Automatically translated from Basque, translation may contain errors. More information here. Elhuyarren itzultzaile automatikoaren logoa

Goodbye walnut, goodbye!

  • Goodbye walnut, goodbye! He suddenly left the office of the Landaberri radio programme on 21 October. The doubt about the walnut (Juglans regia) has become a retolica of recent years. Initially, concern came almost exclusively from their places of origin, but in a few years it has been perfectly interned. It has not reached the driest parts of the Basque Country, and it will obviously not come, but I cannot say so clearly.
Argazkia: Jakoba Errekondo.

13 November 2023 - 06:19

In our wet lands, the walnut has no future. It is. He has done so himself. Never before has it been a tree that grew and lived with profusion. Beautiful specimens are known, such as the one living in Plaza de Garde next to the Gardalar Creek, with a waist of 1.3 meters, 17 m high and 30 x 25 m extension, declared Natural Monument in 1991. It is not a physical size, but it is a heritage size: Pedro Mari Otaño, a native of the farmhouse of this name of Zizurkil, placed the walnut of his portico with verses that contrasted with the Argentine currency. The funnel (Phytolacca dioica) is an important tree of those territories and its name in Guarani means “shadow”. The two trees perfectly form the two senses of the shadow, but here you will lose the nogales shortly because it will disappear. It may not disappear, but as before the chestnut (Castanea sativa) or the elm (Ulmus minor) and now the black pine (Pinus radiata) will soon live a few specimens. People next to the house like Otaño will have more chances: “The walnut has to listen to the house’s kidneys,” the phrase says. Not because the banks revitalize, in most cases, because the first stable was there, the house's solar is well paid and mostly dry. The walnut will be dragged by moisture. Moisture stimulates fungi and a thymic wound is enough to penetrate through it and put its wood on the putrefaction path. The main current causes are the movements of dry-clay lands, as the rinsing and swelling, drying and cracking break down their weak roots, as well as the serious wounds of the cairn and the attacks of the annoying final pest, of the whole Rhagoletis fly. The latter is being slaughtered. During summer it lays eggs when the nut grain grows, in the butter of its zokots and the worm that emerges from it causes a great slaughter to eat and eat, causing serious injuries. From these wounds, the fungus stimulated by moisture will be introduced.

The panorama is the black secretion in the back of the trunk, expression of wounded roots; the trunk inside, occluded, and the inseparable nut grains of the zocalo and without forming the flesh.

Just as our grandparents greeted chestnut, it is now up to us to say “goodbye walnut, goodbye!”. Chance, the two came on the same Roman boat of dry Mediterranean lands…


You are interested in the channel: Landareak
2025-04-25 | Aiaraldea

2025-04-14 | Jakoba Errekondo
Live the Garden’s thriving terrestrial ecosystem
April takes us back to the old troubles. April will be the key of the whole year. Organising the land, completing the fertilisation, planting the seeds, arranging the pardas, sticks, nets, cords... If it’s a little bit of work, the biggest step for the new season, which will... [+]

2025-04-14 | Garazi Zabaleta
Location of Dai Konbutxa
Conbutx and fermented for life
Around 2021, the Gernika Itziar Presa Blasco began to immerse itself in the world of the convoy. “I studied teaching and worked in education for years, but when my children were born I had the opportunity to stay at home and I perceived that everything up until then had... [+]

red traffic light, deceitful of enemies
The scientific name of the insect that we present today explains, among other things, that it is red (not completely) and has no wings. They are not both wrong, but red is not their only coloration, and it has also had wings, but their size is very variable between some grains... [+]

We also lugorri
They write to me asking where to collect the medicinal plants and I usually tell them to look at the roadsides. Romanticism has harmed us in many areas of life and even here, because the medicinal plants are not (only) on the paths near the top of the mountain, nor in that... [+]

2025-04-07 | Jakoba Errekondo
So-called agriculture and land cultivation
For the farmer, gardening is only an impediment. A lot of today’s “advanced” farmers think so. In their work they don’t need orchards, chicken houses, apples or hives.

