Our blog is dedicated to documenting the never-ending saga of working in the gardens behind the Honors House at Northern Kentucky University. This blog is a work in progress. It is maintained (usually) April-October.
according to a post on gardenweb, coffee grounds contain an average N-P-K of 4-1-3. Elsewhere on gardenweb, its claimed 1.5 - 0 - 0.1 .... so i imagine its value ranges somewhere in there. but-- it adds organic bulk, its free for us, and it smells better than manure!
earlier this week i visited a well known chain coffee house and got about 15 pounds of used coffee grounds. Half of it went into my grandma's garden. The other half just got put into the zig zag bed. two more bags of coffee grounds that size will do us just fine for the season.
We planted all of our seeds on Wednesday. Now, five days later, we've got quite a few sprouts. In the upper right box, most of our radish is up, and we've got a good number of beet sprouts and a few lettuce. In the zig zag, the cucumber seeds have all sprouted, and we have a few melon and one pumpkin. (After they get their second leaves, are we going to thin down to one plant each--or two for the cucumber?) In the bean/pea section, the Shaker beans have outstripped all the others, with most of them sprouted, followed by the Kentucky Wonders, where we have a few up. All of the transplants look healthy, though one of the tomato varieties (I forget which one now--the really tall ones) look a little yellow.
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