Tea as fertilizer

"Ripon" ha scritto nel messaggio news: snipped-for-privacy@posting.google.com...

I sometime I put some used leaves in my plant pots and usually poor first tea leaves rinse waste water as well. I do it only with acidophilous plants, such as camellias, gardenias and rhododendrons. Consider also that used leaves in the pot might get rotten and cause the development of root-mould, which inexsorably takes your plants directly to Amitabha Western-paradise. I once made a pillow with used tea leaves, but I didn't find it much confortable. L

I don't know about putting the steeped leaves directly on the soil. I compost them with other vegetable waste, and it produces a very good compost. This is much needed in my garden because our soil is solid clay.

Agalena

My grandmother does that all the time. She always has plates with drying tea bags on around her kitchen - and if it works with tea bags, I'm sure it would work with tea leaves :)

It depends on how much tea you are using. If you are iling tea leaves on the plants every day, yu'll encourage root rot. Don't use a lot of tea leaves, and wait at least a week between mulchings.

It was open stage night in rec.food.drink.tea, when Tea stepped up to the microphone and muttered:

But isn't the issue of "root rot" addressed by the fact that grandma was drying the teabags first?

Adding the dry leaves won't add to root rot. But if you're adding wet leaves, every day, day after day - that's going to make things wetter than the need to be.

My bad. I was referring to Ripon's post, not Atalante's. I dry my tea before adding it- and even then, I don't overdo it, since the leaves, when wetted through watering, will get moldy if they pile up.

It was open stage night in rec.food.drink.tea, when Tea stepped up to the microphone and muttered:

Well, posts do tend to overlap. No "bad" involved. ;)