Chapter 370

After settling the tiger, Si Jiuyue turned her attention to the corn seeds she had been soaking for the past night. One mu of land required two to four kilograms of seeds. Since they had six mu, Si Jiuyue prepared twenty-four kilograms of corn seeds. Before soaking them, she had carefully selected humic acid, biological fertilizers, and micronutrients to spray onto the seeds. As for the base fertilizer, she chose a chemical variety. She had calculated that while fertile land required only sixty jin of base fertilizer per mu, this mountain soil had never been farmed before and was quite barren, especially for a first-year crop. Therefore, the initial application of base fertilizer had to be generous so that the soil would be enriched for the next season. She planned to apply about one hundred and twenty jin per mu. It was much more strenuous handling the logistics on the northern side compared to working at home. She had to load everything onto a sled to transport it, unlike at home, where she could openly mix the chemical fertilizer with farm manure. As she thought about ways to increase yields, she poured the chemical fertilizer onto the chicken and duck manure and stirred it thoroughly. The farm manure was already foul-smelling, and combined with the pungent, acrid odor of the chemical fertilizer, it was overwhelming; yet, she had become accustomed to it and no longer gave it a second thought.