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Can Coffee Be Used As A Fertilizer?

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Used coffee grounds have been discarded as a waste of millions of people around the world. Are there other uses for your used grounds? The answer is "yes", and the more you learn about the used coffee grounds the more sense it makes to use it as fertilizer. My grandmother taught me years ago, the mystery of the used coffee grounds. She said that the reasons to give your plants more life. I always wondered what to do with more life. Then, when I saw her grow, Iseen some amazing things. Your tomato garden was huge and much bigger than our neighbors. Tomatoes the size of a softball grew in her garden and at a rapid pace. When the neighbors ask what her secret, she said, I have fertile soil. She did not lie, because by using coffee grounds her soil was rich enough.

Used coffee grounds are great fertilizer for gardens because of its high nitrogen content. Of all mineral nutrients in the soil, nitrogenusually the most difficult to acquire for the plants. The reason plants have difficulty is because of the way they acquire the nitrogen. It is mainly through their roots, which are buried in the ground. Most plants depend on mineral forms of nitrogen in the soil, and that is where your coffee grounds come into place. Your used grounds give your soil the added nitrogen that need your plants. Tea contain potassium, phosphorus, and many other elements that aid in plantdevelopment. Many rose gardeners report that used coffee grounds aid in their roses development. Reports also add that when used coffee grounds have made their roses more colorful and larger than normal. In fact, when added to a compost pile used coffee grounds compost very quickly.

Nitrogen is a component of all proteins, and is crucial to life. In several studies, plants that have a nitrogen rich soil grew faster and larger then plants that grew in natural soil. It is clearly wiser to save the tea leaves and use them in your garden or household flowerpots. If you are not with the coffee grounds you are wasting a great resource.

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October 6th, 2009 |

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