The yard is my mother's small vegetable garden. My mother not only grows all kinds of vegetables in the yard, but also fruit trees and flowers. The inspiration of many trees and materials of flowers in my article also come from my mother's small vegetable garden, which has accompanied my childhood, teenager's memory and even my whole life.
Every household in the countryside has a yard, unlike the buildings in the city now, which are cramped, like living in a cage, with no connection between the sky and the ground, and no free range of activities. But there is no way, the population is still crowding into the city in large numbers, which is the trend of the times.
My yard is my mother's stretch. Half of it is covered with cement and half of the land is exposed into a vegetable garden.
When I want to count the vegetables planted in the garden, too many come to mind. My mother seems to have moved all the seeds and seedlings she can get into the garden, and we can eat the fruits in the garden all year round.
In winter, a small piece of land is wrapped in plastic film, and seeds are densely scattered inside, so the weather gets warmer. In early spring, the seeds sprout and grow small green seedlings.
When I was a child, vegetables in greenhouses were not planted in such a large area as now, my mother put up a small piece of land in her yard with plastic sheets and bamboo strips. There were seedlings of seedlings and a few seeds of impatiens. In the coming year, impatiens bloomed early, and leaves of hemp leaves or plum beans were collected to cover her fingers and toes. After overnight infection, her nails were colored, and the skin around the newly wrapped nails was also colored after washing for a few days.
I went home a few days ago and picked spinach in a plastic film, stir-fried it twice, and sprinkled it with freshly pulled coriander, which was green and full of stems as an ornament. What is rare is that your own vegetables are fresh and fresh.
The vegetable garden in summer and autumn is the most abundant and fruitful.
There are long beans, which are climbing vines. The long tentacles can be extended for a long time overnight, and the stems and vines need to climb up. After a few leaves appear, my father puts a stick in their roots, and my mother ties the two sticks together from the top to form a triangle for them to climb, and the produced beans hang down one by one. It is very interesting to drill between two rows of shelves to pick beans.
There is a kind of long bean, which is big and thick. It is coiled on a shelf like a snake. It hangs down like a loofah. It looks scary and tastes sweet, and it is not appetizing. My mother only planted it for one year, so she stopped planting it.
There are cucumbers, and cucumbers are the most commonly planted. What impressed me the most is that cucumbers that have just been picked have the most burrs, and they are fresh and delicious when they are washed. Can be cold, simple and easy to operate; There is also cooking (braised dishes). Foreigners are very surprised and puzzled. They only know that this cucumber is cold, but I don't know if it still has this way of eating-cooking in braised dishes.
In fact, at weddings and funerals in my hometown, guests were entertained at the table. At the end of ten dishes, there was a vegetarian dish, mostly a refreshing dish, mostly cabbage. Cucumber was once served as the last dish. The whole cucumber strip stewed in broth was very refreshing, and the big meat I had just eaten was very refreshing. Most people refused to leave during the dinner were waiting for the last dish. I haven't eaten the noodles in my hometown for a long time.
There are plum beans, which are lentils. I have planted them at home for so many years, but I don't know lentils. Plum beans are often planted at the root of the wall inside and outside the wall, and a stick is erected to cover the wall. When picking, I move a stool, take a small basket or bamboo basket, and pick a lot. I am very willing to do this job.
There are loofahs mixed with plum beans in the corner. Loofahs must be tender before they are delicious. The tender loofahs just picked and fried with peppers are very enjoyable to eat. The long and old loofahs have a big belly, and the dried silk pulp can be used as a tool for washing dishes. Luffa is usually inexhaustible, and some grow inadvertently, getting old without paying attention, and getting old when you get old! Let it grow by itself, so in late autumn, the old loofah is often hung on the defeated loofah.
There are pumpkins, which are planted outside the door. If you plant a few pumpkins, they will climb out of a large area along the ground. pumpkin flowers is open in the morning, and there will be a lot of panic flowers. My mother will pinch them and fry them. This is a dish that will only be tasted where there are pumpkins.
Pumpkins are full of treasures. Not only flowers can be used for cooking, but also the tips of pumpkins can be fried. Young pumpkins can be fried, stuffed with buns and wrapped in jiaozi. Old pumpkins with yellow skins can be boiled in pumpkin porridge, or they can be cut into pieces and steamed directly. Pumpkins in my house are always inexhaustible. Some neighbors pass by the door and want to wrap buns, so they just pick them themselves and take them away. When the pulp is pulled out, there are many large and small pumpkins, which are carried back to the house one by one and laid all over the floor.
Pumpkins have many functions, such as preventing cancer and preventing diabetes. There is a diabetic in the neighbor's house, and he grows nothing at home. He only grows pumpkins, which are often hung upstairs and downstairs by several ropes.
The vegetable garden is the most prosperous in the morning, with flowers and green leaves. My mother always visits the vegetable garden in the morning to see which flower is in bloom, and it's time to bear fruit. Put medicine on the flowers of tomatoes, tie the beans that won't grow well, and help the cucumber vines lying on the ground. Although this vegetable garden is frequented by bees, it is not enough to bear numerous fruits, and artificial pollination is needed. However, the yield of tomatoes and eggplant is still not high, but the tomato flavor is in place, heavy and sour.
In autumn, when the vegetable garden is slowly dying, it is the season for sowing Chinese cabbage. The planted Chinese cabbage is harvested in early winter and put in the sweet potato cellar, and the winter vegetables will be available.
Now the prosperity of vegetable garden is gone forever. Sheep have occupied the whole garden. Some sheep have started to grow nothing in the yard, even trees can't be planted, persimmon trees and walnut trees are gone, and the land is too fertile.
Mother began to open up a new vegetable garden, put a circle around the roof, and filled it with soil and sheep manure. The leaves of the planted pepper were green and shiny, and the peppers were booming. Surrounded by a fence outside the wall, plum beans, loofah and pumpkin were still planted. This time, their vines crawled to the roof and grew out of the reach of the sheep.
In recent years, my mother went to Zhengzhou to take care of her grandson, but she was not at home. She could miss her vegetable garden in the old days and often called her father to tell him to water it. Last year, she somehow found a piece of land on the beach not far from home, so she just opened up a small vegetable garden in the city and visited it in her spare time.
This is my mother. Because of her hard work, we eat fresh vegetables in all seasons. Because of her hard work, our family's impatiens always blooms the most brightly; Because of her diligence, I have felt the mystery of the growth of all things since I was a child.
My mother's hard-working vegetable garden has brought me not only vegetables and flowers, but more importantly, my attitude towards life and my love for flowers and plants. These intangible things have imperceptibly influenced me and even my life.