Without losing the rumor
I need four plants to complete the list of the thirteen that the Basques would get us to grieve. Some of us have helped us survive: food, materials... And others living: creating spirituality... We have needed everything. Also to complete the body. In addition to that of Facebook, Edorta, who is also my friend, proposes to me the verbena (Verbena officinalis) as a representative of medicinal herbs. Although I am passionate about this delicious herb with a square trunk, among the medicinal herbs I have my favorites, my friend.
Pasmobel bat, Anagallis arvensis. I picked up, dried up and collected everything I find around me, year after year, and every year the stack runs out, it has a terrible order. It's the most admired medicinal herb in our environment. It's one of those that seems to heal you just from pronouncing its name. Witchcraft. And that's right: If you're infected, drink water for three days in fasting. You'll soon guess the pus and run away.
Malva, Malva sylvestris, I also have it among my favorites. My grandmother always had a medicinal herb near the door. There is also a delicious delicacy, new salad leaves and flowers anyway. He is given a curse for the cattle that have lost the rumor to recover the amount of food he needs. They witness many similar treatments between this plant and our culture, names we have, besides the Latin of the colonizer: ziga, zigi, ziguin...
A representative of all the grains had to be chosen, and for me wheat, Triticum spp. The word "corn" is Greek and means bread or staple food. The Basques have had many basic foods (hur, ezkur, gurbe, sagarmin...) but among those we have turned them into bread after flour and fermentation, wheat will be the most suitable. Millet, Panicum miliaceum and corn, Zea mays, with or without the permission of the mythics.
And I can't end without putting a plant that explains the debt that we Basques have to the advanced cultures of Asia, right? Most of the plants that have filled our orchards, fields, large cabins and nurseries and the ways of cultivating them we have inherited them from them. And to choose one, garlic, Allium sativum; or rather, garlic, Allium spp. From my grandmother's hard garlic soup, any simple Mugaritz meal, to the cider hake sauce of my own fame. Garlic, worshipped.
It has small, hairy leaves on the bottom and extends the head between 20 and 40 cm. It's known as Bulgarian Viagra, Scarid Sideritis. It's a blue-like plant, because its hair gives it a bluish color. It lives in the rocky spots of the high mountains and everyone who has lived in... [+]
Euskal Herrian bertakotzat dugun baratzegintza eredua produktu historiko modernoa da guztiz. Oraintxe landatuak izango dituzten Ezpeletako, Ibarrako eta Gernikako piperrak; Tolosako babarrunak; Arabako patata; edo Duzunaritzeko arto gorria; guztiak dira 1492tik Amerikako... [+]
Datorren uztailean izango al dugu lanik? Izango al dugu labore uzta biltzeko lanik? Gure aldean, etorkizuna planifikatzeko eta antolatzeko gaitasun handia dute landareek; ia landare guztiek. Bere zikloa biziko den tokian gertatuko diren gorabeheretara egokitua izango da... [+]
Omitting all the fruits meted out,” the expression says. Mandio is a handful of apples, pumpkin and kiwi (Malus domestica, Cucurbita maxima and Actinidia chinensis). Many more will be maize (Zea mays); or beans (Phaseolus vulgaris); potato (Solanum tuberosum), onion (Allium... [+]
Do you have a vegetable garden? As a child, the two orchards I've met at home had a wall. One on the lap and the other on one side. A good use of the walls will make the garden have a great benefit. It will create a shelter: it will be placed in the right place to shade, or to... [+]
I should like to take this opportunity to comment on it to the reader: the longest days of the year have gone and the night has elongated and the daylight has begun to shorten. This will have terrible consequences on plants and let's avoid in nosotros.Este summer that we just... [+]
Make a hole with the planter and put the plant in. The grief guindillas (Capsicum annuum), which will heat up by the summer of this year, are already planted. Just to think about it, my teeth got sweaty.
In our town the river Oria becomes a curl, and in the people of the banks... [+]
From red, Rubus fruticosus and Rubus ulmifolius. In the red stem the new buds and leaves are red, although soon they will look green. In autumn, even when the cold burns your skin, the leaves will become red. Red in butter and red in old trash. Some say that the name of Rubus of... [+]
Most crops have been harvested. The end of the plant cycle is the germ that initiates the cycle of another new plant. When we replenish the harvest, we tend to collect fruits or seeds and eat from the two to warm up the winter. The plant has devoted enormous forces to the... [+]
Garlic, Allium sativum, is never missing in our kitchen. Dry heads hanging all year and new for the first six months. Garlic heads and grains are drifting away from home to the orchard, the time of sows. Also later, outside the planting season, garlic should go to the orchard... [+]
The garlic season is already here. Planting season of garlic. His harvest will be later, and he has to start working in the head. In the head, the garlic. But we don't all look for the garlic head. The garlic sown for greens is increasingly seen in orchards. Also in the orchards... [+]
I answer with a point, not of fear, but of respect and shame, more and more often, to whom I ask almost anything on plants. And that point is getting bigger and bigger.
In the evening, someone asked me when to sow the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). I was willing to give way to... [+]