And all night long the fresh incredibly sweet smell wafted up to us through the gaps between the wooden floorboards. In these parts apples are not only eaten fresh, off trees and cases, but slices of apple are also dried on rooftops to be munched as a sw eet in winter. Every year several lakh cases of apple leave Thanedar Kotgarh for different parts of the country and abroad. Which accounts for the unbroken line of trucks that ply these roads during harvest time, from July through September. An apple tree needs at least two or three feet of snow every year.
Snow is like manure.
But an apple tree also needs the presence of bees. Sometimes bees from the wild won't come on their own and the crop suffers. The answer is resident bee colonies. And that is why most orchards have bee boxes strategically placed. There is a ceaseless murmur among the tress on April afternoons as these busy little workers fly from blossom to blossom making frequent inbetween trips to the box all day long.