Garden DIY Herb Markers

Kirsten SchraderUpdated: Nov. 15, 2023

Jamie Hawkins

We love this project because it’s an excuse to buy more wine! Just save your corks to use as Garden DIY Herb Markers.

We love this simple project because it’s an excuse to buy more wine! Just save your corks to use as plant markers. Write the name of the plant on the cork with a permanent marker, then stick it on a stake or bamboo skewer. If you don’t have wine corks, you can buy some at a craft store. This is one of the easiest ways we’ve seen to make plant markers. They’re pretty darn cute, too!

Materials:

Wine corks (If you don’t have wine corks, you can buy some at a craft store.)
Permanent marker
Stake or bamboo skewer.

Step-By-Step Instructions:

Step 1

We love this project because it’s an excuse to buy more wine! Just save your corks to use as plant markers.

Step 2

Write the name of the plant on the cork with a permanent marker.

Step 3

Then stick it on a stake or bamboo skewer. If you don’t have wine corks, you can buy some at a craft store. This is one of the easiest ways we’ve seen to make plant markers. They’re pretty darn cute, too!

Originally Published: March 03, 2014

Kirsten Schrader

Kirsten has more than 15 years of experience writing and editing birding and gardening content. As content director of Birds & Blooms, she leads the team of editors and freelance writers sharing tried-and-true advice for nature enthusiasts who love to garden and feed birds in their backyards. Since joining Birds & Blooms 17 years ago, Kirsten has held roles in digital and print, editing direct-to-consumer books, running as many as five magazines as a time and managing special interest publications. Kirsten has traveled to see amazing North American birds, and attended various festivals, including Sedona Hummingbird Festival, Rio Grande Bird Festival, The Biggest Week in American Birding Festival and Cape May Spring Festival. She has also witnessed the epic sandhill crane migration while on a photography workshop trip to Colorado. Kirsten has participated in several GardenComm and Outdoor Writers Association of America annual conferences and is a member of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology. When she's not researching, writing and editing all things birding and gardening, Kirsten is enjoying the outdoors with her nature-loving family. She and her husband are slowly chipping away at making their small acreage the backyard of their dreams.