Tomatea, Solanum lycopersicum, euskaldunon erregina bihurtu da. Sasoi honetan baratzean, lore tartean, balkoian, leihoan, non ez da jartzen egun? Udako beste barazkiekin aspaldi abiatutako norgehiagokan nagusitzen ari da. Gailurreratu eta buruntzatu dugu. Koittauok!
Tomatea Ameriketatik ekarritako fruitua dugu. Ehunka urte kosta zaio euskaldunon konfiantza eta gure mahaietan normaltasunez ikusteko ohorea irabaztea. Geure amak, umetan tomatea jaten ikas genezan, olio-ozpinez beharrean, azukrez jantzita jartzen zigun. Kanpotarra dela-eta sekula jan ez duenik ere ba omen da gure aurreko belaunaldi horretan.
Kaktusek arantzak dituzten bezala, tomateak ileak ditu hosto, txorten eta zuztar, fruitua ez beste guztian. Lehor-zale amorratua dela adierazten du horrek, giro idorreko ingurunetako landarea. Ileak izateak ur gehiena lurretik hartuko duela adierazten du. Ameriketatik ekarri eta Euskal Herria atlantikoko giro umelean jarrita, hezetasun horrexek hauspotzen dituen onddo gaitza sortzaileen erasoekin erdipurdi bizi da. Hau da, iraun. Eta bizi, ondo bizi ez denak ezin fruitua oparo eman. Plako bizi denak ezin lodi eman. Euskal Herria mediterraneoko giro agorretan, aldiz, ederto biziko da eta gogotik emango du. Hegoaldean tomateari makilarik ere ez zaio jartzen, lurrean herrestan zabaltzen da, hezetasunari hedetuta datozen gaitz horien beldur handirik gabe. Iparralde atlantikoan lanak ditugu tomatearekin. Nonahiko hezetasunari ihesi eraiki behar dugu tomate saila baratzean. Hezetasun bikoitza, lurrekoa eta airekoa.
Aldatu aurretik bi buelta eman arazo bikoitz honi. Eta, adibidez, honelakoei ekin: lur bero, eguzkitsu eta harroena aukeratu. Paretaren kontrako txokoak dira onenak; lehorrak eta horma beroen altzoan. Lurra harrotzeko hondarra, karea edota sutako hautsa eman lurrari. Baratzean ilara arteko eta ilaran landaretik landarerako tartea bikoiztu; airea errazago mugituko da eta eguzkiak landare guztia berotuko du, baita lurra ere. Gainera, geu tomate artean mugitzen garenean ez dugu hosto edo adarrik hautsiko eta gaitzei atea irekiko dien zauririk eragingo. Bestetik, aldatzeko lur ttonttorrak egin. Lur-arrasean kapilaritatez behetik igo den uraren maila dago; koska bat eginez ur horri ihes egiten zaio, zainei lur lehor zatiaren arnasa emanez. Ikusi, bestela, olibondoak nola koska baten gainean jartzen diren. Eta bukatzeko, aldatu berritan, itsasteko soilik ureztatu. Hortik aurrera tomatea ez ureztatu. Urak landarea gaixotze bidean jartzeaz gain, kilotan haziko ditu tomateak. Eta, tomate goxoa ala ura jan nahi duzu?
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... [+]
The Catalan town of Puigcerdá is located on the mountain, in the Pyrenees, at 1,200 meters altitude, and is home to harsh winters. It is reminiscent of the times when we were experiencing a more unpeaceful climate here.
For hundreds of years they have eaten there, like us,... [+]
Sprouts without head, Brassica oleracea var. acephala edo var. viridis, Galician cabbage and wheat cabbage. In Galicia it is the cabbage, the most common. It is used to make the green soup, which has a great glory. From Euskal Herria and following the shore of the Atlantic, you... [+]
The most renowned saffron, the Crocus sativus, is Spanish. Everyone sells Spanish saffron. Many of the azafranes that are produced in the world travel to Spain and are sold as if outside here. A formidable theft is organized. It's expensive, it's very expensive, and the thymus is... [+]
Casp herbs (Symphytum officinale and Symphytum tuberosum) are suitable for auzolan. They do a great job of promoting their environment, an ecosystem that complements their life. They're kind to the ones next to them and they're kind. Above all, take into account those who have... [+]