Reinvent it. That’s our philosophy of gardening.

Here we’ve put an old enamel cooking pot filled with Italian basil on a pedestal in front of our Purple Haze carrot bed, which is an old farm trough.

In a few weeks vines will have filled in the trellis wall behind the trough, the carrots will be bushy and tall, and the basil will have gone to pesto and salads and be replaced with ornamental cabbage for the fall.