"Atalante" > wrote in message
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> "Ripon" > wrote in message
> om...
> > 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.
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> > Ripon
> > (Bangladesh)
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> 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.
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