Grow Your Own Tea: The Complete Guide to Cultivating, Harvesting, and Preparing

I stopped sending product reviews some time back but this is the my second recent review where the outstanding quality has compelled me to write a review. (The other was for a Tracfone Moto G Power.) A online gardening friend that I recommended this book to declined to buy it because a poor review by someone who got the book free and the warning about a long download made him think this was just a picture book with little information. I don't understand either. On my relatively slow connection the book downloaded in less than a minute.The book starts with the history of tea and goes on to recent varieties and growing around the world including many places in the USA. It finishes with some interesting recipes. The meaty middle of the book is a thorough descriptions of planting, growing, propagating, harvesting, and processing of tea. I have 6 Sochi tea plants that I have been growing for over 10 years and have reaped a bountiful harvest of information about my plants. I made a few failed attempts at growing new plants from seeds and cuttings. I now know why I failed and look forward to trying again following the clear instructions in the book. I have never pruned my plants but now know that was a mistake and look forward to making my plants more beautiful and productive with the clear instructions on pruning. I was harvesting the wrong way but thanks to the book I'll do better now.The book is a pleasure to read and has left me anxious to get back to working with my plants. I wish to thank the authors for this masterpiece.

I have been growing tea in Tennessee for 7 or 8 years and bought most of my plants from the author's business. Even with the experience I have gained over the years I still found her book very helpful. I appreciate the detail she goes into in every step from planting to processing the tea. A great book or anyone wishing to grow their own tea.

Grow your own tea is an amazing book! Everything you would possibly want to know about growing tea is in this book. The history of tea is rather funny looking back at what people did for tea like the Boston tea party thing. And to think we can just grow it in our back yards.

This is a beautifully illustrated publication. Useful, accurate and practice, it gives simple hands-on procedures for the ancient art of growing and processing Camilla Sinensis! Tea!! A great gift for tea lovers, botanists and Zen gardener's! If the Colonists at the Boston Tea Party had this book, they would have never thrown the tea overboard!

This book covers every facet of tea, and it's incredible the depth that the authors provide on every subject. Some of the knowledge in this book would be applicable to any sort of cultivation, but the specifics and illustrations really put this over the top. Even though it's a book based on rigor and facts, with no shortage of tables, it can be lighthearted too. Really an excellent reference book and also an enjoyable read.

Excellent book if you are interested in growing tea plants for your own use. One of the writers also owned a nursery where you can buy tea plants online.

Such amazing information in this book! Ended up ordering my camellia sinensis from the nursery that put out this book

I really enjoyed reading this book. The content was presented in a clear fashion with just the right level of detail. It covers many aspects of tea growing, processing and consuming... as well as some history. Highly recommended.