HANOI – This year, in Nhat Tan peach village in early Tet, people are busy picking leaves, pruning trees, cutting branches… preparing to harvest.
From the 10th lunar month, people in Nhat Tan ward (Tay Ho district) went to the garden to pick peach leaves, put the trees in pots to prepare to serve the Lunar New Year.
Planting peaches is a traditional profession of the Nhat Tan people. In the years 1990-1995, the field area of this ward was only about 34 hectares. After 1998, people moved to the Red River bank to grow peaches and since then it has grown to about 60 hectares.
Mr. and Mrs. Nguyen Manh Hung in cluster 5, Nhat Tan ward, picked the last leaves on the tree to focus on nourishing the buds. “The family has more than 250 peach trees, mainly with large roots. The whole year, the couple worked hard to take care of them, just waiting for the last month of this year to harvest. For 10 days, the whole region has been picking leaves and planting beds to dig trees.” Mr. Hung said.
Ms. Nga has been cultivating peaches for more than 30 years. “In the past, the garden only planted one type of peach, but now there are five types, which are bred, grafted, and propagated according to market requirements,” she said.
The weather in the last month of the year is warm and sunny, many peach trees bloom early and have been harvested gradually for two weeks.
The owners of the digging barn move the trees from the soil to the pot to dig to gradually adapt to the living conditions.
During the year, peach growers are busy in the last month of the year when in the Tet crop and the month after Tet, when they have to collect trees for rent, pruning, and re-growing the land.
After a year of care, the peach trees grafted with large upland peach roots begin to harvest. This peach variety is popular for display in families with large campuses, or companies and businesses.
Kim and his wife, Mr. Chuyen, are buying Nhat Tan peaches and bringing them to Ho Chi Minh City to sell. “This peach garden has about 1,000 early-blooming branches, with prices ranging from a few hundred thousand dong to a million dong. Each early-blooming peach branch is carefully bundled so as not to lose flowers and easy to transport,” she said.
According to Ms. Kim, in recent years, the southern market has consumed a lot of peach branches. “People there play peaches from the time before Christmas until the full moon of January. In order to have peaches early, I have to order the gardener to pick the leaves and take care of them in advance,” she said.
The early blooming peach branches are plugged into wet cotton wool by the small traders and carefully wrapped. When selling to customers, each peach branch will be cut down to make the peach blossom.
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