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ˈlazy-bed Potato-growing.
A bed about six feet wide, on which the potatoes are laid, with a trench on each side, two or three feet wide, from which earth is taken to cover the potatoes. Also attrib.
1743R. Maxwell Sel. Trans. 159 In ley Ground they [Potatoes] are commonly, in Scotland, planted in Lazy-beds, as they are called. 1780A. Young Tour Irel. i. 300 Mr. Herbert has cultivated potatoes in the common lazy-bed method. 1813Vancouver Agric. Devon 193 The old fresh lazy-bed mode..seems to have taken great root in Devonshire. 1846McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) I. 311 Potatoes..are mostly planted in the Irish fashion, or in lazy beds. 1860Delamer Kitch. Gard. 24 The lazy-bed system may be advantageously followed on stiff retentive clays. |
