What I found is working well as an initial fertilizer and strengthener for younger plants is nettle feed. Stinks, but works. Dilute it 1:10, don´t pour over the leaves. After a few days you can usually watch how they suddenly prosper.
I used coffee grounds last year a lot. I read that is good fertilizer but like knucklehead said is better to ferment it in compost first. If you have few coups a day that is nothing to worry about. Last year I make deal with three coffee shops and I collect coffee grounds once every ten days, about 10 to 50 pounds in each bar. I still have a pile from last year.
The best experience was with snails. They hate the coffee because it impact their nervous system. So I spread a lot of coffee around my growing zone. It really helped a lot.
The coffee is acidic and my soil is alkaline and I thought that I will make it right for my tobacco. I believe I use it to much. But in the end of season I collect nice tobacco.
Coffe is good stuff! BTW, wish you all the best this year.
You can find a lot of articles on net, but the best looking roses in the garden are the ones where our grandmother spell the coffee grounds ...
The "coffee is acidic " cliché is a fallacy, actually. There are a couple reasons for it. One is that it is mildly acidic, but it has very little buffeting power, so it isn't effective at lowering the pH of anything, especially the solids. Secondly, when people say that the acid hurts their stomachs, it's really rancid fatty acids that hurt their stomach lining, more in the same way that deep fried food does. Dark roast and old coffee are the worst. It's not the "acid".
Exactly. I think the misinformation started due to the way coffee is described in the industry. The "acidity" of the coffee describes the lighter, higher tastes of the coffee and the "body" describes the lower tastes and the mouthfeel. I think this somehow was misinterpreted and the legend was born.
if i had a snail problem... then id say use all the coffee you can get your hands on..
Very Nice Find there MarcL