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Keswick Codlin apple trees

Pick: Early-season    Flowering group: 2       Uses: Cookery | Juicing    Disease-resistance: Good
Keswick Codlin apple tree

Keswick Codlin is a traditional English culinary apple, especially popular in Victorian times as one of the first cooking apples of the season. It is juicy and acidic and cooks down to a smooth puree.

Victorian pomologist Robert Hogg praised it as "One of the earliest and most valuable of our culinary apples".

It remains an excellent choice for the modern garden. The tree is almost foolproof to grow, producing heavy crops in almost any situation, and the apples have an excellent sharp flavour and become ripe early in the season when there is not much else around.

Order now for delivery September 2013 onwards

Keswick Codlin apple trees for sale

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Pot-grown fruit trees (Delivery start September 2013)

Large (3m - 4m)2-year bush-trained - 12L pot - MM106 rootstock £39.00

Bare-root fruit trees (Deliveries start November 2013)

Large (3m - 4m)1-year - Bare-root - MM106 rootstock £29.00
Full size (5m+)1-year - Bare-root - M25 rootstock £30.00

**All prices include delivery. We offer a discount on orders of multiple bare-root trees for delivery at the same time - this will be shown at the checkout.

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 - see our Tree Height Calculator.

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Alternatives to Keswick Codlin apple trees

Alternative fruit trees - Scotch Bridget apple trees
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Cook 

Scotch Bridget apple trees

Ripens later than Keswick Codlin, but equally at home in difficult wet climates.




Summary features of Keswick Codlin

Growing

Uses

Identification

  • Country of origin: United Kingdom
  • Period of origin: 1800 - 1849
  • Fruit colour: Green
  • Blossom colour: White
  • Leaf colour: Green

Climate



Pollination guide for Keswick Codlin

Keswick Codlin is in flowering group 2. Keswick Codlin is partially self-fertile, but fruiting will be improved if there is a compatible tree of a different variety nearby.



How to grow Keswick Codlin apple trees

As the name suggests, Keswick Codlin is well adapted to the wetter climate of western England.

Keswick Codlin is a very reliable tree, producing heavy crops even in a poor summer. Like many heavy-cropping older varieties, it can sometimes lapse into biennial bearing - but this is easily avoided by thinning the fruitlets just after the blossom has finished, to prevent over-cropping.



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Historical details

The first Keswick Codlin tree was found at the end of the 18th century, growing in a rubbish heap at Gleaston Castle near Ulverston at the southern tip of the English Lake District. It was subsequently popularised by a Keswick nurseryman.



Botanical name

Malus domestica Keswick Codlin



Related variety collections

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