Olive trees are hardy things – so much so that you can dig up an established tree from one place and transplant it in a completely different location.
In this episode we visit some friends who have a selection of small olive trees that are in the wrong place on their property. Instead of them being cut down for wood chip, we’re going to rescue them and give them a new home on our property in the interior of Portugal.
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Estou a rever para fazer. Ficou "massa" como vocês dizem !! Amei demais!
HELLO KYLIE & GUY…LOOKIN' GOOD…MORE TREES MEANS MORE OLIVES…AN OPPORTUNITY GIVEN & A WISE DECISION MADE…ALL THE BEST…🙏🏻;)
Check out Lancasters rainwater harvesting in drylands books for some really helpful info on berms, tree planting etc. Hes based in the desert, but with portugals hot dry summers, may be helpful.
For more drought tolerance, you can dig a 30-60 hole on the uphill side of a tree and fil it with whole phone books, junk mail cardboard, etc. The paper will soak up the water, the earthworms will break it down and the tree roots will eventually grow into it
Check your battery or run turban more often to allow the battery to charge
Love your videos. Thank you for sharing and making me laugh. Hope you don’t take this the wrong way but
WasWondering if you would be interested in buying a right hand drive Isuzu truck. It’s from SA built in the early 90’s but it’s in very good running condition. My mom is selling it as my dad is terminally ill and she has no need for it. She is not too far from you. Very low Milage and my dad being a mechanic kept it in tip top shape.
Playing a bit of innuendo bingo this week ?😉
You are probably going to need to pound tall stakes near the trees & tie them to them to keep them stable until the roots take.
When you cut roots or branches clean cut then a bit of aloe Vera to keep out disease. Good job on planting in less than ideal conditions, jealous of all that rain bit dry still here in the algarve
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Wow! That was amazing – how hard you worked; persisting in the rain, despite not liking it. I love how you even dig neat holes Kylie. Sometimes I laugh when I see things like this you do – it reminds me of me. As the saying goes 'if it's worth doing, it's worth doing well'. Hugs and well wishes from Perth, Western Australia.
Looks like you just need a new battery?
In more continental climates, it's very important to water transplanted trees regularly through the growing season the 1st year after transplanting. During the rainy season sounds like it won't be an issue, but you might want to talk with someone who is experienced with transplanting trees in your area (maybe a nursery or farm advisor) about how to handle care during the 1st year after transplant. The frequency of watering in continental climates varies by the soil type (clay, sand etc). If they don't survive, you might also ask if digging a larger root ball might help next time.
Apparently Olive trees take 3- 5 years to recover from the stress of transplantation. Epic work as usual guys and gals 👌
The cutting of the branches is painful. It is so easy to root the cuttings and start your own trees! I'm sure you've mulched the cuttings…next time, please try rooting. This goes for all your fruit bearing trees.
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When we plant trees or mature plants we put an egg under it for extra nutrients.
Have you guys considered bee hives?
A comment totally not about olives. Kylie mentioned the rain making tent life less enjoyable. I remember seeing the inside of your tent on another video. The wood stove is nearby a wall of the tent. Do you have room to put a small wall, just stacked, not cemented, of new or clean bricks behind and slightly to the sides of the stove to both reflect the heat back to the main area of the tent and also act as a thermal mass to hold some heat longer in the night to help the tent stay warmer longer? This was just a thought that came to me as I watched your video while I worked in my kitchen. I enjoy your videos. Thanks.
Delightful! Always time well spent when I watch your videos. Looking forward to the next one. 😁
might be worth purchasing a little battery jump gizmo. They make them super small nowadays. Double is a USB charger too.
They will be fine as long as you prune them hard to avoid moisture loss and wind rock! Capability brown, Geoff Hamilton and Toby Buckland where swishing around my head as this played out but my tutor back in Horticulture college said the’yre forgiving up you remove as much top growth and do it in autumn! Good job!❤
Now you can finally say, "These are our Olive trees". Great video from the both of you!
