At the end of December, the breast milk gardens are full of plump berries, which visitors can buy as spring gifts.

Vam Xang fruit garden located in Phong Dien commune is one of the fruit gardens intercropped in Can Tho, giving fruit all year round because of planting many types of trees. The end of December is the wrong season for breastmilk and the late season for our bride. High yielding fruit has been harvested and sold to traders, but the garden still reserves a lot of fruit trees to welcome tourists.

Mr. Tran Van Lien, also known as Uncle Nam Lien, owner of an orchard, personally guides visitors around and explains each type of tree. Mr. Nam Lien said that Phong Dien district has up to 7,200 hectares of fruit trees, known as the “kingdom of fruit” of Can Tho.

Breast milk is a fruit specialty in the South with a delicious, sweet taste. In Can Tho, udder is a popular plant, especially in Phong Dien district, up to 1,000 hectares are specialized in cultivating breastmilk. Particularly at Vam Xang fruit garden, Mr. Nam Lien could not count how many milkshakes of all kinds had been planted.

Mr. Nam Lien said that the breast milk in the garden next year (December) has fruit, the time after harvest, tending, watering for the next year’s crop takes about 10 months. Breast milk when the wrong fruit must be harvested in late December and January. After the Lunar New Year, the remaining fruit trees must be cut off to ensure the next year’s crop.

Many breastmilk pods are heavily fruited with branches, sometimes causing the branches to break. Mr. Nam Lien said that the broken branches must be quickly cut off because the fruits on the broken branches will no longer be sweet. To avoid a branch breakage, gardeners have to build support trees.

Breast milk in Vam Xang fruit garden has a variety of types such as Lo For breast milk, purple and purple brown breast milk, green skin milk breast, butter pink breast, northern herbal milk breast (brown color), quarter breast milk. .. Other varieties of breast milk in the garden have all been harvested for sale to traders, some of the blue-skinned milk trees still continue to bear fruit.

The green or ripe breast milk has only one green color. However, when ripe, the fruit is plump, the skin will be shiny and sweet. Mr. Nam Lien shared that this is not the peak season of the garden. Around May – August, right in the fruit season, the garden welcomes a large number of tourists from other regions of the country and also foreigners. However, the number of visitors in 2020 will decrease sharply due to the impact of the epidemic.

Vam Xang Fruit Garden was built and operated for more than 20 years. The garden has more than 100 types of trees such as strawberry, breast milk, durian, custard apple, grapefruit … All fruit trees here are cared for by using a cloth bag or plastic bag to cover the fruit to prevent pests. use medicine.

Visitors to the garden need to buy a ticket of 50,000 VND / time, to eat the desired fruit. In addition, customers can buy fruit at the garden according to the price, for breast milk this season is about 30,000-40,000 VND / kg.