2025-04-07 | Garazi Zabaleta
It's just that...
Agroecological projects that can be developed on a small plot and without huge investments
The Basaldea de Vitoria-Gasteiz is located in the Exclusive Regenerative Agriculture Project in the Abetxu neighborhood, which is driven by Jaime García, Joseba Vigalondo and Javier Chaves. “In the primary sector, our goal is to promote new additions to the agroecological... [+]

2025-04-07 | Iñaki Sanz-Azkue
The Snake Fisherman by the River
Many will hear the serpent and think of a dry place, because the man is well aware that reptiles need heat. However, not all snakes are the same; not everyone likes the same conditions, which allows, among other things, the diversity that exists. Each one usually has its own... [+]

2025-03-31 | Garazi Zabaleta
Errekauek
“Errekauek” eta “enkarguk” etxean jasotzeko proiektua Azpeitian eta Azkoitian

Duela lau urte abiatu zuten Azpeitian Enkarguk proiektua, Udalaren, Urkome Landa Garapen Elkartearen eta Azpeitiako eta Gipuzkoako merkatari txikien elkarteen artean. “Orain proiektua bigarren fasera eraman dugu, eta Azkoitian sortu dugu antzeko egitasmoa, bere izenarekin:... [+]


2025-03-31 | Nagore Zaldua
Udaberrian sakura loreak eta itsas-tomateak

Itsasoan badira landareen itxura izan arren animalia harrapari diren izaki eder batzuk: anemonak. Kantauri itsasoan hainbat anemona espezie ditugun arren, bada bat, guztien artean bereziki erraz atzemateko aukera eskaintzen diguna: itsas-tomatea.


2025-03-31 | Jakoba Errekondo
Ohea berotzearen teknika

Ohe beroan edo hotzean egiten da hobeto lo? Nik zalantzarik ez daukat: hotzean. Landare jaioberriek bero punttu bat nahiago dute, ordea. Udaberriko ekinozio garai hau aproposa da udako eta udazkeneko mokadu goxoak emango dizkiguten landareen haziak ereiteko.


Apirila, zikloaren hasiera

Udaberrian orain dela egun gutxi sartu gara eta intxaurrondoa dut maisu. Lasai sentitzen dut, konfiantzaz, bere prozesuan, ziklo berria hasten. Plan eta ohitura berriak hartu ditut apirilean, sasoitu naiz, bizitzan proiektu berriei heltzeko konfiantzaz, indarrez, sormen eta... [+]


Borrokak balio du: Israel Premier Tech, ez aurten, ez inoiz

Aurten "Israel Premier Tech" txirrindularitza talde israeldarra ez da Lizarraldeko Miguel Indurain Sari Nagusia lasterketara etorriko. Berri ona da hori Palestinaren askapenaren alde gaudenontzat eta munstro sionistarekin harreman oro etetea nahi dugunontzat, izan... [+]


Samariar baltsamoa

Sare sozialen kontra hitz egitea ondo dago, beno, nire inguruan ondo ikusia bezala dago sare sozialek dakartzaten kalteez eta txarkeriez aritzea; progre gelditzen da bat horrela jardunda, baina gaur alde hitz egin nahi dut. Ez ni optimista digitala nauzuelako, baizik eta sare... [+]


2025-03-24 | Jakoba Errekondo
Ilargiko borda, lurra eta ilintia

Bada Borda bat ilargian. Bai, bai, Borda izeneko krater bat badu ilargiak; talka krater edo astroblema bat da, ilargiaren ageriko aldean dago eta bere koordenadak 25º12’S 46º31’E dira; inguruan 11 krater satelite ditu. Akizen jaiotako Jean Charles Borda de... [+]


Eguneraketa berriak daude