Do you know strained tea powder waste can be used for plants to supply the nutrients and as a soil enrichment…?

Few maybe knowing that it can be used and few will dispose of it without knowing its nutritional value. Here are few tips to use it for soil, plants.

Apart from this you can even use tea leaves as nutrient as it contain all NPK in it. You can give the spray by using tea leaves. That makes the plant vigour in growth, helps in overall development and maintains its health.

This tea can be used to prepare our own compost and can be used to sprinkle to acid loving plants like tomato and roses. Tea leaves contain all three nutrients like NPK which adds nutrients to the plants.

You can even throw the used tea bags in the soil as it becomes a part of soil by decomposing in it and nutrients to the soil. You can add this to your composting bin for the preparation of home compost. This even improvise the soil structure and texture and makes it smooth in touch. Also this holds enough amount of moisture where in it serves like the mulch during summer.

So don’t wait. Use these kitchen waste to re-use it in the form of compost and be a part in cleaning environment as well as increasing the plant health.

Here are some combinations that work in soil applications:

• Tea powder with Egg shells

• Tea powder with butter milk

Uses:

– Soil boost

– Adds Nutrients to the soil

– Serves as good fertilizer

– Supplies nutrients to few plants

– Increases disease resistance in some plant

-Soumya BSc(Horticulture)