Apple Recommendations please

I've got fiesta and it's totally neglected these days, I'm not a big apple eater, it just gets on with it and comes up with a crop every year.

It's a cox type and comes lateish but keeps fairly well,and again easier than Cox.
Good flavour I think.

 

As the others said Cox can be tricky, if you can give it the right conditions give it a go.
I like Discovery early, but short season, Spartan is also recommended. I have Ashmeads Kernel but the russeted apples are not to everybodys taste.

 

I like Laxton superb as an eater.
Our James Grieve is a must for apple pie. It needs far less sugar than a bramley but holds it's shape well.
(I can't eat 'Mr Kipling' apple pies because the amount of sugar is quite repulsive to me at my age)

 

@Loofah
I had a look at a couple of nurseries and they were both out of stock of Fiesta on M26. However they have stock here Specialist Nursery Fruit Trees for Sale UK, Bushes Plants, Soft Fruit P&P is a bit stiff for one tree. Double check they are still doing mail order as they had a break in early autumn. I did receive a replacement bush for a failure at the end of November.
I've used them a few times over the decades and always been pleased with the quality.

 

OK - reading this thread with interest. I got a Cox last year - remembering the pick your own joy of childhood in a massive Cox orchard in S Northants. Didn't know they are difficult: any tips?

 

I think the problem with Cox is that it tends to get disease easily.
To be honest I never have known what the difficulty is but it's still widely grown commercially, but then farmers have the means to control pests and diseases that we don't.

 

@pete Ah - OK. Well - mine is in a massive pot (there was a sale...I waded in: can never bring myself to pay full price for pots) so if it does get diseased I'll replace it.

You're right about the disease control. The only chemical killer I ever use - and that not often - is slug/control for the greenhouse. We're on a list to take orphaned hedgehogs as and when a home is needed in our neck of the woods, and the lady (a well known local character) is absolutely insistent the garden is chemical free - for obvious reasons. So that does mean either mechanical barriers, or just trying to have the healthiest plants I can get and living with whatever comes along.

 

My neglect apple trees have slowly become infested with some kind of woolly aphid, atleast I think that is what they are.
I've sawn them down to stumps this year, 8ft high stumps, and sprayed with jayes fluid, not sure if it will work.
But not expecting many apples this year.