Chronicles of The Hardships of Komachi in The Sengoku Era

There are several fields spread out in front of you.

But they were all thin, not very much, but it didn't seem like a crop would grow.

(Four... maybe five. But soil maintenance is heavy labor, and it's impossible to maintain it all. This is the only place we can trump anything but two big farms)

There were two places as close to the river as there were and the rain prevented the nutrients from flowing through the soil.

Probably the best crop was growing.

That's why I was able to spare the whole crop from being wiped out.

As far as I can tell, is it about 1 ha (10000 sqm = 100 m per side)? It's big enough to grow sweet potatoes and pumpkins.

(Sweet corn closest to the river, then tomatoes, I guess the first field with pumpkin is OK. Let's plant sugar potatoes in the remaining field and sugar cane in the corner. We have to dig up the dirt for that.)

"Cohon...... I'll just use those two fields over there. The rest of the field won't grow anything this year."

"Well, then there aren't many crops..."

"No problem. Soil maintenance is quite a heavy labor. It's unrealistic to do it for everything. We need to concentrate our workforce more than that to secure a farm that can be used as soon as possible. Let's start by digging back into the dirt."

The villagers looked at each other and said something bossy, but in the end they thought nothing but obey, and headed to the designated field with farm tools.

(It's two months from now, as soon as possible.)

Thin, not so much barren land.

However, it has declined to such an extent that yields cannot be expected without environmentally resistant crops such as sweet potatoes and pumpkins.

In modern times, we buy compost and leafy soil and put it into soil maintenance, but in the Age of Raw Hate and Warring States, we don't have the option to buy it.

So we have to make it ourselves.

"(I had straw, crust, rice bran, and cow manure is no problem...... I want horse manure...... oh yeah!) Wait a minute!

Shizuko, who came up with the proposal, said so to the B C team who was beside him, and ran out to a certain place.

After enough, Shizuko, who was back, was smiling at Nico.

I wondered about the face of the B C Ding squad, but I thought it was silly to get into it too, so I went through.

"Squad C will have compost making done. This is an important task. Good luck with it."

"Compost......?

Squad C's face asks strangely for words he can't hear.

"Simply put, fertilizers that have completely broken down organic matter by microorganisms. Sometimes it's synonymous with organic fertilizer, but it's totally different."

"You don't have to have that stuff ready, why don't you just sprinkle the shit directly?

"Non non. Shit produces gas when it ferments. That prevents the growth of the roots, and therefore attracts pests. Haven't you ever had a rotten root or a bubble of pests?

"Well... well..."

"Because compost is a complete decomposition of degradable organic matter, no gas or pests sprang up. Stabilization of the soil by improving the supply of rotting matter and soil conditions, suppressing pests by supplying micro-organisms and increasing buffering capacity. It is essential to make compost to do so. It'll take at least six months to make, but it's still necessary, so we need to do it."

So much so that Shizuko realizes that the face of the villager is like a face stuck in a fox.

Still, Shizuko now understands that it was too difficult.

(Microbes, pests, that kind of knowledge was in this era or suspicious, so hey. But without compost, next year's farming will be affected... and I need to push that I need to make it anyway!

"You know..."

"I don't know what it is, but it won't be the way it's been... I'll follow your opinion"

The moment I uttered words in an attempt to persuade him, I have surprisingly spoken convincing words from the villagers.

No, I guess I decided not to think deeply, not convinced. The evidence showed that the need for compost was not yet known.

It just feels like 'I'll do it because they told me I needed it'.

(Well, that's okay)

The last B and D squads were easy to explain.

Anyway, just gather the wood.

Of course, you can't just collect it. Instead, after collecting it, it's the real deal.

(Scoop and agricultural forks, without which I'm going to have a hard time making compost. After that, we'll have to build a diagonal fence to combat boars)

Bovines don't like 3D things, and diagonally erected fences can't be crossed.

By simply creating a fence called the Golden Net Sneak Back Fence, you can protect your farmland from boars.

You need to make it out of wood because there's no metal, but it's better than not.

(Every day is heavy labor for a month...... Ugh... I want to take a bath!)

There is no way that ordinary people can be luxurious in warring times, such as bathing, and in the end there is nothing but wiping their bodies with water.

(Even the hot springs sprang up in a location. Yes... I think I'll take a stroll next time)

I can't break the effort to burn firewood every day and prepare water, but if it's a hot spring, you can just pull the water.

If you find it well, you don't have to know the surroundings.

After being so forced to convince him, Shizuko also embarked on the task he should have done again.

It had been about four days since Shizuko came to the village, but all she was doing was composting, soil erosion and soil remediation.

At first, I wondered if I needed rotten soil or something, but I decided to make it quickly because the leaves would unexpectedly gather.

Rotten soil is easy, with leaves in the bucket to cover stones of the appropriate size on top.

All you have to do is stir about once a day.

