Planning new tea garden...

[lesa]

I am very excited about planning and putting in my new tea garden!! I already grow a few things, mint, hysopps, chocolate mint, lavender, fever few, etc.
I have ordered lemon balm, chamomile, bergamont and dotted mint... Is there something else I should have??? What am I forgetting?

 

[Greenthumb18]

Sounds good lesa !!

How about an actually green tea plant ? It probably won't be hardy but you could plant it in a pot, I'm thinking of getting one in the spring.

Here are some other herbs that are good for tea, should keep you busy:

-Angelica
-Anise
-Burnet
-Hyssop
-Mugwort
-Pennyroyal

Hope this helps!

 

[lesa]

What!!! You can get a green tea plant??? Where? I'll look up your other suggestions, Thanks!

 

[ninnymary]

Lesa..I still remember my grandmother's lemon grass tea. It was delicious and so fragrant. I've tried growing it here but I think our summers are to cool and foggy. It might do well in your area, I don't know.

Mary

 

[lesa]

Good one, Mary. I think I can do it as an annual....

 

[Greenthumb18]

What!!! You can get a green tea plant??? Where? I'll look up your other suggestions, Thanks!

Here lesa,

Territorial Seed has tea plants.
http://www.territorialseed.com/product/1330/16

I'm sure their are other places you can get them from. Let me see if I could find other places that sell them.

 

[digitS']

Lemon verbena. . . and I hope the hyssop is anise hyssop !

If you think you want lemon grass, Lesa, go to an Asian market and pick up a couple. Put them in a sunny window in water, change it often, and allow them to grow roots.

Start now and they can go in a pot of good soil. By the end of summer they will have multiplied! They can be trimmed, cleaned and frozen.

Steve

 

[RustyDHart]

lesa....I grow Horehound and Lemon Verbena....they are great for tea as well....The Lemon Verbena flowers are very sweet and can be candied and used on pastries too....

 

[nittygrittydirtdigger]

If you get the green tea plant, ya gotta get some jasmine to make jasmine tea. The aroma is heavenly and the flavor is mild and restorative.

 

[Llama Gardener]

So what, do you dry the herbs to make the tea? Or how do you make the tea?