Close-up of the 'unique' fruit garden in Binh Duong

TPO – Hunting for many varieties of seeds from other countries, a man in Binh Duong has turned a plot of land in the middle of the city into a unique fruit garden. Before that, he was known as one of the first people to use his rooftop as the first clean vegetable and fruit garden in this locality.

TPO – Hunting for many varieties of seeds from other countries, a man in Binh Duong has turned a plot of land in the middle of the city into a unique fruit garden. Before that, he was known as one of the first people to use his rooftop as the first clean vegetable and fruit garden in this locality.

Mr. Bien Tan Man, residing in Thu Dau Mot city, Binh Duong province, owns a unique fruit garden. His house is located in the city center, without ideal land area, so he designed and renovated the rooftop of his family's house into a miniature vegetable and fruit garden.

At first, Mr. Man only planted daily green vegetables such as water spinach, Malabar spinach, squash, pumpkin, luffa and herbs. Above were climbing plants to take advantage of the high area and provide shade for vegetables and fruits.

The more he worked, the more he loved it. Mr. Man began to wish for a larger garden so that he could experience more new plant varieties. He discussed with his wife and decided to use the family's land of several thousand square meters in Ben Cat City (Binh Duong) to grow unique and strange fruit trees that he had hunted for varieties from many countries around the world .

Initially, Mr. Man tried growing chocolate persimmons because this is a rare and valuable fruit. When ripe, persimmons are light yellow or smooth green, the flesh is black or brown, and has a fragrant, slightly sweet taste like chocolate.

However, because he did not have the opportunity to go to the place to choose the seeds and had to buy through an intermediary, he failed many times. The tree grew but did not bear fruit. Not giving up, Mr. Man was determined to find a good variety and was successful in harvesting chocolate persimmons in his garden. In the photo is a guava variety with a strange color rarely seen in Vietnam.

Once he had experience growing and caring for persimmon trees, he began to look for other fruit trees originating from foreign countries.

The American fig variety that Mr. Man collected has a sweet taste different from the fig variety in Vietnam.

“It is too easy to grow domestic fruit trees. I want my garden to have rare varieties, even those that are difficult to adapt to the soil, so that I can domesticate them. I have traveled to buy many types of trees abroad, then imported them to Vietnam with clear certificates of origin,” Mr. Man shared.

Up to now, Mr. Man's garden has been covered with countless unique and strange fruit trees, very rare in Vietnam such as Lokal chocolate persimmon, Jumbo, Matt Giant, ...; golden star apple; American fig; giant guava; American seedless yellow lemon; American seedless Limca lemon... Currently, Mr. Man's garden has been visited by many people to learn from his experience. However, because it is still in the testing phase, he only invited a few acquaintances to experience it.

To have a garden with dozens of rare and foreign fruit trees like now, Mr. Man spared no effort and money to collect new varieties of trees for many years. It is estimated that each year, he spends hundreds of millions of dong to buy seeds and take care of the garden.

In addition, he also plans to turn his garden into not only a place to experience unique fruit trees but also to provide seedlings to the market.

Guests experience ripe persimmon mixed with a drink that tastes sweet and fragrant like chocolate.

“I am testing some new varieties such as cream cake, cream bean, giant red-fleshed sapodilla, Mamey Apple, ma toa longan, purple guava Daeng Ayothaya 3, giant Thai soursop, etc. If successful, I plan to provide varieties to gardeners or those in need. The varieties must be taken from fruit-bearing trees of high quality,” Mr. Man shared, adding that he is currently not thinking about selling fruit to make money, but is testing, and after achieving results, will sell the varieties to those who share the same passion.

Huong Chi

Source: https://tienphong.vn/can-canh-vuon-cay-an-trai-doc-nhat-vo-nhi-o-binh-duong-post1698662.tpo