How to Harvest Stevia In most areas, you can harvest stevia in midsummer by cutting back the plants by half their size, and again in early fall when new growth slows to a standstill.

Place stevia plants 12 inches apart in full sun or light shade with moist, ... Harvest leaves as needed for sweetening your dishes. Munching on a single leaf can help suppress a sweet craving.

Most catalogs sell stevia seeds rather than plants, Winterfeldt said. The plant used to have a bad reputation for low germination rates, but seeds sold now are higher quality and easier to start.

Sihota and his team are figuring out how to plant and harvest it mechanically. They're trying to breed new varieties of stevia, turning the plant into a better biological sweetness factory.

My wife nearly purchased a stevia plant (Stevia rebaudiana). Also known as “sweetleaf” and “sugarleaf,” it’s the same plant from which natural sweeteners such as OnlySweet, PureVia and ...

Global stevia supplier PureCircle will soon harvest the first commercial-scale crop of its proprietary Starleaf stevia after completing successful trial plots in 2017 with plans to significantly ...