Liversidge Cassie - Homegrown Tea - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Homegrown Tea
Author(s): Liversidge Cassie
Publisher: Griffin Publishing
Barcode: 9781250039415
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 3/25/2014
Category: Gardening: Plants