Olive planting

grown by lambda_foo in Orchard · Sydney, Australia

All of lambda_foo's plantings

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Harvest months

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

over 13 years ago 2013-04-03

Progress

Done Finished

Quantity

4 plants

Grown in

sun

Rating

not rated

Short code

FZXB for plant markers and labels

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Sydney, Australia New

Daily high and low

Dies at 0 °CGrows at 5–40°Grows best 20–34°

Daily rainfall

Rain: 950 mm
Hottest day: 40.7°C
Coldest night: 5.1°C
Soil temperature: 18.7°C
Days in its best range: 232 of 361
Days: 361

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. The weather is modelled for the area around the garden, not measured in it, and runs a few days behind. The totals, charts and expected weather are our adaptation of that data.

Notes

We've added 4 olive trees to our growing orchard. There are 2 Corantina olive trees, which are apparently a good dual purpose oil and pickling olive from Italy. The other 2 are Manzanillo olives from Spain, which are mostly for pickling.

The idea behind choosing 2 varieties is they will cross pollinate, and produce even more olives. Currently the plan is to pickle/preserve the olives. I'd love to get some olive oil too but the hardware required to extract the oil appears to be very expensive.

Photos

No photos yet.

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost is rare here

Frost is rare in this area, so we show no frost dates.

Experimental: this feature is new and might be flaky. These dates are estimates from 25 km weather-model data, not readings from a station at your garden, so a cold spot can be colder. They may be wrong, so check your national weather service and ask local growers before relying on them.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0)