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Bedfordshire Foundling Apple tree

Owner: Mary

Location:  Eudunda, SA, Australia

Age:Planted in about 1990
Age of this tree:36 years
Soil:Hard setting red brown earth 
Climate at this location:Mediterranean Temperate, hot dry summers, cold wet winters, heavy frosts old
Tree form:Bush (wider at top than bottom)
Height:Between 6ft / 2m and 15ft / 4m
Cropping:Heavy crops
Growth:Not specified
Herbicides:Manual treatment (hoeing and weeding)
Pesticides:Un-treated
Local pests:Earwigs, Rosellas

Owner's comments

Has a tendency to produce a lot of fruit which "dummies off" in just shrivels up and dries off but continues to hang on the tree into the next year and must be pruned off. Application of potassium needed to reduce this. Here in the mid north of South Australia we harvest in late January, early February. Apples are stewed or baked and stored in the freezer for pies and desserts in the winter. Picked fruit doesn't store well as it goes soft and turns yellow after a few days.