Scoop and farm forks were not in as clean shape as they are in modern times, but served as a sufficient substitute.

Efficiency in composting and soil maintenance increased and ended just a little earlier than originally planned.

(The seedlings have grown quite a bit. I guess it's time to implant it at the end of the field)

The seedlings, which were small, had also grown so much that they were now likely to pop out of the barrel.

It is time to prepare seedlings for mass production.

(There's still a lot I can do in modern times...... unfortunately warring times. I just have to cut the level process)

"Now it's time to move the wooden barrel seedlings to the farm"

"Yeah yeah! I just dug back the dirt yet. Yo!

"No problem. Because he's a highly viable crop that even grows on cracked land."

Summer potatoes, pumpkins, tomatoes, etc. grow even on lean earth.

Because delicacy is not required, it has been active in the past during times of famine.

Sugar potatoes, in particular, are nutritious and are a great food for improving food conditions.

"Well, I hope the mayor says so..."

"Bring me a wooden barrel. Water in a smaller bucket, please."

When he asked the soil maintenance team for wood barrels and water, Shizuko moved the wooden scoop to the field with one hand.

After all, the maintenance situation was not fragrant in about four days, and nearly half were untouched.

But now there is no problem because the main purpose is to plant more seedlings.

"Here you go..."

When he stares at the corner, Shizuko digs back into the soil of the field.

To the extent that topsoil is spilling out in the rain, even if it is thin as far as I can see, the crop grows enough if you dig it back and mix it up to where it hasn't been flushed.

"Okay, you can have something like this. Next..."

After digging back, Shizuko works on making acres.

I actually make it about a week before the colonization, but I can't afford that kind of time.

"Mayor - I brought it... what are you doing?

"This? I'm making acres."

Shizuko says while pointing to an acre about 30 to 40 cm high.

The villagers, who still don't understand much, give a strange look at how they raised the soil.

But if we sleep together for four days, we will soon have an answer as to what to do.

In other words, "I'm not sure, so let's not think about it".

"Heh, should I make that today?

"You just have to have two rows. Just say hello. Oh, you can leave the bucket around there."

Copy that.

When the soil maintenance squad puts the barrel on the ground, it plows the field with one hand of farming tools.

I make acres with the appearance, but I wasn't used to them or the shape was distorted.

"The seedlings... are growing to look good. Four... No, there are five seedlings."

Thanks to the beautiful weather, the seedlings of the sweet potatoes were growing with tremendous momentum.

Although it originally has enough vitality to grow after a week even in the shade.

"Take it out of the bucket first... bury it in a hole that was predrilled... all the time"

When the seedlings are removed from the wooden barrel containing soil, they are put into the hole where they were digging for each surrounding soil.

Covering the remaining soil around, the next step is to water it in a wooden barrel with water.

It's a problem to do too much, so make it less comfortable.

"Plant seedlings next."

When the first seedlings are planted, the next is to cut the seedlings that are stretched and make them new.

After dipping the cuts in the water, they dig holes and plant seedlings in the same way.

Since the seedlings are not that long, they are planted obliquely and create small contours for storing water.

"That's it. I'll make acres later in a week in case... I think I'm almost done."

Seeing the villagers making acres a short distance away, Shizuko washed her hands with the water in the wooden barrel.

The main crop was decided to be satsumoto, so as a static child, we plan to mass-produce satsumoto seedlings to the limit of critical.

Tomatoes, pumpkins, sweetcorn and sugar cane may instead be left behind.

If we make acres in late April and sow them at the beginning of May, we will be able to expect enough harvest.

(Because sugar did rely on imports in this day and age... I guess it would be quite a strength if it could be produced domestically)

But there are no more sugar cane seedlings. Even if I planted it this year, I would seedling it all.

If so, the harvest will be possible in two years' time.

(I need to think about living here more than I know how to go home...)

If I was walking down the road, I'd come to warring times, so maybe if I were walking down the road, I'd be returned to modern times.

I thought of it as something like that and took a stroll, but there was no sign that I could ever go back.

In the end I gave up and set my belly down that I had no choice but to survive for now. Though it is said to reopen.

(Sugar potatoes, tomatoes, pumpkin, sweetcorn, sugar cane. All of this is just a modern breed improvement. So it's environmentally resilient, and besides, it eats a lot more than it did at the time of tradition. Now Nobunaga can only like me... because it's around October that I get results.)

I thought I'd do a trial dig and take it with me, but on second thought, I can't expect to see you to that extent.

It would be more effective to stack and show impactful sugar potatoes.

"Well, I wonder how much sweet potatoes the hell can produce."

Increase seedlings every week. Repeat that until the end of June.

That's all there is to it in letters, but it's all manual in a warring age with no machines or anything.

"(You may also need to build a small water wheel because there is a river. Well most importantly)... I miss the bath..."

Thinking of the hot tub, Shizuko headed to the village in charge of the wooden barrel.