Bountiful Apple | Malus domestica Bountiful > Cooker Eater
Bountiful is a relatively new variety of apple tree with fruit for cooking and baking that is also great for eating. Bountiful apples are large, sweet and when they are used for cooking have a moist texture that oozes with juice. They are well shaped apples, predominantly green and take on a red blush towards the end of the season. The fact that these apples hold their shape after being sliced and cooked makes them popular for topping apple pies and other apple desserts that look neat as well as taste good. Bountifuls can be harvested from September onwards. The earlier fruit are generally best used in the oven and by October you can eat them as you please, they are nice and crisp when they are fresh.
Bountiful Apple History and Parentage
Malus domestica Bountiful was bred about 40 years ago at the East Malling Research Station in Kent, reputedly from a Cox's Orange Pippin, which is a supremely tasty apple for dessert - at any time of day! and a Lane's Prince Albert which, like Bountiful, stays in one piece when used as a cooking apple.
Apple Tree Pollination Guide for Malus Domestica Bountiful
Bountiful apple trees bear flowers early to mid season. To give a good crop of first rate apples, a suitable pollinator is needed in the area. To check if you have an appropriate pollinator, or to find one if you have not please look at the early and mid-season range pollinators in our page of facts about Apple Tree Pollination for a list of trees for the job. Remember that crab apples are excellent pollinators for all ranges and seasons, the red berried and yellow hornet varieties are champions fit to provide for any Malus domestica type of tree in your orchard.
Rootstocks for Bountiful Apples
Our trees are grown on MM106 rootstock and so can reach 4-5 metres, 15 feet high, when grown from a maiden, ideal for both gardens and orchards. A trained bush will give about 3 metres of fruiting branches and makes life easy in the gardenit is safer and more convenient to ask a tall person to reach up for the top fruit than use a chair. MM106 also is probably the best rootstock from which to grow apples as cordons, espaliers and fans.
If you are unclear about fruit tree sizes take a look at our Guide to Fruit Tree Sizing
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