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Farming
The next day after I spent relaxing in the hammock. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
I came over to the field beside Andre’s house.
「What’s the matter Kureto? You’re looking at the fields」
「I’m thinking of growing something too」
「Ahー, you also said you wanted to grow something when you first arrived here, didn’t you」
Perhaps he recalled the thing I said when I first arrived here, Andre nodded seemingly in understanding.
I came over here to take reference of what to grow by seeing the crops Andre’s family is growing.
「Yosh, then as promised, I will help you choose. By the way, do you have any experience in farming?」
「……embarrassingly, I’ve only ever grown small plants at home」
Unfortunately, I was not the son of a farmer in my previous world, so I have no experience of growing crops in the field. At most, I just grew some back in junior high for the home economics classes or in planters in the kitchen garden.
So with such experiences, it’s not an exaggeration to say that I’m a beginner at this.
「Then you should start with something simple first」
「Do you have any crops you would recommend to a beginner to grow?」
「……in Kureto’s case, there are days when you have to teleport to the royal capital, so you can’t choose those crops that you have to take care of every day」
「You’re right. If possible it would be great if it’s something that won’t take a lot of effort to grow」
I’m a beginner in farming. And besides, I won’t always be in Howling village as I will sometimes spend my time in the royal capital. It will be difficult when the crops are something that I have to take care of diligently every day. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
Ideally, crops that grow by themselves with just a moderate amount of care would be best.
Is there a meaning in farming like that? You would ask, but even so, I still want to grow some crops.
「Hmーm, crops that don’t require much effort to grow, huh」
「In that case, what about spring onion or rough potato?」
As Andre was crossing his arms and groaning while thinking about it, Stella called out and recommended those.
「Ahー! Certainly, if it's that then even Kureto will be able to manage somehow!」
「You think so?」
It looks like the idea clicked with Andre, but I don’t catch on with them since I don’t know anything.
「You can grow spring onions in a flower pot or bucket since they require small space to grow and as for rough potatoes, as long as you plant them somewhere, they will be able to grow on their own so I think it will be fine even for someone busy like Kureto-san」
「I see. Certainly, even I would be able to grow them if it was like that」
「I planted some of them in the fields, do you want to see them?」
「Please, I would love to 」
I want to see if they have the real thing. That way it will become more motivating to grow them and it will be easier to visualize.
Stella guides me deeper to the back of the fields.
There, fresh and green spring onions are growing in rows
「This is the spring onions we grow」
「…………it’s bigger than the spring onions I imagined」
I thought it was the spring onion I knew of since it’s called ‘spring onion’, but it was three times bigger than what I imagined.
I’ve teleported to so a lot of places already, but I’ve never seen such big spring onions.
It’s four times bigger than the brand-name spring onions that had gone selective breeding in my previous world.
「Really? It’s the normal size around here, you know?」
「Is it different in other regions?」
Andre and Stella seemed to be unaware of that as they tilted their heads in puzzlement.
It’s as if they’re saying that these are the normal spring onions.
「It’s about this size and even thinner in other regions, you know」
「What’s that? Is that really spring onion? That’s just weed, isn’t it?」
「That’s so small」
When I tried to tell them the general size with my hands, Andre and Stella looked surprised.
Rather, Andre. Thinking that they’re weeds is harsh. www
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「Do you want to take a bite? It’s delicious just by being like this, y’know?」
「Then, please」
Andre pulled out a spring onion and split it in half, and then I bit into it just like that.
「Sweet!」
The sweetness is as if it has been simmered from the beginning to make it sweeter. And there’s almost no raw smell.
「You can cook or grill it, but even just like that is delicious, y’know」
「It’s convenient for cooking, it can also be used as a side dish or condiment」
「It’s easy to grow and easy to cook!」
If it's spring onions, it can be used in any kind of dish. It would be a problem if I were to grow a crop that would be difficult to use after all.
「Next is the rough potato」
Following Stella’s lead, we arrived at organized rows with the leaves from the growing rough potato plants.
「These guys are tough. They would still survive even if you skipped out on taking care of them. They require the least care so they are easy to grow」
「Compared with the normal potatoes, they are longer and thinner」
Saying that Stella digs up one of the growing rough potatoes.
