We were pleased to plant two new rows of ‘Red Devil’ apple trees today. We also planted some replacement Egremont Russets, Bramleys, William Crumps and Tickled Pinks.
The Red Devil apples have a pink flesh all the way through them and produce a lovely tasting pink apple juice.
The trees were from Frank Matthews nursery in the beautiful Teme Valley just outside of Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire and had really good looking healthy roots. We’ve planted them as maidens (first year trees) and they’re on MM106 root stock. Subject to our pruning, they would naturally grow to 3-4m high and similar width.
Having help from family and friends meant the planting only took a couple of hours. There was time for pruning of the Ashmead Kernels (early 18th century Gloucestershire dessert apple) and all of the Gladstone apples (dating back to the 1780s but reintroduced in 1868 by Blakedown nursery, near Kidderminster as Jackson’s Seedling and renamed Gladstone in 1883).
