Here in Utah we have had a mild winter and now I am wanting to get my garden ready for planting.
Last year I heard that coffee ground were really healthy for your garden. I would take a bucket up to Chevron and have them save me the coffee grounds. Then I would come home and put them in my garden.
Here is a step by step process on adding coffee grounds to your raised garden.
1. Add your coffee grounds directly to your compost pile. Add the paper filters that they use to make coffee. You will want to make sure that you are putting 20% of coffee grounds to your pile of compost for the best results.
2. Sprinkle 1Tablespoon around each plant. Now water the plant so that the grounds will soak into the ground. The coffee grounds ask as a slow fertilizer.
3. Combine 1/2 pound of coffee ground to a 5 gallon bucket of water. You will want to soak the grounds in the water for 24 hours. Remove the coffee grounds and pour the water into water cans. Now Water your vegetables with this liquid fertilizer to raise nitrogen levels.
4. apply 1 inch of the grounds around the plants to create a organic mulch. As the coffee grounds mulch breaks down replace it with more coffee grounds.
By doing this trick with the coffee grounds watch how much your plants like it new food.
Happy Gardening!
