The Magic of Olives

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Olive Fruit
Growing Olives
Soil and Nutrient Requirements
Propagation of Olives
Planting of Olive Trees
Training and Pruning of Olive Trees
Enemies of Olive Trees
Harvesting Olives
Olive Oil
Extracting Olive Oil
Pickled Olives
Conclusion
Author Bio
Publisher

Introduction

If you found yourself in Palestinian, Syria, and Crete, Jordan and other Mediterranean regions more than 4000 years ago, you would naturally be very bewildered at the wide-ranging variety of plants growing at that time.

Many of the species are extinct today. However, there is one plant which you would recognize really joyfully as something which grows even today, and flourishes from Portugal to Bermuda, from California to the Norfolk Islands and Mauritius – the Olive