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we get through a ton of tea bags a week. can they go in the compost bin please.
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I put all mine in with the kitchen scraps either in my wormery or the compost bin for the allotment.
In the compost heaps down the lottie i mix these scaps with shredded paper and spent hops and garden waste.
Tea bags we use down there are just chucked on the soil or rot down.
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They rot quicker if you tear them first, but yes they go in the compost. Unless....have you had tea in Starbucks? They use plastic teabags, they're really horrible, feel like a prophylacticAll gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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Yes, but shake the tea out of the bag. I, like other peeps on the vine have found that the bag's don't compost properly, so your left with lots of little bags all over the garden, they do rot down in time
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Last edited by ginger ninger; 16-01-2011, 09:28 AM.Comment
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I always have - although you may find that it takes ages for the actual bag to disappear into the compost.
I realise life is too short to stuff a mushroom etc etc - but I tend to break them open and shake the tea dregs on the compost. But then I'm nuts
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I just bung them in. They do rot eventually and unless you are really impatient to use your compost, I don't find them a problem. Chicken poo speeds the rotting process (not that I'm encouraging you to join the ranks of the chicken-wranglers or anything!)Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.
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Oh how I wish I could join in - one day one dayOriginally posted by Flummery View Postaka
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You could also put them in the bottom of pots that you're planting up, like crocks. Or into the bottom of loo rolls to stop the compost falling outOriginally posted by eospete View PostLast edited by Two_Sheds; 16-01-2011, 09:44 AM.All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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much appreciated.
off to make a brew - anyone fancy a cuppa
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I'll have one ta!Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.
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Never thought of that TS what a good ideaComment
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We get through an awful lot too - I put them in a large bowl and when full tear the bags, and empty them in my kitchen compost thingy, or straight into newspaper - then kitchen crock thing on top - bang in the compost bins.
The bags I put in council compost.Comment
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Depends on what type you buy / use. A lot of the more commercial ones now have plastic in them (God only knows why, apparently it's progress) which will never break down but if you buy good old fashioned ones like what we do (MIL buys them off a guy that comes round door to door and they're lovely
) then you don't need to tear them or anything and they break down dead quick. Put most of our in the wormery as the worms love them but some do go on the compost heap too.
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