The ever popular Prairie Sensation is an excellent-tasting apple with a pleasant aromatic flavour, a delicious balance of sweet and tart with a crisp bite giving you a firm juicy texture. Red over green in colour with lovely white flesh. Great to eat fresh and known for tasty pies, these apples average up to 9 cm (3.5") in size. The Prairie Sensation ripens in the middle of September and stores well up to 4 months in cold storage, this apple can grow large when the fruitlets are culled in late Spring. Prairie Sensation is known as one of the three most cold-resistant apples in Alaska, along with Prairie Sun and September Ruby. Prairie Sensation was released by the University of Saskatchewan. Hardiness Zone: 2b Height at Maturity: 5 meters (18 feet) Spread: 4 meters (15 feet) Soil Preference: Well drained Light: Full sun Pollination: Self-sterile (Requires a different apple cultivar nearby for best pollination. Any of our apple trees will work) Latin Name: Malus ‘Prairie Sensation’
