Using coffee grounds on my plants?
Question:i just transplanted some rose bushes, ferns (asparagus plus one I don't know the name of), creeping charlie, lantana, and hybiscus.
Can I put coffee grounds around the base of all or some of these plants. I heard that coffee grounds are good for plants.
I was also told recently to bury my banana peels around my plants.
Anyone have any knowlege of either.
Thanks
Answers:
I put coffee grounds at the base of my plants, even house plants, and it never killed them. Banana peels are excellent for rose bushes.
yea it is my parents do dat and dey say its good 4 dem plants
If you own property when crises suddenly happen that leaves one impoverished, there is remaining the responsibility to maintain, as in "when all you have is lemons... make lemonade", we do with what we know, learn, find, are given, have and can do.
Each time I am required to drive even a short distance, I stop by every single place that sells coffee/tea, because that means "free grounds" that would otherwise go to the landfill and be wasted. Most owners/managers are friendly and willing to give them, but a few can't comprehend the importance and seem to be calculating the idea of "selling the grounds" one day. So, while they are free, take advantage of the opportunity, folks.
During the heat wave we recently all experienced, a record over the last 70 yrs., we all but lost our grass, as well while under water restrictions, which remain until our city water supply is replaced by rain. After tending to other essentials and basic needs, we were able to discover a free "fertilizer" which works, and quickly if done correctly.
Wearing gloves, hand spread the free gathered used coffee/tea grounds all over the grass, especially the "dead" places, like you might when fertilizing with chemicals, but as evenly as possible and slightly heavier than with chemicals.
I chose to do this just before an expected rain, because nothing good happens until the grounds are watered in, and because it is another free resource. One application needed watering in on my allotted day to water because weather reports are often unreliable.
The grounds are considered by gardeners for the compost as being "green" material, containing Nitrogen, a much needed nutrient for all green things. It provides great recycling use of a by-product of our coffee drinking and satisfies the grass because it perked up and is responding after only three days!
I plan to watch for any road/swim pool/fence construction and ask for any left over top soil for the huge cracks left by dryness, AND for low places. Should I be able to find an abundance of soil, I will add a top dressing over the coffee grounds.
There is even a use for the heavier used filter paper, other than in the compost: I stuffed them into the cracks around my foundation. The residual grounds seem to repel pests as well, and since most used grounds have a significant number of used filters to dig out, it helps to close the gaps.
If the coffee/tea is still in lumps as it was originally processed or packaged, the lumps need to be mashed before tossing onto the grass.
I have not over used the free grounds, so I believe the secret is to find the proper balance for whatever you apply it to. For my front yard of approximately 40'x90' feet, it takes about 15 gallons of grounds. I have St. Augustine grass where there is live grass.
It takes about 1 hour of making rounds to the places (restaurants, drive-throughs, bakeries, grills, even larger service stations) that sell coffee within two miles of my home, to gather that. I go two-three times/week, so far, and will continue until bad weather while en route to grocery, discount bread store, post office, bill paying, gas stations, neighborhood recycling center, $.50 movie evening, church, charity, curbside-bulk pickup, storing them in an outside receptacle at home until Spring, if any are left over. This way, I am not wasting gasoline.
I apply a little more around the drip line of our evergreen trees/shrubs, NONE around Fall leaf-losers. (I will do that for them in the Spring. )
I worked in a handful of grounds in a 20" pot of a salvaged Scheffera and two days later the leaves were not only perked WAY up but in four days there were new leaves and very glossy, whereas the old leaves were sparse, leggy stemmed, and dull leafed, a likely reason the previous owner tossed it curbside!
I am making a schedule with merchants who sell breakfast, for eggshells, to save them for me, too, although they require a special day for pick-up, and I cannot know for sure that I will have the gas on those days. It's harder to schedule, but if I can figure it out, it is worth it, also for both grass, garden and many container plants. Less impoverished friends/neighbors have proven to be more helpful, admiring how I keep trying to find ways, with God's grace and help to live within my "frugal" means.
coffee grounds are good for plants, they loosen the soil, any vegetable, or fruit is good compost.
Well, that stuff ,among other food scraps, make good compost material, but I don't know that putting it right by the plant would be a good idea.
You can take that stuff and make a compost pile and use the good dirt that comes from that to put around your plants.
You could also use red worms to to worm composting. You can do a search for composting and get a lot of info about it.
I used tea instead of coffee. I just opened the tea bag after I used it and put it around the rose bush at the stem. I don't know about flavored teas though. It really helped my roses.
I use coffee grounds in my compost - i wouldn't use them "straight".
I find the best thing for plants is fishheads/guts. bury next to plant - they will thrive.
Yep, coffee grounds, egg shells, any fruit or vegetable peel will work. I don't know about right at the base, but a foot or two away should be fine OOPS! .I just reread your question. Coffee grounds are fine around the base of the plant, just work it in the ground a little bit. The other things, dig a small hole a foot or two away , dump the stuff in and cover it up. Nature will take its course and your ground will become more fertile. You might want to sprinkle a little EPSOM salt around the plants also...great source of magnesium at a bargain price.:-)
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