If you want to grow an olive tree indoors, you absolutely can. You just need to get the right variety and make sure it has ...

Q: I have an olive tree that produces many olives. In previous years, I have collected the ripe olives and home-cured them with good results. This year, when I soaked them overnight, there were ...

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 olives you got at the store. Be patient! It can take years ...

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 ...

It is very hip to grow your own olives in the Northwest. Olive trees are beautiful, evergreen, drought-tolerant and unfussy about soil, and the right cultivars will produce high-quality olives for ...

Q: My single backyard tree is healthy and produces abundantly every year. However, the olives are inedible. I took a couple of them to West End Nursery in San Rafael and showed them that every olive ...

Start with the right pot size. Young fruit trees should generally be potted in a 5- to 10-gallon container. Gradually ...

When my Palm Springs neighbor remodeled his front entry, he moved a mature olive tree to a better spot just ten feet away. I thought he was nuts doing it midsummer, but this experience proved to be ...

VILLA DEL RIO, SPAIN — Texas is the new frontier for olive oil, the world's "green gold." The state already has a small olive oil industry, but now that Spanish food giant Grupo Sos plans to plant ...