Spartan apple variety, description and pictures

Spartan Desert Apple

The Spartan apple variety has a lot going for it. For starters the apples are on the small size, great for kids. The appearance is exactly how you imagine a juicy apple looks. The base of yellow is almost entirely covered by bright red. They look delicious.

The apple flesh is white and crispy with lots of juice if eaten straight off the tree.

Spartan has good disease resistance especially to the plague of some apple trees, scab. It also has good resistance to mildew. The apples do not store long under normal conditions, a week at the most. If by accident you do keep them too long though, they will probably still be excellent for juicing.

Spartan is grown commercially on a wide scale. One reason for this is that when stored at exactly the correct temperature and with the correct carbon dioxide levels they store remarkably well compared to normal conditions.

One tip for making Spartan apples look even better than straight from the tree is to wipe off the "bloom" on the skin. The apple will polish up to the most attractive shiny red (almost purple) apple you have ever seen.

This variety was purpose bred in Canada for commercial use. Remarkably even though the apples were bred under controlled conditions, the parentage is not known. Originally the apple was thought to be cross between McIntosh and Newton. Now however, genetic testing has proved that Newton was not one of the parents. McIntosh, yes, Newton definitely not!

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THE APPLE
Taste	Sweet and juicy
Skin Texture	Medium
Flesh	Crisp and white
Apple size	Smaller than average

GROWING
Flowers
Vigour	Medium
Crop Yield	Average
Eating time	October to January
Tree Shape	Upright
Pollination Group	3

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