If you’re looking for a truly simple but useful gift for a gardener friend, consider plant tags (row markers) - a person can hardly have too many of them. And these garden crafts are fun to make and give...

The easiest ones to make (well, they aren’t really even made - but can I call these garden crafts for kids to make anyway?) are from plastic picnic knives (or flat wooden spoons?) - just give someone a packet of them, along with an indelible marker. (Use one as the gift tag.) Simple instructions: "stick them in the ground handle-first".

You can also cut tags (in veggie shapes?) from the sides of plastic milk jugs. Or from thin wood - painted or un. Or get fancy and snip metal tags (as long as you go to the trouble to fold and crimp the edges so that they don’t cut anyone who handles them).

And who's to say that the markers must stick up out of the soil?  Especially for potted herbs, simple rounded stones - stamped with the name of the plant - can just be laid on the soil.