On February 8th, the things to be prepared for the Spring Festival were basically ready, and I took the machete and iron rake that did not need to be covered with rust for three years and rushed to the wasteland two miles away to continue to complete my reclamation task!
The first is to prune and cut down the branches that cover my house at a slanted angle.
The machete left behind by his late 93-year-old father is the best tool, the machete is thick and sharp, and the forks and trees with thick bowls can be easily broken as long as you cut the surrounding circles and break them with force.
Although it is very strenuous to pick up the machete and cut it with all your might, sometimes I am tired and panting, but it is quite rewarding to be able to cut down a tree in a minute or two.
It took me an hour and a half to settle a few sun-blocking trees and outstretched forks and branches, all on the spot, and dragged away from the wasteland site.
After the tree problem was basically solved, I wanted to spray glyphosate with a sprayer to control weeds. Since the reclaimed land can only be planted with pepper tomatoes and eggplant seedlings after Qingming, the time span from reclamation to planting is a bit long, and there are still more than two months. At the moment, the only thing that can be sown is potatoes, but I don't keep potatoes, I have to give up!
And glyphosate only has a one-month medicinal effect to control the growth of grass. Shen Peilin, from the same village, suggested to me that it is better to cultivate first, and the reclaimed soil can also simmer a lot of weeds.
Is the iron rake still strong after three years of inactivity, and whether there is looseness between the handle of the iron rake and the iron rake. I reclaimed a few rakes and found that they were still as strong as they were welded together with electric welding! Thankfully, I could solve 95% of the problems as long as I tried my best!
After three years of barren grass, this land is no longer what it used to be.
When I held up the iron rake to reclaim the land, the iron rake body was involuntarily detained by the neighbor's wasteland next door, which was overgrown with locust trees, and the root fetters stretched out along the "Ming Xiu Plank Road Secretly Crossing Chen Cang", and I wanted to struggle but couldn't move?
Over and over again, the land reclamation has become extremely difficult, and the speed of progress has slowed down significantly, but I firmly believe that as long as the effort is deep, the iron rod can be sharpened into a needle?
Like the roots of trees that have been drilled into the ground, the "goldenrod" that invaded from Canada and is known as a plant killer also showed me the super-developed strength and strength of its root system.
Although the "goldenrod" in winter is withered and depressed, it looks like a "one-year-old and one-year-old" weed from a distance, and I think it has been frozen to death by the cold winter. But as long as you bend down and reach out to uproot and clean it up, and try it a few times, the result is repeated failures.
A goldenrod with a diameter of 0.5 centimeters, a man like me who can lift a heavy object of more than 100 catties, holds it with his hands like iron tongs, like "Lu Zhisheng" to pull out the willow tree, and the result is not moving at all.
The title of plant killer is not granted in a vacuum. The main reason for this concentration is that its root system is very developed. Gather one and give you a look.
Other plants don't have such well-developed root systems, nor do they just change the color of their skins like "chameleons" in winter, rather than the magic of dying from withering. Plant killers invaded Huzhou in large quantities from three years ago, is this the sorrow of rural people?
Although the plant killer is powerful, when he encounters a farmer who is determined to win the day, he will also lose his robe and armor and flee in embarrassment, willing to gamble and lose. People have to clean up the "goldenrod" every day, and a yellow branch can only be dead and warped? It is okay to be the emperor in plants, but not in front of human beings? It's just that it takes effort and time to uproot it in the ground
Goldenrod in autumn
Fortunately, there are not many goldenrods in the land I have cultivated, and the plot next door to the neighbor is ready to be treated with glyphosate after harvesting with a sickle.
Today, it took me three hours from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., slowly clearing out a small piece of land.