After breakfast the next morning, Gu Xiaoxia went to work, Sister Yang went to the market, and Li Long carried the two sacks of black soil from the Jeep into the glass room.
The temperature in the glass room was a little low, but not below freezing. Li Long put down the sacks and dug at the ground with his iron spade. The soil had not frozen either; he could still dig into it.
After some thought, he decided it would be better to plant the vegetables directly in the ground. But the roe deer had trampled the soil hard, so it needed turning over again.
He had nothing else to do, so he might as well turn it. Picking up the iron spade, Li Long chose a patch in the middle near the north wall and started digging.
The glass room was actually quite large, with brick walls to the north and south and glass overhead. Its total area had to be close to two hundred square meters.
Li Long could not manage that much. He planned to turn over just one patch in the middle, spread the black soil and the roe deer droppings piled in the southwest corner over it, mix them in, and then plant vegetables.
He also planned to buy a stove once the ground was ready. The daytime temperature inside was still acceptable for now, so he would load it with coal once during the day and once at night.
He would set the stove up behind the turned earth, then build a low, straight-through heating wall along the wall to warm the vegetables.
It was hard to do much else in the depths of winter, so this would have to do for now.
In an hour, Li Long turned over a patch about