Mmmmmmm.... old coffee.
These were just some of the bags, I found several more hiding in the garden shed.
Why add coffee to your garden you might ask. Because worms Love coffee grounds and it adds nitrogen to the soil. I only add grounds when I don't have anything planted. Although grounds are neutral in their acidity (the acidity soaks out with the coffee), I am still afraid it would burn the plants.
Once the snow is melted and I am ready to plant again, hopefully this will help improve my soil.
Other reasons to love coffee grounds:
Heat up your compost pile
Repels slugs and ants
And it smells good!
I raked it all over the garden. We found a place to get free wood chips, so once we find a day when we are just sitting twiddling our thumbs (which would be NEVER) we'll go get a couple loads to top off the garden.
Three cheers for coffee!!
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We are also saving our coffee grounds for the garden. We've just moved from a place where we spent 7 years improving the soil and had our best garden ever to a place that hasn't been farmed for years. So we're basically starting from scratch. I didn't know about the high nitrogen content. Should be great for the corn!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post. I have been using them for the last 7 years as a light mulch for our flowers beds. We used to manage a coffee house and we would get bucket fulls. The plants did okay as long as I didn't lay them too thick. It made great free mulch...Thanks for sharing your experience! :)
ReplyDeleteWe sprinkle them around our blueberry bushes and pour any left-over coffee (cold) there too. otherwise it goes into the compost barrel. Also didn't know about the Nit. in it. Thanks!!
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