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Home grown green tea

  • 05-07-2011 7:36pm
    #1
    Dr Nic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,323 ✭✭✭


    Possible in our climate?
    Any recommendations?
    Thanks!


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  • #2
    Corsendonk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Corsendonk


    All you need to know.
    http://www.kew.org/plant-cultures/plants/tea_grow_it.html

    Wet summers, dry winters with little frost. not likely but you can always try.


  • #3
    Dr Nic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,323 ✭✭✭Dr Nic


    What other options are there apart from tea itself?
    I was thinking about nettle tea, but apparently they recommend young nettle roots. Unless i grow nettles, at this time of year i wont find many young nettles...


  • #4
    ShizDink
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74 ✭✭ShizDink


    Fresh Chamomile and mint make a lovely tea. I've seen Camellia sinensis growing in Ireland as a shrub only (not for cultivation) ... I'm not sure of the drying process. You can just take one flowering head of Chaomomile and put it into a mug of boiling water and it tastes great, same with mint 2-3 leaves into a mug and bobs your uncle. I tried this with a fresh leaf of tea (Camellia sinensis) and it didn't quite have the same effect ;)


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