Week 15 - Bed 6 Planting

This bed was prepared as a lazy bed, which involved cutting out a piece of sod with as much topsoil as remained attached, and turning it upside-down. The surface of the bed was then worked over with a sharp spade to break up the clods. In this bed we planted a polycrop mixture of potatoes and broad beans (fava beans), with peas to be added later (I forgot to bring the seeds):

• Maris Peer Potato - a second early variety with cream skin and creamy yellow floury flesh
• Hangdown Green Broad Bean - a vigorous early longpod variety

The potato sets were planted at wide spacings with the broad bean seeds pushed into the soil at random spacings between the potatoes.