Lazybeds

[4wd]

*what!*

A way to grow spuds on a small scale in difficult conditions.
A couple of interesting pictures here of beds set up for planting in 1970, and what it looks like now in the same spot.

www.geograph.org.uk/photo/200780

www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1340713

[rgsp]

I don't know where the term "lazy beds" came from. Anything less lazy than carting seaweed and shell sand from the beach in baskets on ones back I cannot imagine. I've been visiting the Hebrides since about 1958, and have noticed the reduction in lazybeds, but I can't say I'm surprised.

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Jun 7, 2009 19:45:39 GMT rgsp said:

I don't know where the term "lazy beds" came from. Anything less lazy than carting seaweed and shell sand from the beach in baskets on ones back I cannot imagine. I've been visiting the Hebrides since about 1958, and have noticed the reduction in lazybeds, but I can't say I'm surprised.

Potatoes come in sacks on the ferry or are grown on the machair where tractors can be used.
I've got a print of my first ones which started the now overgrown garden. I'll ask DH to scan it for me if someone will put it on here - I'm too B lazy to learn just now!