Things Needed
Olives are spring up for use up and for production of olive oil . Olives can be harvest at any point from immature immature yield to fully ripened . When the olives should be harvested depends on what the olives will be used for and the flavor desired . Olives for eating are handpicked to avoid wound . Olives for crude production can be harvested automatically or with script profligate . All olives need to be serve straight off after picking .
Choosing a Time to Harvest
Step 1
Harvest Olea europaea from recent August through November , count on your location and desire ripeness .
Step 2
Determine the flavour profile you want . Olives can be picked at any point from green to completely advanced ; the savour will vary at each dot . The earlier you harvest olives , the more bitter they will taste . Olives become more mild in relish as they mature .
Step 3
Choose a time to harvest when you may devote all of your time and tending to the harvest . Reserve equipment for milling or curing your olives immediately after harvest home , as flavor degrades with clip .
Step 4
Line up friends and relatives to help with the harvest . The harvest require to be action apace and wholly , especially if you are processing your olives for oil . Harvesting olives ask many hands .
Step 5
Monitor the weather . Wet , showery weather will spoil the olive before they can be processed .
Harvesting for Oil
Schedule the olive harvest as before long as the yield reaches maximum size of it . big olives will have more rock oil , but oil proceeds cut down as the olive ripen . crude oil from green fruit has a longer shelf life , but it may be biting and need several months to melt the flavor .
Gather tarps and rakes for each person to use in harvesting . shoes tarps under the trees and crease through the branches to free the olive . cumulate the olives from the tarps . Tree shakers and mechanical rakes can also be used when harvesting olives for oil .
beak olives after for a more mellowed oil color with a idle yellow color . Oil from olive harvest later has a shorter ledge life .
glean all of the olives when the majority of the olives have make the desire stage of ripeness . Pick each tree fair and remove any olives from the ground . Olives left on the ground will molder and promote disease .
Olives for Brining
Handpick olives for brine to avoid wound that rake can cause . This method acting is more sentence - consuming but can be disseminate out to produce dissimilar batch of European olive tree .
Pick green olives for brine heal when olives are fledged but before they start to change color . Continue peck for brine curing as the olives mature .
Handpick olives for Hellenic - stylus curing when the olives are mature and have turned obscure - red to purpleness . They will turn ignominious after heal . little varieties of olives are proficient for Greek - fashion olive .
