https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/a3450f0e-db8c-4ec5-9e45-6da650f89364 Using Coffee Grounds in Organic Gardening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifEAqN1bMNU Is Epsom Salt Beneficial in Organic Gardening? https://youtu.be/DaCVoCnzav8 How to Calculate NPK: https://youtu.be/gdcD-G-wBjY Aarons Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Allottedaaron Over the course of the testing garden assumptions series we have taken a look at a number for free and local resources. We have been able to establish that Autumn Leaves help add a wide variety of essential and beneficial elements and comfrey and used coffee grounds add some with a decent NPK. They all have an immediate effect but over time continue to release more providing a steady stream of nutrients to the soil and plants. Today I thought we would test another common waste material may people generate every morning. All over the planet many people start their day with a hot drink to give them a stimulating kick start. Where coffee is popular in North America Tea worldwide is said to rival if not exceed consumptions levels. Tea is essentially steeping a plant to extract flavour into hot water. As a by-product of this process you are often left with used tea leaves.[1] I thought today we would test the claim that used tea leaves can be used as to fertilize your plants. We have completed the sister episode in this series where I took a look at spent coffee grounds and found that their use in the garden is supported. I will put a link at the end of this video. In order to test this assumption we submitted a number of samples to Maxxam analytics for analysis. When the suggestion came through to evaluate tea I was not sure which variety to use. I grow mint to make tea but don’t have much experience past that. So I asked a few friends and Aaron from the UK offered to help. Aaron is an organic gardener whom has recently moved to a new allotment. He was kind enough to provide me with two samples of tea. P&G and Tetlies are the most popular brands of tea in the UK and likely represent commercially available tea the best. In order to investigate I sent in three samples to test the hypothesis that tea leaves provide a source of essential and beneficial nutrients to plants. Sample 1 was of unused tea leaves while the Sample 2 was of used tea leaves. I followed the instructions given to me by a friend of mine from England on steeping time and water temperature to produce the used leaves. Thumbnail credit: http://wiseshopsupplies.com/blog/tag/green-tea-with-lemon/ Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:26:12 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://stream.echo6.co https://stream.echo6.co/client/assets/images/icons/icon-512x512.png https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/a3450f0e-db8c-4ec5-9e45-6da650f89364 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://stream.echo6.co/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.