Chapter 781 (1/2)

Hanging the camera around his neck, Guo Xiang picked some pumpkin flowers.

Ann saw her mother picking flowers and ran over.

”Mom, can I eat this flower?”

”Yes, but cook it.” Guo Xiang smiled.

”I'll take it too.” Ann stood on tiptoe to pick a flower in front of her.

”Be careful!” Guo Xiang shouted. It was too late. Ann was stabbed by a small thorn on the pumpkin vine, and her hand was immediately red.

Although the thorns on the pumpkin vine are not sharp, the child's skin is too delicate. Many small hairy thorns pierce into his hands, which is still a little painful for the child.

”Mom, it hurts...” Ann raised her hand to Guo Xiang with tears.

Guo Xiang couldn't cry or laugh. ”I'm not afraid. My mother doesn't hurt when she blows.”

He grabbed Ann's finger and looked at it. He pricked some small burrs on it. Guo Xiang blew it and swept it with a handkerchief, and the rest was pinched off with his fingers.

”Well, it's all right.”

”Oh!” Ann, look at her fingers. It's really all right.

”Sister-in-law, can I eat this pumpkin flower?” Guo'er asked that his family didn't seem to have the habit of eating pumpkin flowers.

”Yes, you can make soup or fry it.” Guo Xiang said that in her previous life, she had eaten soup in Guangdong Province and thought it was very delicious.

In some places, it is fried with batter with good ingredients, such as tempura with Japanese ingredients. Tempura can be fried for all things, and the fried things are very fragrant.

”I'll pick it for you, too.” Guo'er said.

”Only this male flower can be picked.” Guo Xiang took one and showed it to the fruit. ”There is a small fruit under the female flower. It's going to grow a pumpkin. Don't pick it wrong.”

”Well, I understand.” Guo Er nodded.

Male flowers are mainly used for pollination. Just like people, men and women have babies only when they love together.

The fruit of nature also needs male pollen to enter the female flower for pollination before it can bear fruit. Otherwise, the female flower will have small fruit and fall at that time.

Of course, plants will not move. The task of pollination is mainly entrusted to bees, butterflies and other insects. If there is a lack of insects, artificial pollination can also be carried out.

It is OK to pick the male flowers, dip the pollen into the female flowers, directly touch or stick the male pollen with a brush and sweep it onto the female flowers. How convenient is it.

For example, in large orchards, many fruit farmers will raise bees, pollinate flowers and collect nectar at the same time, killing two birds with one stone.

Otherwise, a large number of fruit trees have to rely on manual pollination, and the workload will be too large.

They picked a few more flowers. It seemed that there was almost enough for a bowl, so they didn't pick much.

After eating the cucumber, an Jin walked in front of the beans and touched the long beans like chopsticks, ”what's this?”

”Just now grandma said it was beans.” Ann said.

”Our name is cowpea. That's what grandma's sour beans are made of.” Guo'er said.

”Let's pick some beans and go back?”

”Good!” An Jin nodded. Today's experience is very new to him, which has never been before.

It's so interesting to know a lot of vegetables I didn't know before and pick them myself.

Guo Xiang saw them here and photographed them all.

Picked a handful of beans and put them into Gu Zhennan's basket.

”I think it's almost done. Go back!” Gu Zhennan said.

”Good!” Guo Xiang nodded and greeted everyone, ”let's go!”

As soon as she got back to the yard, Ann shouted, ”grandma, grandma, look, we picked a lot of vegetables!”

Mother Zhang came out of the room, looked into the basket and said with a smile, ”that's good, baby. What did you pick?”

”I picked a big tomato and cucumber, but the cucumber has been eaten by me.” Ann patted her belly and said.