Coffee Grounds, Wood Ash and Eggshells: Feed Your Garden!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ค. 2024
- Have you got heaps of coffee grounds, wood ash and egg shells piling up? Most of us have, especially in winter! But fear not- All of these work wonders in your garden!
In this week's episode, Ben shows us the best ways to use this common household waste as Soil Superfood!
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"What the cluck?!?". Omg, you are adorable.
Haha, cheers Terry!
“Give me some skin Brah!” 😂🤣😂 I laughed so hard. Thank you for all the useful information you share. Many thanks!
Glad to have raised a smile CJ!
At least it made someone laugh
i usually just wash my egg shells and let them drain before crushing them in my mortar and pestle. so satisfying.
Been doing all of the above for years. Glad to see I've been doing it right. Have a great day, take care and stay safe, Sandie from Ontario Canada.
Nice one Sandie - and you.
Being a lazy gardener I just chuck them all onto my compost heap.
Me too. All that extra work, I find, is unnecessary.
Absolutely. To be honest, most does just end up on the compost heap - it all gets its way back to the soil eventually.
I have a kitchen waste bucket in which I put all those things and torn up toilet roll middles (except the ash) and when it is full I add to the compost bin.
Yes, Banana Peels, orange peels, Apple cores, Corn Cobs, Mango Peels, bits of Watermelon, Cantaloupe, Pumpkin, egg shells, coffee grounds, tea bags, paper towels, napkins, leaves, chop and drop, and wood chips(through a service online, or just contact an arborists who cuts/mulches old trees locally). Thank you for your videos.
If your compost seems a bit acidic after a large nitrogen (greens) addition, add the ground up eggshells to raise the pH. The resulting chemical reaction also unlocks nutrients in the calcium carbonate.
"Gimmie some skin bruh" lol my new fave guy
Haha - cheers Jay!
I desiccate my banana peels in my dehydrator or oven then grind them as you did with the egg shells.
Awesome idea
With green tea not free!!!!!! For feeding my plants!!!😇😇😇
Grind the eggshells...You're a genius!
My daughter soaks her banana skins in water and feeds her house plants they are so healthy with high gloss they almost look plastic I couldn't be leave my eyes when I saw them she has a lot of succulents and unusual coloured leaf plants !!!I feed my house plants with free and camomile teabags stepped in milk cartons keep topping them up with water till you need more fresh teabags I use this on my strawberries as well my peace Lilly's are healthy I grow apple and orange ,lemon seeds in beside them and pot them on when 2,3 inches I have an apple tree from seed in my garden now 15 yrs old ,bumper apples for cooking,!!!!!😇😇😇
What a great idea. I've heard of banana skins being used for this purpose - will have to give it a go!
Also use your cooking water for plants. Rice water, Brocoli water etc. Great video 👍 👍
Oh great tip! Thanks 😊
As long as you don't salt the water.
Hi Ben..."what the cluck?" I am still laughing!
Yes I do all the above but mine all goes into multiple compost piles. And yes it is all great stuff....excellent reminder for everyone to make sure you use all your compostable materials and nothing really gets wasted!
Thanks for the excellent video.
Mike 🇨🇦🍁👍
Cheers Mike - great to hear you are such a composting pro - nice work!
5:55 epic
Grow Organic Grow! May the best bud win.
I add the coffee ground right in the soil and mix in it works for me , I'm in arizona usa ,🥰
Glad I watched this. I’ve always tossed grounds and shells into the compost heap.
Today I baked eggshells and then popped into an old grinder for my new veggies with coffee grounds ☀️😊thanks Ben! I knew there was a way to use the egg shells but didn’t know to bake and powder them first for the soil & plants benefit. Great tips and fun cheery videos!
Great stuff! :-)
This is by far the funniest but most informative video you've done in a while. I absolutely love it! Keep up the great work!
Thanks for that - the feedback is appreciated. So pleased you enjoyed it. :-)
@@GrowVeg I had to copy the "give me some skin bruh" with the bananas to my husband, I laughed so hard! Thanks, Ben!
