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Are coffee grounds good for potatoes?
the soil is very bad, and I was planning to dig in about 2 gallons of used coffee grounds where I am going to plant potatoes. Would it be good for the potatoes, or harm them? Or should I put them elsewhere?
3 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Potatoes like a sweet or basic (high pH ) soil so if your soil is acidic coffe ground would help. More improtant would be a loose thilth ie a peat or perhaps a sandy soil. If your soil is a heave, thight, or clay soil the you need to work in a lot of humas or creat raized beds, the potatoes will not form large spuds in a tight soil.
Source(s): painful experience - waynebuddLv 61 decade ago
I have often been advised to put coffee grounds in a garden - flower or vegetable... they are slightly alkaline, I believe, and help 'sweeten' the soil.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
yes, my granny use to do that. Not directly on orover, but a little off to the sides and all around.
- 1 decade ago
that woulde be a really cool experiment, i think they'd grow faster and have more colour due to the caffein. try it and see (and if you could e-mail the results, i'd really like to know!)