rox
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Just for fun, I thought I would post a couple pictures of the olive farm.
There is not much to do at the moment besides bottling the oil.
Mid February when the almond trees are in pink bud we have to spray to kill this one insect that attacks one (out of 2) varieties of our alond trees. Then the end of February my husband will rototill down the weeds.
In March and April I will finally get some outside work done, get to prune the olive trees, and man oh man what a job that is. We have probably another 2 years before we have our trees prunned back down to a reasonable size. You don't want the trees too tall because you can't get up that high to pick the olives. Also you don't want them too wide so that they grow into each other.
I have a real good prunning shears that runs off a big battery I carry in a belt off of my hips. It will cut through an olive or almond branch about 3 inches across.
So since I'm somewhat bored at the moment I thought I would take a few pics and throw them up. I so much enjoy this forum.
There is not much to do at the moment besides bottling the oil.
Mid February when the almond trees are in pink bud we have to spray to kill this one insect that attacks one (out of 2) varieties of our alond trees. Then the end of February my husband will rototill down the weeds.
In March and April I will finally get some outside work done, get to prune the olive trees, and man oh man what a job that is. We have probably another 2 years before we have our trees prunned back down to a reasonable size. You don't want the trees too tall because you can't get up that high to pick the olives. Also you don't want them too wide so that they grow into each other.
I have a real good prunning shears that runs off a big battery I carry in a belt off of my hips. It will cut through an olive or almond branch about 3 inches across.
So since I'm somewhat bored at the moment I thought I would take a few pics and throw them up. I so much enjoy this forum.