What’s a Joey Apron, you ask? Let me answer with a question: How many times have you gone out to pick “just a couple things” and returned to the kitchen with an armload of produce spilling onto the floor?
It happens a lot here. To solve this problem, the folks at Roo Gardening sent us a Joey apron (in purple, of course) to test at Gardenerd HQ. Roo, as in kangaroo, makes three models of easy-to-wear harvest aprons. They serve to keep you clean and hold gloves and tools if you want. Their main purpose, however, is harvesting.
The pouch that the above-mentioned low-tech configuration creates is ample. In fact, it was challenging to take a photo of the harvest inside the pouch because the veggies were down in the deep, dark depths at the bottom. We probably could have fit a 10 lb watermelon in there and still had room.
While Roo Gardening makes a specific garden apron for egg harvesting, we found the small pockets along the waistline perfect for storing a couple eggs.
In the end, we found the Roo Gardening apron to be a good choice for hands-free harvesting, with plenty of space to hold a bounty of basil, tomatoes and more. We definitely would have dropped this harvest on the ground on the way in:
Thanks, Roo Gardening, for sending the sample to test. We’ll be using this for our ridiculously large kale harvests this fall.
