Mechanically Aided Lazy Beds - Part 2, Ploughing up the Lawn.

After consultation with the real farmers youngest son, now officially employed so will in future be refered to as "Assistant Gardner", we decided to try ploughing in the rows of cow muck.

Oddly enough, if one is to plough something one needs a plough. No problem as I had been given to borrow the old plough lying outside the hoilday house up above us.

After a little battle to extract it from where it had been lying for years we were ready to give it a go.

It worked to a fashion, helping by cutting up the turf but not coming deep enough to mix in the cow muck, which it either shoved to the side or dragged along.

It was quickly discovered that it was a much better plan to "plough" before spreading out the rows of muck. It was already clear that this was going to be one of those jobs that man worked out the most effective technique when the job was nearly done!