Coffee Grounds, Banana Peels, and Eggshells
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🗓️ 8 May 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
We hear about repurposing these three items from our kitchen all of the time...but how should we REALLY use them?
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| 0:00.0 | Often times in the garden we over complicate, right? We're human beings we think too much and we do too much and sometimes doing less is the right answer. Today we're talking about three |
| 0:24.5 | different common things that you and I probably use in the kitchen. We eat bananas, |
| 0:30.5 | we eat eggs, we drink coffee, right right there's three things that are often touted to have these |
| 0:36.6 | magical properties almost in the garden that they do and they don't so let's understand |
| 0:42.4 | what these things are and why you should use them in the garden. |
| 0:46.7 | So first we're going to start with my favorite coffee grounds. I love making coffee in the morning my brother actually roasts beans and so I have an unlimited supply of really well done coffee beans |
| 0:59.1 | What do you do with those when you have the coffee grounds? Well, it's clear up a myth, right? A couple |
| 1:03.2 | myths. Number one, are coffee grounds acidic? Slightly, I mean, they're in a 6.4 to 6.7, so no more acidic than most things that are in your soil. Your soil is if you're |
| 1:15.1 | growing annual vegetables mostly in that range anyways. It's not a big deal. |
| 1:19.0 | Most of the acidity in coffee you just drank in the cup of coffee that you're drinking, but that's not something to worry about. |
| 1:25.8 | So what about slugs and snails, you can kind of make a little barrier and they won't crawl |
| 1:29.8 | over it? |
| 1:30.8 | They will, they still will do that, and so don't worry about using coffee grounds for that sake. |
| 1:34.7 | Well what about mulch? Well you can use coffee grounds as mulch but if you were to use |
| 1:39.5 | only coffee grounds as mulch that wouldn't be the best idea. It's the same particle size and |
| 1:44.6 | you want a little bit more aeration in that mulch layer. You don't want to smother the |
| 1:48.6 | soil completely. That can actually be the opposite of what you want that mulch to do. So as far as coffee grounds go, |
| 1:55.8 | the way I like to use them is very simple. I like to mix them into my worm bin, |
| 2:01.5 | mix them into my normal compost bin or just simply scatter them here and there |
| 2:06.0 | throughout the garden and not worry about it too much. They will break down |
| 2:08.8 | over time and they'll become bioavailable to plants. I don't do anything magic. I don't make a tea out of it or |
| 2:13.8 | anything like that. I just put it in one of those three places and let my life continue. |
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