Trees around us require good care in order to boost their growth. This can be achieved with an annual or biannual fertilizer which helps them reach full potential and grow much faster. Trees require nitrogen, phosphate and potash to enable them to flourish. By using coffee grounds which are organic materials that provide natural fertilizers along with nutrients suitable for your trees. Below are some of the tips and ideas on how to use coffee grounds as fertilizer.
What you need:
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½ pound coffee grounds
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Compose bin or pile
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Garden spade
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5 gallons of warm water
- 5-gallon bucket
Method:
- The first thing that you need to do is to save the used coffee grounds in a suitable container such as an old coffee can each day after every usage. Before composing your coffee grounds you will need an extra area in which to keep them if in a barrel.
- Mix at least ½ pound of coffee grounds together with 5 gallons of warm water in a pail to create a very fast-acting liquid fertilizer.
- After that, the liquid fertilizer can be poured around the base of your tree in order to provide it with natural fertilizer.
- Sprinkle some of the coffee grounds around the tree before starting to water the tree to create a slow-release fertilizer.
- Do not over-fertilize your tree with the coffee grounds. It is sufficient enough for you to do it at least annually or biannually.
- Spread your old grounds around the affected tree and it will surely drive any pest away especially the ants because ant does not like coffee.
- The coffee grounds are having the same nutrients as the one being sold in store bought plant fertilizer. This nutrient helps your plant to grow healthy and at the same time, you will be able to save some money and also do recycling activity at the same time.
- The coffee grounds can be used like mulch. Its dark colour also attracts the sun and at the same time warms the soil which really helps in early planting of acid loving pants. Remember to watch and see whether the ground coffee does not form a hard crust. To clean-up this problem (if any), you simply just use a garden spade to break up the crust.
Additional Reading:
http://coffeetea.about.com/cs/crafthowtos/ht/ht_garden.htm
http://www.helium.com/items/510527-how-to-reuse-your-coffee-grounds-in-the-garden
http://www.ehow.com/how_5571600_use-coffee-grounds-tree-fertilizer.html
http://www.infobarrel.com/How_to_Use_Coffee_Grounds_as_a_Mulch,_Fertilizer_and_in_Compost
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2750905/learn_how_to_use_coffee_grounds_as.html?cat=32
Image Credit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/augie/141694287/
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