How will I keep the leaves inside the water for long so that the tea will be created?

This strainer I have can’t be put inside the water, what am I supposed to do?
So, I boil the water, and I put the leaves inside the cup before I put the water and then I just strain the whole thing?

What I mean is a book that shows how to identify Natural wild herbs, berry’s, mushrooms, flowers, leaves, and tree barks that are safe for consumption, or poison?

I’m 8 months pregnant and I was wondering if it would be safe to drink Lipton’s herbal tea in their herbal collection? Their ingredients are: hibiscus flowers, roasted chicory root, cloves, licorice root, peppermint leaves, rose hips, ginger root, coriander, lemon grass, chamomile flowers, and roasted carob. Are any of these dangerous?

I always see ‘debittered’ written on stevia packages at the store. I’ve tried striaght-up ground stevia leaf and it definitely has a bitter taste. I’m growing my own this year and I want to know what would be the best way to get rid of that bitter taste, not necessarily 100%, I know it won’t taste exactly like sugar no matter what. Would it be better to just soak the leaves in alcohol and make an extract? I am very famailar with medicinal herbs but not stevia unfortunately!! Thankyou all.

I planted pepper, cucumber, tomato and some herbs in my raised vegetable garden bed this year. The cubes, tomatoes and herbs are growing quite nicely but the pepper plants are struggling. It seems that something is eating the leaves and the small buds when they first form. The bed is surrounded by deer netting which, i hope, is keeping most critters out. So what could be eating at my pepper plants, and why aren’t they going after the other plants?

Hello I have started an indoor herb garden from seeds (Basil, Coriander, Parsley) and my Basil plants are growing really well, the ones around the edges have broken through the soil and have two leaves (still very young and small). However, the soil in the middle has been pushed up, should I lift and overturn this to allow the seedlings underneath it to push up easier, or should I leave it and let them push through on their own? Would pushing the lifted soil down be bad for the seedlings underneath?