Thanks!
Crude removal but they should be A-OK! Don’t put too many amendments in the planting hole, stake them so the new roots don’t rip, keep the top growth pruned to keep them nutrient balanced and don’t let them dry out for a couple years. Olives are for eternity!
Perhaps a new battery might be the fix. But glad you rescued those trees before they became fire wood.
The piglets are so cute and gives me a nice warm fuzzy feeling remembering my Mum's pig farm. The work collague I mention in my email also taught me a clever mushroom soup recipe as she worked fulltime and had to entertain her husbands work clients. A can of mushroom soup with half a can of milk with half a can of sherry Yumm. I have improved on this since retiring , a small can of buttered mushrooms wilth a can of full cream and can of sweet sherry. Don't tell my doctor she would have a fit. great comfort food on a cold day . Lana
I like how Kylie always seems so serious and then says stuff like, “and then something keeps me from it…probably wine” and I end up laughing actually out loud. Please, both of you, keep the dry humor and “nerdy-ness” coming. So fun to watch your excellent progress with the projects and experiments.
Hi there!! nice stuff…. hard work, bad conditions… thanks god one is brit and the other lived enough in UK for getting used to tiny annoying rain…. ironic how you get used to new places, isnt it?
Olive trees do tend to have alternate bearing. In one year you have a good harvest, the next one a poor one, and so on.
best weather for moving trees though.. thanks for the vid! Just a tip: water the trees in rather than stamping the roots in. The soil should be firmed rather than compacted. The water will filter the soil down around the roots? Then they need staking (low and at an angle) to prevent root rock happening and until their roots have got a hold. All trees grow better if they are high in the ground and the mulch shouldn't be compacted.
If honest I would probably focus on working on the house rather than anything else due to the current economic climate. Inflation may drive building materials sky-high so stocking up on what you may need for the next three months would be ideal.
"oh sorry hun, the camera wont work on a tripod"
Agree with other comments about reducing the height and length of branches and also you need strong stakes to stop rocking. If you transplant more trees I suggest you dont wrestle with the tree but instead use a pruning saw or sharp axe to sever the large roots . Thanks for all your great videos.
Good look with the trees, I hope they take.❤❤
im sure someone has said this, but I would put stakes in to support them until they are rooted into the ground
Great episode. I, too, recently transplanted several olive trees into my space in San Antonio, Texas, so it will be interesting to see how your trees get along in reasonably similar climates. However, I gather with far more seasonal precipitation in your stretch of the woods.
Great content as always. Seeing your pre dug holes in preparation for your new olive tree's triggered a memory from (I think) Radio 4's Gardener's Question Time. The question put to the panel was 1; round holes for transplants or 2; square holes for transplants. I hope I'm remembering this correctly but the consensus was 2: square hole. The reason being the re growing roots will take the path of least resistance so will grow around the edge of a circular hole and in some cases become a ball but can't do that with a square hole. Food for thought re your next batch.
should plant trees in a square hole as thr roots can start growing around and around the hole eventually killing the tree (I saw it mentioned in a program about Kew Gardens)
Looks awesome 👌
Don’t forget to stake the trees good and check so the roots don’t stand in water. If they flop around in the wind the fine feeder roots won’t take, and subsequently can’t grow the larger roots to stabilise the tree and it will be stressed out. Olive trees have one must and one no no.
Full sun and not to wet soil for prolonged period of time. If you already knew this the please ignore my post😌
Love your channel, I thought I was a hard worker. I’m not so sure anymore 😂
Jess at Roots and Refuge YT channel just made what she calls horseshoe berms. Dig out a shallow spot on the downhill side, plant the tree on the slightly higher ground and the shallow diver will collect water.
so now u know…need to buy a new battery…end of the problem!
Fruit trees best
Hope you enjoyed the mushroom festival today.
I had apple and pear trees and they produced every other year so I imagine olive trees are similar.
Who said farming was easy…but truelly rewarding
Ever considered a new battery on your truck?