Re: I am now growing Stevia

[Guest guest]

Melody,

You plant in soil. Dirt is what gets under your fingernails.

ew

I am now growing Stevia

Of course I made a video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYGLXLsOSuk

Melody

[Guest guest]

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ow to Harvest a Stevia Plant

Instructions

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1 Harvest Stevia in the late fall, before the first frost or as soon as the

blossoming begins, when the sweetener is at its strongest.

2 Cut the branches with pruning

http://www.ehow.com/how_5579253_harvest-stevia-plant.html# shears. Leave 1/3 of

the plant's foliage so it may continue growing the following season.

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3 Strip the leaves from the branches.

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4 Dry the leaves on a screen or net. Leave them outside in full sunshine for 8

to 10 hours. Alternately, use an electric dehydrator on low (100 degrees F to

110 degrees F).

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5 Stop drying when the leaves are crisp, crumbly and bright green. Avoid

overdrying (the leaves will lose their sweetness).

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6 Crush the dry leaves by hand or with a coffee grinder

http://www.ehow.com/how_5579253_harvest-stevia-plant.html# or herb blender.

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7 Keep and use the herbs in their crushed form or make liquid stevia extract.

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8 Add 1 cup of water to 1/4 cup crushed leaves. Let it set for 24 hours; pour

the extract into a jar. Keep it refrigerated.

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I am now growing Stevia

Of course I made a video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYGLXLsOSuk

Melody

[Guest guest]

Your stevia and your lettuce look good.   Where did you find the stevia?  I

haven't been able to find it locally.  I went to Nu-Turf which has grass and

also flowers and plants.  I got a citronella plant there and a rosemary

plant.  Didn't seem to know what Stevia was.  Lowe's didn't have it.  Did you

grow from seed or find it in a plant?  it looked like it was from a pot and

therefore a plant.  Looked very healthy.  I think it was who mentioned

she ground her s in the Blender or vitamix.  I don't know if it was dried

leaves but think maybe so since it was like a green powder.  I need t find the

answer too, as if I can find Stevia I'll be planting it and I think I ordered

some seeds since I couldn't find the plant. 

  

Carolyn Wilkerson

 

To: sproutpeople

Sent: Friday, June 8, 2012 12:11 AM

Subject: Re: I am now growing Stevia

 

Melody,

You plant in soil. Dirt is what gets under your fingernails.

ew

I am now growing Stevia

Of course I made a video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYGLXLsOSuk

Melody

[Guest guest]

Hi. I got the Stevia plants from Lowe's. I was trying to look for more leaf

lettuce plants. Couldn't find them. But when I saw the Stevia I got so exicted I

just grabbed them and then had to run back to Alan and we waited for our Access

a ride trip home.

Melody

[Guest guest]

Ernest.

Let me see if I got this right. I don't harvest anything now (from the Stevia

plant). I wait until I see blossoms, then I pull the leaves off by pruning

(blossoms too?). Then I do the dehydrating and powder.

Did I get this right? What would happen if I plucked some leaves right now? I

just got these plants yesterday.

I'm going to go on the internet now and read up on Stevia, etc.

I just hope my neighbors don't think I'm growing any weed!!!

lol

Melody

[Guest guest]

Lee. Since the plant is tall now, can I cut some of it off? I have no knowledge

of these things because the only plant I am growing aside from Stevia is my leaf

lettuce and that never gets tall.

I'm wondering if I can cut the top off and also take some leaves off too?

thanks much

Melody

[Guest guest]

Got it.

No touching it for two weeks. Just give it water and love.

lol

And tonight here in good old Brooklyn NY, I saw my second rainbow in my

lifetime. It's been 60 years. Tonight at 7:30 p.m. we had a DOUBLE rainbows.

I'm always saying " we have to find our rainbows " . Well, tonight was THE night.

Melody

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> Mel,

> Give it a couple of weeks to acclimate after you have taken it from the pot

and planted it into it's new home.

> ew

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> Re: I am now growing Stevia

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> Lee. Since the plant is tall now, can I cut some of it off? I have no

knowledge of these things because the only plant I am growing aside from Stevia

is my leaf lettuce and that never gets tall.

