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Apple Tree - Ashmead's Kernel
Apple Tree - Ashmead's Kernel The Apple - Ashmead's Kernel, Malus domestica 'Ashmead's Kernel', has an appearances that can be deceiving. Ashmead's Kernel is lumpy, misshapen, and rather small, but has remained popular for well over 2 centuries, and with good reason: it has a distinctive flavor that you will rave about because it is quite different from most other varieties. This dessert apple is outstandingly rich and tart, flattish in shape, about the size of a Gala or Jonathan, and half-russetted over gold. The apple sweetens as it stores and stores successfully for up to twelve months. The fruit is generally picked in October for use between December and February. It makes a good apple juice or applesauce because of its sweet sharp flavor. It is a late season pollinator which means it is not self-fertile but it can pollinate other apple trees.
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Apple Tree - Northern Spy - Sale Price: $78.50 Northern Spy Apple (Red Spy, Nortern Red Spy) is large, round, and often flattened. The skin is greenish yellow with pinkish red stripes, a delicate bloom, and occasional russet patches. This apple is rather firm, aromatic and has a subacid flavor. The flesh is very tender, finely grained, crisp, juicy, and tart. It remains remakably fresh after a long storage period. The Northern Spy is an excellent all purpose apple, but is not good for drying or making apple cider. The tree is very large, upright, a vigorous grower, and productive. It blooms late in the season and takes about 12 years to bear fruit. Ripens in late October and tends to bear biennially. Requires a pollinator such as Golden Delicious. |
| Apple Tree - Arkansas Black - Sale Price: $171.35 The Arkansas Black Spur Apple is a large, late season apple fruit tree. It is a very late maturing variety grown primarily in the Southeast. The distinctive dark red skin encases a high quality fruit even where summer nights are warm. Use this apple for dessert and cooking. This is a great variety to add in a cider blend, providing a high acid, spicy flavor. They have an excellent storage life and they keep for many months. Arkansas Black blooms in mid-season and is a great pollinator for early blooming apple varieties, varieties blooming in the middle of the season, and varieties blooming late in the season. The Arkansas Black apple tree requires a pollinator in order to bear fruit. We suggest the following other apple trees as pollinators: Golden Delicious Apple, Granny Smith Apple and Dolgo Crabapple For best results, keep soil pH between 6.0 to 7.0 |
| Apple Tree - Mollies Delicious - Sale Price: $171.35 The Mollies Delicious apple is rated one of the best delicious type apples on the market. Mollies Delicious apples are good for fresh eating, pies, and sauces. This apple matures in mid-season and is very productive, vigorous tree. The fruit is sweet, flavorful and very aromatic and the firm flesh has a very memorable sweet-tart taste. This tree produces large fruit with yellow flesh and a red blushing skin. Mollies Delicious is an early blooming variety. It will pollinate all other early blooming varieties and those with mid-season bloom time. This apple is highly recommended for southern locations, even as far south as the Houston Texas area. Suggested pollinators are Fuji, Granny Smith and Beverly Hills. |
| Apple Tree - Gravenstein - Sale Price: $171.35 Firm, snappy, light green with red stripes and a wonderful distinctive flavor. Gravenstein Apple (Red Gravenstein) is an improved strain of the old favorite cooking apple with darker red stripes. It has an excellent quality and famous for sauces, baking and fresh use. Pick the apples frequently because of uneven ripening. This can be somewhat controlled by heavy pruning. The Red Gravenstein is a hardy variety and can withstand difficult conditions. It requires pollination from another variety: Empire, Fuji, Gala, or Red Delicious. |
| Apple Tree - Wolf River - Sale Price: $78.50 The Wolf River Apple, Malus 'Wolf River', is best known for its large size, which can grow up to 5 diameter fruit. This is one enormous apple! The fruit is so large that some have said that just one apple can make a pie! These huge fruits have been prized for years for baking, applesauce, and apple butter. Weighing up to 1 pound each, the apple is pale yellow to green with carmine-red blushes and stripes. It is thick-skinned, tart, and aromatic. The Wolf River apple is scab and mildew resistant and very winter hardy. An old variety, it is long lived and ripens mid-September to early October in Zone 5. Wolf River is a midseason apple grown best in northern climates. Plant about a month after the first killing frost in the fall or about a month before the last killing frost in the spring. Select a planting site that has good air, drainage, full sunlight and deep, well drained soil. |
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