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RE: Blooming large leaf camellia sinensis (tea)
I want to have a go at growing my own tea, so I read this with great interest. I'd love to know what gardening zone you are in, as a comparison.
Is the fermentation process (to make the black tea) easy?
What do you think might be a good minimum number of bushes to grow?
Can you tell I'm keen? lol :)
Hello @ravenruis, I am in zone 8b and I purchased all my Tea Camilla from a Carolina nursery (it gets pretty cold there). If you have lots of space I would suggest as many as you can, but I drink a lot of tea and would love to sell at the farmers market (selling locally is always great).
Making the green tea is so easy, as I suspect you already know. I am a fermenting gal so the process is no more difficult if you are in the flow with all that.... *I should make a post on the process (there are lots of vids on yt, which is how I actually learned). I sun wither my leaves as I think it tastes so good.
Your zone is a lot warmer than mine, but if the tea bushes still perform well where they came from, in rather colder temperatures, then there may be hope for my success. I do envision a hedge of them, so even as a windbreak they'd be useful.
I haven't done any fermenting - but for tea, I'd learn! :D