Category: Fruits

Should I prune my olive tree? Yes, some maintenance pruning can help your olive tree produce more fruit and encourage healthy new growth. However, olive trees grow slowly and pruning can increase the chance of infection, so pruning them once a year in the late spring or early summer is enough to keep them healthy. […]

Pruning an Olive Tree Prune off suckers – as they rob the canopy of water and nutrients. Remove dead, damaged or crossing branches. If the tree is overgrown, reduce the main leaders by about a quarter. Branches may be removed entirely to allow in more air and light. Can olive trees be cut back hard? […]

Olive trees need full sun and six to eight hours of bright, direct sunlight to survive. Positioning the olive tree in front of an east- or south-facing window in a dry, spacious room, like the living room, is an ideal spot. Can olive trees grow in pots? If you don’t have a garden or you’re […]

Your olive tree roots should be pliable and firm, and the trunk should be greenish on the inside if you are going to give it a try and hope of reviving your potted olive tree. Unfortunately, it is too late if the trunk and roots are mushy and brittle. That means your olive tree is […]

–900 years old. Being 800–900 years old, these giant olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane probably belong to the most ancient, living broad-leaved trees in the world (Thomas, 2003). How old are the trees on the Mount of Olives? 900 years oldOlive trees in the Jerusalem garden at foot of Mount of Olives has […]

Water an establishing olive tree once weekly for the first year or anytime the top 2” of soil becomes dry. After an olive tree is established, deep watering once monthly is sufficient. Can olive trees be overwatered? An olive tree has small, shallow roots, and if it’s overwatered for too long these can rot away. […]

Plant Care Olive trees don’t survive indoors as long as they do in the wild—averaging between 500 and 1500 years old—but you can still expect to keep yours happy for about nine years inside. For the first year with your indoor olive tree, water the plant weekly or every time the top 2 inches of […]

Based on the morphology of native varieties, for millennia tree: the age is estimated, based on two indices: (i) on the perimeter of the trunk neck, and (ii) the dynamic coefficient of annual wood growth. (Specific cambium). Because, the olive trunk neck is eternal. How can you tell how old a tree is? The age […]

“The elegant way to eat an olive with a pit is to simply pick it up with a toothpick (if one is provided) or with your thumb and index finger, place it in your mouth, close your mouth, gently chew around the pit (gently so as not to crack a tooth), then discard the pit […]

Many wonder how this food became such an important part of Greek culture and large part of their diet. Ancient Greeks used olives as there main source of fat instead of meat from animal because they thought it was an unhealthy way of getting fat, since the barbarians (non Greeks) ate that way. Why is […]

For large olives, try using a knife and fork to cut the flesh off. If that doesn’t seem to work, “take one bite around the pit, chew and swallow that bite, then place the remaining bit of the olive (pit included) into your mouth and chew around the pit,” discarding of the pit when finished. […]

It is pretty standard in our family to have a bowl of olives at family gatherings. Green olives on the other hand are my acquired taste. What is an acquired taste examples? Foods That Are an Acquired Taste Raw Oysters: A finger food that is slurped right out of the shell. The obstacle that many […]

One reason people are taking to olive trees as houseplants is that caring for olive trees inside is easy. These trees tolerate dry air and dry soil too, making it an easy-care houseplant. And the trees are attractive too. The branches are covered with narrow, gray-green leaves that have furry undersides. Are olive trees hard […]

Olive trees have fewer pest problems than most fruit trees, although improper growing conditions can increase the likelihood of infestations. Similar in appearance, both gnats and thrips may feed around olive trees, making it appear as if these bugs are coming from the trees. How do you get rid of olive lace bugs? Olive Lace […]

No, olive leaves and branches are not poisonous to cats. In fact they are just as healthy for pets as they are for you. They will help your cat have a strong healthy coat and they will increase the function of his immune system. Are olive trees toxic to animals? There is no evidence to […]

Olive forage is relished by cattle, sheep, goats and camels (Le Houérou, 1980). It can be browsed by livestock or cut and brought fresh to livestock after pruning. Olive is a native and characteristic fruit tree of the Mediterranean Basin. The wild Mediterranean olive (Olea europaea europaea var. What eats olives in the wild? In […]

Olive trees can survive a number of years in a pot, although they will ultimately need to be planted in the ground to survive. As long as you have a sufficiently large pot, the tree can live up to eight or nine years in it. Keep the pot in full sun. Do olive trees do […]