"Derek" > wrote in message
...
> It was open stage night in rec.food.drink.tea, when Tea stepped up
> to the microphone and muttered:
>
> >
> > "Atalante" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> "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.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > 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.
>
> --
> Derek
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.