Apple, v. Ashmead’s Kernal

Description: Dessert Apple – Nearly 300 years old and still regarded as one of the best late dessert apples. The yellow flesh is crisp, and the flavour is rated as superb. Scab resistance is good and the fruit has excellent keeping quality. Fruit size is medium, yellowish-green, mostly covered with mid-brown russet. Picking time mid October, this variety stores well. This variety belongs to pollination group 4.

Purchased on 3 March 2026 from https://www.blackmoor.co.uk/apple-ashmeads-kernel/p33 for £35. Delivered Thursday 16 April 2026. Planted Saturday 18 April 2026 – Fruit Day.

Heard about it on *The Victorian Kitchen Garden* series.

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