Following is an excerpt from Growing and Using Stevia: The Sweet Leaf from Garden to Table with 35 Recipes.
When it comes to harvesting, the obvious method is grazing in the Stevia patch. Just pinch off a leaf and enjoy. It’s even better when combined with a mint leaf. With a little more effort, you can use those fresh leaves to make a tea with a tea ball or strainer just as you would make any herb tea.Harvest time really arrives when plants are fully grown. You’ll get the highest leaf yield just as plants start blooming in the late summer or fall. When the first blossom buds form, go ahead and harvest.
See Chapter 6 of Growing and Using Stevia for these additional topics:
When it comes to harvesting, the obvious method is grazing in the Stevia patch. Just pinch off a leaf and enjoy. It’s even better when combined with a mint leaf. With a little more effort, you can use those fresh leaves to make a tea with a tea ball or strainer just as you would make any herb tea.Harvest time really arrives when plants are fully grown. You’ll get the highest leaf yield just as plants start blooming in the late summer or fall. When the first blossom buds form, go ahead and harvest.
See Chapter 6 of Growing and Using Stevia for these additional topics:
- Drying Leaves
- Storing Dried Leaves
Order your copy of Growing and Using Stevia: The Sweet Leaf from Garden to Table with 35 Recipes through one of these links:
directly from Prairie Oak Publishing
from Amazon.com.
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