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Ashmead's Kernel

  • Ashmead's Kernel
  • Ashmead's Kernel

Ashmeads Kernel is a very old traditional English russet apple. It remains popular for its distinctive pear-like flavour which is quite different from most other apple varieties.

Although often considered as a connoisseur's dessert apple, Ashmead's Kernel is actually quite versatile. It can be used for cooking, or sliced in savoury salads, and it keeps very well in a cold store.

Ashmead's Kernel is also becoming increasingly recognised for its juice, which adds an interesting fruity component to cider blends.

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Ashmead's Kernel apple trees for sale

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Pot-grown fruit trees (delivery Sept 2012 - April 2013)

Very small (1.5m - 2m)2-year bush-tree -12L pot - M27 rootstock £38.00
Small (1.8m - 2.5m)1-year -3L pot - M9 rootstock £30.00
Medium (2.2m - 3m)2-year bush-tree -12L pot - M26 rootstock £38.00
Large (3m - 4m)2-year bush-tree -12L pot - MM106 rootstock £38.00

Bare-root fruit trees (delivery any week Nov 2012 - Feb 2013)

Very small (1.5m - 2m)1-year -Bare-root - M27 rootstock £30.00
Medium (2.2m - 3m)1-year -Bare-root - M26 rootstock £30.00
Medium (2.2m - 3m)2-year -Bare-root - M26 rootstock £36.00
Large (3m - 4m)1-year -Bare-root - MM106 rootstock £30.00
Large (3m - 4m)2-year -Bare-root - MM106 rootstock £34.00
Large (3m - 4m)2-year Half-Standard -Bare-root - MM106 rootstock £37.00
Very large (4.5m+)1-year -Bare-root - M25 rootstock £30.00
Very large (4.5m+)2-year Standard -Bare-root - M25 rootstock £36.00

Trained fruit trees - pot-grown (delivery Sept 2012 - April 2013)

Small (1.8m - 2.5m)3-year Cordon -12L pot - M9 rootstock £39.00
Large (3m - 4m)Espalier 2-year 2-tier -12L pot - MM106 rootstock £49.00
Large (3m - 4m)Fan 2-year -12L pot - MM106 rootstock £49.00

Trained fruit trees - bare-root (delivery any week Nov 2012 - Feb 2013)

Small (1.8m - 2.5m)2-year Cordon -Bare-root - M9 rootstock £32.00

**All prices include delivery (except certain fan-trained or espalier-trained trees). We offer a discount on orders of multiple bare-root trees for delivery at the same time - this will be shown at the checkout.

Fan-trained and Espalier trees: Prices of these trees do NOT include delivery as these require special delivery arrangements - click here for details.

Delivery period: Pot-grown trees can be delivered from September onwards. Bare-root trees can be delivered from mid-November onwards. Within those periods you can specify your preferred month of delivery during the checkout process. It is best to order as soon as you can to ensure items are reserved for you.

*Mature heights: Height shown is the approximate height of the tree when mature (after 5-10 years), not the height when supplied. See photos of trees as supplied. Actual mature heights may vary considerably dependent on your local conditions and training and pruning regime.

Stock availability: Items showing as 'sold out' will probably be available again next season. If you would like to reserve in advance use our enquiry form - this does not commit you to anything.



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Growing

  • Overall disease resistance: Good
  • Cropping: Light
  • Fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 4
  • Ploidy: Triploid
  • Pollinating others: Poor
  • Bearing regularity: Regular
  • Fruit bearing: Spur-bearer
  • Gardening skill: Average
  • Vigour: Average growth
  • Attractive blossom
  • Fruit persistence: Normal ripening
  • Scab: Some resistance
  • Mildew: Some resistance
  • Bitter pit: Some susceptibility

Uses

  • Flavour quality: Very good
  • Flavour style: Aromatic
  • Good for eating fresh
  • Good for juice
  • Picking season: Late
    October
  • Use / keeping: 3 months or more
    keeps well

Identification

  • Fruit colour: Russet
  • Blossom colour: White
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom
  • Period of origin: 1700 - 1749
  • RHS AGM

Climate


Pollination guide for Ashmead's Kernel apple trees

Ashmead's Kernel is a triploid variety and cannot pollinate other varieties. It needs to be pollinated by another tree of a different variety nearby. You can either plant a self-fertile variety (which will pollinate itself and the Ashmead's Kernel) or you can plant two pollination partners which must each be of different varieties and able to cross-pollinate each other as well as the Ashmead's Kernel. If you need further advice on this just get in touch.

Our online pollination checker lists suitable pollination partners for this variety.

More advice about pollination.


How to grow Ashmead's Kernel apple trees

Ashmead's Kernel is quite easy to grow, and perhaps because it is such an ancient variety, it is relatively disease resistant. It can be a light cropper and this usually caused by poor pollination at blossom time - planting another late-flowering apple tree or crab-apple tree nearby is a good idea.

Planting instructions.

Pruning instructions.


Historical details

Originated in England in the 1700s, probably in Gloucestershire.

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