Hello everyone. Welcome back. Hope you're all staying nice and safe. You're

doing well and you are ready to garden. Today we're talking about coffee. It is something that is in my morning routine

nearly every day. I try to take a day off every now and then just to not get over-dependent on the caffeine,

but we're going to grow it. How do you grow it in your garden? Can you grow it in your

garden? So let's learn a little bit about coffee first and then we'll get into some care.

So it might surprise you to hear that coffee beans aren't beans they're actually seeds they grow inside the coffee berry

So it's really known as the coffee cherry in the industry if you will the bury itself is, but it is really not as valuable, of course, as the

caffeinated treasure inside. So coffee plants are referred to as trees, but they actually

grow more like shrubs. I remember seeing them for the very first time when I was at a

coffee plantation in Hawaii on the big island and it was absolutely fascinating and

kind of walk through the coffee process. This was before I really was a gardener

so I didn't appreciate it from that angle, more just from the angle of how coffee gets made, the drink, but man, if I went back now as a gardener, it would have been a totally different experience.

So there's usually one harvest a year of coffee cherries and coffee beans, but it lasts for two to three months.

Coffee is native to tropical Africa where it's still grown commercially.

Of course you hear the Ethiopian blends,

all of that stuff if you are a coffee head like myself.

Actually really it's more my brother that is the coffee head.

He kind of got me into it.

He starts roasting his own beans and maybe one day I'll be able to provide some beans for him to roast, which would be a really cool completion of the circle. But coffee is crazy. I mean it provides farming jobs for a hundred million people around the world which is just simply insane.

So let's talk about the types of coffee plants. There are 124 known species, but we really get our daily fix from two, Arabica and Robusta.

Coffee Arabica is the most popular and highest quality brew.

It's the one I asked my brother, I said, do you like Robusta at all?

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