I have built baskets from hardware cloth or chicken wire and it can be painfull and time consuming - but they seem to work. The Lee Valley tools co. (http://www.leevalley.com/) lists a plastic bulb basket at 3 for $4.50 - pretty reasonable. They are 12" in diameter (round) but only 3" deep - so they have limited appliations. The source is only listed as European, if they could be located they may have other sizes. I have not tried these baskets myself - but I have had good luck with other things I have received from this company. Chad Schroter