Mechanically Aided Lazy Beds - Part One, Muck Spreading

Planting spuds time has come and gone. Don't panic they're in the ground, just, but I'm behind with blogging as ever. Anyway, after discussion with the father in law, and contemplating the state of the lawn the decision was taken to use part of it to grow spuds. Originally, my plan was to take advantage of the soil conditioning and fertilising for one year and plant a newer better lawn the year after. However, Mrs VL in conjuction with her mother have come up with a better idea, more later.

So, in keeping with the last couple of years, we've gone for lazy beds. Those of you in the know will be aware that the first ingredient for lazy beds is a big heap of cow muck, which the real farmers next door have good supply of and are always willing to deliver!


This time, the pile was left a fair distance from it's final location. What better tool to move the muck and spread it into smaller piles than the David Brown.


It took quite a few trips across the lawn to move all the muck (more than a few tons of the stuff) but the ground was good and hard from the recent prolonged dry spell so no harm done!


With that job done, it was just a case of spreading it out into rows, putting the spuds on the muck and folding turfs over on top. Already at this stage I was trying to work out how as much of this work as possible could be done using one or the other tractor.....