Greg, did you ever pick up on Sash's idea for grafting and were you able to top work your least favoured crab apple trees with grafts from your favourite ones? In theory it would take 3-5 years.
Yes, it was £20 for all of them. They are grown from seed, 2-3ft high and two years old. Thank you for all your replies, all of which I take onboard as good advice. I will plant some in the hedgerow as originally intended, others individually in the orchard, some of which I will graft (though...
I have just bought 25 two year old crab apple trees (£20) which are sold for hedging which initially I intended to use to improve pollination in my recently planted orchard. However I wondered whether I could in fact use these as rootstock to increase my stock of cider apple trees (dabinett...