What's up everyone? Welcome back to the episode about coffee grounds. So I recently have been picking up used coffee grounds from a local coffee shop that I like to go to almost every day. I'm a bit addicted to it to be honest with you.

But I figured you know what why don't I get something back from this coffee shop and use it in my

garden and that would be of course coffee grounds. coffee

shop and use it in my garden and that would be of course coffee grounds now coffee grounds have a lot of different uses not only in the garden but throughout the home as well

But of course this is the epic gardening podcast we're going to talk about

coffee grounds as they relate to your garden so we're going to go through just a few ways

that you can use them in your garden and I'll talk about what I'm doing myself as well. So one of the most

interesting ways to use them in my opinion is to just use them straight on the

soil as a sheet mulch. A lot of people will put them around berries and fruit trees and they're doing that under the logic that coffee grounds, used coffee grounds, are acidic, but the reality is if you do a pH test on coffee grounds they are anywhere from

mildly acid to mildly alkaline so they sort of hover around that pH 7.0

also known as pH neutral. Most of the acidity in coffee is actually

drank when you drink the coffee.

Coffee itself is a pretty acidic drink.

Most of the acid is used up when you process those beans for the first time

and squeeze out all that delicious coffee into your drink.

The grounds themselves pretty close to pH neutral. So if you're going to mulch with your

coffee grounds, don't make huge piles, just maybe half inch, three quarters of an inch

thick layer atop the top of your normal mulch is completely fine.

It breaks down pretty quickly, but it won't if you put a ton on so definitely don't do that.

Second use that you can do. You can do side dressing for anything that's a heavy feeder.

So anything that needs a lot of nitrogen

because coffee beans or at least use coffee grounds

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