How to grow an olive tree in a container

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The olives add a Mediterranean touch to your home. We do not live in southern Europe and California to enjoy the leathery, gray-green leaves of an olive tree. Nor is it necessary to Olive Garden, on balconies or within can be grown easily.

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Most nurseries offer potted olive trees for sale. You need to repot the olive tree a year later as the roots begin to fill the container to normal. AYour olive tree comfortable I suggest you buy a large clay pot with a drainage hole on the bottom, fast draining potting soil and fertilizer balanced houseplant on the same day.

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For your olive tree to find a place near a sunny window is located to the south. Your olive tree will take six hours of direct sunlight a day in order to thrive. The dish should not be installed near a heater or a vent. Also, when you place the plant nearthe window as a magnifying glass can "burn" the olive tree and act.

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Once you have found a comfortable place to an olive tree, you need to transplant your tree into the pot. I suggest you position the terra cotta pot first and bring the soil and the tree in the pot and work there, because if the pot full of earth, can be very difficult to replace.

First fill the terracotta pot half full with a mixture of potting.

Then moisten theSoil.

The olive tree, the roots without damaging the original packaging, you must remove the border and then attack the pot on the head.

Tap the pot gently with the palm.

The shift of oil.

Take the tree and loosen the sides of the root ball with your thumb.

Place the root ball of the olive tree, which makes about 1 cm below the rim of the pot.

Then fill the pot withthe rest of the mixture ground.

Solve the soil around the olive tree.

Then the rinse water.

You will know when your olive tree by putting your finger in the ground-water mixture. If it feels dry an inch below the surface and well water. In the colder months, the olive trees natural to take a break if you need less water in fall and winter. But make sure that the soil does not dry out! In winter, fertilize just once a month andin summer, every two weeks.

You can cut the ends of the branches in spring to encourage bushy growth on the head. The cuts where where a pair of leaves attached to a stick.

Unfortunately, the trees, sometimes olive-scale soft-bodied, small insects, brownish yellow based on the trunks of trees and suck sap from the plant becomes the victim. To remove the ladder, you must spray the tree with insecticidal soap. GardenCenters have different types of remedies for internal use.

Enjoy your olive tree.

How to grow an olive tree in a container

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