Does anyone know anything about gardening?

First question - is it worth keeping?

If so, then prune it into a more convenient shape. Take out the low hanging branches but leave some of the higher ones. Repeat next winter but leave any new growth.

The apple tree is straining to get light, is it under the large tree canopy?

Yes I'd like to keep it if possible there are two taller apple trees just to the left of it and it would be great two have three in a row at the bottom of the garden. I guess I prune after the apples get picked?

No this particular tree has the best spot in the garden its in the north west corner of the garden so it gets sunlight all day and isn't overshadowed at all this time of year. There's a plum tree next to it which seems to be doing fine.

Is it some sort of dwarf variety?

I have no idea - could be though now I come to think of it there's another apple tree nearby which is even smaller !

It is on a dwarfing rootstock, apples are rarely grown on their own roots but are grafted onto roots to control their eventual size.

My elderly Bosch Rotak is near the end of it's useful life - should I just buy another or is there something better without spending silly money?
Lawn is around 120 sq.m. and I'm inclined to stick with corded rather than petrol or rechargeable witchcraft...

Excuse my total ignorance but how would I find this out?

With all of this only meeting outside lark we need some new garden chairs. The garden is pretty small so something that can fold up and be easily stored away (preferably outside) would be preferable. Any suggestions? Cheers

Ikea Terje if you can store them inside (under a bed?)

Ikea generally wins with this kind of stuff.
Also, they sell separate covers for outside furniture.

I'm sorry, but you can't! The fact that it is fruiting so heavily and the trunk and main boughs appear to be more than a few years old is the giveaway. As was suggested upthread, your best bet is to remove the lower boughs currently weighed down with fruit. The best time to do this is after the leaves have fallen. If you can be arsed, remove about a third of the young fruit on the remaining boughs next year. This will leave more of the tree's energy to grow and the remaining fruit will be better quality.

Need to be stored outside but you've prompted me to look at IKEA and, as tomo187 says, there are plenty of options there.

Get a robot mower

Stripped out the dwarf beans from the greenhouse last night after a visitor (gardening deity) pointed out we had a spider mite issue which could have migrated to the wife’s tomatoes. Not sure if the cropping slowed because of the mite but it had definitely slowed.

Alliums are starting to appear, and the sunflowers have decided they're tall enough now.

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Thank you very much. I've a lot of time on my hands at the minute and I'd really like to get my garden into some shape. Appreciate the help - cheers.

MrsE thinks we've got one - she doesn't see it happening but somehow the grass stays short. What she also doesn't see is the weekly greasing of knackered bearings and the fortnightly rebuild of the safety switch...

wildflower patch

Looking good.

Mine has started to flower but very low key given the number of seeds sown. Mainly purple too.

Going to try and do it properly over a larger patch with one of those seed mats next year. Are you going to just leave yours and see what regrows next year?

These are all annuals so I'm not sure what I'm going to do. Maybe some will self seed and i'll put some perennial wildflower seeds later in the year? It's all a new to me

I'm a gardener now! Made some grass

The back quarter of the garden was a bit neglected and had a pile of doom from an old brick shed. We cleared and levelled it and scattered grass seed. This is 4 days growth

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4 days is impressive.
Takes at least 2-3 weeks to see anything usually.

If you sowed perennial wildflowers they can take a bit of time to germinate/ flower.

If annuals, they sometimes like to have a bit of agitated soil.