Looks as though we might get some?
The Bramley was an espalier. The Sunsets were minarettes!!.
beautiful :)
my apples are looking great too, can't wait for the harvest - the best thing to do with minarettes is to let them grow 'normally' imho ;D
I've got an old apple tree on my plot that was nearly dead with perhaps 5 wizened apples and a few leaves hanging from it the September I got the plot. It gradually improved over the next six years of feeding and weed removal and only yesterday I looked at its HUGE crop and realised it has grown significantly. It's taking over! Shading everything out! What shall I do? It is too huge to prune, and increasingly things will not grow under it.
Makes me glad I have taken on another allotment, but whoever comes after me in the fullness of time will find it a nuisance.
As you can see, Calendula, depite loving pruning, that's what they did!!
I have a line of six Minarettes which I have managed to keep under control, just about... The discovery are ripe and eating as we speak, the Fiesta ready to follow on... Blenheim Orange and Egremont Russet to store, the other two are pears, Beth and Conference.
8)
your pics are gorgeous tim, apples in abundance. i bought two tiny spindly wee apple trees from aldis in april at £4 each, and thought they'd grow and fruit in time. i've got TWO apples growing on one of them ;D the poor we things lopsided!
Weedbusta, I have a similar problem. Little apple tree, big fruit. I prop it up with sticks n string. By the end of the summer, it looks like an outdoor sculpture...
Envious of your Bramley, Tim - mine's in a small area and I really have to hack it to keep it under control.
But one thing puzzles me - you were sold the Bramley as an espalier tree???
IMHO they really aren't suitable for training as an espalier, far too vigorous! also they seem to be a sort of half spur/half tip bearer? But maybe you can fill in gaps in my knowledge here? please?