>

> I'm wondering if I can cut the top off and also take some leaves off too?

>

> thanks much

>

> Melody

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[Guest guest]

Double rainbows make me want to run and hide! We saw the most spectacular one

in 2004 in Florida, making the most picture perfect sight just behind my

house-the sky looked very ominous but the rainbow was amazing! The next

afternoon, Hurricane Charley blew through and wiped my entire county off the

map, our house included! I tend to view them as a sign of bad things to come

now, which is a shame since they are so beautiful! It was also Friday the 13th

when it hit...made a believer out of me, lol

> >

> > Mel,

> > Give it a couple of weeks to acclimate after you have taken it from the

pot and planted it into it's new home.

> > ew

> >

> > Re: I am now growing Stevia

> >

> > Lee. Since the plant is tall now, can I cut some of it off? I have no

knowledge of these things because the only plant I am growing aside from Stevia

is my leaf lettuce and that never gets tall.

> >

> > I'm wondering if I can cut the top off and also take some leaves off too?

> >

> > thanks much

> >

> > Melody

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Yes, I was in Port Charlotte-even all these years later, still much of the

county isn't back to the way it was. I don't EVER want to go through that

again...which is why I am now full time in the mountains, lol!

> > >

> > > Mel,

> > > Give it a couple of weeks to acclimate after you have taken it from the

pot and planted it into it's new home.

> > > ew

> > >

> > > Re: I am now growing Stevia

> > >

> > > Lee. Since the plant is tall now, can I cut some of it off? I have no

knowledge of these things because the only plant I am growing aside from Stevia

is my leaf lettuce and that never gets tall.

> > >

> > > I'm wondering if I can cut the top off and also take some leaves off too?

> > >

> > > thanks much

> > >

> > > Melody

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

[Guest guest]

Wow, just two rainbows?! I kind of took it for granted that everyone sees

rainbows but I guess it's must be more a symptom of the Great British Summer

(rain, rain and more rain!). They're always nice to see though

Charlotte

> And tonight here in good old Brooklyn NY, I saw my second rainbow in my

lifetime. It's been 60 years. Tonight at 7:30 p.m. we had a DOUBLE rainbows. >

Melody

[Guest guest]

I cannot even begin to imagine what that must have been like for you all. It's

frightening when we hear about it happening, it usually gets reported on our

news in the UK. Awful news pictures. We very, very rarely get wind above storm

force here. They are usually the remnants of hurricanes that have finished doing

their 'work' and winged across the Atlantic.

Charlotte

>

> Yes, I was in Port Charlotte-even all these years later, still much of the

county isn't back to the way it was. I don't EVER want to go through that

again...which is why I am now full time in the mountains, lol!

>

>

[Guest guest]

To: sproutpeople

Sent: Friday, 8 June 2012, 14:26

Subject: Re: I am now growing Stevia

Ernest.

Let me see if I got this right. I don't harvest anything now (from the Stevia

plant).  I wait until I see blossoms, then I pull the leaves off by pruning

(blossoms too?). Then I do the dehydrating and powder.

Did I get this right?  What would happen if I plucked some leaves right now? I

just got these plants yesterday.

I'm going to go on the internet now and read up on Stevia, etc.

I just hope my neighbors don't think I'm growing any weed!!!

lol

Melody

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[Guest guest]

, what part of Brooklyn, I'm in Bensonhurst.

And wasn't it a GLORIOUS Rainbow!!!

Melody

> >

> > Mel,

> > Give it a couple of weeks to acclimate after you have taken it from the

pot and planted it into it's new home.

> > ew

> >

> > Re: I am now growing Stevia

> >

> > Lee. Since the plant is tall now, can I cut some of it off? I have no

knowledge of these things because the only plant I am growing aside from Stevia

is my leaf lettuce and that never gets tall.

> >

> > I'm wondering if I can cut the top off and also take some leaves off too?

