Table of Contents Introduction The Olive Fruit Growing Olives Soil and Nutrient Requirements Propagation of Olives Planting of Olive Trees Training and Pruning of Olive Trees Enemies of Olive Trees Harvesting Olives Olive Oil Extracting Olive Oil Pickled Olives Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction If you found yourself in Palestinian, Syria, and Crete, Jordan and other Mediterranean regions more than 4000 years ago, you would naturally be very bewildered at the wide-ranging variety of plants growing at that time. Many of the species are extinct today. However, there is one plant which you would recognize really joyfully as something which grows even today, and flourishes from Portugal to Bermuda, from California to the Norfolk Islands and Mauritius - the Olive.