The first video of a my Tea Garden Series! Hope you enjoy seeing what was planted. As the year moves forward I will be showing how to harvest, make teas, salves, and in recipes!
Greetings from the UK. This is something that is very close to my heart and in the process of building my herbs for infusion purposes. I'd love to join you as you make the herbs into healing. I love dandelions too! Loving what your family is doing. :)
Stivers Homestead Hi Jennifer, new subscriber here and loving it. I followed R&Rs goat babies to you and suggested Jess and Miah as the names. May I suggest another plant or two for your tea garden? Easy to grow, Holy Basil also known as Tulsi is an adaptogen which helps the body control stress/cortisol levels. Tastes great too. Also Zinger Hibiscus makes a tasty pink tea. Check them out.
Hi, I think you would enjoy watching Rain Country. Heidi is a wealth of knowledge on herbs. You are a natural born gardener. I am enjoying your videos.
Love your tea garden and looking forward to seeing it grow!! Love watching your videos.....you have a very calming personality and a joy to watch! Thank you.
Who said you can't teach an old dog new tricks? Thank you for sharing this!!!! I love to learn and this one is very informative . I look forward to the next one! Peace and Love
💚💚💚JEN I AM NEW TO YOUR CHANNEL. I AM FINDING YOU SUCH A DEAR SOLE AND AN INSPIRATION TO ME! YOUR FAMLY IS ABSOLUTELY DARLING AND WATCHING ZACK “CREATE” SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING IS THE WOW FACTOR! 💚💚💚
Watch the lemon balm, it will go wild and start growing everywhere. And dandelions are great, and the greens are very tasty. You can use every pert of it
Spearmint will too. I learned the hard way to grow it in pots. The positive to growing mint in your yard is it smells wonderful if a lawn mower hits it. :D
I love your tea garden! My lavender has been a labor of love. Lavender has been the most challenging plant to grow by seed among all of my herbs. It takes a long time to germinate, but so worth the wait.
I'm finding that if I sow them in fall, they do better. Because they have the chance to over winter. Lavender needs a cold period to germinate properly.
So excited for you on your new tea garden!!! And I agree with you on dandelions, they’re super powerful & don’t get nearly enough credit! The greens from them are also great in fresh green juice. Very healing & healthy.
I can't wait until you have a whole bed of dandelions, you can also eat them in salad, its a little bit bitter but really good for you, also there's the amazing added benefit of feeding the bees in the earliest spring and the latest autumn.
I have an entire tea hill at our house!! I’m so inspired and excited! Please do some tea mixing and herb drying videos!! So excited to see how both our gardens turn out!!
Well I am Inspired to plant my own now! I have always harvested my wild mints here on the farm....but now I think I will give this a try! Thanks, from an old Ohio tea drinker...
Your tea garden is awesome!! I love lemon balm. I make lemon balm tea for my husband for his high blood pressure. It's very yummy. I love that you said your tea garden will be so much more healing for your family than any pharmacy....next time you are on ig look up the hashtag #mygardenmypharmacy I made up that hashtag back in May of 2015 😊 Growing your own is way better than anything you can buy💕 Looking forward to watching your tea garden grow😍
I don't have a garden yet, but i have a window that gets all day sun, so I have mint and chamomile growing in pots. I love hyssop as well, its great for tummy aches and digestive issues. and bees and butterflies love it. its a great way to invite pollinators into your garden, as are dandelions!
Hello Jen, I just want to caution you. I have grown Lemon Balm. I started out with about a 6 inch pot or so of it and over the years it has spread probably 10 foot or so in length and about 3 or 4 foot wide. Same with the other mints. Good Luck with your tea garden, I intend on adding tea herbs and medicinal herbs in with my herbs in the future. Right now I have just a few culinary herbs that I use all the time.
what an awesome tea garden!! I've got a few of those herbs planted myself, but mostly for pest issues 😂.... you mentioned in another video that you were zone 6a/b...you guys are lucky... I'm zone 6b, and we are still having some frost at night and temps between 30 and 37 degrees.... wish I could get my beds planted.... my seed starts are taking over my house 😂... I'm only putting in 3 beds at 4 feet by 10 feet for 2 beds and one 2 x 10 feet, got more plants than I need but some are going to my daughters school, they are going do a raised bed, and doing a couple for my mom.... still have way too many.... love seeing you guys, makes me smile you guys are so giggly and happy 😊
Thank you for sharing your tea garden with us! Lots of great info! I’m working on starting a homestead. Easing my husband into it.🤪 I grew up on a farm and I love the life of good ole country livin! I love all y’all’s videos! I’m not too far from y’all either! I’m 15 minutes out of Louisville in Southern Indiana.
I'm building a tea garden this year too. Hyssop, lemon balm, 3 different kinds of mint, fenugreek, chamomile, lavender, echinacia, angelica, cat nip, and green thread. I'll also be growing American chicory and dandelion in pots so that I can harvest the roots for making coffee. I'm pretty stoked. Never really considered growing my own tea until a few months ago. I think I have a few other flower/herbs I'm planting too, but can't remember right now.
