Harvesting Tea

Your tea plant will go resting in the winter. When new shoots emerge in the spring, this is called a flush. Pick the new development, the two smallest leaves and the bud, for your tea. The warmer your climate is, the more flushes you will get per year, which make a hothouse a good idea for mounting tea in colder areas. Once you have plucked your new expansion, you have tea. The harvest is that simple. What you do with the harvest decide whether you make black, green, white, or Oblong tea. Use soil that is slightly acidic. You can buy earth that is elected for rhododendrons to keep a tea plant happy. To continue the right acidity for your tea plant, water with soft water only. If you are uphill your plant in a container, give it a shot of dung a couple of times in the summer, but or else it will be happy. Your plant will be happy in full sun, but it also tolerates shade. It will tolerate a deficit better than many of your vegetables. In other words, escalating tea is not very difficult! If your location is warm enough, put your plant outside in the garden in a spot where it will get sun and maybe a little bit of shade. Put it up against a wall or tree to protect it from strong winds. If you are planting more than one tea bush, put them at least three feet apart from each other. Prune them back about every four years to keep the foliage productive and to keep them from getting too big and too tall. If you take care of your tea position, you will have tea for the next 50 to 100 years.