Category: Apple trees
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Katy

Katy is an attractive medium-sized apple, usually pink/red to bright red in colour over a light green yellow background.  The flesh is a pale cream colour, and on the softer side of crunchy.

Katy is usually very juicy, and when fresh from the tree the juice goes everywhere as you bite into it. It has a fairly mild apple flavour, a bit of refreshing acidity, and in a good year a hint of strawberry.

Katy is a very versatile apple.  If you get too many to eat, then it is an excellent variety for juicing, and it can be used for baking.  Katy is also a popular apple with children, the size makes it ideal as a healthy school snack, and whilst you might think children would only eat very sweet apples, in tasting tests they seem to like the slight sharpness in Katy.

Fresh fruit for sale of this variety

Katy apple trees for sale (2010/2011 season)

Deliver to mainland UKDelivery to the mainland UK (price includes delivery)

Mature heightSupplied as*Delivery
period		Price
inc. delivery		Quantity
Very small (1.5m - 2m)1-year - Bare-root - M27 rootstockNov-March£30.00
Very small (1.5m - 2m)2-year - 12L container - M27 rootstockSept-April£36.00
Small (1.8m - 2.5m)1-year - 3L container - M9 rootstockSept-April£28.00No stock
Medium (2.2m - 3m)1-year - Bare-root - M26 rootstockNov-March£36.00
Medium (2.2m - 3m)2-year - 12L container - M26 rootstockSept-April£36.00
Large (2.5m - 4.5m)1-year - Bare-root - MM106 rootstockNov-March£30.00
Large (2.5m - 4.5m)2-year - Bare-root - MM106 rootstockNov-March£36.15
Large (2.5m - 4.5m)2-year - 12L container - MM106 rootstockSept-April£36.00

Product formats | Bare-root or Container-grown | Delivery | Rootstocks

All prices include delivery. We offer a discount on orders of multiple bare-root trees for delivery at the same time - this will be shown at the checkout.

*Delivery period: Container-grown trees will be delivered from September 2010. Bare-root trees will be delivered from mid-November 2010. You can order now and your items will be reserved for you, but you will not be asked to pay until nearer the time of delivery.



Alternative varieties

Scrumptious

A new early-season English dessert apple, with very good flavour.(In stock)

Discovery

A popular English early apple variety, makes a good fruit tree for the garden.(In stock)

Worcester Pearmain

A well-known early-season English apple, noted for its strawberry-like flavours.(In stock)


Uses

  • Flavour quality - Average
  • Flavour style - Sharper
  • Good for eating fresh
  • Good for cooking
  • Good for juice
  • Good for hard cider
  • Picking season - Early
  • Use / keeping - 1 week

Growing

Climate

Pollination partners for Katy

Katy is in flowering group 3. It is self-sterile and needs a pollination partner nearby. The following varieties will pollinate Katy:

Important: advice about pollination


Horticultural characteristics of Katy apple trees

Katy is one of the easiest apples to grow yourself.  The tree is neat and attractive and makes a nice garden feature, and it grows well on dwarf rootstocks.  It seems to shrug off the usual apple diseases without problem, and is thus a good choice if you do not want to use chemical sprays in the garden.  It is quite a heavy-cropper and benefits from some thinning of the fruitlets in early June - this will improve the size of the remaining apples.

Katy is very well-suited to cool temperate climates, and crops reliably regardless of a good or indifferent summer.  It is one of the best varieties to consider if you want to grow apples in a cold/wet situation, yet does well in warmer climates as well.

Katy is a good pollinator of other apple varieties, as it produces a large quantity of long-lasting blossom - a characteristic it inherits from one of its parents, James Grieve.

All in all, an ideal variety to try if you are new to growing apple trees.

Historical details

Originates from Sweden, where it is known as Katya.  It is a cross between James Grieve and Worcester Pearmain.







Example trees as supplied (container-grown only)

This is an illustration of what our products look like as delivered. Please remember that trees are natural products, so this information is for general guidance only. The trees at this stage are 1-2 years old, and will get larger as they grow older, the likely mature heights are indicated in the ordering section above. The trees you receive may differ in some respects from those shown here, for some of the following reasons:

  • Many of these photos were taken in early autumn - trees delivered during winter will not have leaves.
  • There can be a considerable size variation between different varieties of the same species.
  • Some varieties naturally "feather" or produce many side branches at an early age. Others may not feather at all.
  • In some cases we may have to "tip" the tops of trees to fit in our delivery cartons. Please do not be alarmed, as this will be carried out immediately prior to despatch, and is actually good practice when planting a new tree.

For comparison purposes the model in our photos is 5ft 6" / 1m 68cm tall. Click any of the images to view a larger one.




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2-year pre-trained apple tree in a 12L container on M27 rootstock
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2-year pre-trained apple tree in a 12L container on M26 rootstock
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2-year pre-trained apple tree in a 12L container on MM106 rootstock
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1-year apple tree in a 3L container on M9 rootstock
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Cordon apple tree in a 12L container on M9 rootstock