Returning to the “land of peaches” Dat To

Like the villages in the North, the Lunar New Year is near, which is also the time when Dat To peach blossom growing villages are bustling with buyers and sellers, bustling with a joyful Spring atmosphere.

The joy of peach growers in Hong Van craft village when peach trees bloom abundantly, evenly, with beautiful colors.

In early December, when the drizzling rain brought cold air everywhere, the Spring peach buds also stirred and burst out of the spindly branches, preparing to burst with a bright pink color. All along the roads around Long An peach blossom craft village (Ha Loc commune, Phu Tho town), large and small peach trees are lined up waiting for buyers. Over 8.1 hectares of peach growing area of more than a hundred households in the craft village seems to embrace the prosperous village. In this year’s peach crop, Mr. Ha Duc Thuan - a veteran peach grower in area 7 - planted about 300 trees, mainly peach trees, including about 30 ancient trees with many beautiful positions.

To serve customers' needs for Tet peach playing, Mr. Thuan traveled all the way to Nhat Tan peach “capital” (Tay Ho district, Hanoi) to get seeds and plant a variety of peach seedlings, peach branches, and trees. Large peaches in many designs. Mr. Thuan shared: "This year’s weather is quite favorable for peach trees to grow and bloom on time. Basically, cultivating peaches is not too difficult or strenuous, but getting peaches to bloom at the right time depends a lot on the weather, soil, humidity....

According to some middle-aged and elderly people in Long An, peach blossom growing was introduced to the village nearly 40 years ago, when a few families took peach roots from Hanoi to try planting them in their gardens. With suitable soil conditions and the people’s diligence and long-term accumulated experience, peach blossom growing here is increasingly developing. Recognized as a craft village since 2013, up to now, Long An peach village has 141 peach growing households. In 2023, the craft village’s revenue will reach 8 billion VND, of which the largest household earns over 800 million VND. Many peach growing households believe that this year the craft village will have a beautiful peach crop, with flowers blooming just in time for Tet, the selling price is likely to be slightly higher than last year, with an expected revenue of over 8 billion VND.

Peach growing households in Long An craft village said that this year’s weather is quite favorable for peach trees to grow well.

Just like in Long An peach village, gardeners in Hong Van peach blossom craft village (Thanh Minh commune, Phu Tho town) also soon “accelerated” their hard work to have beautiful peach trees to serve diverse needs. People’s appearance during Lunar New Year. Since the 10th lunar month, when the whole world seems to be flooded with the lush green of peach leaves on their branches, peach growers in the village have put aside all work to spend most of their time gardening, busy plucking leaves, “”change clothes" so that the peach tree concentrates its nutrients on making buds, ensuring that the flower buds bloom many and evenly and that the flowers are large, thick-petaled, and beautifully colored.

Many families also intercrop vegetables in peach gardens to both sell peaches and eat vegetables. Therefore, during Tet, when fresh pink peach petals bloom on the cool green background of vegetable patches, the peach gardens in Hong Van craft village are like a fresh, warm picture in the middle of the cold winter. That is also the time when the whole village is bustling with tourists from everywhere coming to buy and admire the beauty of the peach garden.

Most of the beautiful peach trees and branches are bought by customers right at the garden.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Dong - Head of Hong Van peach blossom craft village shared: "The craft village currently has 55 peach growing households. In addition to maintaining the annual peach area, many gardeners now also propagate and plant other types of flowers such as birds of paradise, lilies, gerberas, calla lilies... Thanks to that, at the end of the year, the All families have income from selling flowers, and Tet feasts are also fuller."

For decades now, beautiful peach trees from the “land” of peach blossoms - two craft villages of Long An and Hong Van have become indispensable products in families in Phu Tho town, Viet Tri city and Viet Tri city. surrounding areas during Lunar New Year. Around Tet, buses continue to carry “Spring colors” from peach villages roaming all over the road, to every home, sowing joy, faith, love, and hope for a happy and prosperous new year in people’s hearts. prosperous.

Cam Nhung