There's a garbage bin in my head

Chapter 239 Farmyard Manure

Early the next morning, when Luo Changqing was about to start road construction, Luo Jiu said to Luo Changqing who was making preparations: "Brother Changqing, before building the road today, go and clean up the small pond on the mountainside. After the stones and sand I bought come back, I will build the small pond first, and I will use it for fertilizer."

Luo Changqing said, "Are you cleaning up the ponds? Which one do you want to dig? There are many large and small ponds on the mountain. Do you plan to clean them all?"

On the top of the tea mountain, except for the largest mountain pond on the mountainside, the area is more than 20 mu, and there are many other smaller ponds, but the area is not very large.

In the past, when my grandparents contracted tea gardens on the mountain to plant tea, they dug a pond the size of three or four quarters of the land close to their contracted land, and filled it with water in rainy seasons, and used it in the pond when it was dry. water to combat drought.

If the water in the pond is almost used up and before it rains, it will be the Leigongshan Reservoir's turn to play a role. The water in the reservoir will be pumped up and stored in the pond, and the water in the pond can be used directly when needed. water.

Of course, the water pumped up by the Leigongshan Reservoir is not free. At that time, it seemed to charge 50 yuan for an hour of pumping by a large electric discharge, but it was more than enough for the small pond of my grandparents.

The ponds dug by other people's homes are similar. The big ones are only more than an acre, and the small ones are even smaller than the grandparents' homes.

However, in addition to the ponds that everyone dug by themselves, there are also ponds that everyone dug together in a large group, and the area is much larger than that dug by individuals.

The largest one is more than 20 mu, and the smallest one is four or five mu. According to Luo Jiu's statistics in the past few days, there are 4 ponds on the Chashan Mountain with an area of ​​more than 8 mu.

Moreover, these mountain ponds used to have mountain springs in them. Even in the most dry years, water will flow out of these mountain ponds.

Moreover, in the years when Chashan was contracted by someone, the ponds on the mountain were also contracted by someone to raise fish.

However, with the deserted tea mountains, no one took care of those mountain ponds, and now, all of them are filled with dead branches and leaves.

As for the mountain springs that used to be, except for the largest mountain pond, where a small puddle can be seen slowly flooding out, the others have disappeared.

And cleaning up all these ponds is also in Luo Jiu's next plan.

After the fruit trees are planted on the mountain, water for irrigation is naturally needed, and these mountain ponds are the best water storage places.

And at that time, you can also grow some things in these mountain ponds, such as lotus root and fish, you can raise some.

Luo Jiu still remembers when he and his cousin went to pick tea with their grandparents when they were young. Their favorite thing was to go to the pond where other people planted lotus roots to pick a big lotus leaf and put it on their heads as a bamboo hat.

Every time I was seen by my grandparents, it was always inevitable to be scolded.

But both of them go in the left ear and out the right ear, and next time they go up the mountain, they will still pick the lotus leaves.

The only regret is that the family planted the kind of lotus leaves that do not bear lotus seeds, which made everyone less happy to pick lotus pods.

Luo Jiu plans to plant a lotus root on the mountain that will bear lotus seeds in the pond in the future, so that in summer, he can go to the pond to pick lotus pods.

However, it is not yet my turn to clean up those mountain ponds, so I can only do it slowly in the future.

The most important thing now is to find a suitable pond, clean up the dead branches and leaves and silt at the bottom, and then build small ponds.

Sitting on the excavator driven by Luo Changqing, Luo Jiu walked about two-thirds of the height of the mountain, pointed to a pond with about two or three centimeters of land, and said to Luo Changqing: "Brother Changqing, just dig this pond later. Just dig down to the hard bottom below."

This pond is the key place for planting trees on the mountain next. The purchased fertilizer will be placed in this pond.

Of course, it is not enough to simply dig with an excavator. After the excavator digs to the hard bottom below, Luo Jiu will build the entire pool into small pools with bricks and cement sand and buy them back. The fertilizer will be stored in these ponds.

When Luo Liyun talked about the base fertilizer used for planting trees yesterday, Luo Jiu remembered that when his grandparents planted orange trees in the past, they used the farmyard manure at home, and used cow dung, pig manure, and chicken manure Put all the miscellaneous things like chicken manure and straw in the shed into a cement pool, add some other things to mix well, and finally pour a few buckets of manure in the cesspit, and cover it with a film to seal it.

After a period of time, the contents of the pond can be used as fertilizer, placed in the pit, covered with a layer of soil, and then the saplings are planted on it.

The orange trees planted in this way grow faster and better than the orange trees in most people's homes in the village, and the oranges produced are much tastier than ordinary oranges.

Even now, in my uncle's small orange orchard, a hole is dug a foot or two away from the roots of the trees every year, and a dustpan of fertilizer is put into it.

And Luo Liyun also agreed with Luo Jiu's idea, and finally decided to use farmyard manure as the base fertilizer.

However, the combined area of ​​Chashan and Leigongshan is more than 1000 mu, and the farmyard manure needed is not 01:30, which is not comparable to a small orange orchard in my uncle's house.

But the solution was all thought up by people. Luo Jiu quickly found out the contact information of several chicken farms in the county. Luo Liyun negotiated with three of them about buying their chicken farms and getting chicken manure.

In Xiaojia Village, not far from Qingshan Village, there is a breeding base that breeds hundreds of cattle and thousands of sheep. Luo Liyun has a good relationship with one of the partners.

In the end, I bought a large amount of cow dung and sheep dung eggs from there at a very favorable price, and I can drive to pull them back at any time.

However, these chicken manures, cattle and sheep manures can't be used as fertilizer for planting trees immediately after being pulled back. They have to go through multiple processes before they can be turned into qualified fertilizers.

The cattle and sheep breeding base in Xiaojiacun feed most of the grass, with only a small amount of feed added, and the feces pulled out do not contain many hormones and other things.

But the chicken manure in the chicken farm is different. The hormone residue in it is much more than that of cow and sheep manure, so after buying it, it has to be processed before it can be used as fertilizer.

Even though these fertilizers contain various hormones, they have little effect on Luo Jiu's planting of fruit trees. After the fruit trees are planted, it will be three or five years before the fruit trees bear fruit. The impact of those hormones has long been negligible. .

(End of this chapter)