After planting the hemp and beans, it’s not over yet.

Ye Qing guided the tribe members and began to grow vegetables.

The vegetables that the tribe members ate in the wild were picked, with poor stability and insufficient yield.

This time, Ye Qing plans to select some of them for artificial planting.

The first type is a gourd.

Gourds are a very old planting crop.

The Hemudu culture was planted as early as 7,000 years ago, which is also the earliest record of growing gourds in the world.

The gourd is very practical and can not only be eaten, but also serve as a container.

In this era, the production process was backward, and this natural container was a gift from God.

The use of containers is easy to say within the tribe.

If you travel, containers such as toilet cans are fragile and inconvenient to carry.

A strong and lightweight gourd is the best choice.

After planting in large quantities, even if your tribe is too much to use, you can still take it out and exchange it.

Gourds are tenacious and easy to plant.

The gourds of this era have not been cultivated and are not very big.

But if the planting is good, the yield is also quite large.

It is normal for seven or eight gourds to grow on a gourd vine.

It’s not uncommon for dozens of gourds.

What is the limit number of gourds that can grow with a gourd vine?

According to Guinness, the maximum number of gourds growing on a gourd vine is 656.

The shell of the gourd seeds is hard and it is difficult to germinate.

In order to ensure the germination rate, Ye Qing asked the tribe members to soak in advance and cut the shell of the seeds with sharp tools.

Then choose a place to specialize in seedling cultivation, and after the seedlings are grown, then transplant them.

A gourd is a vine plant.

In order to save land and increase yield, Ye Qinghui taught his tribe to put on airs for gourd vines in subsequent planting.

And it is also planned to plant gourds on all the fences of the tribe.

Wouldn't it be stupid to not use ready-made airs?

Gourd vines on the fence wall, isn’t this the most common scenery in rural areas?

The second type of vegetable is water celery.

There are many waters around the tribe, so wouldn’t it be a pity not to plant water celery?

The cultivation of water celery is also very convenient.

Water celery is a perennial plant that can be seen on the thunder shore, on the Zhushui River, in swamps, and in puddles.

In these places, pull up the fibrous roots of wild celery in clusters.

Then it was thrown to the moat, the banks of the artificial river, the shallow waters beside the pond, and even the drainage ditches inside the tribe, and the planting was completed.

It's that simple.

So, the tribe members were dispatched on a large scale.

In swamps, people in the puddles carried baskets and baskets to collect them.

In Zhushui River and in the thunder siege, the tribe members carried bamboo rafts and searched on a large scale.

Soon, the roots of water celery piled up with bamboo rafts were transported back.

Then, Ye Qing asked the tribe members to separate the root systems of these large clumps one by one.

Then plant it in shallow waters around the tribe.

Just throw it away in a static water like a pond.

And moving waters like artificial rivers and moats are also simple to plant.

Just grab the mud and apply a smear on the root of the celery to prevent it from being washed away by the water flow. That's enough.

Ye Qing was very satisfied when he saw that the shallow water areas around the tribe were planted with water celery.

It can be seen how lush these shallow water areas will be in the past few months.

And these celery are worry-free and labor-saving.

As long as you don't clean it up specifically, these celery will grow every year.

There is no need to worry about it, just wait for picking it.

Of course, in order to get higher yields, other aquatic weeds still need to be cleaned occasionally.

Food has another stable source.

Ye Qing also asked his tribe members to reclaim 40 pieces of land near the planned new village wall.

One piece of land is 10 acres.

This 10 acres of land is an adjacent vegetable garden.

This 10 acre vegetable garden is planted with leeks, sunflower, ginger, melons, green onions, cabbage and radish.

Leeks are evergreen perennials.

Planting is also very simple.

It is also OK to sow seeds and plant them directly. It is also OK to dig back the wild leeks and plant them directly.

Sunflower is also a plant with strong vitality.

It grows vigorously all year round, and can grow even in cold winters.

This is why sunflower has occupied a mainstream position in vegetable categories for a long time in history.

As for why he was eliminated later, Ye Qing didn't know.

But in this era, it is worth planting just by being strong in vitality.

At this time, there are not as many superb technical means in modern times, nor are there any variety of pesticides and fertilizers in planting vegetables.

Of course, the stronger the vitality of vegetables, the better, the simpler the planting, the better the effort.

It is also the word "bad".

Similarly, planting a stalk is the same.

The saccharin is also a "bad" plant, it can be planted all year round and grow.

The above three types of vegetables have distinct characteristics, are evergreen all year round, can be grown at any time, can be eaten at any time, and do not need to be managed.

Ginger and shallots, although the yield is not high, are all ingredients.

In the hometown of fish, rice and fish in the south of the Yangtze River, fish, shrimp, crabs and turtles are definitely indispensable.

These ingredients to remove the fishy smell are also essential.

And cabbage and radish are Ye Qing’s focus.

Cabbage and carrot are good.

These two kinds of vegetables are not picky of the season, they grow fast, can be grown at any time and eaten at any time.

It is because of this advantage that it can become the most common and common vegetable in modern times.

This is the result of long-term historical practice.

It is impossible for Ye Qing to not do what he wants.

But the cabbage and radish varieties of this era are still very problematic.

The cabbage of this era should be the most primitive variety.

There is no way, Ye Qing can only be a pioneer.

If you want an excellent variety and want to eat the fat, sweet cabbage and thick and strong radish that are the kind of later generations, you can only cultivate it slowly by yourself.

But how could the cultivation of excellent varieties be a simple matter?

If there are modern technical means and manpower, it may be cultivated in a few years.

But in this era, I can only guide myself.

Ye Qing was naturally not a breeding expert in his previous life.

But he knows a knowledge.

For Brassica plants in the Crusade family like cabbage, it is very simple to cross with each other, and the success rate is almost 100%.
To be continued...