John Myers
You can make healthy rosehip tea from rosehips. But before that, you need to properly reap the rewards. In this home tip, we will show you what you need to consider.
Harvesting rose hips – the best tips
If you grow the rose hips in your own garden, you can be sure that your tea is real organic tea.
- Before you get to work, slip on a pair of good work gloves. The rose hip is an aggregate nut that grows on wild rose bushes and therefore has sharp thorns. Gloves are usually sufficient for harvesting, otherwise, you can use scissors to help.
- You can usually harvest the rose hips in October. Opinions differ on whether you should wait for the first frost before harvesting. Some think that the vitamin C content is significantly higher after the first frost.
- Andree is of the opinion that the vitamin content is highest when the fruit is still hard.
- Tip: Pick some of the fruit before the first frost and the others after. This gives you a good opportunity to compare how the rose hips taste best to you.
- In any case, it is important that the rose hips have an intensely bright red-orange color when you harvest them.
- Tip: You can find out how to properly dry the rose hips after harvesting in the next home tip.
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