Olive growers used to swear by Olivarda, otherwise known as mata- mosca or fly killer. Not that there are any olives our way this year, but it is an attractant to the wasps that go after the olive fruit fly.

This happens to be under a tree that is a pain to pick anyway, being near a building. The smart way of doing is it to plant it out in huge areas along or around the margins of olive grove terracing.

And that's all I know about olives 😂

It's going to be weird having literally not one olive on 200 trees after this last year's marathon where the harvest was beyond record breaking and the mills closed weeks later than usual, but still before everything was picked.

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