Today's haul!

I planted 0.4 kilograms of Russian Banana seed potatoes in 3 square meters of my ainneor. Today's yield was 22.9 kilograms! That's crazy! I cannot believe how productive this variety planted in a traditional ainneor is!

I now know how to grow potatoes. Now I need to learn how to store them and how to eat A LOT of them.

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Wildfire smoke, be damned! I'm digging spuds, today!

This is last 3 square meters of the 5 sq. meter ainneor (lazy bed) I planted with potatoes in late April.

This variety is a fingerling potato called "Russian Banana." It is supposed to be excellent for potato salads.

Usually, the deer leave the foliage alone but they have been munching away at it for the last few weeks. (Lots of hot, dry weather, here.)

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#LazyBed
#GrowFood
#Oregon

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Time to plant fataí (potatoes)!

Place the seed potatoes in the gaps between the sods (not under them). Chop up some soil in the trenches and shovel it into the gaps between the sods to fill them and cover the potatoes.

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My first attempt at digging and planting ainneor (a lazy bed). My initial outline cut will be 1.5 meters wide to end up with a 1 meter wide bed (hopefully?). We'll see how this goes...

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#Oregon

We now have our seed potatoes for this Spring!

In a couple of weeks, I'm hoping to dig an ainneor (lazy bed) and get these spuds planted. Stay tuned!

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#prátaí
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#Oregon

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Because of our wet Spring weather, I think the ainneor (lazy bed) is an ideal method for vegetable cultivation in western Cascadia (the western portions of Oregon, Washington, BC, and Alaska).

The initial cultivation (when the sod is still in place) can be done during the rainy season with minimal compacting of the soil.

(Photo by Dr. Charles Nelson at Inis Oírr, Aran Islands, Ireland)

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A fifteen-minute video on how to create a ainneor (lazy bed). A brilliant way to create a raised garden bed on uncultivated land that retains and utilizes the sod and requires only a shovel or spade.

Video created by The Heritage Council with the demonstration by Ian McGrigor in Co. Kerry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqabt6z0sm8

#Ainneor
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A fifteen-minute video on how to create an ainneor (lazy bed). A brilliant way to create a raised garden bed on uncultivated land that retains and utilizes the sod and requires only a shovel or spade (and a bit of work, but look what you get).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqabt6z0sm8

#Ainneor
#LazyBed

I am going to be researching and attempting a traditional Irish method of food cultivation called an "ainneor" or "lazy bed." It is an ingenious method of preparing uncultivated ground into what become raised garden beds.

It was the primary method of growing potatoes in Ireland in the 1700s and 1800s and may be a cultivation method that is much older. (I hope to learn more about its history.)

I'll be posting tidbits of info and photos as I learn more.

Photo from Wikipedia