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Quote: I have 2 olive trees, and I get mor then 200 kg every other year, ( olives have two year cycel of production) but the problem here that we have the olive fly, that devastate the yeald, and I dont want to use pesticide, so I have problem.... Mabe I will make olive oil next year, will see!


Benny, we have the olive fly here in California too. It's recommended that you pick up all old olive fruits from the ground, as that is where the flies lay their eggs. Tricky part is, all your neighbors with olive trees have to do the same. Some info here includes safe treatment for certified organic growers - http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/r583301311.html

This is from the UCDavis site:

Cultural Control

Sanitation is important in reducing overall fly densities. Remove old fruit remaining on trees following harvest and destroy all fruit that are on the ground by either burying at least 4 inches deep or taking to the landfill. Extremely high fly populations can occur in fruited varieties of landscape trees and in unmaintained ornamental situations. These can be a significant source for invasion of commercial groves. Prevent fruiting on landscape trees in spring by using a chemical such as naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA; Olive Stop) or destroy fruit on the ground in fall to reduce this invasion pathway. An areawide approach is needed to reduce olive fly densities where commercial plantings are near ornamental or unmaintained trees.
Olive fruit fly adults feed on honeydew. Reducing black scale populations may reduce a food source needed during high summer temperatures.

Organically Acceptable Methods

Cultural controls, the use of GF-120 Naturalyte Fruit Fly Bait (spinosad), sprays of kaolin clay, and mass trapping are acceptable for use in an organically certified crop.
 
Try thus rub: garlic, Salvia- sage, salt, olive oil, bp, rosmary, all hand crushed in a mortar and rubbed on and in the lamb leg. You can make sume cuts in the leg and enter to them some smoked gees brest ( or bacon that I don't eat. :lol: ) What kind of chip you used? Hickory? Cherry?
that sounds good too, I had a jar I put together prior for meat so it went to use. There was bacon in the rissotto, enough to give that extra salty crisp. Hickory chips from the store but I kept pouring the end of some heady beers on them before they were applied to said coals. Can't wait for all the fruit trees to get big enough to limb for smoking, should be picking up another olive next week to add to the orchard. A.
I have 2 olive trees, and I get mor then 200 kg every other year, ( olives have two year cycel of production) but the problem here that we have the olive fly, that devastate the yeald, and I dont want to use pesticide, so I have problem.... Mabe I will make olive oil next year, will see!
Benny, we have the olive fly here in California too. It's recommended that you pick up all old olive fruits from the ground, as that is where the flies lay their eggs. Tricky part is, all your neighbors with olive trees have to do the same. Some info here includes safe treatment for certified organic growers - http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/r583301311.html This is from the UCDavis site:
Cultural Control

Sanitation is important in reducing overall fly densities. Remove old fruit remaining on trees following harvest and destroy all fruit that are on the ground by either burying at least 4 inches deep or taking to the landfill. Extremely high fly populations can occur in fruited varieties of landscape trees and in unmaintained ornamental situations. These can be a significant source for invasion of commercial groves. Prevent fruiting on landscape trees in spring by using a chemical such as naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA; Olive Stop) or destroy fruit on the ground in fall to reduce this invasion pathway. An areawide approach is needed to reduce olive fly densities where commercial plantings are near ornamental or unmaintained trees. Olive fruit fly adults feed on honeydew. Reducing black scale populations may reduce a food source needed during high summer temperatures.
Organically Acceptable Methods

Cultural controls, the use of GF-120 Naturalyte Fruit Fly Bait (spinosad), sprays of kaolin clay, and mass trapping are acceptable for use in an organically certified crop.
Thanks my freind I do use the yelow stiky pads and some pheromones trap, but it is not a big sucsses, abaout cleaning the fallen fruit no chance of that! Almost all my neighbors have olive trees! Can't see it hapens! I think to cover the tree by a special type of netting, the problem is that the net prevent pollinators so as I have said before, I have a problem........:lol:
 
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I have 2 olive trees, and I get mor then 200 kg every other year, ( olives have two year cycel of production) but the problem here that we have the olive fly, that devastate the yeald, and I dont want to use pesticide, so I have problem.... Mabe I will make olive oil next year, will see!