> >

> > thanks much

> >

> > Melody

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

I'm glad you are in the mountains . I picture you breathing all that

healthy mountain air (with no pollution), and cooking in your solar oven. I was

talking about your solar oven last night while I was sitting on my friend's

porch. I could not get them to understand how the sun COOKS anything. I then

said " Remember when you went to the beach and you put this aluminum looking

thing in your hands and you held it to your face so you would get a SUNBURN? "

And they all said " Oh yeah " . I said 'well, that thing magnified the sun's rays

and you got COOKED, right? " They said 'yeah, that's right'.

So I said 'well just imagine placing a similar thing over a box, putting food in

that box at 8 a.m., that aluminum looking thing will take the sun's rays,

MULTIPLY it A LOT!! and when you come home from work at the end of the day, you

just walk over to that solar oven, open it up, and your food is piping hot " .

They all said " Get outta here, NO WAY " .

I just said " WAY " .

We had a good laugh. They now understand Solar Ovens.

One said'where do you put it in your kitchen? "

I then explained that it's not a kitchen oven, it's a method of cooking using

the rays from the sun and you put this outside (either in the front yard or the

backyard), and that's how you cook stuff.

I explained that you can make most things that you would cook in a conventional

oven.

These people do not have computers so there is no way for them to learn this on

their own.

I'm going to go on youtube and find a video on solar ovens, make a recording

with my Flip camera AND SHOW THEM.

Oh, I just thought of doing that. How cool!!!

lol

Melody

[Guest guest]

Although most of my family is still in Port Charlotte, I can hardly bear to go

down there. NOTHING is the same, and it was shocking how unbelievably

destructive the hurricane was there. I used to spend MOST of my time down

there, coming here to the mountains often, but that was my home...I haven't been

there in years now, and stay only a few days when I do go...the hurricane ruined

it for me (and was very traumatic for my daughter-she doesn't like to go there

anymore either)

>

> I went to Port Charlotte a year or two after Charley went through.  There was

still rebuilding going on and there were a lot of things that were missing.  It

was more of a fishing community than a tourist area.  There weren't a lot of

things to see. 

>

>

> Carolyn Wilkerson

>

>

>  

[Guest guest]

I had been a cop in Charlotte county Florida for most of my adult life, and we

often had " hurricane warnings " , or times when we got minor damage from the

outter bands of them, but NOTHING could have prepared us for what happened when

the county took a direct hit! We were all huddled in the closet, with

mattresses pulled over us, while the house quite literally expolded around us.

I was having chest pains during it, truly thinking it was going to suck my

mother or daughter out the roof of the house! When it was over, and we looked

out, you could see nothing but rubble as far as the eye could see. Although

there is no waterway even close to my house, a huge boat was sticking out from

the roof of the house across the street-it had been carried over two miles by

the wind. A church steeple was sticking out from another house, and the church

it came from was 4 miles away! Needless to say, we had no power, no gas, no

food, no water, etc for over a month-and no way to get out to get any since the

roads and stores were all destroyed too! Here are some images of the after

effects:

http://www.google.com/search?q=hurricane%20charley%20port%20charlotte & oe=UTF-8 & h\

l=en & client=safari & um=1 & ie=UTF-8 & tbm=isch & source=og & sa=N & tab=wi & ei=xVfTT4COKcTr6\

gHKrsmtAw & biw=768 & bih=900 & sei=x1fTT5y-KuWl6gG-ytmiAw

> >

> > Yes, I was in Port Charlotte-even all these years later, still much of the

county isn't back to the way it was. I don't EVER want to go through that

again...which is why I am now full time in the mountains, lol!

> >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

Oh !!! I never imagined.

Here's a hug from me!!!

Melody

> > >

> > > Yes, I was in Port Charlotte-even all these years later, still much of the

county isn't back to the way it was. I don't EVER want to go through that

again...which is why I am now full time in the mountains, lol!

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[Guest guest]

Thanks, Melody-I could have used that hug when we were in the midst of it-more

strong arms to hang on to each other, lol!

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> Oh !!! I never imagined.

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> Here's a hug from me!!!

>

> Melody

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