Using the Antique Garden Basket Properly For the Late Fall Harvests.

Using the Antique Garden Basket Properly For the Late Fall Harvests.

Properly using the (your)

Antique antebellum (pre 1860) handmade

Old New England ash splint wood

Garden basket

For the (your)

Late fall vegetable garden harvests.

This is a pleasant undertaking.

Take the old basket(s) from the 

(Old) (garden) shed(s).

Harvest a prescribed crop or

Engage in gleaning

On a mid November morning when one is

Attending to other putterings about the (your) garden

Plots.

The sun need not be out.

A flake of snow may be in the air.

An example of a seasonal Fall crop harvest is,

Of course,

The Brussel Sprouts; a last ‘row’ at waiting.

The fall frosts have cleaned up the Sprout’s neighborhood

At their garden plot.

“They aren’t any good until AFTER the FROST.”

Is their time honored harvest instruction.

We pick ours and head straight to the cast iron skillet with them

(The tiny ones especially)

They are ‘fried’ with three diced strips of the local bacon.

A ‘very simple’ of the mid fall season.

And only a short outing for the

Antique splint wood old New England garden basket.

By far more fun

For the old basket

Is when I take it gleaning

When I have ‘work along’ in a

Garden plot here and there.

Come with me my senior friend and have some

Bright crisp fall air

Upon your wooden weave.

Today I turn over (by hand with shovel) a tomato plot

In effort to expose the Tomato Caterpillar’s (Hornworm) winter roust

(Buried Cocoon)

So they may freeze to death.

Along the plot’s edge I turn up with my shovel lost onions that we grow

As a border edge.  The onion border was long ago harvested.  These are the hidden few escaping notice during harvest;

A gleaning.

My antique garden basket creeps along the plot’s edge with my shovel.

I toss the find into it’s

Demanding trove keep.

A little dirt.  A little dry

A crinkled skin.

A sprouting top.

Each brushes time aside for it;

(The old New England splint wood garden basket).

The basket lives its life again as it follows the shovel

Along the plot.

Is not that a pleasant

Way to be;

To properly use the (your) old New England splint wood

Garden basket?