Olives

Wombat · Post: # 13539Post **Wombat** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:04 am

I am in the process of harvesting olives from my one and only tree, and looks like I will get over 5 kilos this year.

Gonna extract me some oil! (please insert Texan accent)

Nev

Millymollymandy · Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:19 am

Wow, lucky you! How big is your tree? Obviously not a little one in a pot. Will these be green or black (I am fairly ignorant about olives). I think the black ones are ripe, the green underripe?

Wombat · Post: # 13560Post **Wombat** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:02 am

Thanks M3, it is about 4 metres tall, we must have had it for 10 to 15 years. Year the black ons are ripe and green is unripe. Trouble is if you let them ripen, they fall off and get trod on, mowed etc. so this year I am harvesting the buggers!

Nev

hedgewitch · Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:06 pm

That's superb nev, 5 kilos is a GREAT crop for your little Tree

Libby · Post: # 13643Post **Libby** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:41 pm

Nice one wombat.

shiney · Post: # 13667Post **shiney** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:12 pm

I wish my tree would show up some olives. I get little pippy things that never come to anything. It's in a pot and about 3 and half feet tall. It lives out all year but just sits there lookin' purdy. (Texan accent required again)

Let us know if you strike oil Nev!

Wombat · Post: # 13791Post **Wombat** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:31 am

Will do Shiney!

nev

hedgewizard · Fri Mar 24, 2006 11:58 am

Brilliant! How are you going to press them?

Wombat · Post: # 15305Post **Wombat** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:01 pm

I have a fruit press hedgie! My first expsriment produced a watery olive flavoured slime which rapidly went hairy!

Back to the drawing board!

Nev