coffee grounds

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Permalink Reply by Sharon on May 20, 2009 at 4:24am

We use or coffee grounds, herb tea leaves, egg shells and banama peels directly around our fruit trees, bushes and roses. And of course some goes in the compost pile. Coffee grounds are high in nitrogen, egg shells are high in calcium and banana peels are high in potassium and has numerous other minerals in them, like iron and selenium, both micronutrients for plants and humans.

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Permalink Reply by Glenn Fletcher on May 20, 2009 at 6:42am

Used coffee grounds are a good source of acidic nitrogen. They are very good for strawberries, raspberries, potatoes and rhodedendrons, all of which i think prefer an acidic soil.Ten years ago i used to get bags of the stuff from Starbucks each week. Our rhodedebdrons still flower really well and i,m sure it was the copious amounts of coffee that did it. When adding them in the compost heap you need to neutralise them with a little lime, eggshells or other crushed shells.

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Permalink Reply by Joy Williams on June 3, 2009 at 5:53am

ah... then this will probably help my watermelons which are looking very pale for my tastes. Thanks for the tip!

But I knew coffee grouns were a good source of nitro, why didn't I think of that??? doh!

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Permalink Reply by PiscesGirl on May 20, 2009 at 2:21pm

I use coffee grounds quite a bit - either straight at the "feet" of my roses or mixed into my compost pile. Haven't used it on berries before - I usually mulch them with pine needles or trimmings from my out-of-control rosemary bushes.

Sadly I can't drink coffee anymore, so I love that Starbucks has the freebie "grounds for your garden" and I grab a bag for the roses or the compost whenever I can. The roses really seem to "perk" up after an application of grounds! Lol ;)

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Permalink Reply by Jane Gibson on May 20, 2009 at 6:43pm

I gave up coffee, too, alas! But my community hasn't so we have an abundance of grounds available from local (college town) coffee shops.
Thanks for the reply.

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Permalink Reply by Ian on May 20, 2009 at 6:16pm

Hi Jane,

I use coffee grounds as a snail or slug deterant. I find it works really well.

Ian

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Permalink Reply by Jane Gibson on May 20, 2009 at 6:42pm

Ian, on what do you use it? This could be very important in my garden where we lost a whole crop of chard last year to the slugs.
Thanks,
Jane

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Permalink Reply by HeronoftheDarkwood on May 21, 2009 at 9:46am

slugs also love beer... and love to drown in it. if you have slug issues try a shallow pan of beer each night. i don't drink myself, so a tall can of beer last 4 applications for me. it's pretty cheap and doesn't kill plants.
:)

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Permalink Reply by Jane Gibson on May 26, 2009 at 2:44pm

Now that's very helpful! Maybe I'll get to eat some of my chard this year! Thanks, Ian.

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Permalink Reply by Kim Morgan on May 31, 2009 at 7:33pm

This sounds great. How often do you add eggshells or coffee grounds to the soil?

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Permalink Reply by TAR HEEL on June 1, 2009 at 8:04am

...I'll try the coffee grounds, but I draw the line when it comes to the beer deal.Good tips.THANKS.

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Permalink Reply by Krista on June 2, 2009 at 11:36pm

My mother always put coffee grounds (wet) on the rose-bushes and on a rubber-tree plant we had. It was my job to care for all 20+ rose-bushes and, to my teenage dismay, they grew very well!

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