Coffee grounds, as has already been proved by scientists, can easily be applied to absolutely any soil, it is useful to any soil and improves its quality. Let's take a closer look, coffee grounds, as fertilizer, for which plants it is suitable, where it can be successfully applied, how can the situation in the garden be improved.
In brewed coffee there are many useful ingredients, especially potassium and magnesium, which contribute to the full nutrition of plants. Experienced gardeners have long noticed: where the soil of coffee grounds was fertilized - there is an abundance of worms that loosen the soil, saturate the air with air, make it more fertile and richer, more permeable. In addition, coffee grounds will scare away your snails and ants in the garden, drive away garden midges.
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Who likes coffee grounds
• Tomatoes are the biggest coffee lovers, according to experienced gardeners. When planting a sprout in a hole, add some coffee grounds there, when planting, you can sprinkle the ground next to the plant, mixing it first in a grass mulch so that it does not bake from the heat and does not turn into a crust.
• Sweet pepper loves to enjoy coffee residues, also use them before planting and during watering.
• All legumes love coffee and grow better from its use.
• Carrots will become tastier and more aromatic, it will grow better if during planting you mix the seeds with the dried coffee grounds and add them during watering. You can still sprinkle dry drunk coffee straight across the bed, but immediately water it to strengthen the food. But do not pour a lot, and if in the sun - so the coffee grounds in a dense impenetrable crust will turn. To avoid this, you can mix it previously with the soil.
• Black radish, like radish, coffee lovers - pamper them several times a season with such a useful supplement, pests will get them less and the taste will be more pleasant, and it will grow better.
• Flowers are coffee lovers, but to improve their flowering, you need to mix the coffee cake with water, insist, and then water it, it is very useful for nutrition and growth.
The benefits of coffee, how to apply:
• Sprinkle sleeping coffee around the trees, this will help release nitrogen from the soil.
• Added when planting garden or indoor plants as drainage, it is very good and plants like it. You can also put first a couple of tea bags, pour the thick on them, and then sprinkle with earth, or pour the coffee grounds directly into the drainage.
• Add coffee grounds to water to water your indoor plants and the result will soon become apparent.
• In spring, when you loosen the soil, it would be good to bring the coffee grounds collected during the winter to the ground for nutrition and enrichment. In addition, the soil will become more lush and breathable.
• Thick mix with seeds before planting - they will sprout better, and the fruits will be sweeter and more fragrant.
Coffee grounds compost
Just a find will be for your garden such a coffee compost - pure organics with a useful complex for each plant. Choose a place on the site away from the entrance doors of the house, it would be nice under a canopy to protect it from the dog-winds, dig a small hole and fill it with the following components:
• 1/3 should be coffee cake
• 1/5 of the total volume - mowed grass, dried, not fresh
• 1/3 dry foliage
• a glass of bone meal
• Sprinkle a shovel of fresh soil on top.
Also, straw, biohumus, even ordinary cardboard can be added to this pile. To quickly wander around the heap of the beginning, throw some rotten fruits into it or pour some fermented juice into it.
Everything, as a heap is formed, stick a few holes with a stick - air should enter the heap. In about a month, worms will already be working there in full swing, turning all this stuff into useful humus. Wait another week or two and start using compost for your garden pets.
Tip: in rains to cover a bunch.
The benefits of such coffee compost:
• useful for trees - lay compost around them
• increases and maintains moisture in the soil
• prevents weeds from breaking through
• nutrition for plants
As you can see, from the fact that your family loves coffee, it’s quite possible to make a benefit for the garden, though a small pile will be typed, but if you collect it all fall-winter-spring, then soon there will be something to make a small compost pile from.
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