[Doc Simonson]

I don't know about anyone else, but I tend to grow a bunch of herbs and then not use them. Right now I have a ton of basil in the garden and it is no longer at its prime. I should have picked it and at least dried it. As I was looking at that, I saw my beautiful lemon grass which I haven't used at all. Someone on this forum suggested making lemon grass tea. I tool a stalk of lemon grass, a handful of lemon balm and a handful of peppermint, rough chopped it and made one of the nicest herbal teas I've ever had. Whoever that was, thank you.

If you don't use it fresh, dry it, freeze it or give it away, but don't waste it! Bad Doc!

 

[Jojo]

Doc - sounds good!
Has anyone tried the Mio liquids? Pretty good stuff, they need more flavors. I recently made some iced herbal tea (red zinger) and added a few squirts of the pommegranate. It was so good, the next time I had a margarita, I added a bit of the mango flavor, that turned out really good!

 

[scienceteacher]

lemon balm, spearmint, st johns wort and stevia make a nice tea that doesn't need any sugar.

 

[Chrysalis]

I've got so much mint I'm going to have to mow soon! Just kidding.

Do you make your tea out of fresh leaves or do you use dry only? I've got plenty of lemon mint, chocolate mint, lemon balm, and lemon grass. Maybe lemon-mint juleps would be good. :

 

[Doc Simonson]

I've got so much mint I'm going to have to mow soon! Just kidding.

Do you make your tea out of fresh leaves or do you use dry only? I've got plenty of lemon mint, chocolate mint, lemon balm, and lemon grass. Maybe lemon-mint juleps would be good. :

Today I made the tea from fresh herbs, but this Winter, I will have to use dried. So I better get busy preparing those herbs for storage! I've wasted so many herbs it is nearly criminal.

 

[Me in NJ]

I don't know about anyone else, but I tend to grow a bunch of herbs and then not use them. Right now I have a ton of basil in the garden and it is no longer at its prime. I should have picked it and at least dried it. As I was looking at that, I saw my beautiful lemon grass which I haven't used at all. Someone on this forum suggested making lemon grass tea. I tool a stalk of lemon grass, a handful of lemon balm and a handful of peppermint, rough chopped it and made one of the nicest herbal teas I've ever had. Whoever that was, thank you.

If you don't use it fresh, dry it, freeze it or give it away, but don't waste it! Bad Doc!

I don't know much about growing herbs, I do know it was 103 today and I hope it was iced tea.

 

[pammygene]

I dry lots. I use catnip and chamomile as well as others mentioned. I have feverfew, horehound, borage, spearmint and stevia plants as well. I also will use a good squirt of blue agave nectar, in place of honey, only cause for some reason I just dont really care for honey any more, it has changed or something is in it now or something missing, but I just dont like it anymore. But that is for a different thread. Anyway, there are alot of herbs that make wonderful teas, and you can mix and match to suit your taste.

 

[Doc Simonson]

A friend of mine from church did a companion planting experiment with borage and tomatoes this year. The results were astounding! The tomatoes were growing in the same way except one group was inter-planted with borage. The tomatoes were larger and more of them. I hope she repeats the experiment again next year. The scientist in me really wants to see that it can be replicated. I know I'm going to give it a go!

 

[pammygene]

from what I understand Borage is what they call a deep feeder, it has a very deep root system and it breaks up the soil farther down. So I would imagine it is why the tomatoes did so good, their roots followed the borage down thru the loosened soil and were able to get to more nutrients and moisture that they would have not otherwise had access too. But be careful doing this as borage readily reseeds itself prolifically..