timhanson81
Yamadori
To continue with the recent Olive theme, here are a few that I acquired this winter. I'd say I collected them but I didn't do the digging, I just found them in a pile next to the road! Olives are considered an invasive plant species in California, and in the large city park I live near (Bidwell Park) they are one of the plants that local volunteers remove in order to improve the natural habitat. So this past January I was going to the park to collect some acorns and I stumbled across a pile of recently dug olives waiting to go to the dump. I didn't have a saw with me to get them in my SUV, so I came back the next afternoon with tools hoping the pile was still there, and what do you know, but a second pile had been added to the first! So my assistant (my 2 year old son) and I proceeded to cut 15 of them to reasonable size to fit in the SUV. I wish I had taken more but I could just imagine the people driving by saying "why is that strange bearded man using a large hand saw so close the road and that small child!?".
The stumps range in size from 3 inches up to a 14 inch turtle-back forest. Many will allow me ample opportunities to practice my carving techniques. They were all flat cut and are now pushing various amounts of growth. I pulled up one the other day to check on root growth and there are a decent number of new roots coming out of the flat cut. Hopefully they will continue to push roots well into the summer.
I was reading Brent's article on olives (evergreengardenworks.com/olive)and he suggests adding dolomite lime to the soil mix. By no means am I questioning Brent but has anyone else seen benefits from including dolomite in the soil mix for olives?
Here are pictures of 6 of the 15
The stumps range in size from 3 inches up to a 14 inch turtle-back forest. Many will allow me ample opportunities to practice my carving techniques. They were all flat cut and are now pushing various amounts of growth. I pulled up one the other day to check on root growth and there are a decent number of new roots coming out of the flat cut. Hopefully they will continue to push roots well into the summer.
I was reading Brent's article on olives (evergreengardenworks.com/olive)and he suggests adding dolomite lime to the soil mix. By no means am I questioning Brent but has anyone else seen benefits from including dolomite in the soil mix for olives?
Here are pictures of 6 of the 15
