Apple cordons on the allotment?

[LouLou74]

We have just got back from France, and i was very interested to see people growing lines of cordons of apples along wires in their veggie/fruit patches.
Does anybody else do the same? As i was wondering whether it ,might be a possibility for the allotment over here in sunny britain.
As i do not think we can grow trees on the allotment and the ones in my garden will take awhile until they are producing all what we can eat.
Thanks
Louise

[Two_Sheds]

i've got a bodged espalier ... it's a dwarf apple that I've trained along some floppy wires, reinforced with bamboo canes

Doesn't look 'proper', but it does the job ... laden with fruit at the mo

[FionaH]

Definitely thinking of doing a couple of espalier across the long thin garden. Got any pics of yours TS?

[Alison]

I've got an espallier at home and some pear and apple cordons at the lottie. Will be getting some more bare root apples and another pear in the autumn to complete the gap along one the fence line with the path. Ideally you should put cordons in a north / south plane with the top pointing north which gives them the best bit of sun. If you're putting them on a plot though you do have to check that it's OK as some councils (or whatever) won't let you even have trained trees.

[Two_Sheds]

Definitely thinking of doing a couple of espalier across the long thin garden. Got any pics of yours TS?

I'll try and get one today