CUPPA:Kiwis love drinking tea and coffee, but can we grow them in our own gardens Virgil Evetts investigates

摘要

You can grow tea and coffee in many parts of New Zealand -there are even a couple of small but promising commercial ventures. But you'd be hard pressed to find anyone in your neighbourhood with a personal tea plantation or coffee patch. To grow sufficient quantities of either would be an enormous labour of love, and you'd not have room for much else. But when it comes to gardening, mere : practicality should never get in the way of a good project. Even if yields are small, growing tea and coffee is fun, and really no more outlandish than growing grapes for wine-making. Tea and coffee plants are much easier to get hold of than wine grapes, and nowhere near as disease-prone.