Planting an Herbal Tea Garden

Links I used for instructions:

• Link #1from eHow - How to Color

Easter Eggs With Tea

• Link #2 from Third Planet Food -

How to Dye Easter Eggs Naturally with Tea All right, this is my final attempt. If it doesn’t work this time, I’m done! Boil, brew; add vinegar and alum powder. Let tea cool down before adding the eggs, stir and put in fridge if you’re going to let them sit for any length of time. I don’t remember exactly how long they sat before I checked them the first time, but boy oh boy what a difference the Alum powder made! I think I left them alone for at least six hours or more, before I took them out for the picture.

The Green tea, Peppermint tea and Chamomile tea all colored yellow. One of the links said any tea with chamomile in it would do that. F.Y.I…most herbal teas have chamomile in them! The reddish brown is actually the Tetley black tea. The two greenish eggs, yeah, those were shockers. It was either the Blueberry and the Raspberry Zinger that came out with those colors or the Raspberry and the

Rosehip and Hibiscus. I can’t remember which one it was, but one of those three made the dark blue purplish color.

I decided not to try the marbled affect with these eggs, I didn’t know how the alum would make the eggs taste if it seeped into them. Which is a good thing, my grandmother enjoyed the egg salad I made with them after I was done!

I didn’t do this to be scientific, or even pretty. I really just wanted to see what colors would emerge as I was trying the different flavors of tea. It definitely isn’t a project you want to wait till the last minute to do, if you think you might want to try it for a special dinner or something. It is most certainly not for some one who doesn’t have the patience to wait hours for the colors to get just right, unless you do more than one egg the same color, or have multiple pans that you can have many different colors going at the same time. Would I do it again? Not likely, it was simply a one-time experiment to be able to tell you, the readers about a different way to dye eggs.

Speaking of different, search out tea dyeing eggs, read through a few of the links, you’ll find some interesting uses for spices, onion skins and fruit drinks. Or try the tea yourself, be surprised by what colors you get!