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Dec 28, 2018  Today we are cutting into the shade grown tea rows and pruning back this years growth.  The leaves are larger, as I explained in my growing tea section, darker and really pretty.  I rather hate to chop them down with my Black and Decker pruner but this is why they are here [...]

Today we continue to prune 18-20 year old bushes down to mere 14 inch stubs.  It seems like much abuse to plants I have nurtured for 20 years.  The pieces I prune off, I have always called them "knuckles," where I trim down to every year, look like tea bonsai trees.  I am cutting these [...]