How Do You Create A Container Tea Garden?
Perhaps you live in an apartment or condo and just don’t have the space for full-fledged gardening, but you’d love to grow some of your favorite herbs and plants for creating soothing teas. Use a container tea garden to create a portable garden for year-round enjoyment. Select an appropriate container for your tea garden. You may prefer to have everything confined to one large container, or maybe you’d prefer to have a grouping of container tea gardens to allow enough room for your plants to thrive. Clay pots work well for proper drainage. Purchase nutrient-rich potting soil or compost. Be certain your pot has good drainage holes in the bottom and place a coffee filter over the drainage holes to prevent soil from leaking out. Fill your pot almost completely full with the soil. Choose herbal tea plants that please you and will make fine teas. Search online for herbal tea recipes to help you select plants, or choose herbs from the mint and balm family. Other excellent plants include diff