I’m growing everything you mentioned here but for the licorice basil and dandelion. I’m also growing spearmint, peppermint, chocolate mint, strawberry mint, dill, borage, dark opal basil, cinnamon basil, calendula, and echinacea.
Btw everyone, the seeds she used in this video were from MIgardener.com They have an awesome selection and all their seeds cost just 99 cents a pack! We started from seed this year and bought our seed from them and we love them. Excellent germination rate. Luke at MI Gardener also has an awesome RU-vid channel with informative gardening videos!
Get you a wild rose bush for rose hips, try marshmallow, ginger, tumeric, catnip, yarrow, and senna for when ready to add more medicinal herbs to your lovely garden.....i was so excited to see someone else know about the medicinal benifits of dandeelions the root has medicinal purposes too i tincture them....keep smiling you beautiful folk it brighting every ones day!
You should try tulsi basil it is good to remove floride from tap water and it is an adaptogen. Thai basil is good too it tastes kind of like licorice too:)
Good stuff, we haven't used many herbs for teas but we do a lot of cooking with them! Every year I expand the herb area a little bit now I have to expand my herb uses.
Great video, as always! You might want to rethink planting the mint & lemon balm in that bed. They will take over & may crowd out the other plants. I have always planted my mint in containers or closed in area where they couldn’t spread beyond that. Can’t wait to see the progress of your garden beds & to learn more about the uses for herbs. I do have a small herb garden, but mostly culinary herbs (rosemary, several types of oregano several types of thyme, etc). Love & Hugs from Ft. Worth, Texas!
Thanks for sharing! Looking forward to more videos about how you use them for salves, balms and tinctures. We are expanding our herb garden significantly this year too!
I like the idea of a tea garden. I didn’t know lavender was good for nausea, I’d just been using ginger up until now. I’m glad you covered lemon balm, I’ve got a variegated one at moment plus seeds for the regular kind. Also, you’re not crazy for growing dandelions, I am too. I wanted some I could guarantee dogs hadn’t peed on. Also, it’s easier to dig up the roots from a container to try making dandelion coffee. This is a really cool video, thank you 🙏
I seriously only drink tea and water, this video gave me some good insight thanks. On the dandelion subject, i pick them out of my yard and just eat them! My neighbors think im crazy. Looking forward to more on the tea.
I love my tea as well! Thanks for this video. It is so inspiring that you started everything from seed! You give me renewed hope as I have had not nearly as much success as you have with herbs! Zone 9 so ... and so glad to hear your suggestions for lemon balm! As I have never cooked with it!
Awesome! I love a tea garden. As a herbalist I have a medicinal garden, with a good portion of it that can be used for teas. Dandelion is not a native to North America. Explorier brought it with them along with Plantain because they were important medicine for them. Fantastic that you use plant medicine! Thanks for sharing!
I am giggling about the dandelions..i have a ton in oregon. I can send you bigger ones. I am interested in learning how you make salves. Thank you for sharing your tea garden. Great idea
I love the tea garden idea! I have had no luck with herbs so far but I will keep trying. Next time will be in a green house so I can have them fresh year round.
I got the same seeds you did and I'm following along with you. I'm so excited about having a tea garden! I've never had before this is all new and looking g forward to more videos. Thank you!
What a great variety of herbs! I love teas as well! I'm getting ready to strain my dandelions I jarred in olive oil 4 weeks ago to make salve. I've heard they are great with pain relief & also dry cracked skin. I never realized marigolds could be used for medicinal purposes. I've always just planted it to ward off bad bugs from my garden. I've got some mint starts ready to plant & picked up some basil, cilantro & lemon balm to plant this year. I'd love to see future videos on how you use the herbs & make products with them. Enjoy your garden!
Dandelions are crazy around here. And I found a thyme Bush the woods. I'm gonna go get some when it stops raining. If it ever stops. 🤦 I love this video. Thank you, beautiful lady.
I saw that someone said to watch lemon balm. If you let it go to seed, it will take over your garden and is not always easy to get rid of. I'm glad that it smells so good and is good to cook with, otherwise I might not like it.
what a neat idea! I have a few of the teas you mentioned, but plan to expand next year! I agree about the dandelions! I now thank god daily for all the free tea and meds in my yard!! plus they are just so friendly looking, only second to daisies, which are my fav, so anything that looks like a daisy is a love! including chickweed!!! =) that garden is going to be just beautiful by the middle of august! =) would love vids on salves and ointments!
Love this video...thank you so much for sharing. I'm new but loving catching up🌝 The Tea Garden idea brings me so much joy... the possibilities are endless. Have a happy & blessed Mother's Day...and enjoy some "Melissa" lemon balm tea...its one of my favorites too🍵💛
Yes I will stat a tea garden I just went to a herb festival picked up some lemon and orange mint would love to build a pot to put them it in, because I hear they can take over.
