Grenadier Cooking Apple Trees

Malus domestica Grenadier

The Grenadier Apple is one of the first cooking apples to ripen. The fruits are large, irregularly shaped, bright green, and you will get lots of them, but like all early apples, they do not store well.

The taste is tart and slightly acidic. The flesh is white and cooks down to a wonderful creamy, purée that works brilliantly in puddings or for apple sauce with your roast pork.

The tree is not too vigorous and has an upright habit making it good for smaller gardens.

A huge advantage of the Grenadier is that it will fight off almost all apple diseases - canker, scab, and mildew - and thus is suitable for wet and damp conditions where many apples may turn up their toes.
The early blossom is frost resistant so you are almost guaranteed reliable crops every year.

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Features

• Height: to 4.5 m
• Use: Cooking/juicing
• Pruning: Spur bearer
• Pollination: Partially Self Fertile
• Picking: Aug-Sept
• Apple colour: Green maturing to yellow
• Pollination: Group C
• Storage: 1 week
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

Growing Grenadier

Grenadier will fruit without other trees nearby but crop best with a pollination partner in group B, C or D.

Apple trees are not only about culinary output: use them for a shady picnic spot in the summer or plant so that you can see the blossom from your kitchen window, underplant with spring bulbs and use a smaller clematis threaded through the boughs to make it a favourite feature all year round.