is coffee good for the garden?

Answer 1

Yes, it is also good for the gardener

Answer 2

Using coffee grounds in the garden is a great way to add organic matter to your soil. Coffee grounds are also a good source of nitrogen for your garden soil. Being naturally acidic in nature, used coffee grounds are wonderful for acid loving plants such as roses, blueberries, camellias, azaleas, rhododendrons and even viburnum. Should you want to use coffee grounds in the garden on plants that do not appreciate the acidity, you may need to add a limestone supplement. If you don't drink coffee very often, you may find coffee grounds for the garden at your local coffee shop. Most are more than willing to give you all the coffee grounds your garden can handle. Don't add too thick of a pile of coffee grounds or mold may develop. A nice thin layer of coffee grounds around the trunk of the plant is all that is needed. One more added benefit of using coffee grounds in the garden is that earthworms love the used coffee grounds. They will feed on the coffee grounds and in turn aerate and fertilize the soil around your plants. You'll always enjoy the rewards of using coffee grounds in the garden.

Answer 3

Coffee grounds can be good if you need a higher nitrogen level in your garden. They're also beneficial for the effect of the acidity of the soil. It really depends on the plants that you are using the coffee around.

Answer 4

Coffee Grounds
N-P-K 2-0.3-0.2
Highly acidic, best for use in alkaline soils.

Robert Hollingsworth of the United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service in Hilo, Hawaii, and his colleagues were testing caffeine sprays against the coqui frog, an introduced species that infests potted plants.

They also noticed that a 1 to 2 percent caffeine solution killed nearly all the slugs and snails within two days. Concentrations as low as 0.01 percent put the pests off their dinner. A cup of instant coffee contains about 0.05 percent caffeine, and brewed coffee has more.

A cup of drip brewed coffee has about 115 milligrams of caffeine, an espresso (and percolated coffee) about 80mg, while instant coffee has about 65mg of caffeine. Thus, drip brewed coffee is about twice as strong as the instant stuff, which means you want to use drip brewed coffee for repelling slugs and snails.

Coffee grounds are recommended as a home remedy for keeping slugs and snails at bay but a caffeine solution is much more effective, he says: "Slugs turn back immediately after contacting the [caffeinated soil]." "I would expect caffeine applications to kill small snails and slugs, and repel the larger ones," says Hollingsworth.

Caffeine is an alkaloid compound and most alkaloids have a very bitter taste. Caffeine is found in the beans, leaves, and fruit of over 60 plants, where it acts as a natural pesticide that paralyzes and kills certain insects feeding on the plants.
The United States bans metaldehyde (main ingredient in slug bait) residues in food, but classifies caffeine as safe.

Answer 5

i agree with eatonwrite. piebabiesdanielle gave you an excellent answer--i never even knew coffee grounds had so many benefits to the garden until now!

Answer 6

yes used coffee grounds are excellent as a fertilizer. ex coffee machine engineer

Answer 7

piebabiesdanielle gave you an excellent, thorough answer. Best answer I've seen in a while. She knows her stuff.

Answer 8

I am told it is
roses apparently like it
it can be put in the compost

Answer 9

lager is better,sprinkle it on the grass and it comes up half cut-----boom boom.the old ones are the best

Answer 10

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