If you set a goal and approximately calculate how many cups of coffee can be drunk in the world every day, then we will get more than four hundred million. At the same coffee ground, everything is mostly thrown into the garbage. But it can be used repeatedly for many purposes - it is a valuable organic substance with a lot of useful properties.
Coffee grounds can be used as a body scrub, a mask for hair, the thick perfectly copes with the elimination of unpleasant odors. And it can also be used as a fertilizer. Therefore, before throwing out the coffee grounds, think - maybe it will be useful to you too. And how to use the coffee grounds for the garden and the garden we will tell in our article.
Properties of coffee grounds
What is still useful coffee grounds? It contains a large amount of nitrogen, potassium and magnesium. And for any gardener it's no secret that these elements are very important and useful in growing plants.
If you add coffee grounds to the ground, it will become more friable and breathable. According to many experienced gardeners, the smell of excellent coffee frightens fruit midge and some kinds of ants.
Use of coffee grounds in the garden
In order for the carrot seeds to germinate faster, and subsequently its fruits were sweeter and more nutritious than usual, it is necessary to mix the seeds with the boiled coffee before sowing.
The coffee grounds slightly add to the soil acidity and scare off small pests. Therefore, it is perfect for watering indoor plants. To do this, you need to add the dense to the water, which you are going to water your plants.
A very good fertilizer is obtained from the coffee grounds. Especially it is suitable for such flowers as roses, azaleas, hydrangeas, camellias, as well as for fruit trees. So, if you have a household plot, we recommend that you do not throw out the thick of the drunk coffee, but gradually collect it. It's necessary to dry it in the air and put it in a jar. In this form it is stored for an unlimited amount of time.
When it's time, the prepared ground is added to the ground before planting and mixed. When planting tomatoes, the thick can be added directly to each well. But remember, if the thicket is not dried, it should not be added to the ground, because mold can form.
Coffee grounds for flowers can become not only fertilizer. When it is added to the soil, the flowers begin to change shades. For example, pink flowers will become turquoise.
And finally, an important advice - you can not use ground coffee before cooking, as well as a strong drink, because they contain a lot of acids, and a lot of acidity is not like all plants.