On Sep 3, 9:27*pm, "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote:
"Vandy Terre" wrote in message
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:58:28 -0700 (PDT), Merryb wrote:

Does anyone here grow tea? I was thinking the other night that I know
of no one who does...Guess I'll have to research the issue, but it
could be kinda fun...

Like the original poster I am interested in growing tea, as in the tree or
shrub
that yields the leaves for common tea.

By "common tea" I assume you mean the black tea leaves one puts in a teapot
and then pour water on.

If you mean that, then it is actually fermented and is called (IIRC) 'black
tea'.

Tea leaves which you would harvest from a garden camellia plant and dry for
home use actually end up as what we in the west would call 'green tea'.
These two teas just come from common old camellia sinensis which has
relatively small and insignificant flowers nad it is also a reasonably
common plant so shouldn't be too hard to find.

IIRC, if you want to make 'black tea', you have to first sweat the leaves
and leave them for a reasonably short time to ferment and then dry them to
end up with a product you'd use in your teapot.

Hi- I just checked and saw I got some responses! Thanks for your
input- I think it would be fun to try, along with making chocolate
from the bean up! I guess I will check out some local nurseries-Thanks
again!