Love to get a couple in the backyard and maybe try my hand at pressing my own oil. Anybody had luck growing them and getting them to produce fruit in the Cherokee County area?
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Anybody grown olive trees successfully in NW GA?
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Reports are about 80% of the stuff in stores isn't actually olive oil but a blend of other oils. I make a decent amount of homemade chimichurri as is and would like to try and get a small side hustle going and this seems like the most cost effective route for high quality oil at next to nothing after initial investment.
South GA they can, not sure about North GA
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We don't get real olive oil here. Highly controlled by the mafia.
Too cold in northern zone 8.
Try south of Macon and you may get fruit.
Olive is also pH sensitive. Have to maintain 6- 8 if I recall correctly
Try south of Macon and you may get fruit.
Olive is also pH sensitive. Have to maintain 6- 8 if I recall correctly
I live in Cumming ga, and my neighbor has them growing wild in his property and on the Corp property that joins lake Lanier behind his house.
What I have read/heard as well. And in a food item where oil is the primary ingredient, it makes a difference. Always tried to figure out what the difference in the stuff I used to make in Argentina and the stuff I make here and I think a large part is the oil quality.
I had one for years but it was just ornamental. Zone 8A but lost it in the tornado Jan 23.
