Espalier or fan trees are used against a wall; you will need not less than 180 x 180cm’s for a fan or espalier tree. Please note we do not supply ready trained trees; this Falstaff is a young tree suitable for training yourself, in situ. Such trees usually settle to cropping within 2 or 3 seasons.
Falstaff - this classic English-raised Apple, from EMRS in Kent in the 1960’s and introduced in 1986. One of the best garden varieties. It is a James Grieve x Golden Delicious cross.
Falstaff Apple tree – Season:
Harvest early-mid October, stores until Christmas.
Falstaff Apple - appearance:
Medium sized, golden yellow when ripe with pretty red stripes.
Falstaff apple trees – flavour:
Sweet but clean and crisply refreshing with plenty of juice. Good texture, never soggy or mealy.
Uses:
A dessert apple, has also been used for juicing.
Cropping & Growth
A very good tree, medium growth, healthy, hardy, produces good crops of high quality fruit.
Falstaff - Pollination: Partly self fertile; ‘B’ Pollination group, so use varieties with the same or adjacent pollinating prefixes. Some good suggested varieties are:
Elstar
Discovery
Bountiful
Cox's Orange Pippin
Arthur Turner
Empire
