- Modern life is stressful, polarized, politicized, virtual and terrible. The solution is plants.” With this phrase from the horticulturist and writer Joseph Tychonievich opens the agenda Luna and plants of 2024. Well, if the solution is the plant, Jakoba Errekondo and Antton Olariaga are a good tool to care for and pamper them. On this occasion, twelve companion animals are invited back to their party: alimoche, cirauna, antzandobia, kiribilarra, snake, lirón, espinoso, esquilaso, becada, txepetxa, topo and badón. And this 2024 has another novelty: It was first published in the ‘eco-edition’ label. On September 28, the authors Jakoba Errekondo and Antton Olariaga will present the agenda in Orio, and the brothers Unai and Eñaut Agirre will sing ancient verses on the beasts. We interviewed Errekondo.
If there is still a ruthless one, explain what this agenda is…
It's a common agenda, made to score, but also to target the work we do with plants.
And what does Jakoba Errekondo point to?
The dates of the work are: the subscriber, the preparation of a site, the date of planting of the plants, if it is in the fourth growing, or in the fourth decreasing, the variety of plants they are, if they work well to repeat them the following year, the date of harvesting of the crops…, each can gather all the information you want on the agenda.
In the agenda you will find a lot of information and resources. What paragraphs do you have?
This tool consists of four sections: orchard, fruit, garden and forest. Monthly work has been explained on each of them. On the other hand, we have collected the fresh vegetables we have each month, to learn to eat the season and the native and to have a healthy diet. We have also received the state of the moon weekly, with its two cycles: waning moon and new moon. The functioning of the Moon is explained at the beginning of the agenda.
To what extent would you say that this effect of the Moon in the orchard and in the forest, and what does it particularly affect?
Well, I always say the moon doesn't milagra, but it helps, it helps in the orchard. But of course, for that we must have all the work done well. If you don’t pay, if you don’t know the soil well, if you don’t respect planting and fertilization times… you’ll ask the moon for nothing. But of course it has influence. It affects everything when throwing trees for wood, when picking fruit, when planting, when fertilising, when grafting…!
Anyone who has taken notes every year on the agenda already has a good encyclopedia…
Imagine! It's the seventh year we published the Moon agenda. Well, this horticulturist who has been collecting all the above information has tremendous information about his land and his vegetable garden. Finally, we can say that parsley can be made from May to September, but perhaps somewhere else too in April comes well. Learning by pointing is the agenda’s proposal, a tool to learn more about the garden of each.