Growing Your Own Tea Garden

Growing Your Own Tea Garden
Author :
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages : 265
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781620083239
ISBN-13 : 162008323X
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Growing Your Own Tea Garden by : Jodi Helmer

• Learn everything you need to know to create a healthy, bountiful tea garden and enjoy high-quality tea and herbal infusions • Discover more than 60 diverse plants that make great tea, including the classic tea plant and dozens of flavorful leaves, flowers, fruits, and roots • Explore best cultivation practices and nine fun garden designs • Let it steep: learn how to brew the perfect cup of tea

Homegrown Tea

Homegrown Tea
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Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages : 288
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781250039422
ISBN-13 : 1250039428
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Homegrown Tea by : Cassie Liversidge

Homegrown Tea explains how to grow a large variety of plants in your own garden, on a balcony or even on a window sill could become your tea cupboard. It shows you how to grow your tea from seeds, cuttings, or small plants, as well as which parts of the plant are used to make tea. Liversidge lays out when and how to harvest your plants, as well as information on how to prepare the plant, including how to dry tea leaves to make tea you can store to last you throughout the year. As a guide to using tea to make you feel better, there are nutritional and medicinal benefits. Finally, there is an illustrated guide to show how to make up fresh and dried teabags and how to serve a delicious homegrown tea. It is sustainable way to look at a beverage, which is steeped in history and tradition. Sample drinks include well-known plants such as rose hips, mint, sage, hibiscus, and lavender, as well as more obscure ones like chicory, angelica, apple geranium, and lemon verbena.

Grow Your Own Tea

Grow Your Own Tea
Author :
Publisher : Timber Press
Total Pages : 209
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781604699319
ISBN-13 : 1604699310
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Grow Your Own Tea by : Christine Parks

"Plant a tea plant and watch it grow! Grow Your Own Tea is truly a masterpiece how-to guide to cultivating and enjoying the sacred leaf. It will delight even the armchair gardener and casual tea lover." —James Norwood Pratt, author of James Norwood Pratt’s Tea Dictionary Tea lovers, make a fresh pot, sit down with this delightful guide, and discover the joys of growing and processing your own tea at home. Tea farmer Christine Parks and enthusiast Susan Walcott cover it all from growing tea plants and harvesting leaves, to the distinct processes that create each tea’s signature flavors. In this comprehensive handbook, you’ll discover tea’s ancient origins, learn about the single plant that produces white, green, oolong, and black teas, and discover step-by-step instructions for plucking, withering, and rolling. Simple recipes that highlight the flavor of tea and creative uses for around the home round out this must-read for tea fans.

Grow Your Own Botanicals

Grow Your Own Botanicals
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Publisher : Kyle Books
Total Pages : 441
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780857837677
ISBN-13 : 0857837672
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Grow Your Own Botanicals by : Cinead McTernan

Grow Your Own Botanicals brings together an inspiration collection of plants that add beauty, structure and interest to a garden as well as providing an exciting harvest that can be used in innovative ways in the kitchen and home. If you're buying seed kits and botanical plant gifts or like to experiment with making your own drinks, remedies or skin care, this handbook is the must-have companion gardening guide. Now you can make your hibiscus cordial for cocktails, herb and spice mix for your roasts or calendula face cream with your own garden produce. Cinead offers general advice on getting started - soil, composting, borders, containers, seed saving, cuttings, intercropping, wildlife and biodiversity -before moving on to the botanical garden. From plants that might traditionally be recognised as a botanical, to more unusual exotic varieties, this collection of 80 botanicals don't need huge space to grow, but must harvest meaningful amounts to use to flavour food, drinks and oils. Experiment with herbs like juniper, lemon balm or nigella, grow evening primrose or liquorice with their pretty flowers, and try out fruits like Chillean guava or yuzu. This is gardenening at its most fun and fanciful!

Growing Your Own Cocktails, Mocktails, Teas & Infusions

Growing Your Own Cocktails, Mocktails, Teas & Infusions
Author :
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages : 441
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781620083840
ISBN-13 : 1620083841
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Growing Your Own Cocktails, Mocktails, Teas & Infusions by : Jodi Helmer

