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- Lemon verbena dry, also dried an excellent spice and medicinal herb
- Grow or buy lemon verbena
- Use lemon verbena
- Dry lemon verbena
Lemon verbena can be dried as a spice or tea
Lemon verbena dry, also dried an excellent spice and medicinal herb
Lemon shrub, lemon leaf and verbena are other names for lemon verbena, a perennial shrub that thrives and winters well in our latitudes. Its dried leaves are used in herbal medicine or used in the kitchen as herbs.
Grow or buy lemon verbena
If you have a garden or a balcony, you can grow the lemon verbena outdoors or in pots. Seed the seeds from February (through March) in well-drained, nutrient-poor soil and make room in the sun. From July the plant starts to bloom. Their leaves can be harvested year-round.
When buying fresh lemon verbena you should be careful not to offer verbena instead of lemon verbena.
If the botanical names are expelled, you will recognize the lemon verbena by the names Aloysia triphylla or Verbena triphylla.
Also make sure that the plants have no aphids.
Use lemon verbena
The leaves of lemon verbena are used for medicinal and spice purposes. As a medicinal plant, it is in the form of tea
used. In the kitchen, the plant finds a versatile field of application. It is used as a spice among other things for the preparation of
used.
Dry lemon verbena
If the lemon verbena grows in the garden, you can cut off the first shoots as soon as it sprouts about 10 cm in length. However, leave three eyes of the shoot so that the plant can continue to drive out.
In August, the plant is so large that you can create a winter supply. Cut the long shoots down to three eyes and strip the leaves. When drying the leaves proceed as follows:
- Lay out a clean sheet of cloth or paper on a suitable board and spread out the leaves. Make sure that the leaves are not too tight for a better drying result. Bring the board to a warm, dry and dark place. Let the leaves dry for 14 days. It is best to fill the dried leaves with dark screw-cap jars. Here the dried lemon verbena keeps about a year.