Gridley Grow

03/04/2026

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Grow 25 pounds of potatoes in a laundry basket. No digging. No raised bed. Just a plastic basket, some straw, and the most satisfying harvest reveal you'll ever have.

🧺 Why a laundry basket works

Built-in drainage holes on all sides. Tall walls let you hill potatoes as they grow. Portable — move it to follow the sun or protect it from heavy rain. And at harvest, you tip it over and potatoes pour out like treasure.

🥔 How to set it up

Line the bottom with a few inches of straw or leaves. Add 4 inches of compost or soil mix. Place 3 to 4 seed potatoes on top with eyes facing up. Cover with another 4 inches of straw.

🌱 As it grows

When shoots reach 6 inches tall, add more straw around the stems — burying everything except the top few leaves. Potatoes form along the buried portion of the stem, so the more you hill, the more potatoes you get. Keep hilling every time the greens get tall. Repeat until the basket is full. Water through the sides — the built-in drainage keeps roots healthy and prevents rot.

🍂 When to harvest

Wait until the foliage dies back and turns brown. Stop watering for about two weeks to let the skins toughen — this helps them store longer. Tip the basket onto a tarp and watch 20 to 25 pounds of potatoes tumble out. This is the moment that makes the whole method worth it.

🏆 Best varieties for baskets:

- Yukon Gold — buttery flavor, reliable producer in containers
- Red Pontiac — easy to spot against the straw, good yields
- Fingerlings — lots of small potatoes packed into a tight space
- Kennebec — classic baking potato with heavy yields

One basket. One bag of seed potatoes. One flip at the end. That's the whole method. 🥔

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Scientists have revived a plant from the Pleistocene epoch. This plant is 32,000 years old

The oldest plant ever to be regenerated has been grown from 32,000-year-old seeds—beating the previous recordholder by some 30,000 years A Russian team discovered a seed cache of Silene stenophylla, a flowering plant native to Siberia, that had been buried by an Ice Age squirrel near the banks of the Kolyma River (map). Radiocarbon dating confirmed that the seeds were 32,000 years old

Credit: PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

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Every young child knows what a Tree is, yet incredibly there is no universally recognised definition.

A "Tree" is a term of common parlance, but there is no precise definition of what a tree is, either botanically or in common language. In its broadest sense, a tree is any plant with the general form of an elongated stem, or trunk, which supports the photosynthetic leaves or branches at some distance above the ground. Trees are also typically defined by height, with smaller plants from 0.5 to 10 m (1.6 to 32.8 ft) being called shrubs, so the minimum height of a tree is only loosely defined. Large herbaceous plants such as papaya and bananas are trees in this broad sense.

A commonly applied narrower definition is that a tree has a woody trunk formed by secondary growth, meaning that the trunk thickens each year by growing outwards, in addition to the primary upwards growth from the growing tip. Under such a definition, herbaceous plants such as palms, bananas and papayas are not considered trees regardless of their height, growth form or stem girth.

What we can all agree is that Trees are good for our Environment, providing oxygen, shelter and food. 🌱

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