June 9, 2008
· Filed under Garden · Tagged Back yard, fruit trees, gardening, olive
Only just worked out that our olive tree is a Frantoio. Couldn’t read the label very well so had to do some research.
Here’s what the research says.
Frantoio – Small/Medium fruit. High oil content. Heavy cropper. Ripens mid/late season. Origins in Tuscany, Italy. Often pickled with a nutty flavour.
http://www.baag.com.au/fsg_olives.html
Frantoio (Paragon) olives are small to medium size (2 to 3g) and oval in shape. The olives have a pleasant nutty flavour when pickled. When mature, the fruit are coloured purple-black, but at the preferred harvest time for oil production are green and purple-green. The highly noted oil is of fruity character, highly aromatic and of leading quality.
http://www.oliveaustralia.com.au/About_Olive_Trees/Frantoio/frantoio.html
http://www.australisplants.com.au/olives/varietySelection.htm
June 8, 2008
· Filed under Garden · Tagged apple, apricot, avocado, Back yard, fruit trees, gardening, lemon, lime, olive
In the back yard, we currently have 7 baby fruit trees planted.
We have a Lisbon Lemon (thanks P.L.),
a Tahitian Lime (dwarf graft- from Unley M10)
a Moorpark Apricot for espaliering along the fence (almost lost all its leaves now) from Perry’s,
a Red Fuji Apple (also from Perry’s Fruit and Nut Nursery) that hasn’t lost its leaves,
a Reed Avocado in a mesh and shadecloth protector for during winter (also Perry’s) that should be fairly self-pollinating (or off a plum?!) and produce big, creamy fruit,
a Pink Jerusalem fig that has lost all its leaves and looks like a sorry stick in the ground (from Perry’s- it is deciduous), and an olive that is also very sorry as it cannot stand up straight and ever since we bought it has leaned to the side (Unley M10).
