Combining Beekeeping And Apple Orchards

Combining Beekeeping And Apple Orchards - 5 Tips For Double Benefits
By Abhishek Agarwal

1. The different ways apples are consumed
Apple orchards are all over the country and this is where the super markets procure their apples from. Apples are a very popular fruit and products made from apples are also widely consumed. There is apple sauce, apple cider, apple juice and then there are baked items with apples like apple pies and apple cakes. Apples are a favorite fruit of many and are good for all kinds of health conditions with no restrictions because of medical reasons on this fruit. It would definitely have been a very different incomplete world without apples!

2. Fall time is apple season
The apple tree looks picturesque and beautiful in every season, with apple blossoms filling the apple trees in spring, with their sweet fragrance; in summer the tree is full of lush green leaves; the tree is fully laden and in the winter the branches which are spreading far and wide are covered with layers of snow and in fall the juicy apples glisten in the sun ready to be picked. People who have been admiring this beautiful tree are also taken up with an other aspect, which is that they do not see anyone working in the orchards right through the year expect when the trees are laden with fruit and at that time it is to pick the fruit. This shows them that there is really not much work right through the year except at fruit picking time! With this in mind apple orchards are bought up as soon as they are put up for sale.

3. An apple orchard requires a lot of care in reality
Actually an apple orchard, unlike the impression that people have, is a lot of hard work. It is really not easy money as people imagine it to be. These trees have to pruned regularly; they have to sprayed to protect them from pests; a lot of maintenance work is required as the older unproductive trees have to be removed and new trees have to be planted in their place. So there is a lot of work that goes into maintaining an apple orchard and just looking at the end result isn't all there is to it.

4. A larger orchard means larger gains
Experts in agricultural business feel that an apple orchard should be a minimum ten acres to yield good returns and at least break even. So any new buyer has to think about the size of the orchard when he plans on getting himself an apple orchard. A larger orchard would mean better returns but it also means more expenses as more equipment would be needed, more helping hands would have to be hired, there would be more new trees being planted in place of older ones that have stopped yielding fruits and then more pesticides and nutrients would also be required for a larger area. So for better profits there would have to be larger investments by way of time, money and effort.

5. Newcomers should not invest in an apple orchard during spring
Spring time when the apples blossoms are in bloom is definitely the wrong time for new comers to buy an orchard. This is the time when the flowers have to be pollinated for the tree to bear fruit. Though the flowers do get pollinated with the wind and birds and other insects, there is nothing like the hard working bee to do a much more effective job of pollinating the flowers. It would not do to depend on the bees in that locality to carry out the pollination; instead it would be much better to hire out the services of bees from local bee hive owners. These owners will set up the hives in the orchards and the pollination will be much faster and much more effective.

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