Wolf River Apple Tree

Step back in time, when food tasted real, and grow the Wolf River Apple Tree. A heritage variety from 150 years ago, the apples on this tree are so large one can weigh a pound, that they are famous for one apple making one pie. A premier cooking apple, with creamy-white flesh that is soft, tender, juicy and aromatic, with significant tartness for cooking. Some people do rate it well as an eating apple, if you like a tart, flavorful apple. It is especially renowned for making fantastic fluffy apple butter. The skin when ripe is pale yellow, but almost completely covered with a pink blush. Exceptionally disease resistant, and cold-resistant too. Ripening in September into October, this easy-care variety stores well right up to Christmas and will satisfy all your baking needs for months. Some ability to self-pollinate, but best with another suitable variety for pollination. An eating apple like Gala, Red Delicious or Golden Delicious would be a perfect pollinator and give you lots of delicious apples to eat fresh.

• Fantastic heirloom variety with great flavor and aroma
• Very large fruits, up to 1 pound per apple
• Perfect as a cooking apple, with tart flesh that is soft and creamy
• Very cold-hardy and disease resistant
• Gala or Red Delicious are perfect pollinators

The Wolf River Apple Tree needs a sunny spot to ripen its fruit well, and will grow in most garden conditions in any well-drained soil. Cold tolerant and ideal choice for zones 4 and 5. Very good resistance to apple scab, fire blight, mildew, and cedar apple rust. Prune in late winter while still dormant, developing a pyramidal shape with shorter branches in the upper parts of the tree. Cut back new stems by at least a third. Develops good fruiting spurs within a few years. Thin fruit to one per cluster when they are an inch across, or fruit will be relatively small.