How to Create and Grow Your Own Herbal Tea Garden

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Create and Grow Your Own Herbal Tea Garden

The only thing better than enjoying a calming cup of hot tea or a frosty glass of iced tea is enjoying tea made from herbs grown in your own herbal tea garden. With all we know about the benefits of herbs, we should all make an effort to increase our tea consumption. Growing your own herbal tea garden is a relaxing and perfect way to ensure you're drinking fresh, healthful teas.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Step 1

Decide on and clear a space in your yard or home where you'd like your herb garden to be. If you will be planting an indoor tea garden, make sure to choose a spot that gets plenty of sunlight throughout the day.
Step 2

Choose your herbs. Do some research on this, and find herbs that have the health benefits you need. Have a good mix of herbs, covering wide-range of ailments: teas that help with stress, pain, digestive problems, cough, fever, blood pressure, diabetes, appetite, and so forth.
Step 3

Find several flower pots to grow your herbs in. Because some herbs have the potential to alter the flavor of other things that are grown too close to them, be sure to separate your herbs into individual pots. This will ensure that you'll have pure-tasting teas. Growing your herbs in pots is also important because some herbs are quite invasive; given the opportunity they'll take over your garden and choke your other herbs and plants to death.
Step 4

Arrange your pots in a way that pleases your eye. This can be in a circle or semi-circle, with a statue in the middle. Or, if you'd prefer, in a neat straight line. Whatever makes you feel happy and at peace.
Step 5

Care for your plants with love. Make sure that they receive enough sunlight (and some shade, if you're in the south where the sun can be brutal and murderous to tender plants). Water daily or every other day.
Step 6

Prune and trim your herbs often, when they have begun growing. Trimming them will prevent them from going to seed to quickly. When herbs go to seed (grow seed pods or flowers), the flavor of the herb is often altered and weaker.
Step 7

Enjoy your herbal teas made by steeping the leaves of your fresh herbs. Don't let the water come to a boil. If the water boils, it becomes depleted of oxygen, which will slightly reduce the health benefits of your tea.
Step 8

If your herb plants are growing faster than you can keep up with, dry some of the leaves, so that you can enjoy herbal tea from your garden even in the dead of winter.