Tried growing potatoes in a laundry basket, got 8 pounds from one bin

I saw someone online stuff a plastic laundry basket with straw and seed potatoes and figured it was nonsense. But last spring I gave it a shot with a $3 basket from Goodwill and some Yukon Golds I had leftover. I just kept adding straw as the vines grew and watered it like normal. Harvested 8 pounds from that one basket in late July. Has anyone else tried container methods that seemed too simple to actually work?

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wood.zara11d ago

Did you use straw the whole way or did you mix in any soil with it?

the_spencer11d ago

My brother tried just straw for a whole season a few years back and ended up with mushrooms poking through the driveway by July. He switched to mixing in a good amount of topsoil the next year and it settled way better.