Chapter 22 (1/2)

As one of the three major cereals in the world, wheat has been domesticated as early as 10000 years ago.

However, North America is not the origin of wheat. The origin of wheat is the two river basins in the Middle East. It spread to Spain and Italy more than 8000 years ago. Since then, Europeans began to grow wheat.

It was not until Columbus discovered the new world that European colonists began to colonize the new world crazily that wheat, an important crop, was brought to the American continent by European colonists.

So now most of the North American Indians are still in the state of hunting, but the wheat crop has begun to spread among the North American Indians.

As the first Cherokee to contact and cooperate with European colonists, wheat has long been an important source of food for the tribe. Just like corn, Europeans did not tell the Cherokees how to plant wheat properly. It took Cherokees hundreds of years to figure out how to plant wheat.

So to put it mildly, wheat, like corn, is in the hands of the Cherokees

However, after all, the Cherokee people have germinated farming civilization, so in the more than ten days since they came to the gaoshu tribe, the stone bear has found many crop seeds in the tribe.

Not only the seeds of corn and wheat, but also potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, tomatoes, beans, etc. are found in this small tribe.

This is good news to the letter. Stone bear has long known that North American Indians have made an indelible contribution to the world in terms of food, especially potatoes and sweet potatoes, which are super high-yield crops and feed billions of people. However, after seeing these high-yield crops with his own eyes, he was still a little excited.

However, the stone bear is also very puzzled. These guys are clearly guarding these high-yield crops. Why is there not enough food to eat every year?

The stone bear only felt that his burden was heavier.

Potatoes can't be planted at this time of the year. They can't be planted until spring next year. Similarly, sweet potato is not suitable for planting in winter, let alone corn, so only winter wheat can be planted.

”Is it OK to plant wheat at this time? We used to plant wheat in March, the month of worms. ”

Stone bear helplessly shook his head, ”it's OK to plant wheat in spring, but in our place, it's a bit deficient to plant wheat in spring. Autumn is the best time to plant wheat. ”

Hongyun wants to ask why, but seeing the stone bear busy looking at the seeds, she just opens her mouth but doesn't make a sound.

”These seeds are good enough to be sown.” For a long time, the stone bear stood up straight and said with great satisfaction.

”Then I'll arrange for the seeds to be sown?” Affected by the joy of the stone bear, red cloud's face also showed a smile.

”No, Hongyun, you must remember that no matter what crops are sown in the future, you must no longer scatter the seeds into the field as you used to. Before sowing seeds, the first thing to do is to plough the land. Only when the land is ploughed well, the seeds will grow better and the yield will be higher in the future. ”

For the stone bear's words, red cloud did not understand, ”can't we just sprinkle the seeds into the field?”