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Nova Easygro Apple Tree
Nova Easygro Apple Tree
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Nova Easygro was developed at the AAFC Kentville Research and Development Station in Nova Scotia and introduced in 1971. A Spartan x PRI 565 apple, it bears large oblate fruit with a greenish yellow ground mostly covered by red stripes or blush.
The thin skinned fruit has snow white, firm, crisp, slightly juicy flesh. Its mildly sweet flavour can be slightly tough at picking and mellows in storage. Nova Easygro is recommended for cooking, salads, fresh eating, and lower maintenance orchards.
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Growing details
- Hardiness
- Zone 3
- Fruit
- Large, flattened apples, greenish yellow mostly covered with red stripes or blushSnow white flesh that is firm, crisp and mildly sweet. The flavour mellows in storage
- Uses
- Salads, cooking and fresh eating
- Mature size
- 20 to 30 ft tallFull size, on Siberian crabapple rootstock
- First fruit
- About 4 to 5 years after plantingTypical for prairie apples
- Site and soil
- Full sun and soil that drains well
More about this plant
From Kentville
Nova Easygro was developed at the Kentville research station in Nova Scotia from a cross of Spartan and PRI 565, and introduced in 1971.
Cold hardinessZone 3 · Canadian maps for this plant
Zone 3 and warmer
The map shows minimum winter hardiness. Soil, moisture and summer warmth also affect how a plant grows.
About these maps
Climate: Natural Resources Canada, 1991–2020. Provincial distribution: VASCAN via retained botanical research. Province outlines: Natural Earth, public domain.
Open Government Licence – CanadaPollination
Apples need pollen from a different apple or crabapple to set fruit. A second variety in your yard will do it, and so will a neighbour's apple or fruiting crabapple. Double flowered ornamental crabapples make no pollen and do not count.