I Was Reincarnated as a Poor Farmer in a Different World, so I Decided to Make Bricks to Build a Castle - Chapter 5

"Looks like you're growing up faster than usual."

I snap as I look at my fields.

After my first harvest, I continued to take care of the fields.

I was convinced of that.

That means that the vegetables grown in my fields grow faster than normal.

It is scary to be able to grow a hatsuka that can normally be harvested around 20 days to the point of eating in just about 5 days.

However, there is no particular abnormality in the body in the feeling of eating what has grown up so far.

Probably no immediate impact.

It is not that there is no possibility of any side effects later, but it is cut off even if I care about it.

After all, there are some things that made me so hungry.

"But lately, I guess I'm getting a little extra room. Why don't we do an experiment here?

But it's getting easier and easier every day.

So I got a little playful.

If I were a normal three-year-old, I wouldn't have thought about it.

However, I used to go to school in my previous life.

I didn't specialize in agriculture, but I know some things.

This time, the word "varietal improvement" came to my mind.

All the food I had in my previous life was delicious.

Even those sold on sale at the supermarket tasted clean, fresh and solid.

Nevertheless, at the time, I didn't worry about that, but I only tasted something that was even stronger with various seasonings, so I didn't really enjoy the original flavor of vegetables and eat it.

But when I look at the vegetables that grow in this world, I'm really curious.

All of this means that the quality is always low.

I am still saddened by how good the vegetables I once tasted were.

It is also because farmers and researchers who do not know the name of the past have been drilling daily and continue to improve their varieties that they have been able to obtain such a high quality at a low price.

Nevertheless, I don't think that the results will be so good if individuals work to improve the variety.

If I could dedicate my life and finally leave my offspring with nothing to be proud of, it would be a great success.

But it could destroy such a common sense idea.

That's magic.

I don't know why, but vegetables grow fast in the fields I cultivate magically.

Then there will be no other way to use it.

So I started preparing for the breeding improvement.

I sincerely hope that the taste of hatsuka will improve even slightly.

Now, I hope you've come up with the idea of improving the variety, but what should I do?

Even though the country grandmother was helping out with the fields, seeds and seedlings should have used what she bought every time.

Then, I'll try to pick up the knowledge I learned at school from the bottom of my memory.

You must have learned the law of genetics in biology class.

There must have been a story about an old man experimenting with peas in the field.

Did you find genetic legitimacy by taking data while checking the wrinkles of the beans with the naked eye in thousands of units?

When I heard the story, I often thought it was such a leisure.

But there's a hint.

Even though it is said to be a variety improvement, there is currently no type that can be multiplied by Hatsuka.

If there are different varieties of the same crop, such as koshihikari and yakitakomachi, each can be bred, but this is not the case.

In other words, I had to start by looking at the characteristics of the hatsuka itself.

Carefully observe the harvested hatsuka one by one.

A lump of root underneath the stem is edible, but of course there were minor differences in the stem and flower parts.

We will find them one by one and classify them.

If there is a lump of black root, there is something a little red and purple.

Some can have lots of root lumps, while others are at least slightly larger in size.

Some flowers are white and others are yellow.

If there were any other minor differences, I checked them one by one.

Of course, I'm not doing academic research, so I don't forget to actually try it and see the taste.

And they're obvious, but just checking them doesn't end there.

We have to classify the traits and cross them together.

I decided to divide the somewhat wider fields into six.

It cannot be completely separated, but it has been divided to grow for each characteristic targeted.

After this experiment, food security and half of my interests became my routine for a while, I realized one fact.

It meant that "vegetables also have magic".