A basket for fruit and produce having corrugated board bottom and folded double thickness side and end walls in various sizes, such as peck and half-bushel, and having a plastic handle. The handle is formed of a flattened tubular plastic member such as extruded tubular polyethylene. The flattened handle preferably is generally oval in cross section and preferably has concave upper and lower walls and rounded edges in cross-section providing a double-thickness handle stiff enough to maintain its arched shape when stapled to the corrugated board basket side walls. The lower ends of the tubular plastic handle are each stapled by one or two staples to the outer layer only of the corrugated board side walls. The staples are engaged only with the outer layer of the flattened tubular handle member. An opening is formed at the outer corner between each basket side wall and the bottom wall midway between the ends for insertion of the anvil of a stapling tool exteriorly of the basket to telescope the anvil into an end of the tubular handle so that no clinched staple ends project to the interior of the basket.