We are accustomed to mistakenly assume that any food waste can benefit from our vegetable garden, because they are kind of like, natural, and therefore useful. No, the question now is not about the compost pit, namely some strange habits of people, such as picking up the used tea bags and coffee grounds.
I was lucky to meet a lot of gardeners, is used as fertilizer and tea brew coffee grounds, remains at the bottom of the cup after brewing real coffee. Yes, imagine people really carefully hoarding tea leaves and thick months, then to full "fertilize" your site and growing a ridge planting. I confess that such feeding for me was the opening, as before me is in the head could not come. In this article I will discuss why these components should not be applied to the soil, and I hope many of my arguments to convince and will warn of the error.
I must say that lovers of sweet tea and coffee certainly should not stash tea bags and coffee grounds for future feedingAs "fertilizer" in itself was too sweet. Thus, being in the ground, "tasty" tea and grounds will only attract ants, causing will also aphids, and then from these pests will not be so easy to get rid of.
This is not to mention the fact that now the majority of teas there are a lot of flavors and preservatives that are good garden beds and plants certainly will not do.
Another scenario - the emergence and development of the fungus, if all of the same tea bags will be enough to dry. Mold can go on and the plants themselves, and this in turn could jeopardize the entire crop. As for me, such a risk is absolutely unjustified, because the benefits of tea and coffee is so tiny that it is not even worth the time spent on the collection of this wonderful blend fertilizer and its plot.
So, better to think 100 times before the next bear the "natural and healthy" product on the garden - maybe he will bring the soil and planting is not so much good as harm.