Gauting - Despite the wet, snowy weather, around a dozen Gautings took the opportunity on Friday afternoon to purchase hard-wearing apple trees from Oliver Braunhold that had become rare.
The Unterbrunner offered his tender plants at the environmental center.
“I only refine what tastes good and is robust,” reveals Oliver Braunhold, a passionate fruit farmer.
“Holsteiner Cox Orange”, for example, that customers only know from organic shops or market stalls.
Braunhold had the old variety, but also the robust, red-cheeked “Prinz Albrecht” as an annual sapling.
"On my hilly field near Perchting I experiment with over 200 apple varieties in organic cultivation," said the Unterbrunner, who studied at the Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences.
Two older women who picked up the Bioland vegetable boxes they had ordered from “Öko & Fair” joked: “Our garden is already full.
We don't have any more space for fruit trees. ”Marcel Nussberger, a solidarity-based organic organic gardener from Reichling, who had delivered the vegetable boxes to Gauting, bought apple trees from Oliver Braunhold.
Because the climate change with the last three dry, hot years is "dramatic" for the fruit.
Instead of growing vegetables in the sun, he is now starting with "shading" - and that in the foothills of the Alps.
That's why Nussberger bought robust apple varieties such as “Rodauner Goldapfel” and “Parkers Pepping” from his colleague in Unterbrunn.
“I now have regular customers,” says the adventurous organic fruit farmer Braunhold while selling trees in the courtyard of the environmental center.
He has more than 1000 fruit trees.
He's also experimenting with pear varieties.
He then only draws a special selection to sapling.
He refines the so-called wildlings from specialized tree nurseries, collectors or associations himself.
It is important that the varieties are resistant.
And every year more varieties are added: “Alkmene”, “Prinz Albrecht”, “Red Holsteiner Cox”, “Red Topaz”, “Adam's Parmäne” or the “Korbiniansapfel” are already bearing fruit - and are also being sold.
But the sale of his robust organic varieties is only just beginning.
Braunhold also offers advice with tree pruning courses.
Anyone who missed the apple tree sale has another chance on Friday, May 7th.
The apple grower will also be there again at the traditional “organic plant exchange market” in Gautingen's “Öko & Fair”: “I also have mini and narrow espalier varieties” for small gardens, emphasizes the Unterbrunner.
His favorite apple?
“That's Alcmene,” he reveals.
