Related fermented willow tea with various additives

AAA well, this is already something: you can plant a lawn with tea and chestnuts on the edge and your dream has come true. I also want to walk the lawn in the morning in the dew ... .... We have 6 hundred, even the cat has nowhere to walk. You plant 10 no 15 (for podstakhovka) tomato okay 20 just in case, but they take it and they all come up - where to plant?

watched the video now: they take twigs of tea with one leaf, dry them, make a sheaf, and put also dried flowers inside and dry again

but I am interested in how to dry the flowers so that they retain their shape and the petals do not lose
or are there dried flowers?

and what can be replaced by fireweed? Well, we don't have him

Zhenya, I think that any leaves can be used - apple, raspberry, currant (those that are larger). It will be good to hide flowers in them.

how to dry the flowers so that they retain their shape and the petals do not lose dried flowers there?

In email the dryer keeps its shape well. Or heads down - the shape is perfectly preserved. I used to dry dandelion balls this way - I inserted a thin wire into the stem, hung one flower on the stem with its head down, then sprayed hairspray on this ball. Let the stem dry. And then she built the composition in a vase. These cannons and dandelions stood for a whole year. Would cost more, but the dust settled on them.
So our flowers can be dried (without hairspray, of course).

Here it is!

The sheaves are tied in two places, then the whole thing is turned inside out, the filling (flower) is pushed into the center, everything is folded into cheesecloth, squeezed with fingers and twisted as tightly as possible, and dried in this form. I'll try on fireweed)

Sheaves are linked in two places

A "study" of a Chinese ball showed that they bind a sheaf once, turn the leaves inside out and bind again on top, not far from the base.
Thanks everyone for discussing this topic!

well, so no one has made bound tea this season

Me, nope Next year I will start mowing in May

aha, and since May, I will rip off Ivan-tea, then mow it to collect a second crop of a young

well, so no one has made bound tea this season

Something hands did not reach. Although I dried different flowers. Let's leave this beauty until next season.

rip off Ivan-tea, then cut it off

(y) Galina, very correct decision, forward-thinking approach)

Maybe you can ferment it?

If you ferment, then the color of the flower will change. But in this tea the task is to preserve the color of the plant, as I understand it ???

Yes, Sergey, everything is correct, here the aesthetic side is not in the last place.
Sergey, come to us in the topic "Fermented Ivan tea" and "Fermented tea from the leaves of wild plants."

Oh, how inspired this theme! I will definitely make this tea in the summer

[niamka]

niamka, Natalia, thank you!) In the summer, all the girls, as they took up tea, did not reach their tied hands. They promised to do it this summer. Come to the topics about teas and our tea gazebo).

[Galina Iv.]

Galina Iv., I already study there as much as possible and take notes. I learned a lot of valuable things for myself. Thank you

Made a bound tea. It tastes like green. I will try to ferment longer, I like black. In general, this is what happened. Fireweed on top, rosehip bud inside.

[niamka]

niamka, it turned out very nicely. But I agree that it is better to ferment this tea.It will be much better.

[Ludmila]

niamka, it turned out very nicely. But I agree that it is better to ferment this tea. It will be much better.

Ludmila, Thank you! I don’t know if we will be able to do more this year. Something the fireweed is not very good. I roasted it with the sun after the rains. So I wanted to try to make a fluffy, I wouldn't have to do it out of fluff.

[niamka]

niamka, Natalia, well, at least 1 person tried to repeat it))), ATP to you! and then all the promises are only fed.

[Galina Iv.]

Galina Iv., and thank you for the master class!

I didn’t promise, I’m not smart enough!

I didn’t promise, I’m not smart enough!

You don't need much mind here, rather, sleight of hand is needed. Tie with a thread, and it falls apart, hands are hooks. But this is a matter of training.

And I still have not figured out how to replace Ivanchaev's leaves (((But I, but I !!! a week ago they brought the rhizomes of Ivan-tea, and they have already sprouted! Hurray, comrades! A couple of years and I will be with my personal plantation !!!

[GenyaF]

GenyaF, Own plantation, cool! In the spring, when half of the bushes will climb, pinch for tea or for food, so that the roots give new shoots (they grow in all directions). And fertilize more ash

[Alexei]

Alexei, Thank you! I will definitely use the tips! I was very afraid that Ivanushka would not stand our heat, but it did. In May, my husband was on the mainland, brought a birch and mountain ash, also coped with the heat. She planted everyone in partial shade, mulched the ground, cool under the mulch. Ivanushka is still green, I want to break off the leaves for tea, maybe there will be enough for a glass of tea))))

[GenyaF]

GenyaF, The best compost or fertilizer is his (Vankin's) leaves and stems, in the leaves - half of the periodic table. Of course, if you have such a scorching heat there, then you can pull out any grass and throw it right under the stems of Vanya to prevent the earth from drying out. Well, since you wanted to breed it - watch out for the future plantation. In any case, ask a qualified opinion from the botanists, you should have there or someone else will say

And I still have not figured out how to replace Ivanchaev's leaves

And I made sea buckthorn from the tops. Very tasty and beautiful.