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Why does the soil need coffee and tea? A useful trick that not everyone knows about
20.01.2023 08:05
Updated: 13.04.2023 13:26
Gardeners do not throw away used tea leaves and coffee, but collect them.
Tea leaves and coffee grounds are useful fertilizers for the soil.
The used grounds and tea leaves should be dried on a radiator, heated in a frying pan and collected in a container, and in the spring this waste should be used as an effective fertilizer.
Useful properties of tea leaves and coffee grounds
Tea leaves and coffee contain caffeine, a plant alkaloid that kills pests.
When planting seedlings, add used tea leaves, coffee grounds to the bottom of the glass or put them directly into the soil and the plants will not get sick.
The remains of coffee and tea are added to the compost; over time, everything will rot and become valuable fertilizer for plants.
Dry tea and coffee are dug into the top layer of soil. As it decomposes, organic fertilizer will saturate plants with nitrogen and help plants absorb magnesium, potassium, and phosphorus from the soil faster.
Coffee and tea are used as mulch. Such products will protect the beds from being overgrown with weeds and saturate the soil with useful microelements.
What to look out for
Tea can dry out the soil, so you need to monitor the soil moisture, and coffee will slightly acidify. Therefore, it would not hurt to add ash as a deoxidizer if necessary.
