In fact, the vegetable garden in my hometown is also called Jiangdi, and the production teams are distributed in Donghe, Beihe, Nanhe and Xihe. Because ginger and garlic are crops that need regular irrigation, they are all near the river, so irrigation is convenient. It is very serious for the production team to divide the land according to the population and give it to each household, and then discuss it with the neighbors. It is very serious to erect a stone at the boundary of the land. Inside the stone, it is a "site" belonging to each family.
After dividing the land, you must be able to water it to grow crops. Although the vegetable gardens are all by the river, they are tens or even hundreds of meters away from the river. At that time, the watering tools were quite simple, only a shovel and at most a bucket. How can you water the land? Far water cannot quench near thirst. What shall we do? Some people want to drill wells, so several, dozens and dozens of companies work together to drill wells around their own vegetable gardens. At first glance, eye wells appeared in a piece of vegetable garden, which also brought a smart atmosphere to the vegetable garden. With the well, some discussed chipping in to buy a "waterwheel", some made pulleys, and some made pole. Dig a ditch on your own land, and everything is ready, just waiting to plant crops.
Growing ginger is not a job that one or two people can do. This is something that needs too many chefs and the whole family to do together. There are ploughshare ditches, watering along the ditches, planting ginger, fertilizing, Fuling'. Lack of working procedures will affect the progress. Therefore, when planting ginger, most of them are dispatched by the whole family, and some also ask relatives for help. At this time, the east, west, north and south banks are busy. It's really a beautiful scenery, and men, women and children have come in handy. Men are watering in ditches, teenagers are planting ginger, and old people are fertilizing. What a tacit understanding, showing a clever rural farming map. Listen to the laughter of the big girl and the little wife. Isn't it Life of Three Women? How many plays have been sung in this vegetable field, accompanied by the sound of "swish swish" ditch, the sound of "swish" running water lifting water to moisten ditch, and what a harmonious melody, it has become a chorus in the rural fields. After staying in the vegetable garden for a long time, the relationship between neighbors is as close as neighbors. They all help each other when planting and watering crops such as ginger. Today, decades later, they still have this feeling of beggar-thy-neighbor, and they will never forget that unusual experience.
There are quiet days in the garden. When ginger and garlic are "full" and "full of water", they sleep peacefully like people, and the garden is quiet. But once you are "hungry" and "thirsty", give people a look and see that the crops have not grown for a day, and you must apply fertilizer; As the crop seedlings are not upright, they need to be watered. Hometown people are really like "hard gardeners" who run into the vegetable garden all day and care for these ginger and garlic.
Everyone who grows ginger knows that ginger is very diligent and has a lot of water. It should be watered once every three to five days. After the ginger is poured, the vegetable garden is smart again, as if it were a flowing picture scroll. One by one, they ran towards the well with shovels and pulleys. When the well is idle, I am busy taking a pulley or shaking a waterwheel to water the ground. One or two people shook the pulley to water the land. When shaking the pulley, check the strength. The action of releasing the pulley shows smartness, and the steel wire rope rolled up by the circle carries strength; There are two people who water the land with a water wheel, and they need good cooperation and try their best. Sometimes they call their songs to speed up, and the well rushes up with money. A man used a pole to carry water to irrigate the land, found a thick log and placed it across the fulcrum of a stone pillar. A stone was fixed at one end, a long pole was fixed at the other end, and a bucket was fixed at the other end. Using the lever principle, people's strength is reduced, and it is so natural to drag it into the bucket, and the trickle flows around the bend into the ginger field. There are also animals or several people pushing waterwheels to irrigate the land. Based on the gear principle, this kind of waterwheel can lift water up and down by pushing the waterwheel in parallel. The biggest advantage of this waterwheel is that it can lift water with animals or several people to irrigate the land, which not only saves manpower, but also shakes the rolling water in a relaxed and happy atmosphere.
When the waterwheel, hoist and shoulder pole are singing together, it is unheard of elsewhere. The "Hua Hua" sound of the waterwheel, the "Wu Wu" sound of the windlass and the "crunch" sound of the telephone pole broke the silence of the field. In these different water-lifting sounds, it seems that the tunes of different times are sung at the same time. Later, with the reform and opening up and the continuous development of society, I don't know from that day on, "165", "175" and "195" diesel engines entered the farm life, and these modern machines gradually replaced the "waterwheel", "pulley" and "pull rod" with a rumbling sound.
With mechanical irrigation, manpower and material resources are saved, and the speed of irrigation is also fast, but there is no way to deal with drought. At this time, most wells are busy. Sometimes they turn around 24 hours, and one household comes first. Sometimes the number of wells is very long, and not enough wells are pumped. It's really annoying to wait for one family to finish watering the land. Like this year's drought, many people simply rolled up their bedding and slept on the well and the ground, and started fighting in the fields and at night. Especially in the night when you can't see your fingers, the effect is particularly obvious. Lanterns are swaying back and forth in the fields. Just like the legendary fox alchemy, people can't sleep at night, and the garden at night presents beautiful scenery.
"People are not lazy in drought." In fact, this is forced by drought. People in their hometown sleep less, and those who stick to the well and wait for water are even more restless, eager for water and eager to see it. They dare not sleep for a long time, but get up after a short sleep and take a photo in the well with a flashlight. As soon as the water level comes up, they will smoke immediately. Experience tells them that if they smoke regularly, they will swim fast, but they will also run out of sleep time. Dry vegetable garden is busy vegetable garden.
The reason why people in my hometown make such great efforts in the vegetable garden is because there are rich returns in the vegetable garden. Ginger produced every year is a considerable income, even in the worst year. There is a folk saying that "ginger is enough". When it's time to harvest ginger, it's another big family action. Men, women and children went into battle together, planing and chopping Jomally's Jomally, pretending, pushing and pushing. A basket of ginger was put into a basket, and a cart of ginger was pushed to the well. The garden is a busy scene, rippling with the joy of harvest and the smile on their faces.
People store the ginger produced in the vegetable garden in the dug ginger well, sell it when the market is good, and put it when the market is bad, sometimes like XX. I remember one year, big ginger price rose to 12 yuan per catty, and an old man in a neighboring village thought it was time to sell all the 30,000 jins of ginger that had been stored for three years, with a net income of 300,000 yuan. Small town media reporters grab the news and publish it on the front page of the local newspaper in the form of lace news. This old Wang Man suddenly caused a sensation in pingdu city, and many "ten thousand households" came out of his hometown.
I don't know which year the vegetable garden in my hometown disappeared. Now that I think about it, I miss it a little, because it left the farmers' development dreams, my solid footprints, my hard work and a beautiful aftertaste. ...