Grounds for Your Garden

{Grounds for Your Garden}

This year instead of going out and buying expensive, stinky fertilizer for your garden this year why not try a natural *FREE* solution?

Starbucks runs a program called “grounds for your garden” where they save coffee grounds and give them to anyone who asks for the for free! No purchase necessary. Ground coffee is high in nitrogen which makes it very good mulch for your vegetable garden as well as your flowers. The color is really deep, nearly black and looks fabulous next to bright plants and flowers.

Coffee grounds are a great fertilizer for your garden;

• They make your flowers brighter
• Draw helpful earth worms to your garden (coffee is like ice cream for worms, they love it!) 
• It keeps slugs and snails at bay- Studies have shown that when the slugs and snails try to travel where the coffee is they absorb the caffeine and it results in death.

“Grounds for your garden” makes fertilizing simple! You just drive by your local Starbucks (or local coffee shop, if they offer a program like this) pick up your bag of grounds. When you get home kneed the bag to break up the espresso chunks, or you will have little lumps all over the yard. Rip a small hole in the bag and shake it around the garden, spread it around with a rake. 


You can learn more about Vermicomposting (worms) by clicking here