How Much Coffee Do We Use In the Garden? Coffee Grounds for Garden

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It turns out that we use way more used coffee grounds in our garden than I thought. Though we've been using them for years, I've never done the simple math to estimate how much we use over the course of a year, and my previous guesstimates were much too low. One Yard Revolution is all about growing a lot of food on a little land using sustainable organic methods, while keeping costs and labor at a minimum. Emphasis is placed on improving soil quality with compost, mulch, and compost tea. No store-bought fertilizers, soil amendments, pesticides, compost activators, etc. are used. Channel Page: http://www.youtube.com/user/OneYardRevolution Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oneyardrevolution Featured Videos: Coffee Grounds: How & Why We Use Them in the Garden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA5K5r_VXLs

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oh my goodness. i am laughing so hard. last winter i spent a large amount of time googling my questions about how much nitrogen is in coffee grounds. after many forums and no difinitive answers i gave up. i put together what coffee grounds i had with eggshells and banana peels and divided evenly as i could in the potting holes. now coming on winter i find this video! notifications is not my friend right now.:-( this will be so helpful for next year. thank you! yeah and you made this video in 2014 so that's on me not notifications! lol!

if you use tea it can be bad because maggots might live in it

can i use this in a bonsai plant

Thanks for this amazing video!

I'm tryin this

coffee grounds that you don't say should be "organic". I don't think it advantageous to put coffee grounds contaminated with pesticides or herbicides. Other than that your video proves extremely helpful. Thank you.

Great video also add to the acidity of the soil so is loved by many plants and keeps the slugs away. For me its 1 square foot at a time in milk crates. and I have put down 50 this year.

2.0.30.3 and now I'm confused, it would be cool to teach it for children...like 29 year old children :)

Is it a bad idea to have about 2 inches of coffee grounds on top of your soil?

for the 6 people who disliked this I dislike you

After having watched many of your videos I have started picking up coffee grounds from our local Starbucks. I think they find me a bit nuts ;-) - thank you so much for the tip, I'm really looking forward to using them now the growing season is slowly starting here in Switzerland. The worms love them and this year I'll start trying to garden without buying any amendments, fertilizers etc. so they'll be a great source of nutrients.

Your site and AlbertaUrbanGarden are my two favorite sites for gardening information: not only because of the quality of your video productions but primarily because of your objective approach to gardening (especially like your field trials).

Recently, I came across a site in which the subject of coffee grounds was studied in a field trial: www.sgaonline.org.au/using-coffee-grounds-in-the-garden/

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Their field trials concluded that adding more than 2.5% (by volume) of coffee grounds directly to the garden will inhibit growth.

I give this to you constructively and it is not meant to be a criticism. Hope you find it useful.

Thanks again for your wonderfully informative videos.

I'm planting blueberries in the spring. I've been trying to build the acid in the soil using pine needles and coffee. How much coffee grounds will it take to raise the ph of approximately 120 square feet?

Do the worms get cranky when they don't get their morning coffee?

I'm going to be making my first raised bed this year and planting heirloom seeds. I'd never thought about coffee grounds. Can I put them right into the dirt or should I add them to the compost pile? Are the filters okay to use also? We drink coffee every morning so this is great!

How much coffee grounds you apply directly in a garden bed per week? Thanks!

I like the fact that you have tried to calculate the number of pounds of N P K you are adding to your garden. I however suspect there there could be a large error in your calculation due to the fact that scientific tables would have given the N P K for DRY used coffee grounds (or at least a standardised low moisture %) and you are using very wet grounds. POTENTIAL HUGE ERROR

good video thanks for the info

Doesn't adding that much coffee grounds to your soil make it acidic? How do you compensate, if at all? Thanks.

Do you notice whether your worms are more active when fed the grounds? I've heard it speeds up their metabolism and activity vs non-ground fed worms.