Small Apple tree for cooking

You can get any sort of culinary apple on dwarfing stock, you will probably have to have another suitable pollinator though. Look up a good nursery online "Keepers" is one we've used in the past.

I've never tried cooking a Tree!

I was thinking that too, Galen!

you knew what I meant.

But it's the way you tell itT?

Also I don't have a pot big enough for a whole tree

I've got one of those big Le Cruesets (sp? nothing I type looks right, so you'll have to go with that!)

You could chop it up first Reserve some of the leaves for garnish...

Joking apart ........... ! I have a Bramley on dwarf stock which is very heavy cropping. I still have some in store from last year.

This site give some cooking varieties and explains the rooting stocks and pollinators.
www.blackmoor.co.uk/category/625

Thanks I'm going to have a look..

We have a Bramley apple too - I think a bit taller than you want but you could grow it espalier style along a fence - get the nursery to start off the shape for you when you buy it and prune it hard back to shape each year. My Dad did that with one.

Bramley has a great flavour but does go to pulp easily - if i want to have an apple which keeps it shape in anything I use a Granny Smith

Thats not a bad idea WW, Granny Smith and the espalier style.

I've got this beautiful croquella dwarf apple tree. The apples taste gorgeous fresh but I have tried cooking with them and they had a nice, sharp but sweet taste.
www.tree2mydoor.com/dwarf-apple-tree-gift.html

I use Canadian Reinette for cooking. You can buy a semi-dwarf tree in the UK, but sold out at the moment.
www.keepers-nursery.co.uk/fruit-trees/apple/late-season-eating-apple/canadian-reinette

This is not much use to anyone really; but when I was born, Grandad, who lived with us, bought a Victoria Plum tree for me. We never had any plums, as it turned out to be some vort of apple variety. ? I don't think my parents ever knew it's real name, but the apples were great 'keepers', staring off quite sour, then ripening to an acceptable sweetness, that were also good for cooking. Apologies for that, but it brought back memories of Mum telling me the story. ?

Beware husband who thought he new all about gardening bought a 'dwarf' tree. now its about20 ft high.

Me, who knows not a lot but reads, bought from 'Woolies' a small tree with 3 different apples grafted on. Its lovely and had not overgrown our v small garden.

The ginormous tree does somewhat screen the view from our neighbours

Don't worry jollyg the tree we eventually end up with is staying in a pot so will not get over big, we have a few trees already so another in the ground isn't going to happen.
Thanks for all the helpful advice we actually saw one in Homebase yesterday a dwarf apple that only grows 1 metre wide and tall which would be perfect it was a hard green apple I forget the name so we will probably go back and get that next week.