Effects of the tea waste, manure and various fertilizers1 ön the growth of barley plant grown on the different tenured soils have been compared. For this purpose, barley plants were grown in PVC potş: filled with loam and clay textured soif under greenhouse conditions. ■ -,-•.. ,..;. The tea waste and the manure were applied to the experimental soils with 1 ton/da levels. Nitrogen and phosphorus were applied at 8 kg N/da and 4 kg P/da respectively. NP+Fe1 (5 ppm Fe), NP+Fe2 (10 ppm Fe), NP+Zn1 (1 ppm Zn), NP+Zn2 (3 ppm Zn), NP+Cu1 (1 ppm Cu), NP+Cu2 (2 ppm Cu) were applied to the soils before seeding. The effect of the tea waste on dry matter yield of barley plants was occured clearly in the clay textured soil. The effect of the tea waste was not found statistically significant when compared to animal manure and the fertilizers. The highest dry matter yield was obtained from clay soil with the treatment of NP+Zn2. The analysis of variance have shown that the treatments effected significantly on the nitrogen, phosphorus and zinc content of barley plants grown in the loam soil and the nitrogen, phosphorus, iron and zinc content of barley plants grown in the clay soils. While the phosphorus content of barley plants decreased the zinc contents of barley plant were increased significantly in the application of NP+Zn1 and NP+Zn2 treatments. This was explained with the interaction between zinc and phosphorus.