Compost/garden soil, is my favorite subject. It’s the garden’s foundation.
You've got great videos going back quite a ways! Love to see the dad-jokes and puns, that's my kind of humor too :)
Dad jokes are the best! :-)
Dude, your puns are literally making me cry with laughter!!!!! Rock Star Ben at it again. You are awesome!
Cheers Alexander. You'll love our mushroom video that's coming up - a few puns in there to keep you happy!!
Always enjoy the info that you share,thank you.🤗
I have a kitchen caddy for all my kitchen waste , always great advice Ben love your straight to the point videos .
Thank you Ben! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼✅💜
Great ideas as usual! Thank you!
Thank you Mr Ben : )
Lot of positive energy & great garden tips & tricks !
Thank you for the eggshell tricks. I’ll be doing that from now on. 🙂
Yes, we use all of these things in our garden and compost pile but we did learn a few tips from this video. Thanks for all the info you provide us. We always love these gems of information.
Yay!
Thanks for all the suggestions and information. As always very useful
Yes, Yes I use all of this in my Garden. Does wonders for my garden soil and plants.
Great sharing video and love it
Fully agree on everything
Always fantastic information!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge in such a fun and easy to understand way. Love your humor!
Love your vlogs- funny & jam packed with information!! Learn something new every time. Thanks Ben
I’ve been using all of the items either in the garden or compost pile. Thanks for the info.
Yup, they are all in my compost heap.
What the cluck...-hahahah :D great tips for a great use of the "kitchen waste"
Very educational, Give me some skin Brah! You are incredible, I’m learning so much from you …
Saving them all. Turning the compost heap regularly.
Good stuff, man!
Excellent information. Thank you. The ground egg shell for blossom end rot is exactly what I need right now thanks. 👍🏻
Great items to use in garden soil that one would just normally throw away Thanks
Thank you Ben for the video. Gardeners are one of the best recyclers.
We certainly are aren't we!
I sprinkle coffee as a cure against slugs. Especially all over strawberries
Love all the tips and your enthusiasm!! Thank you Ben!
Thank you!
Our fancy bred Red Wiggler worms 🪱 love coffee grounds. It gets their wee bellies going.
Yes we use the coffee, learned that long ago from another sweet gardener. And we use wood ash also in the same manner as you. Banana peels we have used as well.
Love your videos. You are hilarious!
Thanks Hali!
Thanks Ben for all the great advice. I actually collect my eggshells, pop them in the oven, grind them down and re-feed them to my chickens. I feel they benefit more than my plants, because my compost already contains all the goodies, lol
Have a nice remaining weekend 😉
Yes, I've heard that's a great way to reuse them too - and birds in general appreciate eggshells, so good for garden birds too.
@@GrowVeg it's great calcium for them to produce good eggs. I love the cycle of nature so much!
Can i ask how do you feed them with egg shells? Do you just give it like that or you mix it in with other chicken food?
@@skeletoninyourbody9896 I do both. I mix it under their daily pebbles and pour it in a bowl, next to fresh veggies and fruit.
Great info.. I wish you were my next door neighbour 😁🙏
I just love these videos. Cheery, concise and so informative. I have been binge-watching all your videos for the last week. Thanks so much for providing this information, can't wait to get started
Thanks so much for your kind words, it's appreciated. Great to have you as part of the channel! :-)
Lol you do make me giggle. We have been composting for years but do it simply cut up banana skins he husband eats one a day, egg shells I’ve never crushed or sterilized we just wash out any yolk and add them in compost and twice a year we can burn so we add bits of ash too. Thank you for sharing ✌️🇨🇦🐝 safe
Making use of everything there Ali - great to hear!
Love you my brother!!
And you man!
Awesome content
Very informative! Love this guy. So full of enthusiasm!
Cheers Chris! :-)
Great video ! Thank You so much, from Michigan !
Cheers Daniela.
LOL.. "Give me some skin bruh!" lol
Ive been doing this but Im glad to here Ive been doing it right, also your jokes make me laugh every time!
Super stuff @Legend0222!
