[DIGGER]

Can anyone recomend a good cooking apple tree. This is for my garden not the allotment so I require a dwarf or a cordon.
Need it to be harvestable [is that a word] to coinside with blackberry picking.
I know pollination is an issue ?? I have a self fertile eating apple corden at present if that is relevant.
When will it need planting and are garden centres [Wyevale] the best places to purchase.
I know next to nothing about fruit but I intend to learn.

[DIGGER]

OH DEAR nobody can help me.
Well i will not take the hump but I might not speak to anyone for a while `

[peapod]

i know nowt about fruit either :cry:

But be patient, someone will know and come along  
Its been a beautiful day, so plots and BBQs and drink will play a large influence on posting...it does with me  

[FCG]

I know nothing about fruit trees, but i do have a new book with an extensive fruit section in it. Want me to look there? I'd probably be able to find you something useful tomorrow, but it may not be relevant today... it's a quite old book. 50 years +

[Ice]

I got a lovely cheap dwarf cooking apple tree from either Aldi or Lidl, can't remember which.

[purplebean]

You could try going to an apple day, they have apples you can try and then you know what you like

http://www.commonground.org.uk/appleday/a-events.html

[DIGGER]

APPLE DAY. Well looks a nice day out but not what I am looking for.
Your all not doing very well here. I think you should alln stand in the corner with your dunces hat on.

[Martin]

Perhaps you should do a bit of research yourself?
Try Keeper's Nursery or the National Fruit Collection

[DIGGER]

Perhaps you should do a bit of research yourself?
Try Keeper's Nursery or the National Fruit Collection

I am doing,the forum is just part of it :roll:

[FRUITFULL]

We have a Dwarf Apple bramley seedling Minarett teracotta.It had about 25 very large cooking apples on it this year one weighing 500g and the rest not far behind.
The tree is about 4ft high and not very wide.Its lovely.

[compostqueen]

I got Lidl specials too - about £3 each   One of them is a Bramley ( I think, not sure as flamin labels all faded away) and it's laden down with apples, making munching very easy for rabbits  :roll:

[mother hen]

Hi Digger, only have a bramley myself so cant help with other varieties on a personal level.

Think you probably know all this anyway but do you know what pollination group your dessert apple tree is in or are there lots of other apple trees around to fertilize whatever you buy?  That might at least narrow down your choice!

I think that some of the trees from mail order catalogues may be just small sticks - and quite expensive, if you look around a few garden centres you can at least see what you are buying.  Also some apples are dual purpose and just need less sugar on cooking.

Arthur Turner from ken muir is an early maturing vatiety it might coincide with blackberries better.

Do I still have to stand in a corner? :cry:

[Beetroot queen]

we have a cooking apple tree, not much fruit this year its been a bad year for us, Stupid me didnt take a note of what type our trees were apart from

cooking apple  :roll: that was before I joined here and now I know better, note to self keep a record of what the heck you are growing in future  :oops:

[compostqueen]

I left the labels on my trees and secured them with strips of netting. They either faded completely or broke off.  It's so annoying not knowing which is which. I made a note of what I got so it's a process of elimination to identify them.

[DIGGER]

Hi Digger, only have a bramley myself so cant help with other varieties on a personal level.

Think you probably know all this anyway but do you know what pollination group your dessert apple tree is in or are there lots of other apple trees around to fertilize whatever you buy?  That might at least narrow down your choice!

I think that some of the trees from mail order catalogues may be just small sticks - and quite expensive, if you look around a few garden centres you can at least see what you are buying.  Also some apples are dual purpose and just need less sugar on cooking.

Arthur Turner from ken muir is an early maturing vatiety it might coincide with blackberries better.

Do I still have to stand in a corner? :cry:

No Janet you have done very well..