Cross Pollinating Apple Trees | Perfect Partners
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In this collection, you’ll receive:
- 1 ‘James Grieve’ Apple Tree
- 1 ‘Bountiful’ Apple Tree
- You’ve got your apple tree. Great! It’s not producing any fruit. Not great. Cue muffled screams into a pillow. Okay, take a moment and just think, what to do…
- The answer lies in cross-pollination, and we’ve got just the thing for you in the shape of this two-tree collection.
- ‘Bountiful’ isn’t self-fertile and therefore needs cross-pollinating with another variety in order to bear fruit. And whilst ‘James Grieve’ is partially self-fertile, yields will be much better when grown near another pollinating partner.
- It’s a kind of “you scratch my bark and I’ll scratch yours” situation; both trees are in adjoining pollination groups (2 and 3) which means they’re able to pollinate one another.
- So if you want to be certain that your apple trees actually bear fruit, rather than leaving it on a bee’s wing and a prayer, then your best bet is to get a couple of these trees and plant them in your garden.
- Besides their cross-pollinating prowess, these varieties produce excellent fruit in their own right. ‘James Grieve’ is an award-winning, green, eating apple variety that produces fruit with a real melt-in-your-mouth quality.
- ‘Bountiful’ produces blush-coloured apples with a more delicate flavour than you’d expect from what was originally, in fact, grown as a cooking apple.
