K wrote:
Chris ] writes
With a limited amount of room in the garden, which gives the biggest
harvest of apples - a few big trees or many little trees planted
closer together?

The other question you should ask yourself is 'which apples do you
like'. If your taste is for a particular apple, then just planting
that apple, and another variety as a pollinator, is all you need. If,
on the other hand, you enjoy the different tastes of a variety of
apples (crisp, juicy, spicy, aromatic etc), then you need to plant
more trees.
Also - different varieties keep for different lengths of time. As a
rule of thumb, the very early varieties, ripening in August, keep for
only a very few weeks, whereas varieties ripening in Decmeber may
keep till march and beyond. So you may want to plant for a succession.

No idea what yields should be from different sized trees. My best tree
(an Allingtons Pippin) about 7ft high and spreading 4ft in one
direction and 8ft in the other, gives me about 100lb.

Thanks Kay. saved I hadn't thought about apples but given enough space, I
think I would like to grow some