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Olive Tree Problem
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| Anyroadup 2007-04-26, 9:25 am |
| 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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| On 26/4/07 11:42, in article
1177584152.184430.272170@t38g2000prd.googlegroups.com, "Anyroadup"
<anyroadup@gmail.com> 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.
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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
(remove weeds from address)
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| Steve Wolstenholme 2007-04-26, 9:25 am |
| On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:18:02 +0100, Sacha
<sacha@gardenweeds506.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>On 26/4/07 11:42, in article
>1177584152.184430.272170@t38g2000prd.googlegroups.com, "Anyroadup"
><anyroadup@gmail.com> wrote:
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>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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| Mike Lyle 2007-04-26, 5:25 pm |
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"Steve Wolstenholme" <steve@tropheus.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:na7133t544idrr546q24ir71b8106375d4@4ax.com...
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> 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.
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Mike.
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| On 26/4/07 20:39, in article 4630f35c$0$16372$88260bb3@free.teranews.com,
"Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> "Steve Wolstenholme" <steve@tropheus.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:na7133t544idrr546q24ir71b8106375d4@4ax.com...
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> That's what they're supposed to look like. I believe the expression is
> "architectural".
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> 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!
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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/
(remove weeds from address)
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| Dave Hill 2007-04-26, 8:25 pm |
| On 26 Apr, 21:40, Sacha <s...@gardenweeds506.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> On 26/4/07 20:39, in article 4630f35c$0$16372$88260...@free.teranews.com,
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> "Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle...@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> 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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