What Happens When You Use Coffee Grounds in the Garden? 

Hahah!! Yes I have found the same thing to be true. Sometimes you need to give them a second feeding in the late afternoon, because they can quickly become dependent on it

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ArchEnema 67: I’ve experienced extremely decreased productivity because the plants stay up all night watching RU-vid videos and then sleep all day when they should be making tomatoes. I prefer to feed mine crushed melatonin tablets and gin toddies just before bedtime.

How true! Same with red wigglers! ; ) So, I'm sure you know what the elderly gentleman in the nursing home asked when someone knocked on his door. "Friend or enema?" ; (

And he loves doing it, and appreciates the love your sending Lynn ❤️🐕❤️

Is Tuck Vegan? Does he eat dog food too?

@@jhirschi57, great question. Like all of us animals, if left to the natural state, our bodies will lead us to our best nutrution.

that is really cool

@@jamesprigioni great video man, you definitely know your stuff 👍

😂😂😂 James is always so excited in his videos right? LETS GOOOOO!!!

Hahah!! Best comment of the year lol!

Definitely infectious, passionate joy❣ 💞👵

Quite the "artist" you were! ; )

Poor worms!

@@unplannedjourneys4066 Lucky fish! Oops! No! Lucky human... Interesting is the ecosystem :)

we used soapy water

My dad had a worm bed, and put coffee grounds on it.

I would. like to have a compost pile in my back yard, but am afraid it would just attract cock roaches.

@@johnrobertford8049 yeah mine just has roaches in it. I cant turn it because its so far away

@@johnrobertford8049 try out Bokashi, it's fermenting instead of composting (anaerobic so with no air instead of w air) you put all ur food in a container which u can tap for juice. U fill it and wait 2 weeks while tapping until all juice is gone from ur food scraps. After 2 weeks u can add it to ur compost and I've read that animals don't like fermented food so they won't be attracted by it! Furthermore I don't think composting twigs and grass will be an issue with roaches etc?

Yup! You're welcome my friend. Thanks for watching :)

@@jamesprigioni Do you dry your coffee ground before applying them or use them wet? By the way, I had neighbors surnamed Coffee. The sign on their acreage read, "Coffee Grounds"! Of course ~ what else??? I used to have an old table in my patio where I dried coffee grounds for over-wintering. The sign on it said, "Coffee table"! Again, what else?

@@annieb7919 I think it probably doesn't matter either way...

Oke my friend

Yeah he does. Or he should just take over this channel 😂

Tuck’s adventures in gardenland It could be a kid’s channel about gardening (and eating your veggies)

Separate the comments of the dog as the real information gets bogged and lost. Select and reduce one..pleeeeeas

I actually appreciate that about him 😅

I always watch at 0.75% of the speed haha

@@courtneylee2187 Same! The pacing is great on this channel. Because I prefer 1.25 on most of the other channels I watch...

Just checked before I read your comment 😂. God Bless him !!

Great channel! Love the pup in the background. I got a bit nervous when he started sniffing around the coffee grounds-coffee is poisonous for dogs.

What about 100%? After letting the microbes and fungi build up (after about a month or two), then planting into them

I haven't noticed much in my own experiments, which are faulty, but I really appreciate what they do for my soil structure. They turn almost any soil into a kind of loamy humus. In the compost heap, they separate different materials and retard clumping. Also, rare pepo.

Awe you’re too sweet Anita. We are just a couple of guys growing food in our backyard 🐕🙏😁❤️

Big hugs to you. It's never an easy thing to lose a loved one.💚

@@Here_Today_ Thank you dear.

Haha!! Yup ❤️

You *can* use, leftover coffee to water your plants too,(I'd water it down, myself, but straight, (cooled to at least room temperature) is fine. They do ADORE the caffeine, so just don't use it *every* time. They also need some slow growth to get sturdy stems to support their own weight too! Soda is something they'll also appreciate, (very occassionally.) Again, due, it seems, to the caffeine. Experiment for yourself, if you dare. Two equal plants, side by side, all else same, one getting cold, flat soda or coffee, or tea, one getting rainwater, one getting regular water. Take a picture of each or the two every day, every other day... Compare over time. Thought mothing of composters until I went to empty ours one autumn and had to FIGHT my way through the jungle to get to it, and then was pulling out 15 pound potatoes! They'd grown from some rotten ones I'd found in the back of my cupboards and just tossed, bag and all into the composter!

Ohhhhh avocados, those must be fun to grow Catherine ❤️

@@jamesprigioni You can grow bananas and avocado in metal drum with straw and soil the extra thermal mass helps warmth as matter breaks down

Thx. I'm in FL and planted a grafted avocado tree in March. After putting a shade cloth over it, it's doing well. But, anything extra I can do will be awesome. I'm anxious to get it well established and reap the benefits of babying this cute, little tree.

I discovered hanepoot vine in my olive grove because I saw the dogs eating the grapes. I had to fight the dogs off to get a taste, seriously. This year Im waiting patiently for ripening...no dogs allowed near this rambling bush vine. Ok I will share some...☺ greetings from Cape Town.

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You're to kind, thank you Joan :)

@@juanitadoe4057 AHAHAHA

@Cenepk101 Just curious ~ then does your shoe keep you up all night with all that caffeine on it, or do you keep "that" shoe outside?

@@juanitadoe4057 Glad you don't use your shoe like Cenepk101 does!

Garden Of Origins: Best of success to you! Unless the trees are very young you’ll probably need to cut them back quite drastically to compensate for root loss, and will likely lose production for a year or two. Happy gardening in your new home!!

