Our friend Claudio came round this morning to help Darren lay the nets out under our olive trees.
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6 comments:
I've seen this done in Calabria. They sure are big trees.
Do they mow the grass or is it always that short?
How cool is that? Do they fall on the net at about the same time or do you make them come off all at once?
ps. I mentioned you on my blog... ;-)
By the way, you've been tagged.
That's interesting. We don't do that up here in Molfetta. We only put the nets under each tree at the moment of actually harvesting it.
Hope to have a good harvest. Don't worry about participating, take care of you!
Uffff... thats a lot of work I helped my granddad some times with olive catch and I ended "dead"...
thanks for your comments...
yes, Darren cuts the grass before laying the nets. It will grow up during the winter-long harvest, but not enough to cause problems.
it is intersting how different techniques are used for olive collections, even within Puglia. We have kind of created our own style, the more traditional way is not even to use nets but let the olives fall directly on the ground and then sweep them up and sort them. For that mthod it is really best to use weed killer to keep the grass down, somthing we really prefer not to do.
Back from a trip to London now so we will start the harvest next week, weather permitting (it has been raining heavily since our arrival yesterday, in fact the weather was so bad at Brindisi airport that we had to land at Bari, what a bore!)
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