Well this weekend we purchased our first fruit producing trees, olives (purchased three). In fact they are Olive Frantoio. This is a cool climate olive and one that our nursery has growing on their property. Never undervalue a good local nursery for variety of plants that will grow in your area.

This months ABC Organic Gardening magazine had a piece on olives and here is what they say about this variety.

“This olive is often sold as Paragon and has small to medium fruit and very high oil yields. It is self-fertile but, like Correggiolo, yields may increase with cross pollination from varieties like Leccino. Very resistant to extreme cold.”

Anyway we have planted these up towards the front fence. First we cleared away some of the grass and weeds.

Then we dug the hole.

We used newspaper to suppress the weeds

And finally mulched around the tree

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