Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 737 Sorghum

The main reason is that the academy is quite special and needs a relatively quiet environment. However, it cannot be too remote.

Therefore, after carefully studying the map and asking for the opinions of several adults in the etiquette room, Hua Lei came up with a rough framework.

When choosing a location for a college in a state capital, the first thing to consider is choosing a location with plenty of sunlight, good air circulation, dry ground and high terrain.

Then, the academy should have good roads around it to facilitate students to go to and from school. However, it should avoid being adjacent to places such as markets and brothels that are not conducive to students' study and physical and mental health.

After the general framework was issued, each prefecture governor would select the specific location of the academy based on local actual conditions and submit it to the government office for approval.

Hualei also put forward his own requirements for the construction of the academy. The most basic ones are safety, practicality and economy.

As for the matters concerning the supervision of the construction of the academy, Hualei handed it over to several officials in the etiquette room.

Later we will need to find a teacher, recruit students and so on, but these will have to wait until the academy is built, so there is no rush for now.

Next, they had to prepare to plant sorghum. Hualei had already distributed all the sorghum seeds that the people had claimed to plant, and had also registered them.

What we are going to plant now is the 100 acres of land in the government office. Before planting sorghum, we need to choose high-quality, full and thick sorghum seeds for sowing.

However, the sorghum seeds sent by Prefect Bao were of very good quality, so there was no need to select them specially. However, in order to increase the germination rate and reduce diseases.

Hualei asked Feng Shuangxi to soak the sorghum seeds in warm water of appropriate temperature for twelve hours, then take them out and dry them.

Before sowing, the land needs to be fully plowed, and the soil layer needs to be plowed more than half a foot deep to increase the soil's aeration, water retention, and drainage. Of course, in Xichang Prefecture, the probability of waterlogging is not high.

After deep plowing, a second intertillage is needed to remove weeds and roots and level the soil surface, which is conducive to the normal growth of sorghum. Before sowing seeds, the field must be fully fertilized.

Fortunately, the pile of sedge piled up last year has basically been fermented after several months of high-temperature fermentation, so Hualei generously applied sufficient base fertilizer to the fields.

When the field is almost leveled, it can be sown. Sorghum can generally be planted by line trough sowing or row spacing sowing, according to a certain row spacing and plant spacing.

Prefect Bao also reminded Hualei of this in his letter, and since there were people with planting experience locally, the planting of sorghum was relatively smooth.

After a period of time, the sorghum will break through the soil and sprout. The subsequent field management will mainly be based on the growth and development period of the sorghum and the needs of different growth stages.

Just carry out appropriate fertilization, weeding, watering, maintain soil moisture, and control the amount of water according to weather conditions.

Sorghum generally matures about four to five months after sowing, and special attention should be paid to irrigation management during the maturity period.

Therefore, Hualei dug another well in the sorghum field and installed a vertical well water wheel to meet the irrigation needs of the sorghum.

When the sorghum caryopsis is fully full and dry enough, it can be harvested. It is usually harvested on a sunny day.

After the sorghum is harvested, it is dried in the sun or ventilated. When the moisture content is reduced to a certain level, it can be stored in a warehouse.

Of course, during the growth period of sorghum, we also need to pay attention to the prevention and control of diseases and insect pests, which can only be dealt with by tactics. In addition, the flower buds also take into account the relatively high sorghum stalks.

It can be intercropped with other crops to improve land utilization. Therefore, Hualei also planted spring soybeans, which are popular among local people, between the sorghum rows.

When soybeans are interplanted with sorghum, the roots of soybeans can fix certain elements, improve soil fertility, and promote the growth of sorghum. In addition, the growth period of soybeans is relatively short, which can stagger the growth peak period with sorghum and reduce competition for fertilizers.

In addition, Hualei also intercropped a lot of green leafy vegetables. In Xichang, these vegetables are relatively scarce, and Hualei himself has recently had some mouth ulcers.

Jinnian also suffers from constipation, which is caused by eating too little green leafy vegetables.

Some green leafy vegetables were interplanted in the sorghum fields, so that there would be a place to buy vegetables from the family. Moreover, the government dining hall also needed these ingredients.

The planting of sorghum, soybeans and vegetables was in full swing. Moreover, Hualei promoted the intercropping method of sorghum, soybeans and vegetables in the government office to all the people in Changlanzhou who planted sorghum.

Therefore, the intercropping method was gradually promoted in Xichang Prefecture.

After a while, the governor Bao next door also learned that the Peng family had set up a winery in Xichang Prefecture. At this time, the winery had already broken ground.

Although Prefect Bao felt it was a pity that the winery was lost, he also felt inferior to Huabud's shrewdness in the flower bud business.

Some people always think further than themselves. Even if they have the upper hand, they are still no match for Hualei's one step and three strategies.

However, opening the winery in the city next door is also beneficial to him. At least, transportation is much more convenient.

I need to pay 30% of the transportation fee. Now, it is next door, which saves me a lot of transportation fee compared with previous years, and the risk is also much smaller. This is the only way for Prefect Bao to comfort himself.

Hualei had no idea what Prefect Bao was thinking. Now, she was fully focused on harvesting peanuts.

The peanuts in the field are about to mature. Because there are few peanuts, only a few acres of land are planted. At this time, the originally green leaves in the peanut field have gradually turned yellow. The plants are no longer growing taller and tend to be stable.

I dug a few times with a shovel and checked the peanuts underneath. The shells had turned dark brown and the texture was relatively hard, indicating that the peanuts were ripe.

On a sunny day, Hualei asked the people below to start digging peanuts. Carefully dig the surface of the soil with a shovel, then grab the stems of the peanuts and gently pull them, and the peanuts will come out.

Because there were not many peanuts planted, it only took three or four days to harvest all the peanuts. Then the peanuts were dried with the shells and mud, and put into sacks.

After everything was finished, Hua Lei weighed the peanuts and found that there were less than 650 kilograms in total, with a yield of only about 300 kilograms per mu, which was a bit low.

However, compared to when there were only fifty or sixty kilograms of peanut seeds when they were first obtained, the quantity is now very good and the flower buds are easier to produce.