Rachel's Journal

Looks brilliant, Rachel. Will be very interesting to hear progress reports on this one.

Very interesting Rachel! will be keeping an eye on the "Tea journals"

I heard about groing tea on GQT one Sunday. I think you may be disappointed in the amounts of cups of tea you get! Seemingly you need a lot of plants! But a good experiment.

Never thought of growing tea... will they ever be hardy enough to overwinter outside or will they require the greenhouse for the winter..

Looking forward to a cuppa in 2013, if I live that long, Rachel. I think I'll stick to the flowering Camellias.

Tea,and beautifulful flowers from same plant,,,it is very nice and useful shrub:))

The tea growing is an experiment for fun, folks. We know that tea is made from only the top three leaves on the plant. In India these top leaves re-grow a few times in a season. Who knows how it will go here. I drink so much tea that it would be impossible to grow our own but if we could get a few cups of the nice stuff then that would be great.

That sounds like a really cool idea, I have never heard of anyone trying it before. I would be more into coca plants and making my own chocolate :O)

Oh wow, interesting. 

Not long to go now, Gismo, and you can eat all the chocolate you want : )

Thanks, Shaz.