Apples 🍎🍏🍎🍏

 These delicious and crunchy apples are available in varieties suited to a range of climates, from cool temperate, to sub-tropical.

Higher chill apples may sometimes be worth trying in marginal climates - for example Granny Smith, Red Fuji, Pinkabelle and Redlove. A shady winter site can be helpful if drainage is good, but apples can be tolerant of damp conditions.

You may take it another step and simulate chill with misters and even fans as the temperature at the bud site is where chill is registered. This may help stimulate flower bud development.

The tropical range can be tolerant of as little as 100 hours of chill, and are suitable for warm temperate to subtropical climates. If you wish to try these early harvest apples in more temperate areas, protect flowering trees from frost. Full size apple trees can reach up to 8m in the ideal conditions, if left to their own defenses. However they are better managed to a height (approx 3-4m) and shape to encourage best fruiting performance and easy harvest and maintenance.

Dwarfing rootstock can produce a more manageable 3m or so tree, depending on your growing conditions. Apple trees require even moisture to ensure essential nutrients like calcium are available. This is important for the normal development of fruit. Feed with a a good quality general fertiliser before flowering and during fruit development. Provide calcium in the form of dolomite if soil is low in this nutrient. Keep the feeder root zone mulched for healthy trees 🍎🍏🍎🍏 #daleysfruit #daleysnursery #apples #appletree #crunchy