The Bitter Side of Sweet Blossoms🇮🇳

Hello Hive Family. I hope you all are healthy.

Friends, I am a gardener by profession. Taking care of trees every day in every season and watching their flowering process is no less than a penance. There is a small garden in front of my house in which apple, cherry, apricot and plum trees are planted and I have also sown peas in a small space. These days the trees are bearing fruits and the peas have pods, the whole garden looks full of life.

But this pleasant experience of gardening turns into a pain after facing the wrath of nature. As I told in the previous blog, they have been damaged due to rain and hailstorm in the mountains for the last few days. Due to the falling of hail, there are stains on the surface of the fruits and in many places the leaves have also torn. Due to which the quality of the fruits is also affected. Due to the stains on the surface of the fruits, we do not get good prices in the market. Consumers like shiny and spotless fruits even if there is no significant difference in taste. This has a direct impact on our year long hard work and income. This situation is very sad for small gardeners like me. The year-long hard work is destroyed in a few minutes by hailstorm.

Apart from this, the risk of spreading fungal diseases increases due to damaged leaves of trees. For this, fungicide has to be sprayed.

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