Charles Ross

Charles Ross is a classic English cooking apple best suited to pies, juice, and cider blending.

It produces a sweet-sharp flavour and is valued for its reliability and excellent storage life.

Features

• Versatile cooking apple, particularly good for pies
• Adds sweet-sharp tang to juice and cider
• Moderately vigorous, upright, hardy growth habit
• Performs well on chalky soils (sulphur shy)
• Produces dependable annual crops
  

Origins / Notes

Developed in the late 1800s by Charles Ross, head gardener at Welford Park Gardens in Berkshire, as a cross between Peasgood Nonsuch and Cox’s Orange Pippin. It remains a well-regarded heritage cooking apple.

Disease Resistance

High resistance to apple scab.

Pollination Season

Mid-season

Harvesting Season

Late season, typically October.

Storage

Keeps up to five months in cold storage. Best eating window is from late autumn through winter as flavour matures and balances over time.

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