My father’s childhood was spent wandering around the countryside. The game with them is simply fighting, confetti, chicken grass, playing cards, fighting ticks, piggybacking, land cannons, river bathing, fish foul… More naughty, dad followed us to pick grapefruit, guava, baked potatoes, peanuts to eat. In the countryside, the older children teach the children to swim. The beaches, banks, and fields are deeply imprinted in my mind, until now, every time I have the opportunity to pass by, all the memories keep coming back. Children’s childhoods do not know if they are lucky or unlucky, there are no more popular games (adults still say that children now have no childhood). It has been replaced by Online Games, Tiktok, Facebook… Although there is a direction for children to explore, it is certainly in a different, very different direction! I hope that because of that, your hearts are poor in the ability to feel. Every time I go back to my grandmother, in the vast fields, in the windy afternoons, I hope that you are sharp enough to feel a little country spirit, even if only through the prism of children’s eyes. If possible, at some point, you should take off your sandals and wade into the mud with your bare feet to try to catch snails and crabs… I hope you feel a little country spirit… I just want your hearts to be nourished by simple, rustic but sincere things, not the hustle and bustle of life! The rest, when born, life will teach you. Just prepare your mind and accept it, everything will be fine, baby!

Recently, the social network shared a series of pictures of a wonderful hydroponic vegetable garden of a Vietnamese man living and working in the US. Green hydroponic vegetable garden According to research, the owner of this garden is Mr Nguyen Xuan Vuong (born 1974) currently lives in Iowa (USA). The garden with many kinds of green vegetables, in addition to providing food for the family, also gives Mr. Vuong an ideal working space, close to nature. Mr. Vuong’s workspace meets the “green” standard. Mr. Vuong’s garden has an area of ​​​​about 20m2, with part of the greenhouse growing hydroponically and the outside growing traditional soil. “Because the place where I live is a temperate area, with snow cover for 3-4 months, very cold in late autumn and winter (-5 to -20 degrees Celsius), so planting is only done in the summer for more than 4 months. Therefore, most plants are nursed before the crop in a greenhouse until the weather is favorable to bring them out. The most in the garden is hydroponic farming, there is also a combination of symbiotic fish farming, “said Mr. Vuong. Mr. Vuong said that hydroponics is a convenient, clean and safe farming method in greenhouses. He can grow almost all kinds of trees and vegetables, including Vietnamese vegetables, in greenhouses in the middle of the cold snowy season in temperate regions. “Hydroponic plants grow without soil, so it is convenient for relocation, saving space, creating more cool, close to nature space for the family. More importantly and also the biggest motivation when creating my own garden is to create an environment that guides my daughter to know the origin of how to get the food she eats and she is cared for and harvested successfully. fruit,” said Mr. Vuong. Although only 7 years old, his daughter thanks to gardening with her father, so she knows almost all kinds of Vietnamese vegetables and fruits. The climate in the area where Mr. Vuong lives has 4 seasons, the harshest is winter, so keeping warm and stabilizing the garden’s temperature is not easy. He had to reuse plastic tubs of water and CO2 from the fireplace chimney to allow the greenhouse garden to retain heat during cold nights. Thanks to the careful care of the garden, Mr. Vuong always has Vietnamese vegetables and fruits for daily use, even very convenient during the time of social distancing against Covid-19. “I have been living in the US for 30 years now. Daughter loves Vietnamese vegetable and melon soup. The baby is conscious of eating a lot of green vegetables for each meal and his wife also often cooks Vietnamese meals, “said Mr. Vuong. Mr. Vuong’s vegetable garden not only serves clean food for his family, but is also shared with neighbors and friends. At the end of the summer, he harvested a lot of vegetables and fruits, and he also brought them to the local food place, the church so that anyone who needed them would come and get them. This is also how Mr. Vuong teaches his daughter about the spirit of sharing with everyone around.

He Dao Van Nam ( 53 years old, from Vinh Phuc) has 5 daughters, all of them are married far away, but they all love their parents and come back to reunite every weekend. The cowpea rig is full of fruit, cultivated and cared for by Mr. Nam. Loving the children who are getting married far away, and wanting them to have clean vegetables and fruits to use every day, he made his own garden at home so that every weekend the children would have food to pack to take away. At first, his family only planted a few perennial fruit trees such as jackfruit, pomelo, sapodilla, coconut, apple, etc. Later, when the children got married, Mr. Nam planted many other fruits and vegetables. Knowing that their parents love bonsai but don’t have much money to buy, the daughters sometimes come back and add more plants to the garden. Gradually the garden was also filled with green trees. “My garden is about 200 square meters. Trees surround the house, so in the summer you don’t have to worry about the children playing in the sun. On both sides of the house, my wife and I mainly grow perennial fruit trees, in front of the yard are pots of ancient roses. In the garden, there are more asparagus, cloves, chayote, strawberries and some short-term leafy vegetables,” said Mr. Nam. Fresh asparagus stalks The garden is full of different kinds of fruit Also according to Mr. Nam’s share, he gardening completely by organic methods, so the short-term vegetables and flowers must be taken care of more meticulously from the stages of composting, pruning leaves, catching worms, etc. “The house is surrounded by fish ponds, so the humid environment will have many insects. There are vegetable seasons when I’m busy and I don’t have time to take care of them, the insects eat all the roots and tops, I have to buy new plants instead, take care of the vegetables from the beginning. With fruit trees, it takes less care, the tree still grows and bears a lot of fruit,” said Mr. Nam. Daughters get married far away, every time they return to their hometown, they feel at peace in front of their parents’ garden. It is a strange thing that all the fruit trees in Mr. Nam’s house do not have to be cared for much, but they are very wrong. Neighbors who came to visit also praised his garden and learned from his experience of taking care of plants. “There are five jackfruit trees with a harvest of up to 100 fruits growing from root to tip, my family has to pick and share with everyone. Even the coconut tree, when my daughter was pregnant, she kept picking the whole room of coconuts to drink but couldn’t. There are fruits that are aged for a long time and I bring them to the store with meat, which is also very delicious. My wife and I are very happy to share with everyone the results we have made,” said Mr. Nam happily. The garden is green all year round The garden contains many deep memories with Mr. Nam’s family. He still vividly remembers the hot summer afternoons, the children who couldn’t sleep, kept playing with goods, eating mandarin umbrellas, jumping rope under the jackfruit tree. He wants nothing more than to want his children to be happy and peaceful like the childhood memories that they still tell each other to this day. “Happiness is simply the moment when the whole family goes out to the garden to pick vegetables, happily cook family meals, and watch the children play under the tree. My hometown is a bunch of sweet star fruit, so I always want my children to eat the “bundles of sweet star fruit” made by myself. I will collect and grow a lot of delicious vegetables and sweet fruits so that every time I go back to my hometown, my children and grandchildren can eat well,” said Mr. Nam.