Re: Tea as fertilizer

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

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> "Derek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> It was open stage night in rec.food.drink.tea, when Tea stepped
>> up to the microphone and muttered:
>>
>> >
>> > "Atalante" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> "Ripon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> > I heard from couple of people after steeping your tea  the
>> >> > leafs are good as organic fertilizer for plant, instead to
>> >> > dump them as trash. I did regularly(almost two weeks) and
>> >> > my plant struggling now. 75% of my plant's leafs are gone.
>> >> >  My first recycling experiment of tea seems failed. Did I
>> >> > make  a mistake? What do you know about- tea as
>> >> > fertilizer. 
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Ripon
>> >> > (Bangladesh)
>> >>
>> >> 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.
>>
>> 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. 

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

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Derek

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