Use for coffee grinds
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Amy Barnett
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Does anyone know the best plants or bushes that like to feed off coffee grinds? I have been drying and storing all my used grinds for a few months waiting to use.
14 answers
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Used coffee grounds will acidify where it is used. In our neck of the woods,( Louisiana), that is azaleas, camellias, and gardenias. It can also have an effect on the color of hydrangeas flowers.
R.V.R. Farris
on Mar 22, 2015
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roses
Tamir DuCharme
on Mar 22, 2015
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Hydrangeas love coffee grounds
Rita DeBoer
on Mar 22, 2015
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azaleas and rhodedendrons like them...if i have any left i just dump them in my composting pile - the worms don't seem to mind.
Pam Proffitt
on Mar 23, 2015
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My rose bushes that were just lagging behind the others not really doing much started blooming after I gave them my husbands left over coffee in the pot and the grounds my cannas weren't really blooming like I wanted either until they got some good old caffeine! Ive used it on hibiscus and hydrangeas too. Wonderful results!
Donna Morris
on Mar 23, 2015
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although not in your area, I have heard that sprinkling coffee grounds over bromeliads (a tropical plant with a cup that holds water, and therefore harbors mosquitoes) will cut down on mosquitoes laying their eggs in the water in the cups.
Shannon
on Mar 23, 2015
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Roses really like the coffee grinds. We also put them in the compost. It makes better compost for our area.
Vberger
on Mar 23, 2015
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Also coffee grounds are great for keeping cats from digging in your garden.
Alisa
on Mar 23, 2015
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not sure what plants like them. but my hands were really rough so i rubbed them with coffee grounds and they were super smooth. i'm going to try it on my hoofs, i mean heels.:)
D fuhrman
on Mar 23, 2015
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Tomatoes and any other nitrogen loving plant
Sheila
on Mar 23, 2015
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Mine go on our peony plants
Edi1428144
on Mar 24, 2015
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All plants love the coffee grinds as well as leftover egg shell soaked in water. Pour it all in the plants.
Wanda Tymony
on Mar 24, 2015
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What about house plants. Do they like it?
Christine Hobson
on Mar 27, 2015
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Read that Roses like coffee grounds and Tomato plants like crushed egg shells.
Sue Sanders
on Mar 31, 2015
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