Olive trees? Does anyone have or know about growing Olive trees in Texas?

[Kingfisher789]

I’m just curious. I’ve known folks have been growing in Texas for years but have no clue as what sort of soil they need to produce. Thanks in advance.

[wickll]

I heard that you don't want a real fertile soil, but don't know if that is correct. But I do know that the "big freeze" did a lot of havoc on the trees in our area.

[Walker]

There's a big Grove down south of Pearsall in that red sandy soil.

[brokeno]

There is an olive orchard between Cuero and Victoria. It did take a hit during the big freeze but looks like up they came back fine.

[Kingfisher789]

I heard that you don't want a real fertile soil, but don't know if that is correct. But I do know that the "big freeze" did a lot of havoc on the trees in our area.

Yea I don’t think it freezes much in Spain or Italy! Thanks

[Fishndude]

We have a serious olive guy here. Texana Olive Ranch

[Kingfisher789]

There is a Olive company store front in San Saba.

[RedBear78]

I’ve been planting Olive trees for landscaping purposes for years.They are evergreen and I love the color.The hard freeze we had killed a lot in the Beaumont area.There were some up and coming farms in the area that lost about 80 percent of there trees.Olives can grow in a wide variety of soil but don’t like to much water in poorly draining soil.I’ve seen them take middle 20s over night with just a little burn but once it gets into the teens most of the ones I’ve used just can’t take it.But then again a lot of plants that are common down here can’t take it either.Arbaquina and Mission olives are the varieties I’ve had the best success with,Wilsoni do well here also but are fruitless.

[K. Lane]

One of m best friends owns a 600 acre olive farm...I could ask them specifics if needs be. They have a commercial olive oil operation in the anahuac/devers area

[Draco]

My Wife's best friend has 2 in her yard in Tucson. When I first looked at them, there were thousands of olives on the ground. The next morning, there were none. I asked her what happened to all the olives and she told me that the ground squirrels haul them all under ground during the night. There must be one massive cache of olives under the ground.

[rtjh]

1836 Olive Company in Carrizo Springs has a commercial operation. Might check with her about growing conditions. The orchard is on a slope.

[Geezy Rider]

The only thing I know about olive trees is that you don’t want to try and eat one straight off the tree, they be nasty.

[3DW5]

I have a fairly big one in my backyard.
My sister has numerous one all in Southeast Houston.

[HeyMikey]

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[Strummer]

We have a serious olive guy here. Texana Olive Ranch

That’s junebug right ? Or that’s what he called when they still had the radio station.