I finally have a question about gardening! At my wife’s mother’s house, in Bangkok, she saves large clay pots of rainwater to use to water the plants. In part that seems to relate to leaves also falling into those, so that the water ends up being a light sort of tree and vine leaf tea, perhaps fertilizing the other plants. I’m in the middle of experimenting with “brewing” two large batches of “herb tea” for the plants, extending this paradigm by putting leaves that I’ve swept into two of them. I can show photos that clarify this:

They are large pots, maybe 30 or 40 gallons each. The question: are there any concerns related to using this approach? I would expect not, that the risk of some plant leaf type being toxic for others, or for a mold or other fungus issue to come up, are limited. It seems similar to how natural leaf cover on the ground would work out. But it also seems to make sense to ask about this practice here, even though I’ve already ran through some steeping and plant feeding trial, a good bit of it.

It’s off the subject but I can show a picture or two of the rest of the yards and gardens, not the complete areas, but enough to give an idea of what it’s like.

plants grow both in the ground and in pots. that seems to work better when someone has time to pay attention to them, keeping watering dialed in, or moving them around to help them get sun.