Coffee grounds, see how to use them to nourish your plants and have a lush garden in no time.
Spring has finally arrived and with it also the desire to see our beautiful, lush garden again after winter pruning.
In particular, gardening lovers know how important it is to fertilize our plants when spring arrives, to help them grow beautiful and luxuriant and bloom abundantly, thus giving us an enviable garden.
There are many types of liquid and granular fertilizers on the market, specific, for example, for flowering plants, fruit plants, acidophilic plants or orchids. However, many do not know that we could easily create much cheaper DIY fertilizers, which have nothing to envy to products bought in specialized stores and which we can only make with our leftovers.
But how to create DIY fertilizers ? Many food wastes can become perfect fertilizers for your plants and one of them is coffee grounds . Using them will actually be much easier than you think, here’s how.
DIY fertilizer? Use coffee grounds!
One of the simplest ways to make a DIY fertilizer is to use coffee grounds, a perfect compound for our plants, rich in all the nutrients necessary for them to grow beautiful and healthy.
How to use them? just take the coffee grounds and crush them directly on the ground , or add them to a liter of water and then give them to our plants when watering them. This way, we will have created a perfect fertilizer at no cost !
But coffee grounds are not the only food waste from which we can obtain nutrients for our plants.
For example, even banana peels are an excellent natural fertilizer, to be macerated in a jar of water, with which we can water our plants after about two weeks.
Other fruit and vegetable scraps are also very useful, to be inserted directly into the ground, or crumbled eggshells , which also help to keep snails away!
If you then have a home composter , you certainly already know that you can use the product obtained to fertilize your garden in a healthy and natural way , without spending anything. You will find that by using DIY fertilizers, you will notice that your plants will become more and more luxuriant, giving you a truly enviable garden!