Homemade gifts from the garden are individual and therefore a very special souvenir. We have 9 great ideas for you.
Every year, your own garden offers its owners countless opportunities to produce or prepare creative gifts themselves, which can range from jam and various liqueurs to their own soap collection.
Some ideas are even so unusual that they always receive special attention as a gift, such as the homemade violet chocolate or the glass of dandelion champagne honey. We would like to introduce you to a few gift ideas here.
9 ideas for homemade gifts from the garden
Idea 1 - Jam, Juice and Chutneys:
Today, almost every garden fruit enables the production of delicious types of jam, which, depending on the combination idea, are not available in the general food trade. Variations with champagne, chocolate or spices such as chili are very popular.
But it's not just jam that you can easily make yourself from fruit and vegetables these days. For example, you can also squeeze fresh juice and create delicious chutneys.
» Our tips:
Tomato jam, pumpkin chutney, pickled zucchinis, Christmassy plum chutney with cinnamon, cherry and chili chutney, onion chutney with beer flavor, elderberry chutney with Prosecco, dandelion honey with ginger (more recipes with dandelion), sea buckthorn jam and the like.
Idea 2 - Herbal Oils, Herb Vinegar and Pesto:
Herbs of all kinds are always particularly good as a Green gift, especially since they can be processed both fresh and dried.
In addition to a dry herb mixture in a nicely packaged jar or herbs pickled in s alt, you can also quickly and easily make your own herbal oils and herb vinegars.
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Alternatively, you can also make delicious herb pesto or herb mustard and fill them in decorative glasses. However, you should always aim for quick consumptionpoint out.
Idea 3 - Liqueurs and Syrups:
The garden also offers a huge abundance of fruits for the production of liqueurs, such as various types of nuts, with which aromatic nut liqueurs can be conjured up, and every type of fruit for fruity fruit liqueurs.
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Strawberry limes and raspberry limes are of course always popular in this context. But a heavenly liqueur can also be conjured up from delicate rose petals! Just as a combination of dandelion and orange will surely astonish many a palate immediately.
Within the Sirup category, elderflower syrup is now being produced quite frequently due to the fashionable drink Hugo. Elderberry syrup can also be used to mix a fruity lemonade and aromatically sweeten many herbal teas.
Idea No. 4 - Herb pillows and herbal mixtures:
Furthermore, one of our creative suggestions is a herbal pillow. You can easily make this yourself by filling a cotton fabric cover with fragrant herbs such as lavender, wild herbs, hops, etc.
Here you can put your sewing machine skills to the test and conjure up decorative pillows. It is best to decorate them with small beads or sequins.
Idea No. 5 - Homemade and tea blends:
You can also use a wide variety of ingredients to make homemade herb biscuits, fresh herb bread, your own herbal tea mixture and much more. For a tea blend, simply harvest the herbs, wash, pat dry, bundle and hang upside down to dry.
Just try out some things here. With ingredients from our own garden, the whole thing tastes twice as good.
Idea No. 6 - Bath products and scented soaps:
The production of rose blossom oil and lavender blossom oil, which has a pleasant care effect as a bath additive, is also extremely popular. You can also easily make scented soaps yourself. Of course you need some ingredients from the pharmacy (such as sodium hydroxide solution) or the he alth food store (such as hard fats and oils).
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Alternatively, you can also finely chop curd soap with a kitchen grater. Then pour boiling hot water over it and add your own fragrance oils. Mix the ingredients into a homogeneous mass, possibly dried herbsor add flower petals and make individual bars of soap. Place them on an oilcloth and let them dry well!
Idea 7 - Bouquet, potpurris and planters:
A pretty bouquet of flowers or a small plant bowl with offshoots from your own garden is always a good gift. Here, nicely decorated clay pots can be used as cachepots for small offshoots, making for a lovely souvenir.
Of course you can also make pleasantly scented potpurris from dried herbs and blossoms.
Idea 8 - Chocolate:
Making your own violet chocolate is a little more unusual. Simply melt milk chocolate, pour into molds, decorate with violet blossoms, let the chocolate harden, wrap in aluminum foil and decorate with decorative ribbons.
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Alternatively, you can use young rose petals, daisy blossoms or even chili peppers instead of the violet blossoms.
Idea 9 - Honey and Ointments:
Very he althy - also helps with colds - is the production of your own dandelion honey, nettle honey or a marigold ointment, etc. (Link tip: 5 delicious nettle recipes presented)
Colorful vegetable cushions and/or fruit crates are also extremely popular, for which small wooden crates or boxes from the supermarket are well suited. Lay these out with colorful serviettes, possibly fill them with straw or hay and decorate with your own garden fruits.
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You can also perfectly combine this green gift with your own jam jars or herbal oils.
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