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Can you grow Quince as a stepover fruit?

Iain 2Iain 2 Posts: 2
in Fruit & veg

Hi all

I'm setting up an allotment and am bordering sections with stepover apples and pears.  However, I'm also keen to grow Quince and wondered if you can do this as a stepover tree and if so how you'd do this/where to buy them?

The allotment rules prevent growing as a tree or larger espalier I'm afraid ...

Thanks for your help ...

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  • Alan4711Alan4711 Posts: 1,657

    Hi we started an allotment this year complete beginers,does step over mean low growing  as iv not heard it before

    Alan4711

  • sotongeoffsotongeoff Posts: 9,802
    Alan4711 wrote (see)

    Hi we started an allotment this year complete beginers,does step over mean low growing  as iv not heard it before

    Alan4711

    Yes Alan-trained horizontally along wires around knee level-doesn't work for all types of fruit or all varieties-it is usually apples.

  • sotongeoffsotongeoff Posts: 9,802

    Alan-take a look at this

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00c356s

     

  • Alan4711Alan4711 Posts: 1,657

    So thats it now thats interesting  many thanks for that

    Alan

  • Iain 2Iain 2 Posts: 2

    Thanks everyone for your advice!

     

  • BookertooBookertoo Posts: 1,306

    We visted a garden, can't remember where, where they had some other fruits as well as apples as step overs - some kinds of pears (which surprised me very much) and I think a plum but cannot be sure of that.  I've always fancied it but really have nowhere to do it just now, another thing to put in the 'one day' box. 

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