the olive tree
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By students from
1st EPAL Ierapetra’s
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Introduction Olive trees can live for
hundreds of years. This is the oldest tree in the area. The maximum diameter of the trunk is 4,9 m and the circumference is 14,20 m. Based on the method of annual rings, it is estimated that the tree was planted in the period 1350-1100BC!
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Planting They must be planted in
warm places that don’t have much humidity.
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Pruning They must be pruned
every year.
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Watering Olive trees need
watering from May to November.( Those months it doesn’t rain on Crete.)
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Fertilizing You can fertilize the olive
trees in February or March after picking the olives with nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus. These fertilizers don’t leave traces in the olive oil.
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Enemies The main enemy of the
olive tree is the fruit fly. It is a fly that makes a hole in the olive and lays its eggs. When the eggs hatch the worms eat the olive. This affects the quality of the olive oil.
Fruit fly
Trap
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Diseases The main disease that
the olive tree can be affected by is a kind of carcinoma. Lumps are formed on the branches.
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Picking the olives The olives are ripe to be
picked from December to March. You use tools like rods, nets and generators.
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Conclusion Like all living organisms,
olive trees need care so that they can give us their fruit and fresh olive “juice”- olive oil.
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eTwinning project
“On a tasty European Trail”by
1st EPAL Ierapetra’sTeam Revolt
Sources:
http://www.cretanbeaches.com/Flora/The-mythical-trees-of-Crete/the-olive-tree-of-azorias/#ixzz3UAFxbS00
http://basilakakis.gr/2012/04/23/%CE%B7-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1-%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82-%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%AC%CF%82/
Olive
Drawings byTasos, Esmeralda, Soula and Zeta.