We've got a question from.

We've got a question from Sarah today about the best herbs to grow indoors or in like a patio style garden if you want to use them for tea. Now something that I did not know before I started gardening is that tea refers specifically to Camellia Senenses and technically herbal teas which I just

refer to as herbal teas are actually referred to as tisands.

But for the purposes of this episode I'm just going to be calling them herbal tea. So whatever herb you choose, the process for the most part is pretty simple. You're just going to boil water and put it into a cup with some crushed herbs and let it steep.

But you can do a specific herbal tea garden or herbal tea raise bed if you want.

There's a lot of different plants that you can grow and they

don't just have a tea-based benefit of course almost all of these are going to have a

benefit for either the kitchen or the garden itself or perhaps some sort of medicinal

use although that is really not my field of expertise so don't listen to me about anything that has to do with

that now the first okay this is the basic one and you probably know what it is before I even say it,

it's going to be basil. You want to use fresh leaves on basil rather than dried.

I find that dried basil, the flavor just doesn't persist. It really goes away and it's much more of a vegetable flavor than that classic basil and so I would say go with fresh basil. Now kamamil or chamomile as I like to call it much

to the consternation of anyone who hears it I will still call it chamamale, it is made from the daisy-like flowers of German

Camamil and has this nice sort of fruity, appleish style of flavor and it's honestly one of the easier plants you can grow in your

garden it really isn't hard at all. Now a plant that can be a little bit more

challenging is Fennel. Fennel has a bright sort of licorish anise style flavor.

A lot of the time, at least in my kitchen,

fennel shows up in a soup.

When I was making soups a lot, what I would do is I would chop up the fennel bulb

and you would roast it a little bit in a pan to kind of get some flavor

onto it or accentuate the flavor and then you'd put it into a soup and it would be really nice.

Okay, lavender. This is a plant that you either love or you hate I've noticed. My

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