Scrumptious® Apple Trees

Scrumptious® Apple Trees: Eating

With a powerful honey-like sweetness, contrasted by a pleasant dose of acidity, and a fruity hint of strawberry, Scrumptious is an early apple that stands out from the rest.
Sun-ripened fruit are bright red with a dappled touch of yellow, and the white flesh is fairly crisp and very juicy.

A comparatively new variety, savvy gardeners recognise it as one of the finest early croppers around. Ready to harvest in early September, the fruit (like almost all early apples) do not store well.

The trees are not especially vigorous, which is good for most gardens and for training on wires.
A really tough breed, we recommend it for both cold and damp regions.

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Delivery season: Bareroot plants are delivered in late Autumn to Spring, about November-March inclusive. Pot grown plants, year round.

Features:

• Eating: Sweet-sharp pink flushed flesh
• Spur bearer (good for cordons & espaliers)
• Self fertile. Pollinator.
• Pollination Group C.
• Harvesting: September - October.
• Stores 1 - 2 weeks
• Recommended for wire training & small gardens
• Great disease resistance
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

Growing Scrumptious Apples

Apples like rich, well drained soil, and will thrive on clay in locations that do not get waterlogged in winter.
A full day of sun and shelter from the wind is ideal.

Disease Notes:
Resistant to scab and mildew.
Susceptible to bitter pit if not mulched & watered adequately.

Rootstocks:
We use MM106 for Scrumptious, the UK standard for medium-sized trees, ideal for gardeners. It gives a half-standard about 4m tall, and a bush about 3m.
MM106 maidens are suitable for cordons and espaliers, but we use the less vigorous M9 for our ready-made cordons.

Pollination Partners for Scrumptious

Your trees are self fertile, making decent crops without a pollination partner, but still perform best with one.
Scrumptious is in Pollination Group C, which cross-pollinates with other apple trees in Groups B, C and D.

Use our Fruit Pollination Checker to quickly find pollination partners, or Apple Pollination Guide to learn more.