Plant Tip: Save Coffee Grounds
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- Published on Tuesday, June 10 2014 07:15
- Written by BCG Editors
If you're like me, on Saturday and Sunday mornings you will sit inside and sip your coffee, staring out into your beautiful container garden. When you're done with your morning coffee, don't throw away your coffee grounds. Instead, add it to your potting soil! Coffee grounds, in addition to improving the structure of the soil, will act like a slow-release fertilizer, as it will slowly release nitrogen, which promotes plant leaf growth, as well as smaller amounts of calcium, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium and trace amounts of minerals, including copper, over time. Coffee grounds will also benefit plants that like acidic soil (including foxglove, bleeding heart and hydrangea), as it will also increase the acidity of the soil.
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