noffsinger Chapter 793
Chapter 793
Naturally, the grape vines that Xie Ying had helped to grow were also found.
Afterwards, all the grape vines were dug up with their roots and brought back to the palace for transplanting.
As the owner of the mountain, Xie Ying was given a grape vine, some strawberry seedlings, and sweet potatoes.
This was because Emperor Taihe felt that she was blessed and that the Xie family might be able to survive, so he gave some to Xie Ying.
Otherwise, if it were the daughter of another minor official, she probably wouldn't even get a single leaf.
You know, Emperor Taihe treasures these things very much. Apart from Xie Ying, only the eldest princess got some by relying on her status, and the rest were all planted in the palace.
Even when Jiang Er wanted it, he was scolded back by Emperor Taihe.
Because there wasn't much, Xie Ying planted all the strawberry seedlings and grape vines she was given in the main courtyard.
Potatoes and sweet potatoes are planted in the garden, and Tu Yong is usually the one who takes care of them.
He comes from a farming family and has been farming since he was a child. He is very experienced in taking care of crops.
Since sweet potatoes and potatoes are new species and are particularly high-yielding, he has paid special attention to them since he got them.
After planting, you should observe their growth every day.
Xie Ying was allocated only twenty kilograms of potatoes and sweet potatoes each.
Tu Yong was not sure if he could plant all of them, so he planned to plant half and keep the other half, so that even if the crops went bad, he would still have half of the seeds left.
However, after hearing Xie Ying's thoughts, he gave up this plan and planted all the sweet potatoes and potatoes.
Even if twenty kilograms of sweet potatoes are propagated by cuttings after they sprout, they can only produce a thousand seedlings, which is barely enough to plant three acres of land.
Twenty kilograms of potatoes were barely enough to plant on two mu of land.
This was because Xie Ying secretly helped to grow more potato sprouts.
However, she did not dare to urge too many children to be born, mainly because she was worried that the gap between them and the people in the palace would be too big, which would be difficult to explain.
After the seedlings grew out, Tu Yong became more attentive to them. He would go around them every day and water and fertilize them himself.
He doesn't feel tired either.
When he was in the countryside, although he was already a small landlord, he still often went to the fields.
He was not used to having nothing to do after coming to the capital.
So after he got the farm, he would often go there, fearing that the people there would be dishonest and unwilling to farm well, thus wasting those fertile fields.
Now that he has high-yield sweet potatoes and potatoes, he can’t wait to offer them up!
Last month, the potatoes were harvested. A total of 1,000 kilograms of potatoes were harvested from two mu of land, which made Tu Yong very happy.
You know, two mu of land produces one thousand kilograms, which is equivalent to five thousand kilograms per mu!
Emperor Taihe also specifically asked Xie Xiu and learned that the potatoes grown by Tu Yong were more productive than those carefully tended by the palace gardeners. He also summoned Tu Yong and finally appointed him as a minor official, asking him to be responsible for cultivating new grain varieties together with others.
Except for a small number of potatoes and sweet potatoes that were planted in the palace, most of the potatoes and sweet potatoes found were stored to avoid planting errors and wasting all the seeds.
The potatoes planted in the palace only yielded 2,000 kilograms per mu.
Originally, this yield had already made Emperor Taihe very happy, and he gave a lot of rewards to the gardener in charge of planting.
However, ever since he learned that Tu Yong's crops yielded 5,000 kilograms per mu, he became very disappointed with the skills of the palace gardeners.
However, he did not punish the gardeners, nor did he take back the previous rewards.
Tu Yong was only given a small official position and asked to cultivate potatoes and sweet potatoes with a few gardeners.
Now is the time to harvest sweet potatoes.
However, Tu Yong has been busy taking care of the sweet potatoes planted in the palace recently and has not had time to dig out the sweet potatoes planted at home.
Emperor Taihe is now very concerned about the sweet potatoes grown by the Xie family. He specifically instructed Tu Yong to take the gardeners to dig them together.
After discussing with several gardeners, Tu Yong decided to dig up the sweet potatoes in the palace first.