Coffee Grounds in the garden
By jess368
@jess368 (3368)
United States
April 4, 2009 10:28am CST
How do you use coffee grounds in your yard? I understand that grounds can be a good fertilizer for plants, but I also understand that its for certain plants only. Some plants can be harmed by this method. Do you know which plants love coffee grounds, and benefit from them?
Or maybe an easier question is just; what do you put coffee grounds in or around?
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@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
4 Apr 09
My grandmother taught me to use them around my rose bushes. I also will empty my coffee pot if there is just a cup or so in there, and no one want to drink it onto the bottom of the rosebushes. I guess mine are addicted to caffiene just like me! LOL
I have a long blooming rose bush I'm not sure what the name of it is, but it has just started blooming and I will get roses off of it until late October.
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@finlander60 (1804)
• United States
6 Apr 09
If you have grapes, coffee grounds are GREAT for them. If you are a fisherman, you should put them where you want the worms to congregate. Azalea's seem to do well with coffee grounds. We put our coffee grounds in our compost heap and spread it all over our garden. Our compost heap has also been a source of confusion as regards our garden. Most anything can get in our compost heap, egg shells, seeds from cantaloupes, you get the picture. A couple years ago we had cantaloupes in our garden, and I did not think we had planted any. Surprise, we hadn't. They had volunteered to sprout from our compost heap, right in our garden.
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