Tea for houseplants - good idea?

 

My wife likes to save all tea left in the pot and give it to the
houseplants.  Is it really any good for them?  

I get the feeling that they're slowly building up tea in the pots.  (and
I'd rather just throw it away and keep the place a bit tidier!)

TIA for any answers

Cheers
John

 



If the plants are getting hyperactive or migraines  it may be best to
consider decaffeinated tea.

mark

 

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  My MIL fed it all the tealeaves and tea pot dregs  to her tomatoes.
She drank a lot of tea and grew fantastic tomatoes.

  Janet

 


There are certain plants that I know people swear by feeding them tea.
Camelia, I think, is possibly the main one I'm thinking of.  But I'm
not sure if it's any good for houseplants or not.

I used to feed the dregs of my (black) coffee to tomato plants around my
desk at work.  They were nice buzzy tomato fruits.  :-)

 

Donwill wrote:


In my experience tea-bags take an inordinate time to disintegrate.
I've stopped putting them in my compost-bin as they were still there
a year later.
The bags seem to be made of some rot-proof material.
I wonder if it depends on the make of tea-bag?


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