After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 90

After a while of detailed instruction-giving, Harold finally began planting the different plants according to the directions Althea gave. _{freewebnovel.cσ๓}

Althea asked him to do two approaches: One was with a nursery, while the other was to directly plant the seeds on the system soil. In fact, the past few days (other than doing a few hours of training every day), Althea had already began with her nursery, but it was focused on a couple of local plants, and she decided it was time to try more varieties.

Althea assisted with this task, where he only had to gather soil in a specific spot in the system farm and place them on makeshift containers carved out from soft porous rocks (which would temporarily be their pots until they found a better alternative).

The boss did the rest of the planting and recording.

After being dismissed, he then went on to work on the second phase of the experiment. The farm itself was around 600 square meters and he held a rough plan of how the plants would be zoned. There were also basic instructions on how to garden.

For example, since there were no weeds or grass in the system farm, he only needed to loosen the soil with a makeshift tiller they made from twigs. He also added some compost to certain areas, but not everything, because the boss wanted to know the effect of fertilizers on system farms.

After tilling and loosening the soil, it was time for him to dig and start planting.

It was around this that he heard his daughter’s immature voice.

Maya jumped out, squatting beside him trying to get the shovel from him. "Let me help Daddy!" She said, taking the shovel and helping him dig.

She must have thought he still had his old back problems, which was now non-existent thanks to their upgraded physiques.

"My Maya is so sensible.." he smiled and didn’t reject her kindness. The world had changed now, he couldn’t baby her like he used to.

Letting her help with things like this was doing her a favor.

The boss told him specific instructions on how to handle each seed and plant, and he made sure to follow it to the tee.

There were also plenty of ’experimental’ conditions, and he knew it was integral to the territory that he did it correctly. So, he did all the planting by himself.

Of course, the others could be given to his hyper daughter.

"Can I be in charge of watering?" Maya grew up the daughter of a servant, she had always been willing to serve, not to mention she was just doing her part. Maya was a very good girl.

Althea smiled as the two bonded over farming, and turned her attention to the crops in the nursery.

The nursery basically consisted of sensitive plants that she had to monitor herself, a lot of which were indigenous plants. As for the ones in the farm, there were also the same plants as the ones in the nursery, but also plants she judged to be resilient.

This was also to test whether soil taken out of system farms was still any good.

In any case, the 600 sqm was divided into 12 lots. Eight out of twelve will be given to the yam-like and wheat-like plants.

However, there were differences in their conditions, like different spacing, water, depth, etc. To determine which conditions these plants grew best.