Growing Your Own Tea Garden
Growing Your Own Tea Garden

Author: Jodi Helmer

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing

Published: 2019-09-01

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 162008323X

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• Learn everything you need to know to create a healthy, bountiful tea garden and enjoy high-quality tea and herbal infusions • Discover more than 60 diverse plants that make great tea, including the classic tea plant and dozens of flavorful leaves, flowers, fruits, and roots • Explore best cultivation practices and nine fun garden designs • Let it steep: learn how to brew the perfect cup of tea

Grow Your Own Tea
Grow Your Own Tea

Author: Christine Parks

Publisher: Timber Press

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 1643260308

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"Plant a tea plant and watch it grow! Grow Your Own Tea is truly a masterpiece how-to guide to cultivating and enjoying the sacred leaf. It will delight even the armchair gardener and casual tea lover." —James Norwood Pratt, author of James Norwood Pratt’s Tea Dictionary Tea lovers, make a fresh pot, sit down with this delightful guide, and discover the joys of growing and processing your own tea at home. Tea farmer Christine Parks and enthusiast Susan Walcott cover it all from growing tea plants and harvesting leaves, to the distinct processes that create each tea’s signature flavors. In this comprehensive handbook, you’ll discover tea’s ancient origins, learn about the single plant that produces white, green, oolong, and black teas, and discover step-by-step instructions for plucking, withering, and rolling. Simple recipes that highlight the flavor of tea and creative uses for around the home round out this must-read for tea fans.

Homegrown Tea
Homegrown Tea

Author: Cassie Liversidge

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 2014-03-25

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1250039428

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Homegrown Tea explains how to grow a large variety of plants in your own garden, on a balcony or even on a window sill could become your tea cupboard. It shows you how to grow your tea from seeds, cuttings, or small plants, as well as which parts of the plant are used to make tea. Liversidge lays out when and how to harvest your plants, as well as information on how to prepare the plant, including how to dry tea leaves to make tea you can store to last you throughout the year. As a guide to using tea to make you feel better, there are nutritional and medicinal benefits. Finally, there is an illustrated guide to show how to make up fresh and dried teabags and how to serve a delicious homegrown tea. It is sustainable way to look at a beverage, which is steeped in history and tradition. Sample drinks include well-known plants such as rose hips, mint, sage, hibiscus, and lavender, as well as more obscure ones like chicory, angelica, apple geranium, and lemon verbena.

How to Grow and Harvest Tea
How to Grow and Harvest Tea

Author: Margaret Green

Publisher:

Published: 2016-09-21

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9781539008491

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This book is a detailed guide on everything that anyone looking to grow tea would need in order to be successful in their ventures.Tea is present in almost every culture in the world and its uses date back over 4000 years to china. Here it was used as medicine, beverage and general treat in the form of being chewed. Legend stated that the drink was first consumed by a mythical emperor names Shen Hung in 2737 BC, however this is mainly folklore and the first solid evidence for the use of the tea plant was documented in 350 BC where the Chinese character was seen in a dictionary.

Homegrown Herbs
Homegrown Herbs

Author: Tammi Hartung

Publisher: Storey Publishing

Published: 2011-03-02

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1603427031

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Enjoy a thriving, fragrant herb garden and use your harvest to bring beauty, flavor, and health to your everyday life. Tammi Hartung provides in-depth profiles of 101 popular herbs, including information on seed selection, planting, maintenance, harvesting, and drying. Hartung also shows you how to use your herbs in a variety of foods, home remedies, body care products, and crafts. Whether you’re a seasoned herbalist or planting your first garden, Homegrown Herbs will inspire you to get the most out of your herbs.

The Complete Guide to Growing Healing and Medicinal Herbs
The Complete Guide to Growing Healing and Medicinal Herbs

Author: Wendy Vincent

Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1601383517

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This book will guide you through the step-by-step process of learning about and growing your own healing herbs, starting with the basics of what each herb can do and proceeding to show you everything you need to cultivate them yourself. The first things you will learn in this guide are the basics of all healing herbs, starting with a complete breakdown of the numerous healing herbs known to be easily cultivated in temperate climates. Matching the right herbs to your region, you will then be able to start learning about how herbs grow, as well as what they need from the soil, water, the weather, and feeding. You will learn which plants grow best together and which style of herbs are going to be best for selling and which are best for personal growing. Experts in the field of healing herbs have provided their insights into issues such as how to harvest the healing herbs best and how to dry or preserve them for use as healing materials. Learn how you can make a number of common treatments for various ailments with your herbs and how you can benefit best from your newfound garden.--COVER.

The Gardener's Guide to Growing and Processing Tea
The Gardener's Guide to Growing and Processing Tea

Author: Nick Giftai

Publisher:

Published: 2017-01-05

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781520319001

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Learn how to grow your own tea and process the leaves into white, green, oolong, black tea and more! Detailed descriptions of all the steps including growing from seed and cuttings, choosing your tea variety, preparing the grow site and all the techniques of processing tea.This book includes everything you need to know in order to establish a healthy, bountiful tea patch and a high quality finished product.

The Tea Book
The Tea Book

Author: Linda Gaylard

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1465445714

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Where does tea come from? With DK's The Tea Book, learn where in the world tea is cultivated and how to drink each variety at its best, with steeping notes and step-by-step recipes. Visit tea plantations from India to Kenya, recreate a Japanese tea ceremony, discover the benefits of green tea, or learn how to make the increasingly popular Chai tea. Exploring the spectrum of herbal, plant, and fruit infusions, as well as tea leaves, this is a comprehensive guide for all tea lovers.

Wild Tea
Wild Tea

Author: Nick Moyle

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-07-23

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 0811769348

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Discover the incredible uses of 40 home-grown and foraged ingredients for making a variety of original brew-it-yourself recipes. You will learn how to grow, find, harvest, dry, and store ingredients including berries, roots, seeds, leaves, and flowers--plus the profile of each: history, health benefits, parts of the plant to use, and how to brew singly. The 30 recipes are for complex blends and specialty drinks such as detox teas, class night-time brews, Moroccan mint, Korean barley tea, bubble tea, and even dandelion coffee. Step-by-step detailed instructions are given for each recipe. There is also a "best of the rest" section with more unique ingredients that can be added to your brews, such as ginger, cinnamon, pomegranate, and orange. Enjoy the satisfaction and health benefits of brewing your own natural teas!

Garden to Vase
Garden to Vase

Author: Linda Beutler

Publisher: Timber Press (OR)

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0881928259

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An accomplished gardener and florist, Linda Beutler offers unique insights into creating inspired floral arrangements and growing the plants that go into them. Creative uses for plants in your garden; techniques for harvesting and preparing cut flowers; "bouquet basics"; and arrangements for special occasions are included, with detailed descriptions of more than 200 outstanding plants.