BLOSSOMS TO FRUIT, but will they stay on the trees?

Finally the last couple of months' work in the olive grove has been completed - pruning, weeding, fertilizing, mulching, spraying, slashing and initial netting.  Rain this year has been in abundance, so it is only now that the irrigation will become important.  It has been a most unusual November with some rain, and very strangely the temperature has remained around 11 to 25 degrees.  As a result all the different trees in the olive grove are looking a picture of good health..... ie until our annyoying native birds called 'twenty-eights' start their destructive practices.  In its second year, the almond tree has produced 2 almonds, now firmly netted from our feathery enemies.

 



Images are of a young kalamata olive, a macadamia, a fig tree, baby grapefruit, a cab sav vine, a small avocado tree and baby avocados.  Other olive trees are seen in the background of most images.