Thread: Olive harvest 2015

Pics as promised.








I bought a secondhand mulcher today.Its about as big as you can buy before going to a commercial trailer mounted,WA made too.It was expensive,cost the previous owner $5000 18months ago.




Andrew

Thanks mate, its something i would like to at my parents place.
They are on 5 acres with most of it going spare so i reckon i could throw a few trees on there.

What do they do with the olive pulp after pressing, i guess its only really good as fertiliser ?

You can see how well the hedging effect works and its also providing oil and olives for pickling,well worth doing.
There are 3 olive trees to the right of the chook house and to the left of "Mal" the other lone olive tree.Old Mal,an old greek itenerant we helped out because he had a Land Rover broken down in town.Mal gave us his olive tree he was carting around,hence calling it Mal.He experiminted on the other 3 trees which were seedlings from ours with grafts.He killed 1,1 graft looks like its taken,the 3rd next to Mal is looking like seed stock still.We will pull that one,leave the one where his graft looks like working,he told us it was a mammoth olive,the samples he had were HUGE!!! and replace the dead one.Need to fill that space so we cant see the neighbors block.
Andrew

Originally Posted by loanrangie

Thanks mate, its something i would like to at my parents place.
They are on 5 acres with most of it going spare so i reckon i could throw a few trees on there.

What do they do with the olive pulp after pressing, i guess its only really good as fertiliser ?

Where we go,we only get the extra virgin,ie first press.
Pretty sure he runs everyones pressings back thru the mill,as there is still oil in the pulp not extractable in the first go,his win.Everyoune else over here has a $100 min charge,so no complaints there.
He has padocks full of olive trees,he uses the leftovers as fertilizer as you suggest.
You can use the byproducts for soap/hair treatments etc.
Andrew

You don't need to pull the one that's reverted to rootstock. You or someone else can graft or bud it over.

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Don.

If you do go planting at your parents,make sure you go the way we have,plant a good pickling olive(ours were giant kalamata,from an olive tree producer).You can get oil from pickling olives,but you cant get pickling olives from oil olives
If you like olives you will enjoy pickling too
Andrew