Our Variety Assessment

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

Golden Delicious can produce an outstanding apple when grown in a garden and allowed to ripen properly. The flesh then becomes crisp, juicy, richly sweet and aromatic, very different from typical supermarket fruit. The productive tree is also a useful pollinator. We recommend a warm, sunny position, as heavy cropping or dull, wet conditions can reduce fruit quality.

Golden Delicious

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

The flavour of home-grown Golden Delicious is far better than its supermarket reputation.

Choose your tree form

1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Low-stem tree – approx. 60 cm stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Apple rootstock options

Bittenfelder – approx. 6 m mature height

EM9 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

M116 – approx. 4 m mature height

MM111 – approx. 4 m mature height

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SKU: 4316 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Golden Delicious is a popular supermarket apple variety with a reputation for a bland flavour. However, when home-grown in good conditions, and allowed to ripen on the tree is a very different proposition – a handsomely-shaped apple with a golden-green skin, crisp juicy flesh, and a rich sweet flavour, reminscent of raw cane sugar. If you like crisp sweet apples then it is hard to beat a home-grown Golden Delicious, picked late in the autumn when properly ripe.

Home-grown Golden Delicious apples still retain the advantages of commercially grown examples – they are versatile for eating fresh or using in the kitchen, and of course they are one of the best apples for long-term storage, retaining flavour and crispness for several months in a cold shed or in the fridge.