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Councillor for Agriculture and Environment, Celia Martinez visited this morning a neighbor of Santiago de la Ribera, Eustaquio Chico, who has collected an orange about 1 kilo of oranges that are in your small garden, "but to take several days outside the tree has lost weight by fluid loss, "said proud owner.
This is the first time that the orange, the only tree in the garden, so generous fruit gives him though recudir cost of harvesting.
According to last year Eustace Chico collected over 300 oranges, all of a normal size.
Instead, this year, has collected only 18, but all of them large, like the photograph that exceeds nine times the normal weight of an orange.
The care of the tree, is the same, however.
Sheep manure, watering, pruning, and avoid chemicals is the formula used by Eustaquio "besides love to try it," says the retired priest Leon arrived in Santiago de la Ribera 12 years ago by the boom of a climate improved his health, and where you feel fully integrated.
Eustaquio Chico, who served as pastor of Laciana Villaseca, Leon, before arriving at La Ribera, never engaged in farming, but was born into a family dedicated to the field.
Now, in addition to any ornamental plant uses its small garden as experimental garden where he also planted strawberries, padron peppers and cucumbers.
Councillor for Agriculture and Environment, Celia Martinez, whose council has organized courses and promotes urban gardens organic school gardens, visit Eustatius wanted "to give visibility to cases like this and show that it is possible to grow plants in small spaces and even achieve such dramatic results. "
The visit ended with a tasting of one of the big orange harvest its owner shared, like a watermelon, with presents.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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