Today's harvest

[pepperhead212]

Here is the second Choy Sum plant harvested, along with 2 large leaves from the first plant. And a photo of the first plant, with 3 more stalks starting to blossom. And that huge Senposai plant, showing how large it has grown, since the first photo. I'll have to harvest some of those soon, since they are the CACA type - cut-and-come-again - what most of these greens I grow are.
That first harvested Choy Sum, with 3 buds starting up, along with many more leaves! 10-18 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

The second Choy Sum harvest, including 2 large leaves from the first plant. 10-18 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

That huge Senposai, largest of 4 - the one behind much smaller, due to shading. Trash can for size reference. 10-18 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

 

[Meryl]

My olive harvest .
Tomorrow they will be picked up to be taken to the olive mill, where they will be turned into EVOO.

 

[taxlady]

My olive harvest .
Tomorrow they will be picked up to be taken to the olive mill, where they will be turned into EVOO.

Now I am curious. How much was all of that in kg? How much EVOO do you expect to get from that? Will you get it back in bottles or some other kind of container?

 

[blissful]

@Meryl, I'm envious, for a moment, then I considered why I didn't move to italy or southern california to grow olive trees and harvest them. Now I'm just in awe. I'm so excited for you. Wonderful!

 

[jazzerlord]

My olive harvest .
Tomorrow they will be picked up to be taken to the olive mill, where they will be turned into EVOO.

Oh, I love the scale! There are so many of them!

 

[Meryl]

Thank you everyone for your very kind comments. @taxlady , these are about 240/250 kgs, because each crate can hold about 20kgs.
The number of liters of oil we will get depends on the quality, it's usually about 12/13%, so we could get about 30 liters.
We have our own oil container which will be taken with the olives tomorrow afternoon, then later me and my son will go and collect our filled oil container. It looks like this one. I don't know what they're called in English.

 

[larry_stewart]

Im envious of your harvest! Were those all hand picked? or machine picked ( like one of those machines that shake the tree and the fruit drop)?