Garden BasketsAmish Wicker Harvest & Farmer's Market Baskets

For picking a little every morning, the Garden Gathering Basket is 18 by 10 inches with 5 inch sides, so the tomatoes and the green beans ride flat under one hand. For a basket that carries like a tote, the Garden Harvest Caddy is 17 3/4 by 10 and 6 inches deep on two long leather straps. For the whole harvest at once, the Extra Large Gathering Basket is 10 inches deep, and the Bushel Basket holds a full bushel.

On the baskets with a bent wood handle, the height on the page is measured to the top of the handle. The bodies are 5 inches deep on the gathering basket, 6 1/2 on the medium, 8 1/4 on the large and 10 on the extra large. The caddy, the bushel basket and the French market basket are measured without their leather handles, so those heights are the body.

The harvest caddy. Its lift-off wood lid is optional on that page.

Each basket that takes one has its own liner, sewn to fit that basket and sold on its page in cream, wine, blue or green, with gray on the extra large.

A basket can be rinsed under the faucet and dried thoroughly, and that is the usual way to clean one after a muddy row.

Use a cloth liner for anything eaten as it is. A basket can also be ordered unfinished by writing that in the order notes.

A full bushel, filled to the top. It measures 19 1/2 by 15 1/2 inches and 10 inches deep, an oval with a leather loop handle at each end.

The handles are anchored through the weave and into the base, so if you can lift the basket, the handle will carry it. The solid wood bottom is the reason: it is what keeps a basket from sagging and lets it last a lifetime.

The egg baskets. They are woven with a curved bottom that cradles the eggs, and they are on their own page.

Plain, Wine and Blue, or Wine and Green. The color is dyed reed woven into the basket, not painted on, so it will not wear off.

They are bought as gifts all year, most often for a gardener. Every order ships gift-ready with no prices in the box, a free gift note at checkout, and a letter about the family who wove the basket, and every basket is signed on the bottom by the weaver.

Each one is handwoven by an Old Order Amish family on the Iowa-Missouri border, from rattan reed over a solid wood bottom, and signed by the weaver who made it. Standard shipping is free, and every basket carries our lifetime guarantee.