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Both my olive trees - planted on my return from Italy in October 2006 - are awash with these small buds. Now the same thing occurred this time last year: only for them to shrivel in-situ. I gather from a friend that there is a massive rigmarole required to take olive fruit from tree to martini-glass ...
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I've heard that recently too ... but it won't stop you hoping and trying. Maybe they will like their new habitat.
Yes, the process is quite labor and time intensive. Makes me wonder how many attempts were made before man finally landed on this method for making the olive edible.
He or she must have had a really good bottle of gin.
I am not that patient - I just open the jar 8-)
As I suck the martini from the skin of the bottled-olive, I console myself with the deception that I am growing the trees to remind me of the pleasures of rural Italy ...
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