Can you grow Quince as a stepover fruit?

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 ...

I think quince are tip-bearing and dont produce many spurs so you probably wouldn't get very much fruit. I think they are usually grown as standards or bush trees.

Maybe you could have one in a large container but you might get away with a bush tree

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

Alan4711

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.

Alan-take a look at this

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

So thats it now thats interesting  many thanks for that

Alan

Thanks everyone for your advice!

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.