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<pre>Brian - thanks for your reply. I have replied to you personally, but will
also reply to the group so I can tell them a bit of my background. We are
restoring a grove in Le Marche, near Macerata. We have 900 trees, 80%
leccino and the rest are piantone di mogliano and pendolino. The grove was
left untended for a few years. This meant that, with the trees being thick
and bushy combined with this years record snow fall, literally all our trees
where damaged over the (northern hemisphere) winter (from one branch being
snapped off under the weight of the snow, right up to trees that were split
down the middle). However, work is progressing well and one positive
byproduct of the grove being left to grow wild is that we hope to get our
organic certification quicker. Anyway, Brian, thanks for you help and thanks
to everyone else who has pointed me in the direction of the archives.

Regards,

Jason Gibb



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From: OliveOil@yahoogroups.com [mailto:OliveOil@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Brian Chatterton
Sent: 01 July 2005 13:12
To: Olive List
Subject: [OliveOil] Organic olives



Jason,

Where is your olivetto? In spite of global warming I doubt
whether it
is in Britain. The Leccino variety seems to indicate central Italy -
The Marche, Tuscany, Umbria or even Lazio. The location is important as
olive fly rarely causes problems above 500 m. You can control them
within the organic regime. Traps are used but I suggest you join a
cooperative scheme where a professional monitors levels and sets the
traps.

How much oil content is rather like asking how long is a piece of
string. Oil content can vary from year to year by 5%. Olives in some
areas have a higher oil % than other areas. Here in Umbria over about
15 years the % for our olives has varied from 12.5% to 18% but that is
a mixture of varieties not just Leccino.

You will probably wont to pick your Leccino early in any case as it is

the one variety among the classic Tuscan/Umbrian group that has a rapid
fall off in quality due to late picking. Besides % oil is not the only
indicator of yield. Oil % is combined with fresh weight and that falls
as the crop matures and fruit fall on the ground.

Cheers Brian Chatterton.






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