Tales from the Orchard: Six Apple Varieties, One Sweet Journey

Hello Hive Family. I hope you all are healthy and happy.

Friends, apple season has started in Upper Shimla these days. These days orchardists are plucking apples in their orchards. I also have a small apple orchard in which I have planted six types of apples veriety. For the last two days, I was busy plucking and packing apples in my orchards and today I sold all the apples in the fruit market. We wait for this moment throughout the year when our apples reach the fruit market and we also get a good price for it.

This year, due to less production of apples, the prices of apples were better than last year. So today I will tell you all about the varieties of apples grown in my apple orchards.

1. Royal delicious apples
   This apple is one of the oldest commercially grown fruits in Himachal Pradesh. This variety of apples is being grown since the time of our grandfather. It is red in color. It is sweet and juicy to eat. There is a lot of demand for this apple in the market.

1. Red delicious
   This apple is also sweet to eat. Its color is red with light green stripes.

1. Rich Red
   This is a light red colored apple. It is also sweet to eat and its pulp is like a sponge but its price in the market is less than other apples.

4.Spur
This apple is dark red in color. This apple is heavier than other apples in terms of weight. It is sweet and juicy to eat.

1. Red gold
   This apple is small to medium sized. Its peel is thin red and golden in color. This apple is sweet and sour to eat. All of these are planted in gardens for pollination.

1. Golden delicious
   This green colored apple is sour to eat. This apple lasts for a long time. This apple does not spoil quickly. Sour apples are planted with other varieties for pollinators.

Disclaimer: This post is originally written in Hindi by me and I have taken the help of Google Translate to translate it into English.