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A Lazy bed is a method of cultivation used in the Western Isles and the west of Ireland. It consists of parallel banks of ridge and furrow dug by spade up to 3 yards in width. Consisting largely of peat they are fertilized with desalinated seaweed and the foliage of the upturned turfs. Potatoes were the principal crop grown in the lazy bed. In the Hebrides these are known as "feannagan" in Scottish Gaelic.