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Battleford Apple Tree
Battleford Apple Tree
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Battleford is a cold climate apple introduced from North Battleford, Saskatchewan, in 1945. The large fruit has yellow green skin with a dull red flush and fairly crisp, slightly tart flesh.
The apples ripen in late August or early September and are used for sauce, cooking, juice, and fresh eating. They keep moderately well in storage.
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Growing details
- Hardiness
- Zone 2
- Fruit
- Large yellow green apples with a dull red flush, about 2.75 in acrossFairly crisp and slightly tart
- Uses
- Sauce, cooking, juice and fresh eatingKeeps about four weeks
- Mature size
- 20 to 30 ft tallFull size, on Siberian crabapple rootstock
- First fruit
- About 4 to 5 years after plantingTypical for prairie apples
- Site and soil
- Full sun and soil that drains well
Ripening
Late August to early September
A mid season apple on the Prairies
Cold hardinessZone 2 · Canadian maps for this plant
Zone 2 and warmer
The map shows minimum winter hardiness. Soil, moisture and summer warmth also affect how a plant grows.
About these maps
Climate: Natural Resources Canada, 1991–2020. Provincial distribution: VASCAN via retained botanical research. Province outlines: Natural Earth, public domain.
Open Government Licence – CanadaPollination
Apples need pollen from a different apple or crabapple to set fruit. A second variety in your yard will do it, and so will a neighbour's apple or fruiting crabapple. Double flowered ornamental crabapples make no pollen and do not count.