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Kolesar

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7. Coffee grounds are the only source of nitrogen and potassium for my vegetable garden

Mon Feb 20, 2012, 12:48 PM

Feb 2012

Well, almost, I do use greensand for more potassium. I will use horse manure, but transporting manure in a compact car has been a problem .

Coffee grounds and other seedmeals are a potent fertilizer. The garden center sells Espoma brand cottonseed seedmeal that serves the same purpose as the coffee grounds I get at Starbucks. For free

I use about one bag of coffee grounds from Starbucks per each 70 square feet of raised beds.

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Just read about coffee ground use in the garden and had some questions... [View all] Ruby Reason Feb 2012 OP

Coffee grounds can repel moles. CottonBear Feb 2012 #1

I don't think of them as a fertilizer so much as good for the soil structure - NRaleighLiberal Feb 2012 #2

I throw them off the deck into the yard randr Feb 2012 #3

+1 ge26252se Feb 2012 #8

Compost them. Nightshades don't like them directly applied. As for rabbits... HopeHoops Feb 2012 #4

Coffee grounds are acidic, Curmudgeoness Feb 2012 #5

Thanks for all the great ideas and information. Ruby Reason Feb 2012 #6

Coffee grounds are the only source of nitrogen and potassium for my vegetable garden Kolesar Feb 2012 #7

Kolesar, is your soil high or low PH, alkaline or acidic? JDPriestly Mar 2012 #9

We over-limed it and it became alkaline, pH = 7.5 on the last test Kolesar Mar 2012 #10