There’s nothing quite like a thirst-quenching beverage, especially when it’s made with fresh ingredients you picked from your very own garden! This book will show you what leaves, flowers, fruits, vegetables, and roots to grow in your garden so you can enjoy them from your glass. Filled with beautiful photography and helpful information how to plant, maintain, and harvest each home-grown ingredient, this gardening guide also includes delicious recipes for both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks to enjoy any time of the year! Also included is advice for making your own syrups, tinctures, and purees. Written by Jodi Hemler, author of Grow Your Own Tea Garden, this book will inspire both small and large space gardeners to enjoy their bounty in a refreshing new way! • An inspirational and instructional guide to growing your own cocktail or mocktail ingredients in your garden • Discover what leaves, flowers, fruits, vegetables, and roots to grow for garden-to-glass cocktails • Learn how to plant, maintain, and harvest each fresh, home-grown ingredient • Includes cocktail recipes for a variety of drinks and mocktails, as well as helpful tips and a guide to making your own infusions, syrups, tinctures, and purees • An ideal resource for a small garden set-up

Grow Your Own Tea

Grow Your Own Tea
Author :
Publisher : Timber Press
Total Pages : 485
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781643260303
ISBN-13 : 1643260308
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Grow Your Own Tea by : Christine Parks

"Plant a tea plant and watch it grow! Grow Your Own Tea is truly a masterpiece how-to guide to cultivating and enjoying the sacred leaf. It will delight even the armchair gardener and casual tea lover." —James Norwood Pratt, author of James Norwood Pratt’s Tea Dictionary Tea lovers, make a fresh pot, sit down with this delightful guide, and discover the joys of growing and processing your own tea at home. Tea farmer Christine Parks and enthusiast Susan Walcott cover it all from growing tea plants and harvesting leaves, to the distinct processes that create each tea’s signature flavors. In this comprehensive handbook, you’ll discover tea’s ancient origins, learn about the single plant that produces white, green, oolong, and black teas, and discover step-by-step instructions for plucking, withering, and rolling. Simple recipes that highlight the flavor of tea and creative uses for around the home round out this must-read for tea fans.

Grow your own Wedding Flowers

Grow your own Wedding Flowers
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 224
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780857842657
ISBN-13 : 085784265X
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Grow your own Wedding Flowers by : Georgie Newbery

By growing your own wedding flowers, you can add a personal element to your special occasion, while caring for the environment and saving money at the same time. Filled with gorgeous pictures, this friendly, no-nonsense book makes growing and arranging your own flowers achievable and fun. Whether you're growing for a wedding or a birthday, festival or other celebration, artisan farmer and florist Georgie Newbery's cheerful advice takes you through everything you need to know. Beginning with a foreword by Sarah Raven, this step-by-step guide covers planning, growing, cutting and conditioning your flowers. There are sections dedicated to flowers for spring, early-summer, high-summer, autumn and winter weddings to ensure you're getting the best blooms for the season. There are creative flower craft ideas for special occasions, including buttonholes, bouquets, centrepieces, garlands and flower crowns. From jam-jar posies to elaborate displays, this lovely book explains how to grow and create beautiful arrangements and make your special day unique, without costing the earth.

Homegrown Tea

Homegrown Tea
Author :
Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 290
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781250039415
ISBN-13 : 125003941X
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Homegrown Tea by : Cassie Liversidge

A beautifully illustrated gardening book for tea lovers

Happy and Whole

Happy and Whole
Author :
Publisher : Plum
Total Pages : 240
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781760552756
ISBN-13 : 1760552755
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Happy and Whole by : Magdalena Roze

In Happy & Whole, media personality, meteorologist and new mum Magdalena Roze shares her favourite wholefood recipes inspired by her love of the weather and a sea change to Byron Bay. After swapping a hectic Sydney career for a slower pace of life, Magdalena has embraced a more natural way of living that focuses on a balanced approach to health, happiness and simplicity. Happy & Whole celebrates the food we like to eat in different types of weather - refreshing salads and picnics on sunny days, cooling drinks and exotic flavours when it's humid, warm comforting foods when days are cool and cloudy, and rejuvenating dishes to make when it's raining outside. Interspersed through the pages are tips and advice for wellness, food for babies, creating simple bespoke gifts and ideas for making small, positive changes that nurture us so we, too, can learn to be happy and whole. This is a specially formatted fixed-layout ebook that retains the look and feel of the print book.

Grow

Grow
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Publisher : Abrams
Total Pages : 64
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781647007065
ISBN-13 : 1647007062
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Grow by : Riz Reyes

Discover facts about 15 plants, explore what makes them unique, and learn how to grow them Grow beauty. Grow friendship. Grow flavor. Grow plants! Discover 15 plants with incredible powers, then learn how to grow them. Meet each plant’s surprising relations (did you know the tasty tomato is a cousin of deadly nightshade?) and discover their history (bromeliads defended themselves against dinosaurs!). Then, follow the step-by-step instructions to grow and care for each plant, whether you have a big backyard or a sunny windowsill. This fully illustrated guide to growing is the perfect introduction to plants for families everywhere.