How to Use Tea Leaves at Your Summer Cottage: 3 Tricks Not Everyone Knows

12.11.2023 12:16

If you like to warm up with aromatic tea in the cold season, then you should not throw away the tea leaves: they may well come in handy.

However, it is important to understand that the raw materials should be as natural as possible.

Therefore, tea drinks with flavorings and additives are not suitable for us, warns Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication BelNovosti, an agronomist and landscape designer.

How can you use tea leaves?

The easiest and most proven method

If you don't want to come up with anything special, but decide to use the remains of tea leaves wisely, then the most suitable option would be a compost pit.

Therefore, you can safely add the remaining tea into it.

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For seedlings

You can prepare a special option for high-quality seed germination. To do this, you will need to take a tea bag without additives and remove the top paper layer.

Then we add the main soil and cover the seeds. Very strong shoots will appear, which can then be transplanted.

To improve the composition of the soil

One of the simple and accessible methods of using tea is to incorporate it into the upper layers of soil. This has a very positive effect on the quality of the soil.

Marina Michalap Author: Marina Michalap Internet resource editor

Anastasia Kovrizhnykh Expert: Anastasia KovrizhnykhExpert / Belnovosti


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  1. How can you use tea leaves?
  2. The easiest and most proven method
  3. For seedlings