Sundowner Apple
The Sundowner Apple, also known as Cripps Red, is a versatile and flavourful apple variety, known for its sweet, crisp flavour and vibrant red skin with yellow undertones. This medium to large-sized apple has a firm, juicy flesh that makes it perfect for fresh eating, baking, and adding a delightful crunch to salads. The Sundowner Apple tree is a vigorous grower, offering a generous harvest in late autumn to early winter, making it a great choice for those seeking fresh apples when other varieties have finished. It thrives in full sun and well-drained soil, making it an excellent option for home gardeners looking for a productive and easy-to-grow fruit tree. The tree requires a compatible pollinator variety for optimal fruit set. Its upright growth habit makes it suitable for gardens and small orchards, ensuring you can enjoy fresh, homegrown apples straight from your tree.
SUNDOWNER APPLE TREE FEATURES
- Fruit: Medium to large-sized with vibrant red skin and a sweet, crisp flavour
- Height: 3-4 metres when mature
- Growing Habits: Upright and spreading, requires a pollinator variety, thrives in full sun, prefers well-drained soil, suitable for garden planting or large pots.
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As recommended by the Swiss Rose Garden Nursery.
- Dig a hole 60cm wide and 60cm deep. If the topsoil is usable, separate it from the sand as it can be re-used in the hole. When planting roses in an existing rose bed or where roses have been previously grown during the last 5 years, the soil must be replaced.
- Mix together a mixture that contains 2 parts topsoil, 2 parts compost, 1 part manure or buy a Soil Improver, Landscaping or Rose Soil mix from a Landscape supply place. About 100 litres per planting hole is recommended.
- A layer of manure can be placed at the bottom of the hole and then the hole filled with the above soil mix.
- Place one handful of slow-release fertilizer at 20cm depth from the top where the roots of the newly planted rose will be situated.
- Soak the soil thoroughly and lightly compact.
- Now plant the rose in this mix with the surface of the plant even with the surface of the prepared area, e.g., the graft union should be about 5 to 10 cm above soil level.
- Water every day for the first six months from October onwards, up to 10 litres per day during warm weather is recommended for strong deep root development.
- Plant roses 1m to 1.2m apart.
Enjoy the beautiful roses!