Apple 'Belle de Boskoop' Malus domestica 'Belle de Boskoop' (C/d)

ABOUT
'Belle de Boskoop' is a culinary or dessert cultivar in pollination group 3, triploid. A very vigorous tree that is suitable for northerly, colder, higher rainfall areas, it produces good, regular crops. Skin greenish-yellow and flushed red and orange; russeted. Needs little or no extra sugar when cooked; keeps well and mellows to a brisk eating apple. Season of use is from October to April
About this plant
Names
Family
Rosaceae
Synonyms
apple 'Belle de Boskoop'
Characteristics
Foliage type
Deciduous
Height
4-8 metres
Spread
4-8 metres
Hardiness zones
H6
Light
Full Sun, Partial Shade
Pruning
apples according to age and training form
Soil
Loam, Sand, SoilClay
Suitable locations
Hardiness zone
Wall-side Borders Cottage & Informal Garden
Propogation
Propagate by chip budding or grafting onto a clonal rootstock for fruit. The rootstock used will largely determine the size of the tree
Pests
Aphids, woolly aphid, rosy apple aphid fruit tree red spider mite, mussel scale, codling moth and caterpillars are the main pests on edible apples
Diseases
Can be affected by apple canker, apple scab, apple canker, powdery mildews and honey fungus