Chapter 152 kinds of farming
Su Yuanyuan’s idea is to plant more sweet potatoes this year, as they are more drought-resistant, while corn might not yield any grain.
So the two of them thought about cultivating sweet potato seedlings outside.
They prepared a lot of branches, and in Su Yuanyuan’s space, there was thick plastic sheeting.
However, they still lacked straw mats, which are needed to cover at night for insulation.
So the two of them went to the uncultivated land to cut grass, but the grass was too dry to weave into mats.
Su Yuanyuan didn’t want Tan Shaoting to know that her space could be used for planting, so she went to all this trouble.
In the end, they went to the station to buy twenty pieces, as the station was buying these. There were elderly people here who couldn’t work anymore and would weave straw mats to exchange for money.
After buying them back, the two hurriedly loaded sand onto the cart.
Su Yuanyuan had seen her grandmother make sweet potato pits; back then, her grandmother would always go to the market to sell sweet potato seedlings.
The two of them marked out about three acres of land, intending to prepare a lot of sweet potato seedlings. If there were enough, they planned to plant twenty acres of corn and the rest with sweet potatoes. This way, despite the drought, they should have a harvest.