Let me ask this question, and see if anyone else has had the same thought: what if I want to try growing my own tea? How would one go about it? I know how to grow herbs to turn them into tea, mint and such, but where would one get the plant that has the bona-fides as green tea or black tea (depending on processing, fermenting, etc). And what kind of soil, water, etc. How often would you harvest it? Is it just the top leaves that get picked? How often? Does anyone know of recipes for fermenting your own black tea?

Okay, as maven of web searches, I can probably figure this out myself. But I have to go to work now, so I'm sending this along in case someone else has already thought of it. And if not, I'll do a search later and post what I find out.

SRS