Agriculture Idol

Chapter 222 Only Buy One Cucumber ([-])

The cucumber greenhouse is located in a farmland ten kilometers away from the sea. From a distance, the greenhouse looks square and flat, and when you get closer, you will find that it is very spacious.The first thing you see when you enter are green cucumber vines and yellow flowers dotted between them.

Unlike the strawberry greenhouses that went live a few months ago, strawberry varieties are highly dependent on the environment and reproductive isolation, so each strawberry variety occupies a greenhouse.But here, even if cucumbers of different varieties are grown in the same cucumber greenhouse, it has no effect.

The farmer looks very young, and he has only graduated from college for ten years. At the beginning, he worked in a big city, selling agricultural products.After working for a few years and becoming familiar with the business, I went back to my hometown to grow my own cucumbers, and only sold them for myself.

"Currently, nearly 2500 cucumbers are cultivated here," the farmer said.

Li Chengxin casually walked into a row of cucumbers, pointed to a cucumber and said, "This cucumber grows really well, I saw it right away!"

Usually, cucumbers will start to bend when they touch the branches and leaves during the growth process.And the cucumber that Li Chengxin pointed to was straight, without any bend at all.

Li Chengxin stretched out his hand to pick up the cucumber and look at it, but his hand felt a pain. It was actually pricked by the thorns on the cucumber.

"Oh, the thorns of this cucumber are really sharp!"

The farmer came over to have a look and said, "You can't touch this thorn casually."

Li Chengxin didn't understand, so: "Are the cucumber thorns dangerous?"

The farmer shook his head: "If the thorns on the cucumber are broken, the water in the cucumber will escape from the broken edges of the thorns."

After hearing it this way, it was not Li Chengxin who was stabbed that the farmer came to care about, but the cucumber that Li Chengxin touched.

The thorns on the surface of the cucumber will break when touched, and then the water in the cucumber will easily escape from the fracture, thus reducing the freshness of the cucumber itself.Generally speaking, freshly picked cucumbers with thorns are the freshest.

Now that Li Chengxin had broken the thorn of the cucumber, the farmer picked the cucumber and handed it to Li Chengxin to try.

The cucumbers in the farmer's house did not contain pesticides. Li Chengxin broke the cucumbers in half, gave half to Brother Xiaoyong, and then directly bit off the cucumbers.

"Crack" a crisp sound.

"Wow, this cucumber is so delicious!" Brother Xiaoyong praised.

Li Chengxin also commented: "This cucumber tastes really sweet and has a rich fruity aroma."

After finishing half of the cucumber, Brother Xiaoyong was still satisfied, so the farmer found another straight cucumber and handed it to Brother Xiaoyong with a smile.

Brother Xiaoyong took it and instead of eating it from scratch this time, he took a bite directly into the middle of the cucumber. This way of eating was really fresh.

While eating, Brother Xiaoyong did not forget to praise: "This cucumber is juicy and juicy, and it tastes like cucumber."

Li Chengxin also said: "When I was young, my dad told me that if I was thirsty after playing, I would just eat a cucumber. Now, it is really rare to be able to eat such a juicy cucumber!"

95% of cucumbers are water, so the important condition for cultivating cucumbers is good water.

Ten kilometers away in the other direction of the greenhouse is a mountainous area. Although it is less than 50 kilometers away from the city, it is a good place with original oak forests and deep valleys, and rich natural scenery.

After five to ten years of mountain filtration, the rainwater in the mountains will become rich in trace elements, and after gushing out of the ground, it will be high-quality mineral water.

Farmers use water pipes to bring in groundwater from the area to irrigate the grown cucumbers. Not only are they juicy, but they also produce a lot of nutrients due to sufficient photosynthesis, making them very sweet and delicious.

Li Chengxin lifted a bit of the plastic sheet covering the floor of the greenhouse and looked at the water pipes laid under it.

Since the roots of cucumbers grow horizontally in shallow soil, water pipes should be laid in channels away from the roots so that the roots can effectively absorb water without too much or too little.

According to the farmers, due to the abundant water and light resources in this area, the history of mass cultivation of local cucumbers can be traced back a hundred years ago.

The farmer pointed to the other side of the cucumber greenhouse: "I also grow cucumber varieties from a hundred years ago here, so I can let you have a look."

Li Chengxin and Brother Xiaoyong were also very interested when they heard this, so they finished the cucumbers in their hands and followed the farmer deeper into the greenhouse.

At a corner, the farmer pulled out a cucumber from the vine leaves: "This is the local cucumber variety a hundred years ago."

Li Chengxin looked over and couldn't help shouting: "Is this a cucumber?"

The cucumbers in the hands of the farmers are light green and white in color. Compared with the common cucumber varieties they ate before, they are thicker and shorter, and the surface is relatively smooth, with only a few small bumps.

The farmer picked one and handed it to Li Chengxin: "Want to eat?"

Li Chengxin took the cucumber and planned to break it in half as before, but the cucumber in his hand was almost bent into a U shape, and it didn't break.In the end, Brother Xiaoyong was still allowed to make a move, and then he snapped the cucumber quickly.

[Crotch cool...]

[It seems that this variety of cucumber has almost never been seen]

[This is a dry cucumber, I have it here too! 】

Li Chengxin took half of it and looked at the cross-section of the cucumber: "This kind of cucumber doesn't have much water, but the flesh is very firm."

After smelling it again, Li Chengxin said in surprise: "The scent of this cucumber is too strong!"

After taking a bite, he immediately felt a difference: "The taste is completely different from the cucumber just now! There is very little water, and there is no juicy feeling."

The farmer said: "Yes, this variety of cucumber has less water and firm flesh, which is very suitable for making pickled cucumbers. In addition, the taste of this cucumber is also very suitable for adding to salads, but visually, this cucumber The color was too light, so it didn't make it into that market."

Brother Xiaoyong chewed the half-cut cucumber that Li Chengxin gave him. After eating, he started to look around again. He suddenly pointed to the other side and asked: "Is that also a cucumber? It's so beautiful!"

Li Chengxin looked over after hearing this. Brother Xiaoyong was pointing at a slender dark green cucumber. The most amazing thing was that the skin of the cucumber was very smooth, reflecting a plastic-like luster in the sun.

The farmer introduced: "This is a cucumber variety without thorns."

In addition, the farmer introduced a completely opposite cucumber variety. The cucumber of this variety is long and thin, covered with small thorns, which looks very scary, with "Don't eat me!" written all over the body.

Then Li Chengxin also discovered a short variety of cucumber, and the farmer pointed out that it was used in Western-style pickled cucumbers, and the whole cucumber would be put into pickling jars.

In addition, farmers also have two types of cucumbers, yellow and green and pure white, in their greenhouses, for a total of seven cucumber varieties.

　The stalk of "buy only one cucumber" roughly refers to a topic that southerners buy less vegetables.Cucumber agricultural knowledge reference BV1S4411X77y
　　
　
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