Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Ashmead’s Kernel is one of the finest old English apples for flavour. Its firm, juicy flesh has an intense sweet-sharp, almost pear-drop character that mellows during storage. It is also excellent for juice, cooking and cider. Cropping can be irregular, and as a triploid variety it should be grown with two other compatible apples to ensure orchard pollination.

Ashmead Kernel

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

Ashmead’s Kernel is a traditional English eating apple with a distinctive pear-like flavour.

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SKU: 4304 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Ashmeads Kernel is a very old traditional English russet apple. It remains popular for its distinctive pear-like flavour which is quite different from most other apple varieties.

As well as eating fresh it can also be used for cooking, or sliced in savoury salads, and it keeps very well in a cold store.

Ashmead’s Kernel is also prized for its juice, which adds an interesting fruity component to cider blends.

Ashmead’s Kernel data sourced from Orange Pippin .

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Old English variety from a seedling planted around 1700-1720 at William Ashmead’s in Gloucester.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Parentage

Parentage unknown, sometimes considered close to Nonpareil

Synonyms

Ashmead, Ashmead's Seedling, Doctor Ashmead's Kernel, Dr. Ashmead's Kernel, Aschmead's Kernel

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Moderately vigorous to vigorous, upright-spreading habit, spur-bearing, irregular production, triploid

Disease behaviour

Scab

Resistant / fairly resistant

Powdery mildew

Resistant

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

For reliable fruit set, plant at least one variety with a compatible flowering period nearby. Flowering period: 4 - late.

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Additional variety information for Ashmead Kernel is provided in partnership with Orange Pippin.