Apple - Winter Gem - Eater
Winter Gem - Eating Apple
Winter Gem is an aromatic dessert apple that
was bred in the 1960's in Kent by an amateur apple breeder,
Hugh Ermen. The tree is a disease resistant late (and very heavy)
cropper, producing its red and russet apples for use between
October and March. As well as the usual forms of bush and half
standard, Winter Gem apple trees are ideally
suited to making a fruity covering for a fence or wall by being
trained as cordons planted at 100cms intervals and grown at
an angle of 45 degrees.
Winter Gem is a mid-season flowering pollinator and so needs
to be grown with another pollinator or self-fertile apple for
both to fruit. For more information on apple pollination and
for suitable cross-pollination partners for Winter Gem, please
take a look at our Guide
to Fruit Pollination
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Winter Gem should be planted in a hole 1m across and 40cms deep. The soil can be improved if necessary with a very little well rotted compost or manure. tree stake Winter Gem with a 50mm (2") diameter tree stake, and hold it with a buckle and strap tree buckle and strap tree tie within 50-60 cms of the ground. Weeds and grass should be kept away from the trunk by weeding, spraying or using a mulch mat. For further information, take a look at our Tree Planting Guide.
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