Two Teas Today
Today I prepared two teas, one for drinking and one for growing. I dried and prepare mint leaves from the garden to be crushed and put in bags for tea. Countries colonized by England, like South Africa or India, say that one of the great gifts England brought to these land was tea. Tea time is enjoyed around the world.
The other type of tea I prepared was worm castings or as children would say ‘worm poop.’ This organic black fertile soil is put in painter’s bag, like oversized tea bags, and soaked in water to make a natural and effective fertilizer to spread on the garden plants. Some say it is better than any fertilizer one can purchase and it is natural.
The mint tea leaves were easy to grow. They just come up every year and spread out to any area they can. All I need to do is to pick them, and like grape leaves, they come back again and again. Pruning and cleaning takes a little effort but the dehydrator does the rest. The dry leaves need to be crushed and put into tea bags.
One can find these two types of tea, drinking kind and fertilizing kind, all around the world. And both have been around for many years. I thought that I had discovered something new when I first heard about castings and casting tea at Growing Power. Shortly afterward I was in Guatemala and discovered that coffee growers there have been using worm castings for many years.
Tea for two takes on a new meaning in light of these two teas.
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