the soil is very bad, and I was planning to dig in about 2 gallons of used coffee grounds where I am going to plant potatoes. Would it be good for the potatoes, or harm them? Or should I put them elsewhere?
2007-01-07 09:11:29 · 4 answers · asked by judy_r8 6 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Potatoes like a sweet or basic (high pH ) soil so if your soil is acidic coffe ground would help. More improtant would be a loose thilth ie a peat or perhaps a sandy soil. If your soil is a heave, thight, or clay soil the you need to work in a lot of humas or creat raized beds, the potatoes will not form large spuds in a tight soil.
2007-01-08 13:56:53 · answer #1 · answered by llanoestacado2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have often been advised to put coffee grounds in a garden - flower or vegetable... they are slightly alkaline, I believe, and help 'sweeten' the soil.
2007-01-07 09:14:35 · answer #2 · answered by waynebudd 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes, my granny use to do that. Not directly on orover, but a little off to the sides and all around.
2007-01-07 09:19:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
that woulde be a really cool experiment, i think they'd grow faster and have more colour due to the caffein. try it and see (and if you could e-mail the results, i'd really like to know!)
2007-01-07 09:14:59 · answer #4 · answered by Cody F-D 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