1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 57 View the kelp culture raft

 After hearing what Li Duoyu said.

 Chen Huiying put down the pole.

The little yellow dog that had just been beaten once saw someone trying to beat it again, so it was so frightened that it got into the chicken coop.

result,

 Scared out the egg-laying hen.

Seeing that the hens were frightened, Chen Huiying cursed again: "You are such a showy dog."

 Li Duoyu saw this.

Hurry, he took out the little yellow dog, took out a discarded leash, got a dog collar for it, and then tied it to the corner of the chicken pen to prevent it from running around.

 Chen Huiying was still a little angry: "Well, why did you get a dog to do it in the chicken pen? What if it eats the chicken?"

“Mom, this puppy can’t bite. Its front feet are broken. It’s good that it hasn’t been bullied by those big roosters. It still wants to eat chicken.”

"You can't keep it inside. The hen will be frightened when she lays eggs, and she may not lay eggs in the future."

Li Duoyu quickly explained:

“Just lock it up for one night, and get a dog cage right away tomorrow. When its legs are healed, put it on the fishing raft.”

 “You want to keep it on the fishing raft?”

Li Duoyu nodded: "I raised it just to watch the kelp farming raft."

After hearing that the fourth child picked up the dog to see the kelp farming raft, Chen Huiying immediately liked the dog, but she still said:

 “Then you have to get rid of it quickly. You can’t keep it in a chicken coop.”

“I know, mother, let’s make a doghouse for it tomorrow.”

 Li Duoyu almost forgot.

 Raising chickens and ducks is a very important thing to my mother-in-law.

When they were young, their family had not yet been allocated oyster fields. If they wanted to have a bite of white rice, they had to rely on chickens and eggs in the chicken coop.

Whenever a hen lays eggs, no one is willing to eat them, but my mother-in-law will collect the eggs. On the day of the market, she will carry the eggs to the commune to exchange for food stamps and oil stamps.

After Chen Huiying saw the puppy **** in the corner, she felt relieved and went to the kitchen to prepare dinner. After looking at the fourth child, she asked:

 “What do you want to eat tonight?”

 The moment I heard this.

 Li Duoyu was stunned for a long time.

 When I was young in my previous life,

The most fearful thing is that people will ask him what he wants to eat, because he always finds it troublesome to answer.

 It can wait until he gets old.

 What he was most afraid of was that no one asked him what he wanted to eat, so he had to eat alone.

 Facing A Niang’s question.

Li Duoyu did not give a perfunctory answer like "whatever" or "anything is fine", but said with a smile:

“How about fried mustard greens, an omelette, stir-fried dried oysters with green garlic, stir-fry one cauliflower, and finally a piece of sea fish to make a soup.”

Seeing Li Duoyu ordering so many dishes in one go, Chen Huiying said with a bit of disgust:

“Our vegetable garden is only so big, so how can we prepare so many vegetables for you?”

Li Duoyu smiled and said:

 “Then you can eat whatever you want.”

Li Duoyu took a look and found that the small vegetable garden behind his chicken coop was indeed a bit small. At first, my mother-in-law had used most of the vegetable garden for chicken coops and pig pens.

 There is not much space left in the vegetable plot.

So I planted some green garlic, which is used daily for seasoning, and mustard greens, which are used to make pickles.

 There are no other vegetables.

However, Uncle Hu’s family does not raise chickens or ducks, so the vegetable plot is much larger. However, he only has food and accommodation by himself, and he cannot grow much.

Most of them are deserted there.

Li Duoyu thought to himself, Uncle Hu would have to move to Rongcheng sooner or later, or he might as well take over his family's vegetable plot.

 This way you can add a variety of other vegetables.

 Li Duoyu looked at his watch.

 It’s half past three in the afternoon.

　　There is still more than an hour until Zhou Xiaoying finishes class, and there are still two and a half hours before dinner time.

Li Duoyu planned to sail to the kelp breeding raft to see the latest status of kelp seedlings.

 Kelp seedlings are not thrown into the sea.

 Don’t worry about it.

 On the contrary, management is much more troublesome than those of fruits and vegetables, and you need to check them at least two or three times a week.

 The most basic thing is to check the raft frame and wooden piles to see if there are any piles pulled out and whether the kelp rope is rolled or entangled. Next, you need to check the growth of the kelp seedlings to see if they have been eaten by insects or have any diseases.

 After arriving at the kelp farming raft.

Li Duoyu put his hand into the sea water and tested the water temperature first. It was a bit cold and biting. He felt that the temperature of the sea water was only in the single digits.

  Such water temperature is very suitable for the growth of kelp. Then, he pulled up a kelp rope and observed it carefully.

 Mainly look at the kelp seedlings to see whether there are curls on both sides, white spots and rotten leaves.

 Fortunately, the kelp seedlings are all healthy.

 The kelp seedlings that were first released into the sea are now more than 20 centimeters long.

 If it continues.

 In another three months, it will grow to one meter in length. After four months, it may be ready for harvest.

Li Duoyu randomly picked a kelp rope to check every ten meters.

 If you find that the kelp seedlings are too dense, pick some kelp seedlings.

 For the current Li Duoyu.

 What matters is not output,

 But seek stability and success,

 Only if these kelp can be raised well, his mariculture plan can continue to advance.

 At the beginning, Li Duoyu did not choose to raise kelp without any thought.

 If that’s right.

 In a few years, TV dramas from Hong Kong Island will flood into the country.

By then, the first wave of wealthy “classes” will be the first to suffer cultural shock, especially in the area of ​​food.

 What, "Chicken Sauce Fish Maw Noodles"

 “Shark’s fin fish for rice”

 “Abalone with rice”

These ingredients that frequently appear in Hong Kong TV series and movies will become luxury ingredients in the minds of Chinese people for a long time to come.

Fresh kelp is the main food of abalone. Once kelp farming reaches a large scale, it will save a lot of trouble to raise abalone.

However, abalone is relatively difficult to raise among seafood.

  Not only very picky about the environment.

The personality is also very very delicate.



At that time, when the abalone market was booming, many people raised abalone on Dandan Island.

Those farmers who make money from raising abalone,

　　　It is said to be a fortune-making treasure.

 But those farmers who are in debt because of raising abalone call them bankrupt abalone every day.

 The reason is that the breeding cycle of abalone is very long, and it takes two to three years to sell it at a good price.

 In two or three years, there will be too many variables, and we almost have to rely on God to provide us with food.

 If God is in a bad mood.

If a big tropical typhoon comes over, the abalone farmers will probably lose their pants.

However, at this stage, even if Li Duoyu wanted to raise abalone, he probably wouldn’t be able to.

 The reason is that there are no seedlings.

 Their local wild abalone is variegated abalone, which is very small and not very tasty.

Most of the abalones eaten by people in later generations were new varieties bred from the plated abalone in the north and the variegated abalone here.

To be honest, Li Duoyu knows a little about this kind of breeding work, but only a little. To really cultivate new varieties, we have to rely on fishery research institutes in various places.

 Even if Li Duoyu now has a complete set of abalone farming technology, it has no use.

 It’s like Li Duoyu is very good at driving.

But there is no decent road on Dandan Island. If the vehicle speed is too fast, it may overturn one day.

Li Duoyu plans to encourage his uncle Chen Dongqing to find a way to breed abalone fry suitable for growing in southern waters after kelp cultivation is successful.

However, this is all a matter for the future.

 You cannot become fat by eating in one sitting.

 You have to do things step by step. At this stage, you should concentrate on raising kelp.

   Looking for further reading and recommendations.

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