- Apple variety 'Landsberger Renette': profile
- Origin and history of the apple
- How does the ‘Landsberger Renette’ apple taste?
- Cultivation and care of the apple variety: special features
- Landsberger Renette: use and harvest
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The 'Landsberger Renette' is a rather old variety that is particularly suitable for cooler high altitudes. If you can offer it an airy location and give it space to develop, you will get a good harvest with little maintenance.
The 'Landsberger Renette' is an apple variety that can enrich a garden with relatively little effort. The annual cut is necessary when space is limited. However, if you offer the variety an airy location on normal garden soil, the joy of delicious apples is hardly diminished by susceptibility to disease or yield problems. The 'Landsberger Renette' variety is particularly he althy as a standard tree and requires little work.
Apple variety 'Landsberger Renette': profile
| Fruit | medium to large; greenish-yellow base color with a little yellow-orange top color |
| Flavour | sweet-sour, sweet winey |
| Yield | high |
| Harvest time | from September |
| Maturity for pleasure | from the end of October |
| Shelf Life | good; Apples harvested early can be stored until the beginning of January |
| Growth | medium to strong |
| Climate | suitable for cool altitudes |
| Diseases and Pests | susceptible to apple scab on too dry soil; susceptible to powdery mildew on soil that is too wet |
Origin and history of the apple
The apple variety 'Landsberger Renette' was grown around 1850 in Landsberg an der Warthe - in today's Poland - by a judiciary named Burchhardt. He used seeds from a tree of the variety 'Harberts Renette'. However, the second part of the parentage of this tree is so far unclear. From the seedlings received, Burchhardt selected a promising tree whose growth and taste appealed to him. Because of its low demands on the climate and the soil, the variety was often used, especially in difficult locations. In the long term, the name 'Landsberger Renette' prevailed. Even today it istasty and rather undemanding apple variety in the gardens of amateur gardeners, enthusiasts and pomologists welcome.
How does the ‘Landsberger Renette’ apple taste?
The flesh of the 'Landsberger Renette' is yellowish-white, fine-celled and juicy. The taste is sweet and sour or is described as sweet and vinous. Stored fruits are sweet and tender.
The 'Landsberger Renette' apple is medium-sized to large, round and often somewhat irregular in shape. The basic color of the shell is greenish-yellow to white-yellow and the top color only touches yellowish-orange. The rusted lenticels are also more prominent here. The core house is rather large and spacious with strong cores.
Cultivation and care of the apple variety: special features
The 'Landsberger Renette' variety grows medium to strong and unfortunately more upright than horizontal. In the home garden, growth should be somewhat slowed down by a slow-growing rootstock: Rootstock M7 has proven itself here. The rootstock MM 111 is also well suited for slightly larger trees. On meadow orchards, cultivation can also take place on seedlings or on their own roots. However, the variety then grows tall and must be harvested with a ladder or picking devices. On the other hand, the old crown also forms a lot of overhanging and therefore richly fruiting wood.
On an appropriately selected rootstock, the 'Landsberger Renette' can be trained into any desired shape: high trunks, half trunks and bush trees are possible. It is only not suitable as a trellis.
The 'Landsberger Renette' makes only low demands on its location, but on dry soil it tends to produce only small fruits and is easily attacked by apple scab. Conversely, very wet and heavy soils increase susceptibility to powdery mildew. The location should be open to the wind, preferably slightly elevated - this way leaf diseases are almost impossible. The 'Landsberger Renette' tolerates low average annual temperatures and frosty winters without complaint.
Fertilization is not normally necessary for this variety. Only on weak rootstocks such as M7 or M26 is it advisable to add a primarily organic fertilizer such as our Plantura organic universal fertilizer.
Pruning the 'Landsberger Renette' should concentrate on reducing vertical wood and slanting shoots support financially. The vegetative growth of leaves and shoots is slowed down by the formation of fruit wood. Excessive cutting can lead to total crop failurelead, which is why the annual scissors is extremely important. If this variety is pruned too much, there will also be fluctuating yields.
Because flowering occurs mid-early in the year, the varieties 'Berlepsch', 'Cox Orange', 'James Grieve', 'Klarapfel' and 'Goldparmäne ' suitable pollinators.
Landsberger Renette: use and harvest
The 'Landsberger Renette' harvest begins in September in warm locations. The ripe fruits are ideal for storage, which can be done until the beginning of January if the humidity is medium and the temperature is low. Caution: If the fruit is stored too unripe, it can wilt in storage.
The 'Landsberger Renette' is not ripe until the end of October when it is picked from the tree and can then be used immediately as a table apple. But the 'Landsberger Renette' can also be used as a kitchen apple for compote, baked apples, for sweet cider or apple wine and apple juice.
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