Farmers focus on peach blossoms to welcome Tet

With nearly 2 months left until Lunar New Year 2024, peach farmers in localities across the province are busy taking care of and stripping leaves so that the trees will bloom in time for Tet.

Farmers in Quang Chau commune (Hung Yen city) take care of and strip leaves from peach blossom trees. — Farmers in Quang Chau commune ( Hung Yen city) take care of and strip leaves from peach blossom trees.

Tu Dan Commune (Khoai Chau) currently has a peach blossom area of about 60 hectares, mainly concentrated in Man Xuyen, Nam Mau, and Toan Thang villages. In order for the trees to grow well and bloom in time for Tet, peach growers here regularly monitor weather forecasts to adjust the tree care regime accordingly.

With over 1,000 bonsai peach trees and about 1,200 cut peach trees, at this time, Mr. Hoang Van Thanh in Man Xuyen village, Tu Dan commune often hires 10-13 workers to strip the leaves so that the trees will bloom and sell them in time for Tet. Mr. Thanh said: Taking care of the bonsai garden all year round, now is the time to decide whether the trees will bloom for Tet or not, stripping the leaves at the right time is very important. Around the beginning of the 11th lunar month, I start stripping the leaves so that the trees can concentrate their nutrients on making buds, ensuring that the flower buds are abundant, even, and the petals are large... Normally, I strip the leaves twice, each time about a week apart. Stripping the leaves like this will make the trees bloom in overlapping batches. After stripping the leaves, I will base on the weather to have appropriate care methods, "promote" or "restrain" the trees so that the trees have many buds, large buds, bright colors, and flowers bloom right on Tet...

According to many people in Tu Dan commune, this year the weather is not favorable, so farmers have to take care of peach trees more difficult. Growers must be skillful, meticulous and meticulous, knowing how to calculate the weather to divide the leaf stripping and care stages. Comrade Nguyen Thi Thao, President of Tu Dan Commune Farmers' Association said: Compared to other crops, growing peach blossoms brings high income, so in recent years, people in the commune have focused on investing in expanding the area.

In Quang Chau commune (Hung Yen city) in the early days of the 11th lunar month, farmers are busy taking care of the trees in the peach gardens. The whole commune currently has nearly 30 households growing peach trees with an area of over 8 hectares. Due to a lot of experience in planting and caring, the peach blossoms grown in Quang Chau commune are very beautiful and are popular in the market.

According to peach growers here , peach growing is laborious, requires meticulousness and depends mainly on the weather. To grow a tree with a beautiful shape and form, with well-developed branches, farmers spend a whole year taking care of it, and at the same time must have experience and high techniques to create trees with unique shapes and forms from the original simple, rustic peach roots.

As someone who has been involved in peach growing for nearly 20 years, Mr. Duong Van Hien in village 2, Quang Chau commune shared: To grow a peach tree with a beautiful shape and many buds, the grower must be meticulous and careful in every step of care such as: fertilizing, pinching the top, shaping, girdling branches, stripping leaves... The stripping step is very important, if done at the right time and in favorable weather, the tree will produce as desired.

In addition, peach garden owners in the province also take care of ornamental peach trees for people in need. Customers are mainly agencies, units, and individuals who often buy large peach trees and bonsai peach trees worth tens of millions of dong to take care of. Planting and caring for peach trees must ensure the correct process and technique right from the beginning, because mistakes can affect the development, growth, and flowering of the tree. To do this, garden owners must be experienced people.

According to information from the Department of Cultivation (Department of Agriculture and Rural Development), peach trees are currently grown in many communes such as Tu Dan (Khoai Chau), Tan Quang (Van Lam); Trung Nghia, Quang Chau (Hung Yen city)... In order for peach trees to bloom beautifully during Tet, along with taking care of the trees, growers must strip the leaves at the right time, depending on the weather each year, the tree variety, whether the tree is strong or weak, "young" or old... Stripping peach leaves is considered a very important step, requiring carefulness and careful calculation from the grower, with the aim of allowing the tree to concentrate nutrients on making buds, ensuring that the flower buds are abundant, even, plump, the flowers are large, the petals are thick, the color is beautiful and they bloom right on Tet.

In addition to applying techniques and experience to care for the trees, people closely monitor weather developments to take timely care measures. Monitor the growth of peach trees to take timely measures to promote and slow down the blooming of flowers. Specifically: If by the beginning of the 12th lunar month, the flower buds are not clearly visible, they must be stimulated by fertilizing, hoeing around the base, and watering with warm water; at the end of the 11th lunar month, if the flower buds are large, the flowers may bloom early, it is necessary to apply measures to slow down the blooming by covering the tree from sunlight, creating shade, not watering, using a knife to cut a circle around the trunk to break the bark...

Huong Giang

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