Such a sweet video. ❤ Your sweet spirit shines especially bright in this one. I am excited for your new tea garden experience. I have grown all but one of those, the Lemon mint, which is in fact is very closely related to Bee Balm. I will let you know you are definitely going to want to carve out a patch for your chamomile. I used a bed for mine and could gather what I needed for teas and for making sleep pillows and gifts. Take care the lavender plant has good drainage, they are fussy about wet feet. You have a good start there. If you ever have questions I am happy to help. I've grown herbs here for 30 years almost and honestly cannot imagine life without them. Oh, one more thing, I did not know Marigold was good for sore throat relief. Learn something new every day.
I have a tea garden. So far I have sweet mint, chocolate mint, lemon balm, lavender, chocolate basil, marigolds. I have cilantro growing to. But I hope to add chamomile I can’t find a start or seed this year at my local stores. I want to add rosemary, thyme, catnip, lemon mint, lemon thyme, spearmint and peppermint. My favorite herb for tea that first got me into a tea garden was lemon balm and mint. I love flavoring my water with them to. Mint and strawberry water is good. I love to add lemon balm to my black sweet tea to. Excited to watch you tea garden grow! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the video. I'm growing a lot of the same herbs, mostly to bring in pollinators but the idea of making my own teas was intriguing. Looking forward to seeing how your tea garden grows and the different uses for each herb.
My husband is Georgian 🇬🇪 and I use fenugreek in many of his countries recipes. I buy it online from a spice company. I need to grow it though, thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the information. I had heard the term " tea garden" before on other homesteading videos but didn't know exactly what was meant by it. I grew up in Northern New England and we just called them herb or kitchen gardens. Maybe its a regional thing :D I hope to have a nice big one someday when we get a piece of land. I am currently just growing a few on my deck in containers with my veggies. I love all the herbs you listed, another good one to have is Plantain (which you probably already know) but if not, it would go very well with the others you have. Good for eating, salves, tinctures, teas, poultices, and so on. Like dandelion, most people think of it as a weed but it's so much more than that. Anyways... love the video and am enjoying following your adventures.
Looove this!!! I would so love to see a how to with some of these things. Especially the marigolds lol I’m a boy mom and would love to know how to use it for the cuts and burns but also for me in a tea!! ❤️❤️❤️
I love this! We are working on planting a herb garden area on our new farm. I never thought of a tea garden concept though! I am going to add this to my list of items to plant.
What a great idea!! I grow most of the herbs you mentioned but never thought to grow them together like that. I am infusing olive oil with dandelion blooms and will be making a salve next week. Made it last year and loved it and didn't dry any to make more so been waiting for it to bloom again. Thanks for the good video.
LOVE IT, JENN!!! Wish I could join you for a cup 'o tea :) This year I'm starting herbs in a more serious way-calendula, lavender, peppermint, cilantro, echinacea, marigolds, lemon balm and lemongrass. I'm hoping to make infused oils, tinctures, and salves. If you have any good recipes, let me know!! I also have an indoor pot of aloe.
Thanks for the info! This is my first year to plant herbs for medicinal and culinary purposes. Would love to see how you harvest and process in the future. God bless ❤️
I made some dandlion syrup before. It had a lot of sugar in it but the kids where all home then and they would use a whole quart in about a day and a half!
Wow! This was an excellent video, just packed with real good information, Jenn! I'm excited to learn more about these herbs as you do more videos about them. And how about those dandelions?! Who would've thought? They aren't our enemy after all! Just goes to show us that there's a little bit of good all God's creations! You guys have so many exciting videos coming up in the future and I can't wait to watch and learn! God bless and watch over you all!
Hi, I'm a new subscriber from Roots and Refuge :) I have a rather large selection of herbs and wild plants in my garden for culinary and medicinal use too. If you like things for salves, then you may also want to try growing Calendula. Not only are the flowers beneficial as companion plants, pretty, but when steeped in oil they produce a wonderful liquid gold that can then be added to all sorts of other products, or used on its own. I add it to my body butters. I also use the flowers for tea. Thyme is also another powerhouse of a herb in the garden from a medicinal POV. Especially when it is cold season. Mixed with Lemon and raw local Honey, or Rosehip syrup, and you have something rather wonderful :)
Lovely video on Tea Garden seeds! I have grown some of your varieties and hope to have a bigger tea garden in 2020! Thanks for sharing your thoughts and plans. Hug, Judy( Arkansas)
I love this SO much! I am also making oils and hopefully ointments and salves. I wrote down your suggestions. These are great! I bought a comfrey plant and an ashwaganda plant Monday at the Baker's Creek Festival. Looking so forward to using those in herbal medicinal as well. Great video.
Awesome video. Thank you so much for sharing. I want to learn more about herbs and their medicinal properties. I think this video has persuaded me to take that leap.
