mixing herbal tea with soil.

I'm about to plant an herb garden and I've been saving all my tea bags for the last 6 months to mix in with the soil. Its all either green tea or herbal tea of some sort.

I almost feel bad, like I'm forcing my herbs to become cannibals and feast on their fallen brothers and sisters lol.

Has anyone ever tried this? I did a test run with some chives last year, and my chives was the only herb in my garden that flourished.

 

I have not tried tea but my parents put their old tea bags in their compost bin. I wouldn't feel bad, everything breaks down and feeds others, it is the cycle of life. Be glad you are not wasting it and throwing it in the garbage. The tea would have wanted it that way lol.

 

Sounds like a good plan! I throw my tea bags in the compost. :2thumbsup:

 

Used tea bags are considered good for compost, like tiger lily said...and I know personally that roses LOVE (used) tea bags and coffee grounds. Not to be a downer tho' but some herbs (like rosemary) like kind of not rich soil.

 

I was composting my kitchen scraps for a while, need to start doing it again.

 

I made some homemade topsy turveys for my tomatoes this year and I found out most of the herbs I wanted to grow are very complimentary when grown with tomatoes, rosemary included. So I've decided I'm going to cut holes in the top of the topsy turveys (I used buckets) and plant some herbs in the tomato soil, then just mix the tea bags in with compost for the vegetable garden.

I'll probably still take some of the tea bags and make a small, seperate herb garden with herbs that like very fertile soil as well, just to experiment with it.

 

I don't use old tea bags but coffee grounds. The roses love it - they bloom and blossom like mad.
Just recently tested it on two lilac bushes. The white one was fed with grounds while the blue one went without. Guess who is still in bloom

 

^^very interesting...I wouldn't have thought the "fertilizer" used would affect the length of blooming. Isn't it wonderful to never get too old to learn new things?

 

i remember when i was a kid, our neighbor had big beautiful gardens, when i was talking with her she mentioned something about using tea in the soil. i miss her, best neighbor ever

 

It is such a good idea mixing tea bags or coffee filters into the soil for houseplants or on new vegetable beds. Soil is the most basic plant food but teeming with some organic matter like compost tea adds more benefits for plants to grow healthy.