Are you growing olives at home?
Would you like to improve your olive tree health and productivity?
This comb-bound, 18 page, full colour booklet will help you learn the principles of olive pruning and tree care for your most productive season growing olives ever! Price includes shipping.
Humans have a long association with olive trees. We have shaped how they grow, as well as having them shape our history, mythology and food security. This booklet is designed to help you understand how olive trees grow, so that you can prune them effectively for better production. It’s also designed to be a handy pest and disease reference for for spotting common issues with growing olives in Victoria, Australia, but this booklet is also relevant to other areas of Australia. Ever wondered what those funny looking spots on your leaves are? Now you can find out!
How you prune your olive trees will vary depending on the desired outcome for your tree or grove. For example, if you want a hedge, you’ll be growing olives under different management practices to more widely-spaced trees. This booklet focuses on individual trees planted for fruit production, and harvested by hand. While high density hedgerows are becoming more common, this booklet deals with groves laid out according to a more traditional and wider spacing between trees.
The topics covered include:
- Tree Physiology – how do they grow?
- Tree Structure – how to maximise fruit production
- Why prune your olives?
- How to prune your olives
- What is Integrated Pest Management?
- Common Pests and Diseases
- Water Management for growing olives
Everything you need to know to make growing olives easier in a handy digital reference!
If you prefer to learn in person, you might like to check out our Olive Tree Pruning Workshops. These cover similar information in more depth, and allow you to gain hands on experience pruning our grove so that you can go home and tackle your own trees with confidence.
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