Vegetable Garden Basics

Coffee grounds and gardening are a perfect match. Instead of throwing away all of this valuable organic material , put it on your vegetable plants and reap the rewards of free fertilizer. You can add it to your compost pile and it will compost quickly.

Using these on your garden soil directly helps introduce nitrogen into the soil. You can also use tea grounds. Don’t forget that the paper filters can be throw in your compost pile also. Store your coffee grounds in a secure container. Kitchen Compost Pails work great!

Pests

Slugs hate to travel over them as they are rather sharp for their frail bodies and the acid that is in them, is not beneficial to the slugs. So just pour them around the base of your plants and help protect them from slugs.

Worm Bins

This is good for your worm bins also. Adding it will make your worms rejoice as almost everything in it is great for them.

Quick Acting Coffee Grounds and Gardening

For a quick acting compost tea, mix the grounds with water. Mix about one part grounds to about five times the amount of water and let it soak for a few hours. Stir occasionally and you’ll have a good liquid fertilizer.

Free Coffee Grounds

Coffee Grounds and Gardening

Did you know that Starbucks usually gives this away? Yep, check with your local store and they will probably have a recycle bin with it in the back of the store, free for the taking.

If you don’t see anything, just ask them.

Their corporate policy is to recycle and give the used stuff away for free.

Compost Pile

Coffee Grounds and Gardening

When adding to your compost pile remember that even though they are brown they are actually considered ‘green’ manure’.

Having a high Carbon to Nitrogen ratio of around 20 to 1. Used grounds are pretty much neutral as to acidity as they it is water soluble.

The brewing takes most of the acid out as water runs thru it. Your compost pile needs lots of nitrogen to get it cooking and this is a great amendment to this.

Either work it into your soil or spread it around. Dumping it in big mounds may result in a mold starting to grow. Put no more then about 25% in any one spot of your garden.

You see now that coffee grounds and gardening work great!