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Olive Tree Problem
I planted an Olive tree a few weeks ago and kept it well watered, as I
thought one should with any newly planted container grown plant, but some leaves started to yellow and fall off. I decided this must be over watering, since the Olive shouldn't normally need much, and cut the watering right down. The leaves now look a bit dry and curled. How can I judge how much water it needs please? |
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Olive Tree Problem
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:18:02 +0100, Sacha
wrote: On 26/4/07 11:42, in article .com, "Anyroadup" wrote: I planted an Olive tree a few weeks ago and kept it well watered, as I thought one should with any newly planted container grown plant, but some leaves started to yellow and fall off. I decided this must be over watering, since the Olive shouldn't normally need much, and cut the watering right down. The leaves now look a bit dry and curled. How can I judge how much water it needs please? Water it when it's dried out and remember how they grow naturally - rocky, well drained soil. Is yours raised so that water can dry right away, because while the soil on top might feel dry to the touch when we have sun and wind to dry it, the soil at the bottom might still be very wet. And is the container too big for the plant? If so, you have a lot of cold, wet compost sloshing around roots that are too small to take it up and will rot. My neighbour has one growing in a pile of rocks and very sandy soil. The heap of rocks and soil is about four foot high. The tree is only about six foot high but it is tangled up all over the hill. It looks quite mature like a twisted tree from a horror movie. It produced some olives a few years ago but they didn't taste as good as shop bought ones. Of course, everyone said they were great! Steve |
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Olive Tree Problem
"Steve Wolstenholme" wrote in message ... [...] quite mature like a twisted tree from a horror movie. That's what they're supposed to look like. I believe the expression is "architectural". It produced some olives a few years ago but they didn't taste as good as shop bought ones. Of course, everyone said they were great! ISTR the processing of olives to make them eatable is quite involved: I read it up on the Web once, and I'm sure it'll still be there. It struck me as little short of miraculous that humans ever worked out what to do to them. -- Mike. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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Olive Tree Problem
On 26/4/07 20:39, in article ,
"Mike Lyle" wrote: "Steve Wolstenholme" wrote in message ... [...] quite mature like a twisted tree from a horror movie. That's what they're supposed to look like. I believe the expression is "architectural". It produced some olives a few years ago but they didn't taste as good as shop bought ones. Of course, everyone said they were great! ISTR the processing of olives to make them eatable is quite involved: I read it up on the Web once, and I'm sure it'll still be there. It struck me as little short of miraculous that humans ever worked out what to do to them. Despite my warning, Ray bit into a fresh one of ours and pronounced it truly vile! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ (remove weeds from address) |
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Olive Tree Problem
On 26 Apr, 21:40, Sacha wrote:
On 26/4/07 20:39, in article , "Mike Lyle" wrote: "Steve Wolstenholme" wrote in message .. . [...] quite mature like a twisted tree from a horror movie. That's what they're supposed to look like. I believe the expression is "architectural". It produced some olives a few years ago but they didn't taste as good as shop bought ones. Of course, everyone said they were great! ISTR the processing of olives to make them eatable is quite involved: I read it up on the Web once, and I'm sure it'll still be there. It struck me as little short of miraculous that humans ever worked out what to do to them. Despite my warning, Ray bit into a fresh one of ours and pronounced it truly vile! -- Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devonhttp://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ (remove weeds from address) You need to check out this site.. http://www.oliveoilsource.com/olive_recipes_.htm David Hill Abacus Nurseries |
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Olive Tree Problem
On 26/4/07 23:32, in article
, "Dave Hill" wrote: On 26 Apr, 21:40, Sacha wrote: snip Despite my warning, Ray bit into a fresh one of ours and pronounced it truly vile! -- You need to check out this site.. http://www.oliveoilsource.com/olive_recipes_.htm David Hill Abacus Nurseries Thanks, David. I think it will be a while before our harvest warrants a recipe, though. ;-) -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ (remove weeds from address) |
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