Grow your own tea garden
Tea plays a very important role in many cultures, and although many of us do not live in a climate where the tea bush will thrive, there are many herbs which will grow and provide us with tasty, healthy herb teas.
Once you've got a few herbs growing well in your garden, you can mix and match and blend your own special herbal teas!
Once you've got a few herbs growing well in your garden, you can mix and match and blend your own special herbal teas!
Contents at a Glance
Shaker Medicinal Herbs
Garden Girl's Shaker Herb Garden
In this short video, Garden Girl harvests 3 herbs from her Shaker herb garden to make herbal teas.
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Herbal teas
Pineapple sage, lemon balm, lemon & honey
Growing your own tea?
True tea might be tricky, but herbs are heavenly
In this article in the Independent, Cleve West explores the possibility of growing your own tea outside of China and India.Then he looks at herbal teas, with some help from Jekka McVicar.
Time for Tea
Listen to the Alternative Kitchen Garden with a cup of herbal tea
Episode 45 of the Alternative Kitchen Garden is all about growing your own herbs for tea.The AKG show is all about growing your own vegetables, fruits and herbs in an environmentally friendly way.
This episode covers lemon balm, spearmint, chamomile, rosemary, lovage, lemon grass and holy basil.
Herbal Tea Gardens
22 Plans for Your Enjoyment & Well-Being
Create your own herbal teas -- from tiller to teapot!
Teas to soothe, teas to relieve, teas to rejuvenate -- Herbal Tea Gardens contains everything you need to know to grow, blend, and brew healthful and delicious herbal teas.
You'll find more than 100 tea recipes such as Flu Brew, Double Green Digestive, and Women's Energizing Tonic, as well as 22 illustrated garden plans to help you customize your tea garden to suit your health needs and environment including:
-- Headache Relief Garden
-- Relaxation Garden
-- First-Aid Garden
-- Cough, Cold, and Flu Garden
-- Arthritis Care Garden
-- Shade Garden
Teas to soothe, teas to relieve, teas to rejuvenate -- Herbal Tea Gardens contains everything you need to know to grow, blend, and brew healthful and delicious herbal teas.
You'll find more than 100 tea recipes such as Flu Brew, Double Green Digestive, and Women's Energizing Tonic, as well as 22 illustrated garden plans to help you customize your tea garden to suit your health needs and environment including:
-- Headache Relief Garden
-- Relaxation Garden
-- First-Aid Garden
-- Cough, Cold, and Flu Garden
-- Arthritis Care Garden
-- Shade Garden
Herbal Tea Gardens: 22 Plans for Your Enjoyment & Well-Being
Amazon Price: $11.53 (as of 12/31/2009)
This tea lover's gardening bible contains full instructions for growing and brewing tea herbs, plus more than 100 recipes that make use of their healthful qualities. Readers will find complete plans for customized gardens suitable for plots or containers.
Holy Basil
An exotic basil to brew
In India, Holy Basil (Tulsi, Ocimum tenuiflorum) is used to make an herbal tea, or combined with black tea to make a spicy brew.
Read more on Indian herbs and spices you can grow in your own garden.
Read more on Indian herbs and spices you can grow in your own garden.
Build an herb spiral
If you're building an herb garden, consider a spiral
An herb spiral is an easy way to give all of your herbs their ideal conditions, and doesn't take up much space.Learn more about herb spirals.
Mint
One of the easiest herbs to grow makes a tasty tea
Mint is so easy to grow that it can become a nuisance in the garden. But this essential culinary herb also makes great tea. Try growing it in pots, or in chimney pots, so that it's rampaging growth is restricted.There are many mints to choose from - so try a few and pick your favorites. Spearmint and peppermint are great, but for something a little different, try apple mint.
Lemon balm
Easy peasy lemony tea
Lemon balm is a member of the mint family, a perennial herb that is very easy to grow. It makes a delicious, lemony tea with many health benefits.To find out more about growing and using lemon balm, read my article on lemon balm or listen to episode 22 of the Alternative Kitchen Garden podcast.
Lemon balm: Melissa officinalis
Lemon Balm Herb: Melissa officinalis
http://www.learningherbs.com/ The lemon balm herb, or melissa officinalis, is one of the antiviral herbs. Lemon balm uses include lemon balm tea, herbs for kids, herbs for children as a cold sore remedy. The lemon balm is also one of the herbs for stress. Learn more about the lemon balm herb.
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Use the power of the sun to make your herbal teas
When the sun is high in the sky and your herbs are growing like crazy, combine the two and make Sun tea with Gayla from YouGrowGirl. Tea time on Cafe Press
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- megan_a megan_a Apr 17, 2008 @ 12:11 pm
- Thanks for the post, it was very informative. Learn more about herbal remedies and supplements, as well as many other interesting articles at the online encyclopedia at Encyclopaedicnet
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- Floella Floella Feb 25, 2008 @ 7:16 pm
- When carbon cards come onto play which will track your petrol, food, electric/gas etc consumption, (for which you will be taxed heavily for going over quota). Everyone including the hippy bashers will be out there in summer, air seal jar in hand. This is the soon to end energy golden age. Make the most of it.
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- Tiddledeewinks Tiddledeewinks Feb 4, 2008 @ 12:59 pm
- Nice lens on tea! I only use herbal tea, but fresh leaves sound so much better than those store-bought. Anything fresher is always tastier than store-bought,like garden-fresh tomatoes!
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- Tea Man Tea Man Jan 29, 2008 @ 11:26 pm
- Great Lens! I liked how you listed the mint and lemon balm, instead of sticking with just the regular teas.
Thumbs up for great pictures as well.
Have a great day!
Peter
http://www.TeaandWeightLoss.com
Herbal tea links
- Tisane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Tisane From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A tisane, ptisan or herbal "tea" is any herbal infusion other than from the leaves of the tea bush (Camellia sinensis). - Herbal Tea
- You can make so many other varieties of tea, without using actual tea. There are hundreds of herbs that will produce a delicious cup of tea, and they're good for you too.
- Tea - Plants For A Future database search
- Alternative food plants, roots, leaves, fruits and seeds.
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