Tosh wrote:
Hi, just found this site, and am impressed. I am in West Cornwall
&
have a tiny garden/yard. I'd like to grow a couple of potted/patio
fruit trees and would appreciate basic advice for a biginner.
I started off an apple tree from a pip last year. It is about
15/18"
high at the moment in new spring leaves, in a 6" pot.
How do I keep it small enough to keep in a pot,,, of maybe 18" diam
?
What other fruit or nut trees do readers advise, to be grown in the
same conditions ?
Any other advice apprciated for this newbie. Thanks for reading.
Tosh

Just move it into a bigger pot when the roots meet the sides of the
one it's in. But I'm afraid you'll be exceptionally lucky if it ever
makes a worthwhile productive tree, even in the open ground -- and
it'll take ten years. Hardly any fruit tree seeds produce fruit
anything like their parents, which are reproduced by grafting. For
container growing, you really need to splash out and buy a special
dwarf kind.

If there's soil under the fence or wall and a bit of sun, you'd be
better off using that to plant what's called an espalier or cordon,
which are trained flat against the fence. Best thing is to go to a
reasonably local specialist fruit nursery and explain the position.

--
Mike.