Spring in an olive grove
With the arrival of spring, the work of maintaining the olive groves begins: pruning the olive trees, planting new trees, working the land.
Spring is also the time when the olive trees bloom, which are adorned with pretty little white flowers.
The pruning of olive trees
The pruning of the olive trees will favor the fruiting of the olives.
In fact, to produce a lot of fruit, the olive tree needs light and air: the light needed for photosynthesis and the air for pollination.
Planting new olive trees
It is also in the spring that new olive trees are planted, so that they benefit from the maximum sunshine to grow, bud and bear fruit in the best conditions.
The work of the land
Olive growers are busy plowing, eliminating weeds, fertilizing the soil, protecting trees against insects, fungi, bacteria, viruses that develop in the spring.
Blossoming
From the beginning of April, the olive trees are covered with small white buds. These small buds, grouped in floral clusters, swell gradually, until the flowering of the olive trees during the month of May. The olive trees then present thousands of small white flowers.
The small flowers of the olive tree are not pollinated by pollinating insects, but it is the wind that carries the pollen from one flower to another, and sometimes even from one tree to another. The flowers of some olive trees pollinate each other. Other varieties need the presence of another olive tree (within a radius of at most a few hundred meters to produce fruit.
The wind then transports the pollen to the olive trees: the pistils will then transform and will give the future olives!
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Myriam & David
Definition of olive grove: an olive grove is a field of olive trees.
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