Great advice here, thanks Mark. I had a small Olive tree given to me as a birthday present about 4-5 years ago and kept it in the pot it came in, not knowing much them I let it grow from its ball shape and spread out, finally this year my wife and I decided to take it out of its pot and plant it in the front garden and I think somehow that has turbo charged it, the leaves appear greener and fuller and we have fruit, too small to eat or pick but it is looking so much more healthy. We are on the south east coast and do get some sturdy channel winds so that may be helping.
Thanks for the tips. My olive tree is doing so much better since moving it to a sunnier spot and following some of your previous tips. Please add this video as well as your very recent olive tree videos to your olive tree playlist.
Thank you Mark, great advice! I have a tall but thin tree on my south facing balcony, it's got plenty of light. When I bought it it was in a sorry state so I repotted it in a large terracotta and I had to prune it completely. This year it grew a lot of beautiful leaves and still grows new ones. I hope next year I can get it to fruit at least partially.
Great tips, Mark! I'm hoping I get a few olives next year. This year the fruits haven't developed very well. I think the cooler summer has not helped, but I probably also should have fed them more too.
@@MarksHouseandGardenUK yeah, they definitely need a good amount of heat. Both my plants flowered and fruited last year and the year before and got to a reasonable size, but still smaller than what you’d get from the supermarket. I think they would also do better planted in the ground.
Hi. I think it depends on how deep and how prolonged the freeze is. I've left mine uncovered in the snow and even last winter they went largely uncovered but were sheltered. It's personal choice, if you have serious concerns I would cover them, if only temporarily when severe weather is forecast. Mark
Thanks so much for this super useful and easy to follow video of what to do. My only question is when do I prune my olive tree? Also, last year, my olive tree had 2 rounds of producing fruit - the first was short and it got some disease, I treated it and it came back to life, and shortly after produced another round of fruit but they didn't have time to fully grow and are tiny! They are now still on the tree. Should I remove these or let them drop by themselves? It's mid february and I'm conscious it needs to start doing its spring thing... :-) thanks for any tips!
Thank you. It sounds like you are doing everything right. You can prune in the growing season but be aware that you may limit fruiting. I would leave these fruits to drop off themselves. I think the problem we have is too short a hot/light season for fruit development. Mark
