Stop Throwing Out Tea Bags: Try Planting Them Like This and Watch What Happens!
If you are a passionate tea lover, it means that after every brewed tea you throw the used tea bags. However, did you know that the used tea bags have also several uses? After you watch this video, you will become aware of the wide range of their uses and benefits and you will never dispose any tea bag.
How to Plant Used Tea Bags:
You can you already used tea bags to grow seedlings in them. The used tea bags are sterile because they have been boiled. Hence, no parasites can harm the young plant.
You will need:
Ingredients:
• 21 used tea bags
• A paper towel
• A plastic tray
• Water
• Pansies, lettuce, broccoli or marigold seeds
Instructions:
Start with the paper towel. Fold it and put it in the tray. Wet the paper towel. Soak the tea bags and pack them like pillows in three rows on the paper towel. Make a hole in each bag and put a seed in the hole. Keep the tray in a warm place and keep the paper towel wet. Keeping the tea bags slightly wet is crucial. When the seedlings reach 2 cm height, plant them in their bags in a soil.
More Reasons to Reuse Tea Bags:
• They can cool sunburned skin
Used tea bags can soothe the pain of a sunburn. For this issue, use black tea bags and apply a wet tea bag on the area. If the burned area is too big to be covered with several tea bags, fill your bath with some tea bags and soak your body inside.
• Tea bags will relieve tired eyes
If you have tired and puffy looking eyes, soak two tea bags in warm water and place them on your eyelids. Keep them there for about 20 minutes.
• Used tea bags are able to reduce warts
You can reduce warts with used tea bags. Simply put a cooled tea bag on the wart and secure it with a bandage. Use this method for 10 minutes several times a day.
• Tea bags can provide a pain-free mouth
Insert wet tea bags in your mouth like gauze pads. The tea bags will help your bleeding gums and remove any pain you may be feeling.
• Used tea bags can remove odor
You can remove the unwanted odor from any area, simply by reusing tea bags. Just, put several used tea bags in the place you want fresh.
Likewise, they can stop foot odor
Place several tea bags in your shoes and get rid of the unpleasant smell. Also, you can soak your feet in a tea bath for 20 minutes.
Used tea bags promote rose growth
Tea bags contain tannins, which prevents fungus by reducing the pH levels of soil. Put several tea bags around the plant and enjoy your beautiful roses.