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Wey hey!!!!  ;D we've got our annual supply of olive oil!!!! we picked 150 kilos of olives (thought it was 170! our scales were wrong :-\), my beloved went to the mill this morning and we got 25 liters of cold pressed organic olive oil!!  ;D I'm thrilled!

ENVY!!

Quote from: tim on December 10, 2007, 17:54:51
ENVY!!

I'm not, you can have to much of a good thing you know..............OK I'm fibbing. :'(

 ;D well done you, I'm buying mine from Morrisons tomorrow ::) ;D/ shades x

I picked mine up in france already :)

Congrats, how long with it take you to use that lot up?

"Annual"??

How many Olive trees does it take to get 25 liters?.

GREEN WITH ENVY
;D

We've got about 6 olive trees that were loaded! and 2 ancient (stunners) trees with only a small amount of olives, tonight I will be mostly eating crusty bread and yummy oil with a sprinkle of sea salt!  ;D

We got more oil than we thought! 31 liters!! worth picking!!  ;D

How lovely...I bet you have your own lemon trees as well. I am beside myself with olive envy!

Hi Froglegs,

I dont think you would ever have a problem with growing olives in the uk

http://www.seagravenurseries.co.uk/products.asp?d=8

But i think the problem would be pressing the olives into olive oil.

And i would guess that the taste comes form the soil and the quality of the plants.

Cambourne7

From The Guardian, February 2007....

Mark Diacono is an environmental consultant. He knows more than most about the realities of global warming. In fact, at Otter Farm near Honiton, he has been planting olive groves. He had been told to not expect a harvest for 10 years, but in 2006, he says, "We produced a handful of ripe, black olives on only three year-old trees." He hopes to have the first commercial harvest from his 120 trees in five years

so by all means, if you want to "do a Biscombe" in the UK,  buy your trees, relocate to the south, pray that it doesn't rain too much - and have patience ;D

thats me out then i have NO patience :)

I planted a load of stones out of a pot of fresh olives three years ago and now have quite a few olive trees at very little cost/effort. They're at least a foot high, but many years away from fruit I suppose.

I've been told that there are farmers in Italy making a decent living by digging up 6ft sized trees from their olive groves and shipping them over to the UK as the price over here is more than they could make from many years of olive oil production.

Quote from: froglegs on December 10, 2007, 19:00:01
How many Olive trees does it take to get 25 liters?.

I only wanted to know out of instest, :o I'm not intending to go into the Olive oil business........ honest

P.S.
how much does it cost to have them pressed?

Quote from: froglegs on December 11, 2007, 17:31:32
P.S.
how much does it cost to have them pressed?

Me thinks thou do protest 2 much!

90 Euros for a minimum run of 500 kilos not bad eh! the oil is yummy! really green and quite cloudy! off for another taste!  ;)

Quote from: cambourne7 on December 11, 2007, 17:45:58

Quote from: froglegs on December 11, 2007, 17:31:32
P.S.
how much does it cost to have them pressed?

Me thinks thou do protest 2 much!

But Cambourne us Man don't protest we question. ;)