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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2014 6:57:53 GMT 10
Cas
I recall you posting many long time ago about your experiences in brining olives.
Could you offer some advice please as we are off to pick our own soon (mostly for oil but a few edible varieties).
Cheers,
Grim
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Post by caskur on May 31, 2014 2:03:19 GMT 10
All olives are edible...
Very black ones... the ripe ones do well between layers of salt... I tried that last year and they were beautiful... get the recipe on the net...
They like a bit of watering... they like lime so add some lime to the soil.
You have to consider Olive fruit flies... I forget their name... The Spanish make traps for them... you can find out about Olive fruit flies on our government website..
The Spaniards use plastic cool drink bottles... half fill with water... 2 yeast tablets per container.. Burn a couple of small holes in the containers... the fly goes in and can't get out and drowns..
Just treat them like any other fruit tree really... They love my place but I'm in limestone territory!.
Rats and mice have to be controlled too... And birds...
One of my Italian friends prunes the trees every second year so they only fruit bi-annually. I haven't done that yet.
My olives are really BIG mothers...
I get two very large buckets of olives a year from one small young tree....young as in 10-12 yrs old!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2014 18:12:46 GMT 10
Thanks Cas and sorry for not replying sooner...all been a bit mad! I saw the salt layer recipe, that looks a goodie. This year, however was just a trial run Two of us spent two days raking down 40 -50 odd trees of olives that were just starting to turn colour and ended up with a bin of 313 kg which we sent off to the press That gave us 45 litres of grassy peppery oil...delicious! That is a yield of 14% which is on the upper end of the scale. Very happy with the result. The old fella we bought the place from said one year,( with a lot of extra help) they got 4.5 tonnes and over 600 litres of oil...so could be a viable little side business.
Anyway, family and friends will enjoy the spoils of this years efforts
And thanks again for the preserving tips...I have copied to a note file for FR.
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Post by caskur on Jun 22, 2014 20:11:31 GMT 10
Look into growing "Stevia"
check it out!
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