I worked in the garden yesterday and did many clean-up jobs. Among the things on my list was to get my newest apple trees planted. I had ordered them because I thought two of my apple trees died waiting for me to plant them. As it turns out, they didn’t die. So now I have six apple trees. Awesome!
The varieties are called Northpole and Golden Sentinel. I will be posting about them every once in a while because I can find only very little about them on the internet. There’s a guy in Vancouver, Washington who has a Northpole and posts about it. His pictures of a mature Northpole are what convinced me to buy these trees. (Thanks, Daniel!) Otherwise, it’s all online catalog descriptions.
Here is what my trees look like so far:
NORTHPOLE APPLE TREE
GOLDEN SENTINEL APPLE TREE
I had a lot of trouble deciding where to put the trees. I settled on making them like a row of living columns at the entrance of my garden.
In case you can’t see them, here’s the same picture with all the apple trees circled. Two of them aren’t actually visible.
Good placement. After all, they are sentinels.
hehe…
“The sentinels are the only things that stand between the mortal world & the torments of hell.”
Those are so cool! Thank you for circling them – my non-gardener eyes never would have found them otherwise.
I saw on Daniel’s sight that you can play the part of a bee while using a paintbrush to move pollen from plant to plant. Do you need a costume? I could set you up.
HAHA!! Send the costume!!
The apple trees are AWESOME!! Agreed… great placement…I can’t wait until they sprout apples!
I received 1 of each of these trees as a gift to plant in a container for my apartment balcony. They are in their second summer. I recently bought a house, now I’m trying to decide where to plant them. I can’t find much about their specific care such as; spraying and pruning. What have you done for their care the past 2 years if any?
Hi Valerie. I agree that it’s hard to find much about these trees. I’ve just been following the cultivation guidelines for regular apple trees. My apple trees are much taller now. I’m kind of surprised how fast they’ve grown. I had apples the second year, but they all dropped before ripening. I don’t spray, but I’m wondering if a general wide-spectrum fruit tree spray might help. I currently have some apples developing. I pruned quite a bit this past May, just to keep the columnar shape. I removed any branches that looked too long. I hope this helps. 🙂
I have 3 standard apples planted right infront of yard. The previous owner have all the branches going upward pruned so they look like weeping tree. But I have to keep them pruned to remained that way every year. The mess of the fallen apples is the worst part, because they cannot be consumed anyway since they are all full of worms. To prevent the apple trees from producing fruits, I blasted the flowers with strong jet of water as soon as they appear. Well not as soon as they appear, but as soon as I get the chance, and the weather permits. It did not work, and I saw small apple fruits coming out in a few weeks. I thought I wasted my time. When the apples were huge I pick some and there were no bugs in them. I pick some more, and there was none. I believe instead of busting the fruits, I busted all the bugs and their eggs on the tree. I cannot consume all the apples, I tried to take them to the farmer’s market where I sell my plants, but I still have so many. So I put them on Craigslist for free. I cannot believe how so many people appreciated getting apples for free.