Hi

How does the Olive season look for Australia and Southern hemi countries this year?

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Good evening,

From the South Burnett district of south east Queensland it looks extraordinarily good. I have two small groves of 400 and 800 trees respectively. The 400 tree grove has had no supplementary water for two years, the bore is almost dry and as it serves the homestead and the inbye cattle troughs the olives had to miss out. However, there appears to be an excellent crop on most of the trees, Manzanillo and Frantoio. The larger grove has been irrigated during the winter and the Mz look excellent with smaller crops on the other Cv. In 2006 we only received 303mm of rain compared to our average of just under 700mm.

The olive tree does its best to look after us despite our best efforts to neglect it!

Dan

Good to see someone with some fruit!
Here in Tamworth (NorthWest Slopes of NSW) there are few people with water to irrigate, way below average rainfall, and hot dry times. So ... there will be a shortage of fruit this season.

Already, some of the fruit is starting to turn, we look like having an early start to the harvest.

My 200Manz are very lightly fruited (it will be hunt and pick, this year!) but the 100 Hardy's Mammoth look like having easily their best season since planting out in 1999. Just too hard to tell what of this is the effect of the drought and what is related to tree age. I wish someone could tell definitively ! (doubt that will ever be possible).

Heard the other day that someone is espousing cloud seeding to encourage it to rain, trouble is, there have been precious few clouds, and seeding thin air will not work!

Cheers
John

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