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How to Grow Golden Delicious Apple Trees
How to Grow Golden Delicious Apple Trees. Many people think that the Golden Delicious apple is a variety of the Red Delicious apple, but it is actually a closer relative to the pear, which is apparent due to its yellow color and unusually sweet taste. In fact, Golden Delicious apples are commonly used in cooking and baking because of their...
Many people think that the Golden Delicious apple is a variety of the Red Delicious apple, but it is actually a closer relative to the pear, which is apparent due to its yellow color and unusually sweet taste. In fact, Golden Delicious apples are commonly used in cooking and baking because of their sweetness. The Golden Delicious is the state fruit of West Virginia, where the variety originated and it thrives in USDA hardiness zones 4 through 7.
Things You'll Need
Young Golden Delicious apple tree
Garden fork
Spade
Compost
Buy a young Golden Delicious apple tree from your local nursery or tree farm. Choose a healthy specimen with fresh, green foliage and smooth, flexible limbs. Avoid plants with withering foliage and rough, scaly bark.
Prepare your planting area around April or May. Select a spot in your garden that gets 10 to 12 hours of full sunlight and remove all weeds within a 4-foot radius from the proposed tree location. Work the soil with a garden fork to a depth of about 2 feet to aerate it.
Dig a hole that is twice as large as the nursery container. Blend an amount of compost that is equal to the amount of soil you dug up to the soil and mix well. Lift the sapling from its container and set it in the hole. Use your fingers to gently spread the roots out in the hole.
Shovel two scoops of soil back into the hole and tamp the soil around the roots to keep air pockets away from them. Fill up the hole two or three shovelfuls at a time, tamping between each application. Water the sapling liberally once the hole is full.
Water the sapling often to keep the soil moist for the first few weeks. Once the tree is established and you start seeing new growth, reduce the frequency of watering to once a week or so. Weed the area around the tree often to keep weeds from sapping nutrients from the tree.
