Agriculture Idol

Chapter 73 (^^) I am a tomato ([-])

Li Chengxin held a map in his hand. A zigzagging line was drawn on the map. Looking carefully, it was a river.There is a star mark drawn at the end of the river. If you look carefully, that is where Hong Ming Village is located.

"And now, we are here." The pen in Li Chengxin's hand was on the upper reaches of the river.

"Is this considered fate?" Brother Xiaoyong looked at the map, "The vegetables we eat and grow today actually use water from the same river as our village."

"By the way, why are we walking in the villa area?" Li Chengxin asked suspiciously. Through the barrage in the live broadcast room, netizens also raised this question one after another.

When Li Chengxin and Brother Xiaoyong were doing vegetable eating and broadcasting promotion before, the background was either farmland or a greenhouse, but this time, in the live broadcast room, both Li Chengxin and Li Chengxin seemed to be in the background of a mansion.

"Is there really a field in this kind of place?" Brother Xiaoyong was also very puzzled.

Careful netizens have already studied the location of Li Chengxin and the other two from the map.

[Lanhai city?Although it is a suburb, it is still a densely populated place, right? 】

[So this issue is a vegetable promotion or a restaurant promotion? 】

[Fuck!I see!here it is……】

【Depend on!The villa area where Qi Lanlan's family is located! 】

【ah--!Are you really going to my Lanting house? 】

[I seem to vaguely remember that Lan Lan said that there is a vegetable grower in his backyard, and he wants Zicheng to broadcast live! 】

Soon, Li Chengxin and Brother Xiaoyong passed a canal, and the bottom of the canal could be clearly seen through the clear water.

"The water is so clear!" Li Chengxin exclaimed.

Walking a few steps forward, the two saw Qi Lanting standing in front of their house, dressed in trendy everyday clothes and surrounded by assistants.

Zhou Hao adjusted the camera, trying not to let the audience know the specific location of Qi Lanting's private house.Walking around the house along the wall, they came to the backyard of Qi Lanting's house. There was a small greenhouse in the corner of the yard.

Qi Lanting pulled out a person from among the life assistants who followed him, pointed to him and said, "This is Xiao Teng, he planted the tomatoes in the greenhouse over there."

Obviously, Xiao Teng's main business is not a farmer, and this is the first time that Li Chengxin and the others have encountered an interviewee whose main business is not agriculture.

After chatting for a while, Li Chengxin learned that Xiao Teng was indeed just an agricultural enthusiast.However, Xiao Teng has put a lot of thought into this hobby. While planting, he reads and studies by himself. He can also translate some foreign literature by himself and learn the most advanced agricultural technology in the world.

"The climate here in Lanhai City is actually not suitable for growing tomatoes, but because of the use of greenhouses, at least a certain degree of temperature and humidity control can be achieved." Xiao Teng introduced.

"Then let's go in and have a look first?" Brother Xiaoyong suggested.

Entering the greenhouse, what catches the eye is a patch of green dotted with a few red tomatoes.

"It's red and big, it looks really good! The color looks really beautiful!" Li Chengxin squatted down and looked at the tomato under the green leaves.

The next moment, he said "huh?", "Where did this stem grow from?"

Brother Xiaoyong followed the stem Li Chengxin was pointing at, and looked at it from another angle: "It seems...a bit...strange..."

The camera turned an angle following Brother Xiaoyong, and saw that under the dense tomato leaves, there was no soil, and the ground was a whole piece of hard concrete.The tomatoes, on the other hand, grew out of several spherical foam boxes, specifically, from the sides of the boxes.The bottom half of the box is thick foam, and the top half is a semi-circular lid made of matte plastic.

More than a dozen round boxes are lined up neatly together, looking like they are in a sci-fi movie in the 90s and [-]s.

"Huh? Why is it a spherical basin? Isn't this shape too curious?" Li Chengxin was also surprised.

Xiao Teng explained with a smile: "Ordinary tomatoes are indeed planted in the soil, but there is really no land here for me to use, so I planted the tomatoes in special containers. This is the cylindrical tomato, which is a bit different from the potted tomato. different."

Li Chengxin nodded and said, "I understand, at least potted tomatoes grow upwards, but your cylindrical tomatoes actually grow from the side."

Xiao Teng opened the lid of a spherical cylinder, allowing Li Chengxin and Brother Xiao Yong to see the growth of the tomato rhizome.

