How to use coffee grounds in the garden
Blog reader Tami wrote
in last week to share her success with coffee grounds in her
Mississippi garden. When she moved to her new home in the suburbs, she
resolved to only buy plants if they were productive in some way. This
was made more difficult due to her "standard Mississippi dirt with two
inches of topsoil over clay."
Luckily, Tami was
ingenious. She wrote:
"This pile is about a year old and I think the best thing I did for it was get some mushrooms started in it. They fruit often because I love to go out and water it in the evenings. (If you haven't caught the Joe Rogan podcast with Paul Stamets - drop everything and go listen. It is riveting.)"
With the help of her
thrice-weekly coffee-grounds pickup, Tami's edibles are now thriving
and filling her plate. "I have an amazing little productive back yard,"
she told me, "with herbs, vegetables, and fruit, including bananas,
figs, and muscadine grapes."
Doesn't that make you
want to go out and make a deal with the local coffee shop? I know it
does for me! Thanks for sharing, Tami. You are my inspiration for the
week.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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