Breeding farm in the village Medvedivtsy. Part Two.

This is a continuation of the article about the breeding farm in the village Medvedivtsy.

What a nice nectarine is in the next photo. We can clearly observe the two shares.



There are also many apples in this breeding plantation. And the taste of each variety is so different, that it is just amazing.



And here is one of the sorts of plums. I always thought “rengloty” to be leaders of the market size of the fruit. I was wrong. Have a look on the next picture. This is an example of a plum, with which in your palm you won’t be able to clasp the fingers. An average person can eat one or two plums at a time.



But these two fetuses are very similar to a plum Pissarda, which until recently, actively grew on Prospect Svobody in Uzhgorod. These are the apricots. Very tasty, actually.



Well, take a look here and try to identify what it is. It looks much alike to the ripe “Japanese quince” at the first glimpse. Actually, it is a peach.



And this “rough fruit” is the green fetus of almond. It ripens only in autumn.



These are also almonds. Other varieties.



There are a number of exotic plants growing on the plantation and around the house besides the main fruit crops. Here, for example, is a fruit bush called Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba) of the genus of flowering plants of the family Rhamnaceae. This is a medicinal plant, by the way. The fruit were not ripe at the moment when I photographed, so I couldn’t eat them.



This one is already a ripen fruit of Ziziphus. The only one which is still on the tree. Local children have stripped the rest. It’s a delicious fruit, which tastes not similar to anything else...



And this, for example, is the fruit Pontsirus (poncirus trifoliata), called “lemon grass”. It’s a unique bush. Its needles are so sharp that I regretted about trying to put the lens higher to the fruit. The needles pierce through any matter, including the rough skin on the shoes. This “ability” of a lemon grass is used for the benefit - for hedges.



Another photo for the memory, before I finish the story. Vasiliy Zayats with one of his creations. An electricity pylon is visible in the background. A forest of the oldest edible chestnuts had been growing on this territory earlier. The trees were a hundred years of age. 4 people were not able to wrap one such tree. Many years ago, the chairman of the former collective farm instructed to cut the chestnuts and crap the bars for vineyards out of them (because the existed concrete ones were not enough). Most of the trees were cut down, despite protests from some of the population. Only a few trees have remained. There are still some old plantations with edible chestnuts, by the way, in the area of the surrounding villages. Above the village Lintsi (in Uzhgorod area), there is a huge plantation of edible chestnut trees - the oldest in Transcarpathia. This territory is 1 hectare large and has the name – “Kashtanovy Hay” (“Chestnut Grove”). The trees here are up to two meters in diameter. The age of trees is more than 150 years. The “Chestnut Grove” is located in the tract “Staraya Gora” (“Old Mountain”). Another plantation is located at the distance of one kilometer from the divarication of roads “Kopynivtsi – Schastlivoye” in Mukachevo Area (Ukr: “Kopynivtsi-Serenchivka”).



To be honest, Vasiliy Zayats is a wonderful man. Every time I communicate with him, I’m just struck with his relation to his work, his enthusiasm, his non-indifference. If at least one of 10 people in Ukraine had the same attitude to life and work, we would be the most powerful nation in the world. Bless him!


Breeding farm in the village Medvedivtsy. Part One.

30.03.2010. 14:43

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