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apple 'Braeburn Hillwell'

apple 'Braeburn Hillwell'

apple 'Braeburn Hillwell'

eating / dessert apple

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A prolific, self-fertile dessert apple tree yielding medium-large, yellow-skinned fruits with a striking red overlay, encasing crisp, aromatic flesh. Ready...

bare root | M26 root stock | 1.2m tall

~~£34.99~~ £26.24

available to order from winter

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Plant description

A prolific, self-fertile dessert apple tree yielding medium-large, yellow-skinned fruits with a striking red overlay, encasing crisp, aromatic flesh.

Ready for harvest in October, 'Braeburn Hillwell' provides apples with a firm texture, but sweet, juicy flavour. They can be enjoyed fresh or stored until March as they boast an impressive shelf life.

Pollination information: This apple belongs to pollination group 4 however it is self fertile, but can make an excellent pollinating partner to produce a crop of apples in other partially self-fertile or self-sterile apples belonging to groups 3 or 4.

Flowering period

Jan
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Plant features

Position

Full sun

Rate of growth

Average

Soil

Moderately fertile, moist, well-drained soil

Hardiness

Fully hardy

How to care for apple Braeburn Hillwell:

When planting your apple tree, prepare a hole up to three times the diameter of its root system. Fork over the base of the pit in readiness, incorporating plenty of organic matter into the backfill and planting hole. Place the plant in the planting hole and carefully refill, firming the soil around the roots to eliminate air pockets. Insert stake at this point if required.

Avoiding frozen and waterlogged soil, trees should be planted out as they arrive. If you've ordered a bare root tree, soak the roots in a bucket of water for half an hour prior to planting - or if this is not possible, they can be heeled in temporarily, covering their roots with soil, or potted up.

Keep the base of the tree weed free, fertilise at the beginning of each year water regularly during hot, dry spells.

The main prune should be done in the winter as long as it isn't frosty or freezing. Take out the 3D’s (dead, dying and diseased wood) and create an open shape. Then reduce the leaders back by a third. Aim to create an airy structure without any crisscrossing branches.

In August summer prune. Shorten any side shoots (or laterals) which are longer than 20cm back to three leaves. This will allow the sun to ripen the fruit and encourage more fruit buds. Make sure that the growth you’re cutting away feels firm to the touch.

Please note:

This plant is deciduous so it will lose all its leaves in autumn, then fresh new foliage appears again each spring.

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