If you are interested in herb gardening, but not sure if you have enough uses for the herbs, consider all the different types of tea you can make! This allows you to create your own tea combinations while using natural herbs you grew right at home. Here are some things to know about growing a tea herbal garden.
Understand What a Herbal Tea Garden Is
First of all, let’s start with the basics: what a herbal tea garden is. This is an herb garden you are starting specifically for the purpose of making tea. This might be tea you enjoy just for the flavor, tea that is good for overall health, or even medicinal types of drinking tea or even tea you bathe in. Perhaps you drink a lot of peppermint or chamomile tea because of digestive issues and would prefer making it from your own herbs that you grow in your backyard. This is what you are aiming for with a tea herbal garden.
Choose Herbs For the Herbal Tea Garden Bath Tea Garden
When you understand this herb garden is for making drinking or bath tea, it is usually easy to start choosing the type of herbs and plants you intend to grow. Think about your favorite types of teas and what herbs are used, then that can lead you in the right direction. Some good ones include passionflower, mint, rose hips, milk thistle, lemongrass, lavender, dandelion, chamomile, and Echinacea.
Using Herbs For Tea
After you have begun growing the herbs in your tea herbal garden, you will then want to start pruning and harvesting the herbs. The pruning process helps to control the overall size of the herb garden and keep them more manageable. You could cause damage to other plants in the area if you don’t keep each one trimmed on a regular basis. When you are ready to start making tea, you are able to use many parts of the herbs for the tea, including the leaves, petals, and even buds. You will want to dry the herbs preferably when making tea, instead of using fresh tea leaves and petals.
Tips For Making Your Herbal Tea
When you have trimmed and dried the herbs you instead to use for your tea, you will need to store them in a sealed container and keep them at room temperature. Once you have done this, you can grab a small amount to brew your own tea. To do this, put about a tablespoon of dried herbs into a strainer, then place the strainer in a cup with hot water. Let it sit for about 15-20 minutes before removing it. For a stronger tea, you can leave it in for up to an hour.
Tips For Making Your Herbal Bath Tea
Making herbal bath tea may seem complicated, but it is actually quite simple. You want to put the tea mix in a muslin bag that can be added to a hot bath, just like if you were making a cup of hot tea. You can sew the bags or just tie the top of the bags with string. You want to cut the muslin material to the right size, then place your combined herbs inside of them. Then you will close it up and tie it off with a string.
When deciding on how much to fill it, keep in mind that wet herbs will be in the bag, so you don’t want to weigh it down too much, or it might open. There isn’t necessarily anything wrong with that, but the herbs can get into the drain and clog it, so it is best to avoid this from happening. If you hang the bag over the faucet during your bath, you should be able to use it 2-3 times before disposing of it and switching it for a new bag.
Try different soothing herb combinations to make your herbal bath tea and find out which one works best for you!
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