@@rayray8687 Thank you! They are all under 2 years old and have not produced anything yet :).

Garden Of Origins: I once transplanted 4 plum trees that were about two years old and got mediocre production for the next few years. Apparently the year I moved from the house they produced a bumper crop, lol.

@@rayray8687 We are not focusing on production right now. All we are focusing on is relocation and building amazing soil and the production will follow :).

Garden Of Origins: Sounds like you know what you’re doing. The soil could be your biggest challenge if it has never previously been gardened or farmed. As forest land it will likely be too acidic to support garden vegetable plants and might need a bag or two of lime to tone it down a bit. But then, here I am offering opinions on a piece of land I know nothing about, lol. At less than 2 years old I’m sure your fruit trees will be perfectly happy campers in their new home!

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Haha!! Tuck is definitely a rare little guy lol 😂🐕

So long as air can still get in there.

It takes some practice - insufficient mass makes it more difficult to get it to heat but it depends what the temperature is outside. I have tumblers that are smaller (40 gallons each) and they are much harder to get to heat up and it means you have to be more particular regarding your mix and when it starts to get cold (hitting below 0 C here now) the heat will be lost. The balance is moisture, nitrogen and carbon. Smaller the pile the more critical it is to get this all right. Moisture - wet enough to stick together but not too wet as to drip with a squish nitrogen - enough greens (kitchen scraps, coffee etc) carbon - your browns (dried up dead material like leaves) This fall a mix of dead leaves (chopped up with a lawn mower) layered with coffee grounds gets it going. pretty good and very quick. 2 buckets of chopped leaves to 1 bucket of coffee (and other mish mash) got it going Finally, make sure you get a good microbial seed from healthy soil or some other compost source. Keep trying! you'll get it It took me a few tries to figure out how to get a balance and "feel" for the process

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Great show I’ve learned so much.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Probably not a good idea to use Starbucks coffee. It's not going to be organic and as healthy as a local and honest coffee company.

I want to echo this. The SBUX I go to sometimes will put out bags of them in a common area and sometimes I have to ask. I've never been there that I asked and didn't get grounds. They produce prodigious amounts of grounds. I'm never sure if, on the days I didn't ask, they had grounds and simply threw them in the solid waste stream and that's an abomination, in this composters opinion.

STARBUCK GROWS THEIR COFFEE WITH HEAVY CHEMICALS. NOT ORGANIC AND HEALHTY. HELLO!

@@truests9859 Not to start a huge debate, but do you have a list of what all these "heavy chemicals" are? As a Horticulturalist myself and I have had a "mostly" organic garden for over 20 years and have my soil tested all the time, and honestly the worst thing I test for is actually toxins from the rain and air. I live in the DC area, so LOTS of cars, industry and pollutants in the air. No one ever addresses this when they are talking "organic Gardening" which I am sorry, if you live in an area with more than a million people in a 100 mile radius you are screwed. Starbucks may use "heavy chemicals" I have not heard that and in years of research I have not seen that, but also not sure what these "heavy chemicals" you are referring to are called. Yes they use pesticide/fungicides and fertilizers, but nothing that i have not seen that is in general use by the public. Another part of this conversation though should be the cooking/heating process of the grounds. Honestly the majority of chemical residues are washed away during this, and the only person being hurt is the consumer for drinking it. If you are seeing other test results for coffee grounds from commercial roasters i would love to see that research, so if you could point us to a link where that is being done, that would be great. I know in our research you gain way more good, than harm. The grounds consist of a mainly a touch Nitrogen and many macro/micro minerals. But yeah, if you could point us to your research on what your test results are showing along with a list and sources of the "heavy Chemicals" that would be awesome!

@@venomsailor If you are not aware of the difference in foods between small, local and organic farms(Starbucks is not organic at all) and those giants that do not care about anything but money than I could never even have a conversation with someone as naive as you. They do not have to tell you all the bad things they are doing to the food. Camille on the youtube channel 'Please stop the ride' might open your eyes a little..

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Hahah!!! Is it jittery too?

@@jamesprigioni Actually I have been using coffee grounds on my Castor Bean plants and they are 8.5 feet after 3 months (Ottawa, Canada) - almost 1 inch per day ! and there is an abundance of seeds nearly ready for next year's harvest! I plan to use compost next year as per you videos!

TheBobelly628 me too!!! He is so enthusiastic!!

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Thank you my friend! Me and Tuck Love you topn🐕💕💕

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Thanks Jackie, you’re to sweet! I would put the chips down before the leaves, you don’t want the leaves getting to thick and forming a mat on the ground. They are different then wood chips, they will prevent air and water from getting to the soil if they are big leaves like an oak. Best to put dish chips first, and cut the leaves up with something like a lawnmower then put them over top, or you can layer. Wood chips, leaves, wood chips. 👍🏻😁❤️🐕

Wood chips will rob the nitrogen from your soil.. The microbes that break them down need 30 parts of nitrogen to break down one part of carbon.. Wood mulch is ok for flower beds but trust me Keep them out of your vegetable garden unless they have been composted for 16 months..

Haha!! I try to slow down, I just get excited. You’re right though lol

@@jamesprigioni just joking with you man. This video was a little fast though. May have been the space between cuts being too close too.

I am new to the channel, and just thought it was my old ears.

J-Roc someone slap him

It's the only channel I have to "Slow down". Most of the South/West based channels I have to set to 1.25 speed.