Heavy duty infused tomato seedlings

You will not surprise anyone with tangerine peels in a hole with seed potatoes, fertilizer from banana peels, but not everyone knows that instead peat tablets can use tea bags. Meanwhile, tomato lovers have found them in growing seedlings.

Terms of use

Collect bags in the winter. Black seedlings without additives are suitable for seedlings. To avoid flies and mold, the tea bags are dried. In March, you can sow the first seedlings. On a glazed loggia you can grow dwarf tomato varieties.

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• buy a package of universal soil for vegetables;
• cut off the top of the bags;
• a teaspoon pour earth into them;
• tea leaves filled with earth are placed on a baking sheet or in a shallow plastic container;
• watered with settled water.

Seeds before planting for 20 minutes, soak in a solution of potassium permanganate, rinse in clean water, dry. With a pen or a pencil, deepenings (0.5 mm) are made in the ground, put 1 seed in each bag.

After all the seeds have been spread out, the improvised tablets are covered with a thin layer of soil (0.5 mm), and sprayed with water. The container is tightened with a film, put it in a warm place, waiting for the emergence of seedlings.

Picking seedlings in tea bags

After emergence, the film is removed from the container, they are brought into the light. In cloudy weather, seedlings are illuminated with a fluorescent lamp. They begin to pick, when the seedlings grow to 4-5 cm, she will form several real leaves.

For transplantation, 0.5 liter plastic glasses are suitable. Diving seedlings is convenient, you need to pick up a bag and transfer it to a new container. The roots are not damaged during transplantation, the earthen lump does not crumble, adaptation is faster.

Pros and cons of tea bags

The disadvantages of this method are few, or rather one. All who tried to sow tomato seedlings in tea bags, they note that if the tea leaves dry out poorly, then flies start in it and mold appears.

There are more positive points:

• welding improves the structure of the soil, makes it more loose;
• tea leaves contain beneficial substances that improve and accelerate the development of tomato seedlings;
• roots during transplantation are not damaged.

Beneficial features

Tea leaves can be equated to natural, environmentally friendly fertilizers. In its composition there are useful substances that tomato seedlings need for normal development. Most tea leaves contain potassium, tomatoes need it in any phase of growth.

Phosphorus follows. He is a mandatory participant in all metabolic processes. The development of the root system of seedlings depends on its presence. The third most important element is calcium. The metabolism (carbohydrate, protein) that occurs in the tissues of the plant depends on it.

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Other uses of tea leaves

Gardeners find new tea leaves. Tea leaves are dried and added to the soil mixture intended for seedlings.From 2 to 3 glasses spend it on a bucket of land.

Tea infusion feed seedlings. Insist his day, take:

• ½ cup dried tea leaves;
• boiling water 2 l.

Before landing in open ground seedlings are watered under the root no more than 2 times.

Conclusion

Vegetable growers who like to have a cup of tea at their leisure can appreciate its benefits. In tea bags you can sow not only tomatoes. They are suitable for germinating seeds of cucumbers, zucchini, eggplant. The proposed method does not require additional costs, so it is worth trying it in practice.