RE: coffee grounds and pumpkins
- Subject: RE: coffee grounds and pumpkins
- From: &* G* M* <m*@in-form.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:54:03 -0600
I had long thought of coffee grounds being to acidic for Pumpkins (but
great for giant Blue Hydrangeas). Then I read this thread and dug
around a bit more to find this;
"Coffee grounds are a nutritional additive for your soil. During the
brewing process, most of the acidity is removed, leaving used grounds
with an average pH of 6.9 and a carbon-nitrogen ratio of 20-1.
Directions: Add grounds directly to your garden. ... Apply this 'green'
material as a side-dressing to nitrogen-loving plants, including most
perennials and allium plants. Balance the nutrition of your soil with
'brown' materials such as leaves or dried grass.
"Or to your compost ... Combine with 'brown' materials in your compost
pile. Use grounds within 2-3 weeks of brewing to capture the most
nutritive value.
"For more information visit Starbucks.com/aboutus/compost.asp."
Sounds like something I will have to try out this year.
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Peter knop
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 2:31 PM
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Subject: Re: coffee grounds and pumpkins
Are coffee grounds REALLY beneficial for growing the biggies? We use a
lot of compost, but I would worry that there are "things" (chemicals) in
the grounds which would not make pumkins too happy. We have a sstarbucks
next door and probably could get LOTS.
Thanks, Peter
--- On Wed, 2/11/09, Mary <mwhitehead@pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:
From: Mary <mwhitehead@pei.sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: pumpkins DIGEST V1 #
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 10:23 AM
OK..now you all have to sit down and give me some serious tips on
preparing the ground. coffee grounds???? my soil is sandy and last year
was a right off but I am determined 09 will be our turn!
Mary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hatcher, John" <JHatcher@ciena.com>
To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 9:16 AM
Subject: RE: pumpkins DIGEST V1 #
> Great mail, Diana! I'm going to till the plot this weekend, work my
500
> pounds of Starbucks coffee grounds in one more time. I smiled
> picturing your husband at work and then chuckled out loud at the worm
> bin in the computer room. Thanks for sharing!
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:37:57 -0800 (PST)
> From: Diana Sigel <duchessofgladstone@yahoo.com>
> Subject: warm day and fertilizer
>
> Well, it's a warm day in Kansas, 73 degrees at 2:30 in the afternoon.
> It's brought out the craziness in the two of us. My husband,
who's
> delayed two years to put up a bird feeder in the yard, got excited
> about my goal to grow the first 1,000# pumpkin in Kansas, and has just
> finished putting 12,500 gallons (he says it's only 7,500 gallons, but
I
> can count, too) of liquid manure on my 1/4 acre pumpkin patch. Warm
> days in Kansas bring out the weirdo in all of us. All I did was get
> my seed out and fondle them a little. Calculated how big an area I
> was going to need. He got out the tractor and the manure. The wind
> is wafting in from the southwest, toward the house. Ahhh, the joys of
> country living.
>
> Good luck to you all. I think it's going to take about a million
> gallons of water when the temperature gets to 105 in August.
>
> My biggest thing until today was starting a worm compost bin in the
> computer room. This is really big.
>
> cheers,
> duchess of gladstone
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