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those are great looking trees, mine still have quite a ways to go before they are that size. Do you know how old they are? I spray around here with a mixture of neem oil, hot pepper, and a dash of dish soap in 3 gallons of water in a hand pump spray but I think those trees might be to big for that. Lol. Do fly predators go after olive flys? Now I need to look that up.
Looking forward to seeing the process if you plan on making oil, it'll be a first for me.

Might have to give this one a whirl. Great thread by the way.

Welcome and thanks. I think using my smaller/bantam eggs will produce a fuller flavor throughout the egg but I'm still planning on adjusting the seasonings. Everyone at work seemed to like them including my boss and our sommelier, and I respect both of their opinions greatly.

@wishing4wings great info from Davis, Thanks.

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There just basic things, I can manage a roast dinner and the other half does the Yorkshire puddings
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His always turn out better than mine.

I'm meaning anything fancy I can't do!
York, I would love to learn how to make yorkshire pudding. Im not even 100 percent sure what it is.. but is it bread that you bake with your meats that gather the juices as it cooks. I would love insight.
 
Thanks my freind I do use the yelow stiky pads and some pheromones trap, but it is not a big sucsses, abaout cleaning the fallen fruit no chance of that! Almost all my neighbors have olive trees! Can't see it hapens! I think to cover the tree by a special type of netting, the problem is that the net prevent pollinators so as I have said before, I have a problem........
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A neighbor friend of mine walked around our little area asking (demanding- in a nice way!) that others take care of their trees so she could get a decent crop. No olive trees here. I want figs. The deer don't eat those either.


Most welcome, Attimus. I didn't even know about it until the neighbor told me.
 
that sounds good too, I had a jar I put together prior for meat so it went to use. There was bacon in the rissotto, enough to give that extra salty crisp. Hickory chips from the store but I kept pouring the end of some heady beers on them before they were applied to said coals. Can't wait for all the fruit trees to get big enough to limb for smoking, should be picking up another olive next week to add to the orchard.

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I have a crab apple tree in my yard that I use to smoke with.. if I am out, I opt to buy wood chips from the store... Depending on the size of meat, I will usually get mesquite, but hickory would be choice two.. if it is for smaller cuts like chicken... I like an apple wood. I converted my old grill into a smoker and use a gas grill for easy cooking during the summer.
 
Roasted Beets!!! I love beets!!! cant wait for that one Zach!!!:pop   and images!!!! :highfive:
sadly we did not run the pork shank Saturday night which meant no salad either. I did get the components together during brunch but was no part of its plating last night. I'm gonna ask my boss if he got pictures today but I fear the presentation might be lacking as some of the other cooks are a bit heavy handed.

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I have a crab apple tree in my yard that I use to smoke with.. if I am out, I opt to buy wood chips from the store... Depending on the size of meat, I will usually get mesquite, but hickory would be choice two.. if it is for smaller cuts like chicken... I like an apple wood. I converted my old grill into a smoker and use a gas grill for easy cooking during the summer. 
fire was started with mesquite oak coals, stoked with the oak we just fell the other day and topped with the chips close to the end. Wish there was a scratch and sniff app
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cause this stuff was off the chain.
I've been simmering the bone and some veg sraps since last night, making a real nice stock, for what I don't know but couldn't pass up the chance.

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fire was started with mesquite oak coals, stoked with the oak we just fell the other day and topped with the chips close to the end. Wish there was a scratch and sniff app

cause this stuff was off the chain.
I've been simmering the bone and some veg sraps since last night, making a real nice stock, for what I don't know but couldn't pass up the chance.

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That looks good... Now I must figure out something to grill tonight.....
 

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