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Did you know that Coffee is an Exceptional Fertilizer?
My grandmother loved coffee. So does my mom. I am third generation down the line who enjoys a cup of steaming coffee more than anything in the world. When I was just a little girl, I spent the best part of my holidays on my grandmothers farm. She was a woman who could never sit still, and the beauty and the cleanliness of the farm house reflected her zeal to work.
I had observed then that my grandmother collected the used ground coffee beans in a large basin. When the basin filled up, she used this coffee as a fertilizer for the flower bed situated in the front of the farm house. The flowers that my grandmother grew this way won the best prizes every year; untill she died of cancer a few years ago.
What remained with me is the fact that the wasted coffee could be used as a fertilizer. How many people know this? Similarly, ground egg shells make a good fertilizer too. Again, who knows about this? Maybe just the local population around my grandmothers farm, and small pockets of indigenous people for whom ancient science and knowledge is still important.
There are Many Recyclable Items which can be used as Fertilizer
Coffee is a great fertilizer because it is has a good amount of nitrogen, which is the most critical and at the same most difficult for the plants to obtain from nature. Hence, applying coffee gives the plants a direct source of nitrogen.
Used vegetable and fruit peels could also be collected daily and then dumped into a deep trench covered with earth, and left covered for about a week. When you return, the pile of vegetable waste will have become just plain soil; and you will have thousands of earthworms, all ready to help the garden.
The soil that you see there, each one of it is what the earthworm swallowed and took out, and though this process it not only makes fertilizer but it also produces more soldiers which will help in maintaining an exceptional garden.
In this way there is many an organic fertilizer which can be made out of waste and plants can benefit greatly from such processes. The things that we throw as waste many times can be recycled to improving our gardens with these innovative types of fertilizer you would otherwise throw away. |