Thread: Mouldy Gerberas
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Old 01-10-2007, 04:05 PM
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Originally Posted by pull my finger View Post
Hi Florence,
After you've made a cuppa keep the teabags and pop them into your buckets. Apparently the tealeaves have some sort of antibacterial properties and this helps to keep the flowers from going mouldy. Hope you drink lots of tea!
that's something I didn't know. I am not allowed to bleach buckets because of the sewerage system. The antibacterial properties might make up for not being able to bleach. I scrub my buckets daily and it's hard going.
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