Lazy Beds

Playing blog catch up as normal, now reporting an activity 1 week ago.

Saturday of last weekend we took a trip to the nearest large garden centre and bought our set Potatoes, as follows.

Juni, Early, 8 Kg
Berber, early Main, 4.2 Kg
Laila, Main, 6 Kg (The same spuds as last year)

After reading all about Lazy beds in an edition of the excellent Kitchen Garden Magazine, it was decided that we would give this technique a go.

The procedure went roughly as follows,

1: Spread the cow muck, delivered by the young lad in the photo(no not me), into the required rows.

2: Place set potatoes on cow muck.



3: "Fold over" turf/soil on top of potatoes, ensuring most grass/weeds are face down into the cow muck

4: Admire the result of 3 hard hours work and check every day for signs of progress.....