Pick leaves up three times per a year

Basically the green tea plants farmer, they are going to pick leaves up three times per a year. The fist period is approximately in the end of April to the end of May. The most excellent green tea is made from leaves in this period. Please just imagine the tea trees (guess it looks like bush having many leaves). They pick up the top places of trees that indicate buds. Maybe you can think like it’s not good to take buds to keep tree’s long life. But it is worry that we don’t need to think about. The green tea’s tree is said to have very strong life. So from this first picking, the tea is called the first tea or new tea. These buds have nutrition preserved from Autumn to Spring, including very good flavor and taste!! You know in Kyoto, Gyokuro and Tencha (high grade green tea) is only made from the first tea. It means there’s only one time to pick leaves for the high grade teas.