Apple 'Malus' Golden Delicious
- A popular variety but much tastier & at a fraction of the cost of supermarket-bought apples!
- The fruits have exceptionally sweet, rich flavour and a distinctive golden-green colour.
- Golden Delicious is perfect for growing in the garden. It is highly versatile and easy to grow!
- Supplied as a 1.1-1.15m tall, grower quality, 'bare-root' tree
- Will grow to approx. 2.5-3.5m (8-12ft) in 10 years. Fully winter hardy
Product Description
Now you too can grow this ever-popular variety but much better tasting and at a fraction of the cost of supermarket-bought apples! Golden Delicious is brilliant for growing in your garden. Its fruits have exceptionally sweet, rich flavour and a distinctive golden-green colour theyll look wonderful as they ripen on your tree and it is heavy-cropping and easy to grow! I
t is a highly versatile variety that will store really well use your abundant crops to make delightful desserts and yummy puddings as well as keeping them to eat as they are! Your home-grown harvests will be incomparable to the bland, tasteless apples in the shops the key is to let them mature on the tree and pick them once they have turned a rich, golden colour.
Best of all, your tree will produce bumper crops each year, saving you loads of money compared to supermarket bought apples over its long life of over 50 years. Enjoy!
What Is Supplied
Plant Information
Top Tips
- Keep well-watered, and if growing in a pot, use a good quality, soil-based compost.
- Add Rootgrow Mycorrhizal Fungi to the roots when planting to help establish your tree more quickly.
- Place your tree in a sunny position for the best crops.
Care Guide
- Apply a slow-release fertiliser such as blood, fish and bone, in early spring, and mulch to retain moisture.
- Water regularly, and don't let the soil dry out if planted in pots.
- Established trees don't require radical pruning - just take off any diseased, dying and damaged branches in late winter. Look at the overall shape and aim for an open structure of branches and remove any that cross over so they don't damage each other.
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