An A-Ranked Adventurer’s - Chapter 28

Soil Prep

After getting permission from Ergys-san, Flora and I went back to my house with tools such as hoes and sickles.

It looks like theres no problem here

Flora muttered as she touched the soil around the house.

Apparently, the soil here is plenty good enough to grow vegetables and crops in.

My house doesnt have trees growing around it like Toacks house does but the sun exposure here is good. Theres grass and a few weeds growing here instead but it wont be a problem if we just pull them out.

Flora nodded with satisfaction and stood up after she ascertained the level of sunlight exposure, the feel of the soil, and the water drainage of the area.

Lets start off by planting vegetables that can be grown and harvested easily first

So in other words, like the radish from before?

Yes, exactly. But on top of that, there are some other vegetables Id recommend for starters such as carrots, string beans, and a type of leaf vegetable named shail

Although they dont grow as fast as a radish, those crops also dont take long until they can be harvested, and it seems like they dont require that much care either.

It would be perfect for me since Im a beginner and Ill be able to grasp the overall flow of the crop-growing process in a short time.

I think that being able to quickly see the results of growing my own crops would be the most wonderful thing.

I dont feel like I want to suddenly grow something that takes a long period of time and requires fine care. I hear that produce and vegetables are often attacked by insects and pests or they will often die due to the temperature, humidity, and soil.

Since there is no problem with the soil here, lets go with those four types of crops I mentioned just now

Sure, lets do that please, sensei

Flora chuckled when I lowered my head and said that.

Yup, lets have some fun growing vegetables and enjoy the harvest

Since we decided right away on what were going to plant, we will start cultivating the soil of the area by first clearing out the weeds.

I put on a pair of gloves and started to cut the tall weeds with a sickle that I had borrowed from Flora.

I placed the blade at the bottom of the weeds and pulled. Then, after a clear sound made from the plant fiber being cut, the smell of greenery drifted in the air.

It was a nostalgic smell. When I used to do quests in the forests and followed trails of beasts, this smell was often in the air when I chopped down the tall grass and branches that were in the way with a sword or knife. Speaking of which, many of those paths had gotten bigger thanks to all the adventurers passing through them so many times.

Also, back when I was a child and could not afford the money to buy weapons, Ive used something like this sickle against a monster before. But I dont really want to recall cause those times were full of the smell of blood.

I continued to work my hands silently as I chased those thoughts out of my head.

If the plant fibers of the weeds were thin, it was easily cut. But for the ones that were thicker, it took me an extra cut to get rid of it.

When I caught a glimpse of Flora by accident, I saw her mowing down the weeds easily with her sickle while she was cutely humming a song.

Even though she was cutting weeds that had the same thickness as the ones I was cutting Hm, was there some kind of trick to this?

I took a look at her hand movements and I noticed that she seems to be using her entire arm. She was using her whole arm instead of just her hand Ah, crap, my sickle is tangled in the weeds.