If you love to drink tea and buy it from the store, you can save yourself a lot of money and enjoy better tasting tea by growing the tea at home.  Fresh herbs make for an incredible tea experience, and you get the benefit of a higher vitamin content because the tea components have not been processed.

Common tea herbs such as chamomile, all of the mint family, rose hips and lavender can be easily grown in a small space outside your back door.  Even if you live in an apartment, you can grow these herbs.  Once started, all of these herbs for tea grow very well.  In fact, it is common to keep mints in containers because they spread so well and can quickly take over an entire bed, and even creep into the yard.

To make tea with fresh leaves, simply snip off some leaves, crush them a bit in your hand, and steep them with a tea ball in hot water.  You can cut stalks to dry and make your own dried tea leaves very easily as well.  Simply tie a bundle together with string or a rubber band and hang upside down in a cool, dry place until dried.

Growing your own herbs will save you money over store bought tea, because you only pay for the plant one time and can enjoy fresh, healthy tea for years to come.  If you drink tea, it just makes sense to grow your own tea herbs.  Nothing beats “picking” fresh tea.