Olives
Sunday, December 12th, 2010Although we harvested our olives about 3 weeks ago, it’s taken me a bit of a while to get around to writing about them. We only have 9 trees, 2 of which are so overshadowed by a neighbouring chestnut they barely merit a mention. We gave 6 of them a drastic pruning last Spring, then a hail storm during olive blossom time carried off much of the remaining potential crop, so we were anticipating little more than a kilo or two for eating. Perhaps subliminally I’d got to the point of thinking our harvest barely merited a mention, but that would be a mistake.
Pruning olive trees in early February
