Pepino fertilized with coffee grounds Coffee grounds are a safe and freely available natural product, and also serve well as a nitrogen based fertilizer for fruit and vegetable plants. They certainly seem to be doing well for this Pepino Gold that is sitting in a pot on my front lawn. Inside the pot is a … Continue reading »
Tag Archives: Fertilizer
Have Your Latte and Compost it too! on 40 Mums Club
Yet another opportunity to reach out about the wonders of used coffee grounds with a guest post of mine ‘Have Your Latte and Compost it too’, on 40 Mums Club. Star of the show is a big home grown tomato, that was later enjoyed with some fava beans and a nice chianti (edit 12/2 – … Continue reading »
How to Grow Amazing Roses with Coffee Grounds on Sustainablog
Rose fertilizer is available cheaply with used coffee grounds! Continue reading »
Coffee Grounds for Lawns on Sustainablog
I’ve recently had an article posted on the environmentally focused blog – sustainablog. The article looks at how used coffee grounds can be applied to your lawn as a nitrogen based fertilizer. So check out the article and give coffee grounds a try on the lawn when you get the chance. Any cafe should be … Continue reading »
Ground Coffee as Fertilizer
There is an almost limitless amount of used ground coffee available to use as a fertilizer. Let’s look at the NPK analysis of coffee grounds and what that means for you garden. Continue reading »
Coffee Grounds Collecting at the Office – Getting Started
Collecting coffee grounds from the office This is going to be useful for all of you that work people, sit in meetings all day, and do all that collaborating. I’m lucky that no one has come up to my desk to yell ‘You have 2 minutes to innovate dammit!’, although I have at times come … Continue reading »
Using Coffee Grounds for Compost and Fertilizer
Coffee Grounds in Coffee I had the pleasure of creating a new vegetable plot over the weekend, and took a few happy snaps of how the soil was prepared. This will be plot number 3, much smaller than plots 1 and 2, and will be used this Spring/Summer to grow watermelon, tomatoes, and sweet corn. … Continue reading »
Coffee Grounds for Plants
Coffee in them Plants! Success in the garden this week with a lovely Cauliflower coming off plot 2. The same one that I mentioned in a previous post about using coffee grounds directly into the garden. I’ve found that applying coffee grounds directly into this plot has given me great results, with a delightful Cauliflower … Continue reading »
Compost with Worms and Coffee Grounds
Worms and Ground Coffee I have been busy getting the various compost collections ready for use in the garden. Fortunately, combining coffee grounds into the compost, along with leafmould, and in this case, wood chips, has given a lovely product that will go very well on my new vegetable plot. This supply of compost made … Continue reading »
