Vineyards 
Olive
The olive comes from the tropical and the central parts of Asia. People know the olive tree since more than 4000 years and use it to produce olive oil and for eating the olive fruits. The olive is an evergreen tree that can reach 50m height in the nature. The olive leaves have grey coatings. The tree has one very good quality – fast regeneration. The blossoms are white with cream-colored nuance.The olive is a very drought-resistant plant. You have to have this in mind when you irrigate the olive. The irrigation has to be not so often but generously. The soil has to dry up till the next irrigation. The best irrigation is the drip irrigation.
You can fertilize the olive tree with not so concentrated fertilizers every 15 days till they reach a full concentration.
Useful advices
- Growing of the olive
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The olive tree has two types of blossoms: the perfect blossom that contains both male and female parts, and male blossoms that have only stamens. In the presence of two and more of them there could be done cross-pollination which will increase the crop. However, if you want to have fruits with high quality and a large quantity of crop, you have to have sort of pollinator olive tree.
The olive fruit is green and drupe. After it’s fully ripened it changes its color to a darker one or black. The fruit is round or oval-shaped and oblong. From the moment of pollination to the typical size of the fruits are needed 90-100 days.
The olive needs a long warm period for the fully ripening of the fruits. That’s why during the spring you have to keep the olive tree in a conservatory till the days become hot and the nights become warm. The olive loves the sun. The blossoming season starts in may-June when the temperature is higher than 18ºС. You can grow olive trees outdoors but only if the winter temperatures are not bellow -10 ºС. If the temperature is minus 12-17 ºС, the branches freeze. If it’s minus 20-21 ºС, the tree dies.
You have to replant the olive trees yearly till their fourth year. After that you have to replant them once in every 3 years.
