Used Coffee Grounds - Good For Your Plants

As you prepare the next pot of morning brew, lifting the lid and removing the used coffee grounds, the first place most people head for is the garbage. I have heard for years that alot of people use coffee grinds as an additive to their gardens. Recently I have seen this in action, saving my coffee grinds in a separate section of my compost and sprinkling them around my tomato plants, working them into the soil around the base of the plant, the results were amazing ,my tomato plants flourished producing larger than average fruit.

Because of their high nitrogen content used coffee grinds are a great fertilizer for gardens nitrogen is generally difficult for plants to acquire out of all the mineral nutrients in the soil, Most plants have difficulty gathering nitrogen because of how they do it, primarily thru their roots,which are buried in the soil.

Most all plants depend on mineral forms of nitrogen contained in the soil, and this is where your coffee grounds come into play.Used grounds can give your soil the added nitrogen that they need if your soil is lacking it. Coffee grinds also contain potassium, phosphorus, and some other elements that aid the growth of plants. Many rose gardeners have stated (my grandmother included) swear that the addition of coffee grounds have made their roses more colorful and larger than normal.

The coffee grinds when added to your compost break-down very quickly and can be used in a short period of time to help develop your plants. The other thing you can do is simply sprinkle the grounds around the base of your plants as I usually do and blend into the soil. Having said this at the rate I go through coffee I have resorted to dumping the coffee grinds into my compost along with my lawn clippings.

Other reports are claiming that grounds are a natural insect repellent.And can be effective on reducing the amount of ants in a location, simply sprinkling coffee grounds on the anthill or where they are traveling will deter them from that area.

In any case using coffee grounds to benefit plant growth seems to be an excellent alternative to discarding them in my garbage, it's a little extra work but it is free so I will continue to do so !

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