Two or three weeks back, the service group was planting tea in the school garden. Now I had missed the session before it so I was caught off-guard a bit but hey, planting a tea plant shouldn’t be that hard! It’s just removing the wrap over the roots and then placing the plant in the soil in a hole and (firmly) patting down the dirt around it.
And it wasn’t really hard in terms of technique but then there was the whole getting your hands dirty bit which put me off a bit, considering I’m not the most “soil” person but I braved through the fears of contracting a tea-related disease and planted a plant – with the help of Eloise who had to show me how to do it first.
But eventually, the plant was planted with almost all of its roots intact and despite being a bit skewed, it looked happy in its new home. I was happy that I didn’t say no in the end too because it really felt cool to actually plant something, especially when you know that the plant technically could be consumed in the future.