How to Grow Stevia
- Introduction
- How to Start Your Own Stevia Patch
- The Care and Feeding of Stevia
- Gathering autumn stevia leaves
- Unlocking the sweetness in your harvest
- Growing stevia without land
- Sources for mail-order stevia plants
Introduction
You need not be a South American planter to be a successful stevia grower. While the herb’s native locale may make it appear somewhat exotic, it has proved to be quite adaptable and capable of being cultivated in climate zones as diverse as Florida and southern Canada.
True, home-grown stevia may lack the potency of refined white stevia extract; whole stevioside content generally ranges from 81 to 91 percent, as compared to a leaf level of approximately 12 percent. But it can provide you with a quantity of freshly harvested stevia ‘tea leaves’ to augment your supply of commercial stevia sweeteners.
Organic gardeners in particular should find stevia an ideal addition to their yield. Though nontoxic, stevia plants have
via www.stevia.net
I actually found stevia starter plants this Spring in Walmart.