Olea. How to plant correctly.

An Italian gardener, who grows olive trees not only for sale, but also for making oil and pickling, shared his experience.

The assortment of olives is huge, so you need to carefully choose the variety when planting.

All olives are suitable for making oil. The difference will be in taste and yield. And also all olives can be used for salting.

The first thing to know is how to plant trees correctly.

Here is a schematic drawing.

It is important to plant in the direction of the wind, so each subsequent olive protects the second. And in the event of some unpredictable change in the weather, only the first trees will suffer.

The distance between trees is 150 cm. They are not cramped. Everything is fine. Thus, they warm themselves better in winter and, accordingly, this will be reflected in the end on your harvest in the season.

When choosing a land, it is still better if it is clay or loam. But ordinary land is also ideal.

Fertilizer liquid organic. Dry fertilizer is also organic, but exclusively avian. Olive is not particularly demanding for mineral fertilizers.

Plant small plants only in spring, larger plants can also be planted in autumn. But it is important to remember that it is better to wrap Agro with fiber or burlap during the first years.

After planting olives in the ground, watering should always be abundant. But it is obligatory and it is very important! Never allow stagnation of water. This is detrimental to any age of trees.

If small branches begin to grow on the trunk or the leaves must be removed. The tree needs to devote all its strength to the growth of the crown and fruits.

The gardener claims that all varieties of olives are self-pollinating. Perhaps I agree with him, as I very often saw different varieties of olives on the streets, near cafes and restaurants, and they all had fruits in the season. But this fruiting resembled more beautiful, decorative.
If we talk about growing olives for oil production and for pickling, then olives need pairs.