If your garden can't hold that many sweet potato plants, there's always the option of lining up apple crates on the balcony or patio.

Most of those killed were very poor labourers who lived in makeshift sheds fabricated from discarded apple crates.

Half a trailer of apple crates still needed to be unloaded, but Homer drove too fast, dumping an occasional crate.

The Greenhouse: The greenhouse is where you'll have to put back items such as an apple crate.

And they're compact enough that you can store them all in an apple crate.

Hampers from old wooden pallets or apple crates.

Vintage French apple crates (above right) are £20 each from henand hammock.co.uk.

"I might find another apple crate tomorrow," she said.

For a long time, the most visible Indian presence was the rendering of a perky girl on the labels of wooden apple crates.

A few years later, people began to flock to the rodeo and watch from apple crates or car hoods outside of the fence.