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Old 25-04-2010, 06:18 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Rusty Hinge[_2_] Rusty Hinge[_2_] is offline
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Default Tea for houseplants - good idea?

Timothy Murphy wrote:
Donwill wrote:

We use used tea-bags as a mulch for Camelias around the garden.


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?


Pass.

But dry them out and use them as needed (damped!) for sowing mustard and
cress, etc.

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Rusty