Do you have any mature apple trees ?

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If you do, what kind do these look like ?

Could you take a close up pic of one?

The apples on the ground look like cooking apples

You could try Google lens on a close up of an apple?

We also have apple trees and are not 100% what type of apples we have. Ours are more red than yours though...I think ours are eating apples but they are still not ripe enough to eat.

Have you got any idea how many different varieties of apple there are?

Agree they look like cookers, try one and see.

Your tree needs a bloody good prune btw.

Not my tree yet 😃 we’ve been told the first picture of the apple tree is golden delicious and the second pics are bramley cooking apples. They’re 50 years old now !

Having a variety that is an eater and another that is a cooker makes sense, I have to say that there are a lot more interesting varieties to eat than Golden Delicious. However, homegrown will taste so much better than the supermarket ones.

I like the rather overgrown look of the garden with that little bower thing at the end, but the trees will look so much better pruned. Winter is the time to do it, if they belong to you by then.

Thanks. How do I prune them??

Yes I love the arch too, it’s white jasmine, you should see how thick the trunk on it is !

Be careful about pruning apples, wrongly pruned they can go into a two year cycle which means they only produce blossom / fruit every other year. It’s getting into autumn so look out for local Apple Day events, they often have apple advisors on site who will give good advice!

Agree with PP. get an expert in to do it.

Shouldn't cost that much, they will take the stuff away and it will be worth every penny.