We have been trying to stay ahead of the weeds this year, as it did not freeze here this year. I had been crawling along ripping them up by hand. That works if you only have a few rows but now we have too many. I had to modernize. I discovered a tool in my [...]
In my photo section, I have added my new label. I am now making 10 oz bags which I sell for $30. I am bagging up green tea right now but will soon be doing black and Oolong. Oolong is what I seem to sell the most of but right now I have about [...]
January 6, 2019 Today I had a professional photographer come out and photograph the tea flowers. With the warm weather there are many thousands of blossoms now (as well on my big Camellias). I am wanting a real glamor shot of a flower to put on the new labels I am designing. My old labels [...]
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 [...]
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