As winter approaches, many aspiring gardeners decide to prune their herbs. However, if your herb collection consists of more than just a single, small basil plant, you'll quickly find yourself with a lot of excess. Of course, it's far too good to throw away, but you can't eat as much as you'd need to season it all. We've put together a few ideas to help you with this!

The beginning of the year is a wonderful time for all hobby gardeners, because you can finally start growing your first plants on your windowsill. In addition to potting soil and selected seeds, you'll also need growing pots and trays. Today we'll show you how to easily make these yourself. The practical thing about it: You save money and resources by wisely reusing "waste" like egg cartons and toilet paper rolls.

It's usually photos that help us capture memories and preserve them for a long time. But because of the number of pictures we take with our smartphones every day, special moments are quickly forgotten and sometimes even lost entirely. We believe that beautiful memories should be cherished! That's why today we're introducing you to what we consider a clever way to bring your best photos back into your home as a unique piece of jewelry. Namely, as a personalized photo or wall picture printed on a beautiful piece of wood.

Sure, you can buy gardening aprons on any corner. But they're much nicer when you sew them yourself. You probably even have a piece of fabric at home that you particularly like, but you're not sure what to do with it. Now you know! We'll show you how to cleverly and effortlessly make a gardening apron out of it.

There are many good reasons to make things yourself. It saves resources, sometimes money, it's fun, and you learn a lot. Now, at Christmastime, another point is added to the pro list: homemade gifts are simply much, much, much nicer than any store-bought nonsense. No wonder the DIY movement is in full swing at this time of year! There's a very special magic to homemade things because you've created them with your own hands and put so much heart and soul into them. Inspired by this idea, our book "Your Creative Garden" was published last year. With it, you can create colorful, beautiful, and practical unique pieces. With these DIY projects, you're not a consumer, but an artist. And in doing so, you can easily build your own world the way you want it!

Today I'm getting to know Melissa Raupach. Melissa, along with her business partner and good friend Felix Lill, wrote the book REGROW YOUR VEGGIES, which was published by Ulmer Verlag in August of this year.