[londongardener]

I have and do, we have had our pipkins for several years now, you really have to feed them and water them during the summer but we always get a decent crop from it, well a dozen or so, but it is a small tree. Last year it didnt do as well as a mould got to it but I am hoping that this year it will get back to normal.

What do you feed them with ?

With regard to watering do you make sure they are well drained.  Or just put something under neath and make sure that it always has water ?

Please tell all rootstock, variety, pot everything.

[Aidy]

Generally chuck a load of muck i bring home from the lotty in the spring then throughout the summer give a doze of blood and bone. Normally we would give them about 5 litres a day with the watering can and yes it is free draining. Our is in a half barrel, I will post a photo at weekend when its light.

[brucesgirl]

Dad has a small apple tree in a pot and it did do well until last year, when it had a bumper crop of apples which went a lovely red, but were as hard as conkers!!

We have now re-planted it into the ground so hope it wil do better this year.

[londongardener]

Generally chuck a load of muck i bring home from the lotty in the spring then throughout the summer give a doze of blood and bone. Normally we would give them about 5 litres a day with the watering can and yes it is free draining. Our is in a half barrel, I will post a photo at weekend when its light.

By muck do you mean compost ?

Blood ?  Sorry I am a new gardener.

What variety have you got ?  Or is pipkins a variety ?

[Aidy]

Generally chuck a load of muck i bring home from the lotty in the spring then throughout the summer give a doze of blood and bone. Normally we would give them about 5 litres a day with the watering can and yes it is free draining. Our is in a half barrel, I will post a photo at weekend when its light.

By muck do you mean compost ?

Blood ?  Sorry I am a new gardener.

What variety have you got ?  Or is pipkins a variety ?

Sorry, Muck= rotted manure and Blood= dried and blood and bone, get it from a proper garden centre, they will advise you the best. Should be able to buy the manure in a bag if you dont have a lotty to rot it down. Yes I think the variety is pipkins orange, if I remember

[gobs]

Pippins?

[Aidy]

Pippins?

Thats it    well done Gobs, obviously younger than I you can remember things (or more sober )

[gobs]

It's only five o'clock :!:  

[londongardener]

Sorry, Muck= rotted manure and Blood= dried and blood and bone, get it from a proper garden centre, they will advise you the best. Should be able to buy the manure in a bag if you dont have a lotty to rot it down. Yes I think the variety is pipkins orange, if I remember

The boss (wife) might not like rotted manure do you think compost would do ?

[gobs]

I don't think so. Well rotted manure is quite like compost. Don't tell her what it is.

[Selkie]

I don't think so. Well rotted manure is quite like compost. Don't tell her what it is.

Gobs, I was thinking the same thing! Ignorance is bliss!!

[Aidy]

Sorry, Muck= rotted manure and Blood= dried and blood and bone, get it from a proper garden centre, they will advise you the best. Should be able to buy the manure in a bag if you dont have a lotty to rot it down. Yes I think the variety is pipkins orange, if I remember

The boss (wife) might not like rotted manure do you think compost would do ?

If it is well rotted it dont smell so dont worry. And who listens to the wife anyway  :roll:

[londongardener]

If it is well rotted it dont smell so dont worry. And who listens to the wife anyway  :roll:

Ok I am under the thumb.


It took me 2 years to get a wardrobe when we bought our first flat.


So the best idea is just to chuck it on top of the soil ?

About watering if you are going away can you leave the pot standing in water so it does not dry out ??

[Aidy]

If it is well rotted it dont smell so dont worry. And who listens to the wife anyway  :roll:

So the best idea is just to chuck it on top of the soil ?

About watering if you are going away can you leave the pot standing in water so it does not dry out ??

Yes to the first and dont know to the second but cant see why not, I have neighbours that will water when we are away and its hot, you really only need to water everday when they are fruiting.

[DeadlyNightshade]

I've never watered my pot apples regularly, but I suppose in the permanent irish rain it isn't really necessary

And no fertilizer at all, actually I grew al lot of other things in the same pot: sunflowers in each one, additionally peas, cauliflower and beans as well. But the soil there were planted in was from beside the feeding trough of cattle, so probably all the dung mixed with very poor soil might be ok for them.