Su Wan was thinking of using hydroponics to grow vegetables. Though she might not be able to grow the ones that were not water-based yet, she was confident in growing the water-based vegetables as long as she could create the nutrient-rich solution in a pot.
At least she would be able to grow the green and leafy vegetables. If possible she had once tried to grow tomatoes in the same manner and had succeeded maybe if she followed the same process she might be able to grow tomatoes in this city as well.
Though potatoes and other root vegetables were a bit hard to grow, with proper care they could be grown as well. More importantly, potatoes were one of the most sustainable crops thus, Su Wan truly wanted to work on this plan of hydroponics farming of hers.
If she was lucky then she would be able to grow strawberries and cucumbers as well. Even beans could be grown which can further lead to the creation of vermicelli.
She had already thought of making vermicelli through green beans already.
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Lin Rui nodded and then, " Yes, I will go and have a chat with Pei Huai and Lu Nanyun. Though they are linked to the Lai family, they still have a bottom line, if I mention it to them then they will be more than happy to start this soiless farming with you."
The good pieces of land here were all taken by the Lai family, thus even when the people of this land wanted to farm they could not come up with a way to grow vegetables as the saline land here was not good to grow vegetables.
The next day after Su Wan was done playing with her children once they were full, she headed to the county magistrate's office where she told Pei Huai, Yan Zhao and Lu Nanyun about soilless farming.
" If we focus on this project, then we might be able to grow greens, tomatoes, beans, celery, spring onions, cucumbers and herbs," Su Wan explained the matter to them in great detail. " In fact, if we succeed then growing potatoes, carrots, radish and ginger would not be too difficult."
She then raised her head and stated coldly, " Potatoes are sustainable crops we can use them at any point, as long as we succeed then we will not have to worry about the commoners starving in the winters."
Su Wan paused and added, " Whats more I have thought of a way to extract oil from peanuts and soybeans, we can do the same with rice bran but I am afraid that we do not have any paddies here ignoring the ones that are illegal," she glanced at Pei Huai who touched his nose guiltily.
" Owned by the Lai family, I would have given them a chance to join hands together but I am afraid that with their greed they will soon push out the commoners and then take complete control over the mill which will be damaging the entire goal."
" We can also use green beans like mung beans to make bean thread noodles or vermicelli according to you all."
When Lord Yan heard that there was a chance to make the commoners rich he was more than happy. He agreed to bring some good soybean seeds as well as peanuts seeds to Su Wan and he also agreed to make large and medium pots as asked by Su Wan.
Though he was a bit worried about watering the crops, when he listened to Su Wan's plans of making large canals to transport water he was thrilled!