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What did you do in the garden today?
Numbers are in! 1765# of olives, 31.29 gallons of oil! Samples go to the lab this morning. 😁 As noted: Delicious, buttery and smooth. We picked very late this year so there was much more ripe olives than usual. -
What did you do in the garden today?
Yesterday I shook and pulled all of the leaves off of the peach trees so I could spray them with copper and neem. The three that had it bad this year got a really thorough treatment. My 2 gallon sprayer took a crap on me and was pumping the mix out through the pump assembly. So I had to pour my... -
What did you do in the garden today?
We may pick more and brine but I don't really want to. -
What did you do in the garden today?
None for sale at this time. -
What did you do in the garden today?
Well the mill tells you to do it, and they will do it if you don't tell them not to. It can increase yield but it's not a benefit for us. It makes the oil cloudy and then you have to filter if. It changes the taste. It's just not what we're after. Here's a Google snip. We would rather... -
What did you do in the garden today?
Some of the trees are quite tall, we do get up on ladders of various sizes. The original owner of the home planted olive trees as landscaping but must have picked them, based on the varieties he chose. His gardens were used as test and show gardens for Sunset magazine. My MIL planted 100 that... -
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We pick all by hand. It's a long day. There were 14 of us for most of the day. Then 7 of us picked until we ran out of light. The thing is, when you pick by hand, you don't get stems and way less leaves. So the quality of the oil is superior. We also pull out all of the bad olives and any... -
What did you do in the garden today?
Today we harvested olives at my mother-in-laws. We ran out of light but got most picked. My guess is that we got roughly 1800#. Which hopefully gives 40ish gallons of oil. Maybe. I'm excited to find out the exact numbers! Pretty good year, not a lot of fruit fly damage despite picking late and... -
What did you do in the garden today?
Glad you're okay. Hope the follow ups go well. Stay well. -
What did you do in the garden today?
I'm tired. Was a long week at work. I finally went to the garden today for all of 5 minutes. Most things are happy. I worked most of the day, went to Costco, went to the moto gear shop, then rushed home to pick up DS from school, unloaded the Costco stuff, left again to go to parent teacher... -
What did you do in the garden today?
🤔 What's the fertilizer? What did your harvested beets look like? pH between 5.5 and 8, they should be fine. That harvest is at least something, but I definitely agree that the yield seems pretty low for that many row feet.... Kudos for sticking with it. Did you plant all at once? Maybe... -
What did you do in the garden today?
Beets! I recall discussing improving beets for the season. What changes did you make? I didn't plant beets this spring or summer. Took a break to focus on the strawberries I got. The beets I started a few weeks ago are coming on pretty well. They will do better now that I laid tomato cages... -
What did you do in the garden today?
Please tell me your methods for such success. I see a drop trap mentioned, one of the bucket tip lids? I was so tired when I posted last night that I couldn't finish my post. Was falling asleep while trying. I had to give up and just submit without explaining the photos. Lol -
What did you do in the garden today?
One of my hens, Merlin, had started laying again. Finally seeing the light at the end of the molt. It rained here yesterday. Today it was a true fall day. Got some photos. Planted more lettuce and kale today. Going to rain until Tuesday then starts up again on Thursday. -
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No kidding. They love to ruin things.... All the things! Between mice and rats... 😩