What is green tea useful for?

[HaleyRocks]

Other than some fish ponds potentially requiring some to grow their population, what is it needed for? Is it useful to always keep some garden pots with it around, or is that a waste?

I am trying to figure out what to plant in my upcoming "Garden-Pots Shed". I already excluded coffee, since Evelyn's reward gives daily one and Gus sells an ulimited quantity, anyway.

 

[MogBeoulve]

Caroline and Lewis like green tea, but that's about it for unique uses. Assuming you have 1.6, it does give a slight speed buff, but this is outweighed by coffee. I like to plant tea saplings where I can pick the leaves once in a while to pickle them, but this is more of an early game strategy to make a little extra cash out of otherwise low value items. If you have the money and resources to build a shed and fill it with garden pots, you don't need the small amount of cash from tea.

Pineapples are probably your best bet if you are looking at profitability. Well, starfruit will outclass them, but you will have to replant them.

 

[PoppyForPenny]

The main benefit of growing green tea is that it doesn't need to be watered or replanted. It's not a big money maker.
For gifting, everyone but Jas & Vincent like it, and Lewis & Caroline love it.

 

[Jayamos]

Green tea hedges make great fences that never need fixing. The tea itself is just a bonus.

 

[MogBeoulve]

Green tea hedges make great fences that never need fixing. The tea itself is just a bonus.

I forgot, now that you can move them, there are no real downsides to using them as fences!

 

[Confused]

They're for aesthetics! And pretty zen gardens!!

That, and crafting the saplings can help you get rid of any unwanted wild seeds you don't feel like planting. The saplings sell well for 250G so it's some nice cash.