The old man grows vegetables in open field and grows them in rotation to get rich

This year, Wu Kaiming, two groups of villagers in Sifang Village, Xiangyi Town, Neijiang Weiyuan County, is nearly in his two. his son and daughter-in-law all work outside, and their wages are not low, but Wu Kaiming is not "at ease." it is greedy to see other people grow greenhouse vegetables to earn money, but he found in the vegetable market that people who are really particular about food prefer to buy open field vegetables. Because open-field vegetables have plenty of light and less medicine, they are not quick and taste good, and diners are safer to eat. So he decided to grow vegetables in the open field.

Work in lettuce field

At first, he planted green vegetables, radish, lotus white and so on. As a result, vegetables grow slowly, and whenever their own vegetables are harvested, a large number of similar vegetables are on the market, and the benefit is not high. After studying vegetables, he felt that lettuce is adaptable, can be planted all the year round, and has few diseases and insect pests, so people like to eat it. So starting in 2013, he chose the main vegetable on lettuce.

But how can you make money by growing lettuce? First of all, the price of listing in large quantities is definitely not good, so when the surrounding villagers or the lettuce in the greenhouse sow, he does not worry, he will plant again a week later, and when the sales peak of others is almost over, his vegetables will be listed to avoid excessive quantity and low price; second, after each season of vegetable harvest, he will clean the ground once or twice to control diseases and pests before transplanting. Third, the seedling bed is changed every quarter to reduce the infection of residual diseases and insect pests in the soil. In the growing period, mainly to treat early, reduce the amount of pesticides. For every one or two seasons of lettuce, he rotates to grow vegetables with short growth periods or high value, such as one-season cauliflower or cabbage, which effectively reduces the harm of diseases and insect pests. In the selection of varieties, he must also choose strong disease resistance and good yield and quality.

In addition to these, Wu Kaiming has another advantage. His land is right on the edge of a big dam, and the water source is convenient. Especially in times of drought, when other people's vegetable production is reduced, his yield is still stable.

"despite the fact that the output of my model is not as high as that of the greenhouse model, because people now have a strong ability to distinguish vegetables, whether the quality is good or not, and whether they use too much medicine, many people can distinguish, so even if the price of my vegetables is more than 10% higher than that of vegetables in the greenhouse, but others are still willing to buy my vegetables, and the income from growing vegetables alone is more than 20,000 yuan a year." Wu Kaiming said: only by being good at thinking and observing and studying hard can traditional agriculture "grow" money.