Sometimes, cloth or plasticliners were made to fit snuggly inside the bushel baskets to keep the clothes clean or to prevent a snag from the wooden lathes of the rustic apple basket.
Buy the basics You'll need a coated - wire basket, a fibre basketliner, a circle of black plastic punctured with holes, multipurpose compost, fertiliser granules and water - retaining gel — all available from good garden centres.