Huerto or Huerta
If there are two more confused (and potentially confusing) words in Castellano (or Asturianu), I am unaware of them. However, once you understand the difference, they seem as simple as any other.
Huerto / Güertu
A small piece of land, usually walled or fenced, for the cultivation of vegetables and fruit trees.[1] The best English translation is "kitchen garden", as both that term and huerto are functionally identical to the French potager.
As used in most of Asturias, this is a vegetable garden, plain and simple. Much as a small farmer in North America makes a distinction between the vegetable plots they grow for their own consumption and the cash crops grown for sale, or between the intensive vegetable plots and the less intensive field crops.
Huerta / Tierra / Güerta
A large piece of land, for the cultivation of vegetables and cereals. Irrigated land.[2]
As used, this is where field crops are grown. Beans, cereal crops, potatoes, all the things grown in great quantities. These do not include pastures (praos).[3]
- ↑ REAL ACADEMIA ESPAÑOLA: Diccionario de la lengua española, 23.ª ed. https://dle.rae.es/?w=huerto
- ↑ REAL ACADEMIA ESPAÑOLA: Diccionario de la lengua española, 23.ª ed. https://dle.rae.es/?w=huerta
- ↑ Vila Díez, Sara. La Huerta Ecológica Asturiana. 1a ed, Glayiu, 2013.
