Tip: Save Your Coffee Grounds for Your Garden
by
Annie
+8
Sounds silly, right? Coffee grounds are great fertilizers and keep pests at bay!!
And, you don't feel like you're wasting!
Related Discussions
Suggested Project Book
And coffee grounds are ideal worm food. You can buy worms on line and enirch your garden wth them keeping it aerated and porous.
I drink a lot of coffee and have always saved all of my coffee grounds. I put them around my heirloom rose bush and I have the most beautiful very large peach colored roses. I use them in my flower beds my garden and in my strawberry bed.
I'm going to try this! I wonder if it would also keep the cats at bay???
Thanks for the tip!!!
How about the untamed type animals! Some type poop in same area of back yard.. will the coffee grinds deter this?
Society garlic keeps cats away.
I live next door to a Japanese woman, and she uses coffee grounds and other ground up things that DO NOT attract rats for fertilizer. I can see her garden from my 2nd floor bathroom, and you should see how precise she lays out the rows each spring - it's amazing.
Don't forget your egg shells!!!!
My father-in-law had a wholesale nursery. He grew the most beautiful roses. He explained to me that when planting to place coffee grounds mixed in with the soil and also used earthworms. I took his advice and yes it does work.