Silver Creek Nursery Ltd.

Belle de Boskoop Apple Bareroot

History: This apple was discovered as a chance seedling in 1856 in Boskoop, Netherlands where it has remained popular ever since. 

Why We Grow It: Here's one for those of us who love some sharpness in an apple. With its sharp taste and large, greenish-red fruit, this apple is still popular at farmer's markets throughout Europe for both fresh eating and cooking (keeps its shape). It has value as a sharp in hard cider blends as well.

    $56.50

    Rootstock
    Size

    10 low in stock

    Fruit Traits:

    Recommended Use: Fresh eating, cooking, cider

    Fruit Size: Large

    Storage: Keeps until April when stored in cool humid conditions

    Harvest: October - Mid

    Cider Class (if applicable):

    Class: Sharp
    Sugar: Very high, SG 1.070
    Acidity: Very high, TA 12.8 g/L
    Tannins: Low
    Juice Yield: High
    Recommendations: Mix with low-acidity varieties
    *Information based on Claude Jolicoeur's The New Cidermaker's Handbook

    Tree Traits:

    Canadian Hardiness Zone: 3b

    Soil Preferance: Sandy loam, loam, clay loam. Prefers average to moist conditions, avoid planting anywhere that floods for more than two weeks in the spring. Generally quite adaptable to different soil conditions.

    Flowering Time: Early

    Bloom Colour: White

    Pollination Requirements: Triploid. This variety is sterile and cannot pollinate other trees. Requires a pollinator of a different apple variety that blooms around the same time in order to produce fruit.

    Sun/Shade Requirements: Full sun (approx. 8-10 hours of sun daily)

    General Growth Habit: Spur-bearing, vigorous and a good cropper but slow to start bearing fruit. Resistant to canker, cedar rust, and brown rot, very resistant to scab.

    Overall Disease Resistance Rating*: High

    *this rating is combined with our experience growing in our test orchards combined with already available information on the cultivar.

    Shipping: Every year we ship thousands of plants across Canada. We carefully bag roots in damp sawdust, then box them and send them out via courier. CLICK HERE to see our shipping policy.

    Pick-up: We also have thousands of trees picked up from our nursery each year. The pick-up options is free, though you must wait until you have been emailed a confirmation that your order is ready to pick up, which will have further information such as hours, locations, etc.

    Our grafted fruit trees are graded into two categories, and the size includes the rootstock:

    • 50-80cm grade: Smaller trees that may have some minor branching, this grade is like a "b-grade" size tree according to industry standards. This size may include trees that are over 1m but have some scarring or mild crookedness.
    • 1m+ grade: Trees that are over 1m tall, some may have no branches and others may have light feathering or a few established branches 

    Please keep in mind, bareroot trees appear small if you are unfamiliar with them. Size can vary year to year due to weather conditions and every single variety has a unique amount of vigour (some varieties naturally are smaller and some bigger, much like humans -and when you propagate hundreds of varieties, there certainly is variation). While we remain competitive in our plant size, it's also worth noting we don't use synthetic chemicals to push vegetative growth. Therefore you may find some conventional nursery stock larger in comparison. 


    Why plant small? It's best to transplant a tree when it's young so it can establish its roots before it has a lot of vegetative growth. This is much less stressful on it and after a few years bareroot trees tend to catch up and even surpass larger potted trees planted at the same time.

    Orders that are cancelled last minute due to size (being "too small"), will still incur the applicable cancellation fees if the trees are true to our grading standards as per the agreement of sale when the order was placed.

    Pile of Belle de Boskoop apples, closeup of the pile.

    Belle de Boskoop Apple Bareroot

    $56.50

    $56.50

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