I'm rather pleased with a couple of little olive trees i've just acquired. They have lots of olives on them, I was surprised. I wondered if we could eat the olives, and it seems the answer is yes, but they will need to ripen a bit more, and then be cured, in water or brine, to stop them tasting bitter. It's a bit fiddly but I think it will be worth the effort.
My trees are very small and only youngsters, and that set me thinking about how old olive trees can live to be. This one from Ano Vouves in Crete is claimed to be 2000 - 4000 years, so it stretches back to antiquity.
You can read more about it, and take a virtual walk round it it, at the web site here that I pulled its picture through from.
Olive Trees
I'm rather pleased with a couple of little olive trees i've just acquired. They have lots of olives on them, I was surprised. I wondered if we could eat the olives, and it seems the answer is yes, but they will need to ripen a bit more, and then be cured, in water or brine, to stop them tasting bitter. It's a bit fiddly but I think it will be worth the effort.
My trees are very small and only youngsters, and that set me thinking about how old olive trees can live to be. This one from Ano Vouves in Crete is claimed to be 2000 - 4000 years, so it stretches back to antiquity.
You can read more about it, and take a virtual walk round it it, at the web site here that I pulled its picture through from.