They are plumper than ordinary potatoes, but rough potatoes are oval and also slightly long and thin.
It’s in the middle between potato and sweet potato in size.
「What about something like this?」
「Listening to your explanations, I felt like I will be able to grow these two plants」
「Then I will share some seeds and seedlings」
「Will that be okay?」
「We have a lot of them, don’t worry about it」
「Thank you very much!」
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After receiving the (extra large) spring onion and rough potato seeds and seedlings in a flower pot from Andre and Stella, I return to my house for now.
For now, I’m going to continue growing the ones in the flower pot like this for some time. Or rather, I would be able to grow them in a flower pot like this if I feel like it.
However, if I were to be given a choice I want to grow them by making a farm and become self-sufficient, but I decided not to be satisfied with the current situation and started farming for the future.
I’m making it at the back door of the house. Although, there was a relaxing space with a table and chairs placed nearby so I decided to build it a little bit away from there.
I will make it about three meters wide and four meters long as recommended by Andre.
It’s about the size of a kitchen garden you can found in the garden of any single house.
I mean, it’s difficult to suddenly create and manage a huge field. I can just widen it later once I get used to it. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
Once I lay down some ropes and determine the accurate size of the field, next is to remove thick grass.
「Hm? Wait a minute?」
A thought suddenly came to me when I was about to take out the mowing sickle from my subspace. Rather than using the sickle to continue cutting the grass one by one, would it be faster to use Spatial Cut to cut them all in one go?
「Spatial Cut」
I cast the magic while aiming at the grass growing in the area divided by the ropes.
When I cut the space from the base of the grass and almost touched the ground, it took effect in reality as the grass was all cut all at once from the base.
「Ooh, this is easy」
The grass growing in the field was cut in an instant. The roots probably still remain but I would probably dig them up if I just plow the ground with a hoe.
Still, I’m happy that I’ve drastically shortened what could be said to be the most arduous task.
I collect and gather all the cut plants and place them at the edge of the field. And after I took out a hoe from my subspace, I continued to plow the ground and remove the roots at the same time.
「Hm? I could use Spatial Distortion to dig up the soil.....nah, I think that’s too dangerous let’s not do that」
I feel like it may be possible, but still, it feels like the field will become weird so I decided to restrain myself.
I quietly thrust the hoe into the ground and dug up the soil. This is all the work I have to do. It was rather simple work, but I didn’t hate this kind of simple work.
I longed being able to swing hoe in a field while being surrounded by nature like this.
「Oiーi, Kureto. I’ll give you some fertilizer we made, you can mix it when plowing next――huh, you’re already plowing?」
「Ah, Andre-san! Thank you very much!」
As I was plowing the field, Andre called out to me while bringing a jute bag with what appeared to be fertilizer inside it.
「I thought for sure that you would still be cutting the grass……」
「I made the tedious task of cutting the grass a little easier by using magic」
「……what kind of magic did you use?」
Since Andre asked me how, I cast Spatial Cut again toward the grass around the field.
Immediately after, the grass was being cut automatically just like earlier.
「Like this」
「……here’s fertilizer, could you also use that magic to remove the weeds in my garden too?」
「Weren’t you going to share some fertilizer?」
「It’s a trade」
Earlier, he gave the impression that he was going to give it to me for free.
I wanted to ask why they did not help me grow the crops, but they’ve already given me advice and even gave me seeds and crops to grow.
「Then, I will remove the grass only to the extent of the fertilizer I used. That’s an equal exchange then」
「Oi oi, don’t you think that’s too stingy!?」
「Just kidding. I can remove them for you, but I will only do the mowing, okay?」
I can use magic to make a simple work so it doesn’t matter even if it’s a wide area, but removing the roots will require a hoe so that’s hard work I don’t want to do.
「Aah, that’s helpful enough. Still, it’s scary. Even as a joke, I shouldn’t have negotiated with a merchant」
「It’s fine. Real merchants are even scarier」
「……that, that doesn’t make me feel relieved at all y’know」
That day, I mixed the fertilizer while plowing my field and using Spatial Cut to cut the weeds around Andre’s house. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
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