Making a (lazy) bed - a traditional Irish raised bed
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- Опубликовано: 28 окт 2024
- A short film demonstrating how to make a traditional Irish raised bed from Heritage in Schools Specialists Ian McGrigor and Niamh Ní Dhuill at Gortbrack Organic Farm in Kerry in April 2020.
What a great explanation. It is indeed called a "lazy Bed" but it's far from lazy. I used to make lazy bed but now I grow my spuds in old paint buckets. It's cheap!, easy and plentiful. Just chuck them into a wheelbarrow come harvest or carry the buckets into a shed for winter storage. Works equally well for carrots and onions.
When u carry buckets into shed for winter.. do you leave potatoes soil etc in the buckets??
@@fuchsiagreen1377 hello Fuchsia Green. Yes indeed I just carry the buckets into my shed. I have small drainage holes at the bottom and last year I grew a new variety called "JACKY" which is a new blight free spud from Holland. Good luck with your garden this year.
I always wondered why our neighbors across the pond used those little spades. What beautiful soil!
Great job you did .. very informative and correct .I put in potatoes like this over 40 years ago with my granddad
Fantastic. We'll be using this method in our new vegetable garden in North Cork.
There is a book on potatoes I came across. It argued had this technique been stuck with the potato famine in Eire would have been
ameliorated.
Thanks so much! I love this!
That’s a good bed butI would leave the spuds 24 to 48 hours to scab after cutting or they are more likely to rot in the ground.
Ive planted both and haven't noticed a huge difference in germination? I've always heard the same thing though. I do prefer whole seed potatoes over chitted ones, they grow faster and vegetate better in my (admittedly limited) experience
Yeah I wondered about that.
Hi Ian! lovely to see your familiar face when looking for tips with lazy beds! nice vid, Ali ps. I'm in East Clare now. Say hello to Eileen.
Hi Ali great to see you here
@@helenrichmond856 Helen - artist?
@@AliBaba769 the very one
@@helenrichmond856 wow, blast from the past :-) did you get some spuds in the ground? ;-)
Wow, this is a very different way to how I make lazy beds for potatoes.
Would it be better to dig these beds in winter and weed out in april before laying the potatoes? Giving some time for decomposistion of the grass/weeds
Brilliant.
This was very informative! But why are they called "lazy beds"?? That looked like a good workout! I'm in the United States in Ohio...I think I'll try this for my potatoes this year (2022).
Perhaps due to English colonizer prejudice❔
Very interesting, how long did you rot your manure for please? Thanks
Well done! I'd like two order of fries!
That soil looks like fine compost coming out of the ground.
Interesting! Two questions: (1) How many acres might needed in such land to produce enough potatoes for a typical family? (2) Is it possible to get in a second crop afterwards in some areas?
I planted 8-9 long rows( small 40x10, and 30x30 garden plots)
And I gave out shopping bags full to visitors and ate a bunch and still have a ton left to plant this year!
So yea, less than a half acre would give you more than you can eat. Plus family, plus neighbors, plus friends.
What did he do? Why flip the sod in a sandwich? Did the taters go in the sandwiched sod? Did they grow new 1s there? What's the finaL side trench for? Please give mor3 details, why... my speakers r useless half the t8me.
Turning the sod it called coping as you cope the sod over
Your a Leonardo da Vinci with a shovel.