Here’s how to use coffee grounds to nourish your plants and have a lush garden in no time. Spring is finally here, and with it, the desire to revisit our beautiful, lush garden after winter pruning.
In particular, gardening enthusiasts know how important it is to fertilize our plants when spring arrives, to help them grow beautiful and lush and bloom abundantly, thus giving us an enviable garden.
There are many types of liquid and granular fertilizers on the market, specifically for flowering plants, fruit plants, acid-loving plants or orchids. However, many people are unaware that you could easily create your own fertilizers that are much cheaper, just as good as products purchased in specialist stores and that can be made using only your own scraps.
But how do you make your own fertilizers ? Many food wastes can become perfect fertilizers for your plants, and one of them is coffee grounds . Using them will be much easier than you think, here’s how.
DIY Fertilizer? Use Coffee Grounds!
DIY garden fertilizer from coffee grounds
One of the easiest ways to create your own fertilizer is to use coffee grounds, a perfect compost for our plants, rich in all the nutrients necessary to grow beautiful and healthy.
How to use them? Simply take the coffee grounds and crumble them directly onto the soil , or add them to a liter of water and then give them to our plants when watering them. This way, we will have created a perfect fertilizer at no cost !
But coffee grounds aren’t the only food waste we can use to obtain nutrients for our plants.
For example, even banana peels are an excellent natural fertilizer, to be macerated in a pot with water, with which we can then water our plants after about two weeks.
Other fruit and vegetable scraps are also very useful, to insert directly into the soil, or crumbled eggshells , which also help to keep snails away!
DIY garden fertilizer from coffee grounds
If you have a home composter , you will probably already know that you can use the resulting product to fertilize your garden in a healthy and natural way , without spending anything. You will see that by using DIY fertilizers you will notice that your plants will be more and more luxuriant, giving you a truly enviable garden!