Grow Your Own Tea: The Complete Guide to Cultivating, Harvesting, and Preparing is your ultimate resource for mastering the art of homegrown tea. Written by experts Christine Parks and Susan Walcott, this comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know about how to successfully grow tea plants, including white, green, oolong, and black varieties, in your own backyard. Discover the right temperature and conditions needed for growing tea, how to cultivate tea in containers, and the secrets of maintaining healthy tea plants for long-term production. This practical hemp also opens up the fascinating world of harvesting and processing tea leaves, empowering you to produce flavorful blends right from your garden. With 208 pages of invaluable knowledge, this book is designed for tea enthusiasts and gardening aficionados alike. Whether you’re interested in sustainable living, organic gardening, or simply want to enjoy the freshest cup of tea imaginable, 'Grow Your Own Tea' is the guide for you. Start your journey toward tea mastery today! Fast shipping is available, ensuring your book arrives quickly so you can start cultivating your own delicious tea. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to create instantly rewarding homegrown experiences with tea you’ve nurtured yourself.

Grow Your Own Tea: The Complete Guide to Cultivating, Harvesting, and Preparing

By Parks, Christine
By M. Walcott, Susan
Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages 208
Publisher Workman Publishing


This comprehensive guide details how to grow and process real tea (including white, green, oolong and black). Consumer interest in tea has grown rapidly in recent years and continues to climb. Worldwide there are 25,000 cups of tea consumed every second - more than billion cups per day! For tea drinkers interested in the freshest flavour, growing the leaves at home is the ideal solution. Lucky for them, tea is not an exotic, hard-to-grow crop - it can be successfully grown anywhere that camellias can be grown. In Grow Your Own Tea, readers will learn how to cultivate, harvest, and process this venerable crop. Parks and Wolcott share details on how to get started; describe cultivation, long-term maintenance, and harvesting; show how to grow tea plants in containers; and describe how to process and store harvested tea leaves. Grow Your Own Tea includes information on how to produce white, green, oolong and black teas. AUTHORS: Christine Parks, Ph.D., developed Camellia Forest Tea Gardens in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to grow and make tea and provide an educational setting for visitors. Parks is also a partner in Tea Flower Research, collecting, propagating, and testing cultivars for hardiness in the NC Piedmont region. Susan Walcott, Ph.D., is a Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her publications include several articles on American grown tea. She