Want a Healthy, Happy Garden? Add coffee grounds....and Dining Services will give them to you for free! (We have a few pounds here and there!!!)
Vist our UC Cafes and the Cafe in Union Street Market and ask for your free bag of grounds.
Why Coffee Grounds?
Coffee grounds are filled with nitrogen, magnesium, calicum, potassium and other trace minerals - great for growing green things.
There are several ways you can put coffee grounds to work in your garden:
Put coffee gounds in your compost bin.
Add grounds directly to the soil in your garden. You can scratch it into the top couple of inches of soil or just sprinkle it on top and leave alone.
Create a slug and snail barrier. Coffee grounds are both abrasive and acidic so a barrier of grounds placed near slug-prone plants may just save them from these garden pests.
Make coffee ground "tea." Add two cups of used coffee grounds to a five gallon bucket of water. Let the "tea" steep for a few hours or overnight. You can use this concoction as a liquid fertilizer for garden and container plants. It also makes a great foliar feed.
Add coffee grounds to your worm bin. Worms love coffee grounds! Add some to your worm bin every week or so. A cup or so of grounds per week for a small worm bin is perfect.
Remember, just visit our Cafe in Union Street Market or one of the UC Cafes that is open this summer and ask for your free bag of coffee grounds. Your worms will thank you.
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Put coffee gounds in your compost bin.
Add grounds directly to the soil in your garden. You can scratch it into the top couple of inches of soil or just sprinkle it on top and leave alone.
Create a slug and snail barrier. Coffee grounds are both abrasive and acidic so a barrier of grounds placed near slug-prone plants may just save them from these garden pests.
Make coffee ground "tea." Add two cups of used coffee grounds to a five gallon bucket of water. Let the "tea" steep for a few hours or overnight. You can use this concoction as a liquid fertilizer for garden and container plants. It also makes a great foliar feed.
Add coffee grounds to your worm bin. Worms love coffee grounds! Add some to your worm bin every week or so. A cup or so of grounds per week for a small worm bin is perfect.
Remember, just visit our Cafe in Union Street Market or one of the UC Cafes that is open this summer and ask for your free bag of coffee grounds. Your worms will thank you.
Information from About.com
