A couple of months ago I started putting my spent coffee grounds in my rose garden, clematis beds, and flower spots—nice Guatemalan coffee (free-trade, roasted by my local coffee shop). Then, I worked in a little soil and recently, grass clippings. Wow! My roses love coffee!

Be kind to your flowers, give them the grinds after you drink your brew. Both you and your flowers will thrive.

Yeah! Coffee grounds also keep snails and slugs away!

For your information I have been feeding coffee grounds to my tomatoes for years.

Drives the earthworms into reproductive frenzy I have been told.

Food and Flowers like Weed(s).
The more they Need, the more they Feed. It's a competition. We only need the best! Forget the rest.

We'd work for food-
But wood food pay?

M@t

Coffee grounds are an excellent nitrogen source.

I use it as a compost heap activator, really helps drive the temps up.

You just have to be careful that your roses can't sleep at night...

And become more productive...

Oh thanks for that info.... I'm going to try it on my rose bushes. How often do you put the coffee grounds on them?

Mix in about half a cup for a couple of weeks, then every so often. It adds acid and Shumms is correct, earthworms revel in the stuff!



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BYU Boner Wrote:
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> Mix in about half a cup for a couple of weeks,
> then every so often. It adds acid and Shumms is
> correct, earthworms revel in the stuff!


Thanks Luv... I'll report back.

Keeps roaches away also.

Roaches ^AND^ mormons.

I've used coffee grounds for other flowers, never thought of doing that for roses, but now I might try it.

Who needs friends when you can have coffee with your flowers.

They're not very good talkers, though.
Which is OK -- sometimes a good listener is just what's needed!
And they smell nicer than some of the folks I run into at Starbucks...