Best Time To Plant Herbs The best time to plant gourmet garlic and shallots, golden-seal, ginseng, saffron, wild rice and other herbs is in the autumn. As summer draws to a close and the fall harvest is coming in, it seems counter intuitive to be … [Read more...]
2012/06/30 by Leave a Comment
Grow Your Own Tea – 16 Herbs You Can Grow for Tea
The tea plant—camellia sinensis—grows throughout throughout warmer Asian countries and produces several varieties of a caffeinated and certainly most pleasurable tea that's either processed raw, semi-fermented or fermented then brewed and enjoyed … [Read more...]
2011/09/09 by 5 Comments
Burdock Root Tea
Burdock Root (Arctium lappa L.) for a long time I never knew what this was because I always called it by the Japanese name gobo and still associate the plant as a food source for gobo rather than burdock. Burdock is pretty much found all over the … [Read more...]
2011/07/27 by 5 Comments
Chamomile Tea
The chamomile flowering plant is part of the daisy family native to Europe, North America, North Africa and the temperate region of Asia and has been used medicinally for thousands of years and the word comes from Greek "earth-apple". Chamomile is … [Read more...]
Cool Tea Net – Reconnecting With Plants
The Cool Tea Net is a place where we can share our love for not just tea but reconnecting with edible plants around ourselves a tool for learning about new plants, how to grow them, how to use them and their special qualities. Cool Tea Net is … [Read more...]