if you don't give me an explanation today, I will never forgive you for destroying the grain seeds today. This is not something that can be solved with a bottle of wine anymore."
The story about a bottle of wine came from the first time Zhang Dabiao and Chen Xiao sparred. Chen Xiao failed to restrain his attack and accidentally used some force, injuring Zhang Dabiao. Afterwards, he went to the county town and got a bottle of wine to apologize to Zhang Dabiao.
Hearing Zhang Dabiao's harsh words, Chen Xiao smiled and said, "You keep hearing me say that this is food, don't you want to try it to see if it's edible and if it tastes good?
Don’t you want to try this food and see if it’s filling enough?
Look! I've already grilled it for you!"
After saying that, he kicked the red-hot kiln over with his feet, broke up the mud blocks that were used to build the kiln, and used them to cover .
"Okay, just wait 20 minutes!"
