kingnovel Chapter 136: Dung Manure
Chapter 136: Dung Manure
"Mom, what are you doing? Let me join in." Erhua, who was at home, saw her mother and uncle playing with the wood ash at home and came over to join in the fun.
Gu Qingqing looked at the clothes on her and shook her head in refusal, "You can't do this."
"Mom, I ate half a bowl of noodles at noon, so I have strength." Erhua put her hands on her waist and puffed out her chest, swearing her strength unwillingly.
Gu Qingqing smiled and shook her head, then her eyes fell on the bamboo leaves that were pulled back from the bamboo fermentation a few days ago. "Since you want to help, then help drag these bamboo leaves to the pit in the south. You are not allowed to get close to the pit. Stay far away from the pit. Can you do it?"
"Mom, you've told me many times that you don't allow us to go to the pit." Erhua said, and ran over to pick up bamboo branches.
He was too careful and grabbed a lot of thin bamboo branches at once. However, he ran out of strength in his hands after taking only two steps. After dragging them a few steps with difficulty, the bamboo branches that were originally stacked neatly ended up scattered all over the ground.
Just when Erhua was ready to pick up all the manure and drag it away, Gu Qingqing followed with a full basket of dry manure on his back.
"Take less and make two more trips for the rest."
Erhua saw that his mother was about to overtake him, and after a little hesitation, he finally threw some on the road, pulled a few in his hand, and ran forward, shouting happily, "Oh, mother, you can't catch up with me."
Seeing Erhua running happily, Gu Qingqing deliberately shouted to her after she stopped, "Wow, I'm going to chase you!" Seeing Erhua looking at her from behind, she immediately got ready to run.
Erhua was so scared that he started running again in front. After he ran a long way, he looked back and saw that his mother was still a long way away, and he started giggling again.
Seeing his mother getting closer and closer, Erhua wanted to run again with the bamboo stick, but was stopped by Gu Qingqing, "Okay, okay, I won't run anymore. Wait for me. I can't walk anymore."
Gu Qingqing was afraid that she would run too fast and not be able to stop when she reached the pit, and then fall in.
That’s why they say a daughter is her parents’ little cotton-padded jacket. When Erhua heard that her mother couldn’t walk anymore, she immediately pulled Zhuzhi and ran back.
"Mom, I'll hold your hand and go with you." Erhua said he would hold someone's hand, but he lowered his hands to look at the bamboo sticks in his left and right hands, reluctantly put them down, and wanted to hold his mother's hand again.
I felt embarrassed in an instant.
Gu Qingqing saw this and chuckled. She squatted down slightly and reached out with her hand for a thin branch that came from the bamboo branch that Erhua was holding in her hand.
"Okay, I'll hold your hand, you walk in front." Gu Qingqing said as she shook the bamboo leaves in her hand.
Erhua was immediately happy when she saw that the problem was solved, "Then hold on tight, mom, I'll take you away."
Along the way, Gu Qingqing didn't know when she let go of her hands. At this moment, she stretched her hands behind her back and supported the dung basket on her back.
Shrug your shoulders from time to time.
Gu Qingqing met Gu Zhuangzhuang who was looking back on the road and said to him, "Go over there and bring the remaining ashes here."
"Oh." Gu Zhuangzhuang agreed.
When Gu Qingqing arrived at the edge of the pit, he did not rush to throw the manure on his back into the pit, but poured it aside first.
Then he went to the kiln and carried back some quicklime.
Then she started to pull bamboo leaves with Erhua, and also carried the chicken manure in a backpack, which was not even enough for a shovel.
As for the human feces, we can deal with it after everyone gets off work.
The reason she did all this was because she wanted to start making compost.
There was no such thing as potash fertilizer, phosphate fertilizer, or compound fertilizer in this era.
All the fertilizers used in the village are homemade organic fertilizers.
How to make it yourself?
Naturally, they would pile up rotten vegetable leaves, chicken manure, duck manure, pig manure, human feces, wood ash, some dry straw or stalks, and the fluff from sweeping the yard in the corner of the backyard.
The dung pile was surrounded by straw and covered with a thick straw lid.
Later, the urine of family members would also be poured on it, and this pile would basically last for half a year.
Otherwise, the pile will not be ripe at all, and if it is not ripe, it will be useless when it is put into the field.
It is precisely because manure is limited and only a small amount can be applied to the fields, that after accumulating for a long time, it causes the crops in the fields to lose strength and the yield of the crops grown is low.
The purpose of what she is doing now is to change the current situation of insufficient fertilizer. She knows several ways of fermenting manure. How does she know all this?
Because when she was in school, when she was studying the growing environment of medicinal materials, when she understood the growing environment, she had to mention artificial labor, and when it came to artificial labor, scientific management was unavoidable.
One of them is traditional composting.
Traditional composting also includes above-ground composting and pit composting.
What she needs to do is to use pit compost in the early stage and add water in the later stage.
This is also done to increase production capacity and better meet the needs of one's own fields.
The wood ash was already in the pit. Gu Qingqing used a machete to chop the bamboo leaves into pieces and threw them into the pit. At the same time, she directed Gu Zhuangzhuang to crush the dry manure she had carried earlier with her feet and then kick it into the pit.
Erhua, who was standing nearby, was having fun watching her uncle stepping on manure and wanted to go over too, but was stopped by Gu Qingqing.
After she threw the bamboo leaves and all the feces and used wood ash in the house into the pit, Gu Qingqing saw that it was only just covering the bottom of the pit, and for a moment she felt that she had forgotten something.
After a while, she slapped her forehead and said, "Oh! I forgot something important. Zhuangzhuang, go to the new house in the backyard. There is a sack of sawdust over there. Ask someone to help you carry it over."
There is a carpenter working at home recently, and we have accumulated a lot of wood scraps and sawdust left by the tools.
She kept the wood flowers in the kitchen to use as fire starters, and the sawdust could be used to make fertilizer in the future.
When Gu Zhuangzhuang heard this, he turned around and went back.
Gu Qingqing took advantage of this opportunity to beat the quicklime into powder and sprinkled a thin layer in the pit.
She didn't dare to sprinkle more for fear of overdosing.
The calcium element in the lime powder combines with the acidic substances in the soil to neutralize the soil, making it gradually neutral or slightly alkaline or slightly alkaline. Secondly, adding an appropriate amount of water can better kill some insect eggs and bacteria.
Lime will heat up when it comes into contact with water, and at the same time accelerate the time it takes for the fertilizer to rot.
Once the fertilizer has fermented, add more water to the pit to dilute it.
At that time, it could also be called manure water, and it was absolutely powerful when it was applied to the fields.
As for the urine at home, she kept it separately and planned to ferment it and use it to water the vegetables she grew.
Urea is also called nitrogen fertilizer.
The method is to put the urine in a wooden barrel, seal it and place it under the sun for natural fermentation. This process must be fermented and decomposed, and then mixed with clean water to fertilize the crops.
If you use unfermented urine fertilizer to water crops, it will burn the crops.
The reason is that once uncomposted urine fertilizer is applied to crops, it will generate heat in the process, thereby increasing the soil temperature, which will directly lead to damage and rot of the crop roots.
Gu Qingqing had just spread the lime powder when she saw Gu Zhuangzhuang coming over carrying a sack.
After the two of them scattered the sawdust into the pit, Gu Qingqing saw that it was getting early, so she said to Gu Zhuangzhuang beside her, "Come on, take the bamboo basket and follow me up the mountain."