How To Use Coffee Grounds In Your Garden

After you read this blog post you will have something new to do with your coffe grinds after your morning coffee. These little babies can be used to make your garden thrive.

Coffee grinds are naturally acidic and also high in nutrients like nitrogen and potassium, which will make them a great choice for alkaline soils or nutrient poor gardens. With a little creativity on your part, they can be used to help in many other garden tasks also. Let's Get Strated

1. Add Used Coffee Gounds To Compost,worm bins and garden beds as mulch:

Coffee grounds will help enrich your soil and nutrients all plants need

2.Use Coffee Grounds around tomato plants. The coffee grounds has 10.31 pounds of nitrigen per cubic yard, however the ground will not give the tomatoes the jilt of nitrogen instead there will be a slow release of nitrogen over time as microbes and other soil organisms break down the grounds.

Coffee grounds has a good amount of Potassium and Phosphorus as well as magnesium and copper, calcium, zink, manganese and iron.

Once the grounds has been used to make coffee the acid is disolved in the water which mean the gounds are neutral they have no more acid in them.

Use them on your peppers and other vegetables:

5 Places To Get Coffee Grounds Free

1. Starbucks

2. Some 24 Hour Dinners: The coffee grounds are just a product of their work and to get some free all you have to do is ask for them. You can Call ahead of time if they have any available they will know to save all of their grounds for you, making it easy to walk in and pick them up and be on your way!

3. Some Hotels you needs to call around first: Most all hotels have a breakfast buffet which is a reason within itself for you to go. Most people need a charge for the day ahead so it is no wonder that these people will go through a good amount of coffee! If whenchecking hotels or motels someone at the front desk should be able to help you. If you call somewhere larger than a motel, ask to talk to the kitchen manager

4. At The Work Place, The Office: In many of your major offices, you will find a pot of coffee brewing, it doesn't matter what time of day it is. You can just bring in your own small trash can with a removable liner and put it near the break area for people to dump the grounds in. You might have to clear it through HR Dept first!

5. Gas Stations: In some areas the popular gas stations are a home away from home for some. You have tired drivers and the early morning commuters go through gallon after gallon of coffee, try to call and ask them to save them for you, filters and all if needs be.

If you can you think of other places that would be loaded with grounds just waiting for someone like you comment Share your idea below!

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