Feeding the Plants from What is around you - Tea Bags
What do you do with them. Compost them. Put them in the bin. At this time of year once a week I start feeding my plants with them. All the used tea bags are popped into an old tall Kilner jar with a lid. The teabags are popped in and then water added on top. I keep adding water until the tea is a medium colour. Then I discard them and add fresh used bags. This also sits on the kitchen windowsill. The used bags are then composted. This was a tip passed on from my Aunty Betty (my uncle Basil's second wife). They for many years ran a busy bed and breakfast on the Skegness Road about six miles out of Lincoln, called "The Blackbirds". The property was always surrounded by fantastic flowers in hanging baskets, window boxes and tubs and the flowers and plants in the borders of the garden were also stunning. My uncle and aunt ran a smallholding from the premises as well. They had a house cow, chickens and...