- The farewell to winter is rounded by the asparagus officinalis. We're eating very hot. Hold the challenge of the palate and place some plants in a corner of the orchard. There are no easier vegetables. And you will have some fresh asparagus for twenty years to enjoy the end of winter and especially spring. The harpak roots are planted right now. These roots will be food reserves of the plant and, year after year, as soon as they feel elongated and the environment accompany it, they will create tender outbreaks. For a large number of outbreaks, take much of the fertilizer, twice a year the best. You know, provided you give it and take it. Until the end of May, cut and eat the outbreaks. So let the roots grow to fill them with food. Bite with cold, cut and sit waiting for new outbreaks. Pay in the month of May by stopping the outbreaks and cutting the branches with yellow.
Just as you eat alevin to the asparagus, you can eat lots of plants. For example, lapa (Arctium lappa). It also receives other names: lapaitza, amanu, belaun-belar, iraxkor, apo-xatar, karlotx, lapid-belar, lapatin, mait-belar, orkatz-belar and oro-burusi, and their fruits: corzo, ohoin, lapazaz, etc. Its new stems and leaves are very good. This year I have to try them out. One of the plots that our chickens graze or graze is full of weed. Chickens don't touch it. Almost all herbs are eaten, Asuna (Dioic Urtica) and lapa (lapa grass) are the ones left on the cake, in its entirety. We're going to eat cooked like Asuna, to start with, because they're supposed to eat this way in the Middle Ages. Remember: new and soft leaves and stems. If you want to start working as a topo, you also eat the roots: the new raw and the old cooked. We will have to test them all.
The lapa grass indicates many characteristics of the land it inhabits. It is cultivated in lands with a large amount of organic matter, especially those containing very old organic matter from plants. The pH of this soil shall be between 5.5 and 6.5 points, and shall be rich in calcium, potassium and magnesium. This can be good, but it also explains it for evil: land trampled and compacted by livestock, machinery or whatever, drowned land. Therefore, we are being told that the soil where weed is settled is generally suitable for horticulture, is a field of living biological activity, well dressed in fungi, bacteria, worms, etc.
In this orchard you can also use the plant itself: the slurry of the leaves is very good mineralizing (100 grams of leaf per liter of water); the cooked water of the root drives insects away. And, as I said, it's an edible vegetable and also a medicinal herb.