With a bit of patience, your new tree will flourish. You can plant an olive pit and grow an olive tree either indoors or outside. Use an olive pit from an organic tree, rather than from a jar of ...

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Q: I received a 2-year-old olive tree grown in a 15-inch container. The brochure attached advised planting in the ground 15 feet away from building structures. My tree is 5 feet high with a ½-inch ...

From California to the Mediterranean, abandoned groves are being restored to life in order to save shrinking towns and ...

Photos by Marcia Westcott Peck/Special to The Oregonian/OregonLive Dennis: We've all heard the phrase "what’s old is new again," right? Well, in the case of the subject of this column, what’s really, ...

In the ongoing pursuit of new cash crops for Hawaii, some farmers are planting Mediterranean olive trees as a possibility. Several farms on Maui have planted hundreds of plants with the first full ...

What do you think about trying to grow olive trees here? A generation or two ago, the answer to this question might likely have been: Don't bother. But as we expand globally, new gardening ideas come ...

Olive trees are resilient, don’t mind the drought or rocky soils, and can provide a bounty of olives for the table and or the press. But there is a fly in the olive oil that threatens the crop. Contra ...