The soil in the pot was level with the lower half of the spherical pot, and a few thick tomato stalks grew out of the recesses reserved on the edge of the pot, and were fixed on a shelf hanging from the top of the greenhouse.

"What kind of soil is this?" Brother Xiaoyong grabbed a small handful of dark brown soil from the pot, "No, it's so soft, this shouldn't be ordinary soil."

Xiao Teng nodded and said, "This is coconut shell soil, which is the woody fiber of coconut shell."

【Hahahahaha, I suddenly thought of something...】

【Hahaha, I thought of that too!The coconut that floated under the houseboat...]

[That biological weapon, XSWL! 】

Obviously, Li Chengxin and Brother Xiaoyong made a fool of themselves together, and everyone still remembers it.

It was when the two were building a boathouse by the sea last summer. Li Chengxin accidentally picked up an undamaged coconut from the shore.

Brother Xiaoyong doesn't have the system assistance like Li Chengxin. He can't see what the netizens are talking about in the barrage, but he can still study the soil in the cylinder with a serious face.

He nodded and said, "Coconut shell soil has been attracting more and more attention as a 'second soil' in recent years. It has excellent water retention, air permeability and durability, and it has been sterilized at high temperature, so it is clean and odorless. In addition , Coconut shell soil is a natural organic medium, which can effectively replace mineral wool, which pollutes the environment quite seriously, and its cost is relatively lower than that of mineral wool.”

"Another advantage is that coconut shell soil is very light compared to ordinary soil, only a quarter of the weight of ordinary soil. It will not crush the foam when it is placed in a foam pot, and it is also very convenient to move sometimes. It can be planted anywhere." Xiao Teng continued to add.

"If they are planted in the same field, if one plant gets sick, it will soon spread to other plants whose roots cross each other, and the soil will be polluted. But if they are planted in a cylinder, each pot is a relatively independent plant. Individuals, if a certain tree gets sick, they can easily remove this tomato."

"It's still like this!" Qi Lanting didn't know what to do, picked a few tomatoes and handed them to Li Chengxin and the others.

Li Chengxin was not polite, just wiped it off and took a bite.Brother Xiaoyong was even more impolite, and finished eating a tomato in a few mouthfuls: "It's delicious, the flesh is thick, the juice is plenty, and the taste is good!"

[Although I don't like tomatoes, why do I want to eat Lan Lan's tomatoes so much? 】

[Sad news, this tomato is not available in their Hongming Village online store! 】

[Look at just a dozen or so pots, there is really no need to sell them, eat at home, keep a few as gifts, and they are gone. 】

【Crying, wanting to eat...】

"It's really sweet, much sweeter than the tomatoes I usually eat." Li Chengxin tasted the taste of tomatoes.

"Yes, yes, the tomato smell is particularly strong, right?" Qi Lanting said arrogantly, as if he had grown the tomato.

"This is really strange," Brother Xiaoyong continued to observe the coconut shell soil in the pot, "Isn't the amount of watering a bit too much? The tomato is still so sweet."

Li Chengxin took a look, and indeed, some pots even had moss in them.According to his understanding, tomatoes rarely need to be watered, or the amount of watering is often controlled at the edge of tomato plants close to drought, so as to promote the continuous growth of the roots of tomato plants and absorb more nutrients , to preserve the sugar for the tomatoes.

Xiao Teng squatted down and touched the coconut shell soil in the pot: "My tomatoes are different, they need to be fully watered."

Generally speaking, if the tomato is watered too much, the taste will easily become weak.Xiao Teng's tomatoes are watered a lot, but they are still sweet and juicy. The reason is the use of coconut shell soil.The soft coconut shell soil has strong air permeability, which can make the root system of the plants growing in it strong, and the root system respiration is stronger than the ordinary root system, so more water is needed to maintain its activity, and it can also absorb nutrients more quickly, making tomatoes become Sweeter.

"It's amazing," Li Chengxin said to Brother Xiaoyong, "It seems that there are still many planting methods that we don't know about!"

　I don’t know if readers have noticed that when I write about Qi Lanting, I often use emoji.So since this live broadcast was held at Qi Lanting's house, the title was also added with emoji.Qi Lanting's funny nature made me think of "Song of Spinach" in "Hedong Lion's Roar" when I was thinking of the title, so this title appeared. "Come on, I'm a tomato~(^^*)"

　　
　
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