Stevia??? How to...???

vfem

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I just enjoyed reading the how to grow and harvest stevia article in Mother Earth News for this month. Good stuff! You should go get it. :D
 

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Stevia sounded great to me so I gave it a try. It is sweet alright but it has the same bitter aftertaste as sacharine. I've never grown it after that first year.
 

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April!

A few months back I used vartiatioins around stevia in google search, and there are some good sites about it. Go ahead and start just by googling stevia. I often google "growing such or so" try googling "growing stevia".

I recall there were 2 ways to use stevia as a sweetner. simply dried and powdered, and then another way that was a tincture of some sort that creates a liquid concentrated form. Going by memory here, but it was on a website i found googling it.

You'll do it April!

We grew it in Montana when i lived there. in the greenhouse in winter. By spring we always thought they were dead. I read somewhere they can play possum for months and come back. so, we may have thrown out still alive plants.
 
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