I haven’t been practicing these methods in the past, but I will now. I truly love your comical influence in your videos. You’ve become my favorite channel on TH-cam. Thanks
Cheers for that John - you're a star for watching. :-)
Awesome info. I compost in 2 turnable barrels as well as a large open outdoor compost pile. I have never ground up my egg shells. Thanks
Ben you really are the best! I can’t wait till you’ve got your own program on TV!
Ah bless you, thanks Lily. :-)
Another great video Ben, full of great information! My coffee grinder now has another use! Thank you! ☘️☘️☘️
Brilliant Fiona!
I have, too. As well as fall leaves! I'm an American in France! Love your videos.
Thanks for watching Gail.
Great video! I also throw my ash onto the leaves of my cherry tree to combat pear and cherry slug when they appear
Good video Ben. As in most of life a little of everything does you good.
By the way, in 2017, the Food Standards Agency announced that almost all UK-produced eggs are virtually free of salmonella, so i just dry and grind mine, but I know that many people will want to play safe.
Happy gardening
Absolutely. Much less risk of salmonella these days.
From the US. I've never baked egg shells before grinding. How does the salmonella become... toxic to humans? Why is it a problem? Glad UK eggs are salmonella free!
@@MamboDogFace it makes a human immensely sick. My husband had once from egg - was ill for 2 weeks, high fever and everything
I haven't baked egg shells because of salmonrlla but we do bake them so that the chickens don't get into a habit of eatng their own shells.
What a great video. Yes, I use all those inputs into the garden. I also make a soluble calcium "tea" using eggshells and vinegar.
Cheers!
Yes I enjoyed this review and I'd like to say I'm up to around 5' 8".
Great advice yet again. I do all what you suggest and my plants love it. Don't have a fire though so just use potassium sulphate instead, and blood and bone for phosphorus.
Great video for knowledge and entertainment. Thank you. I was not aware that I needed to sterilize the egg shells so happy to walk away with some new knowledge. Thanks for your videos I have learned a lot from them.
Hi Dee - only if using them on the soil - otherwise just bung 'em on the compost heap.
Coffee grounds seem to minimize the effects of flea beetles too! I sprinkled them heavily around spinach this year and the difference was significant. Also around the Japanese greens I tried for the first time this summer here in Vermont.
Interesting, will have to try this out.
I love my compost
Loving it ben ...... getting a coffee machine for Christmas so know what im using the waste for 😃
Top job!
Thanks Ben. I just crush my egg shells but will now thoroughly clean and bake before blitzing Makes good sense.
You should be fine to just at them straight onto your compost heap. But do you sterilise them with adding to your soil around actively growing plants. Just to be on the safe side.
That slap 🤠
Finally Ha Ha! The sky is beautiful today. I see you worked hard on your content. From a plethora of channels i found yours! New week, new upload. Peace!
Peace back to you - thanks for watching!
Love your enthusiasm wonderful cheery watching with a few lessons to learn ie used to make scrambled eggs and scrunch the eggs shells up and put straight on veg patch......oh dear.
I think you'd probably be fine there Sarah - sterilising is just to be on the safe side.
Worms love coffee grounds
Good video
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We get free coffee grounds from the coffee shop on our allotment site - great stuff.
Haha - yes, so many myths on the internet!!
Great video again, Ben. Stay safe and have a great week!
Cheers for that mate. You have a great week also!
great idea to use coffee grounds as a mulch! I have never heard of sterilizing egg shells.thankyou.😁 great, informative video..
The sterilising is only really necessary if you're going to add them straight to the soil, around growing plants.
Howdy from Texas Ben!👋 Years ago...30+ my mother taught me to use these goodies in the garden. I make banana fertilizer and find it's great for flowering plant.🌺
Wonderful Valorie. It's great your mother passed on her wisdom to you. :-)
We have been composting for generations but I learned about sterilizing the egg shells today. We put all organic material and ash in the heaps and turn occasionally. Thank you for all of your advice!
Thanks for that Mark. You only really need to sterilise the eggshells if applying them direct to your soil around plants.
I have 4 compost bins, free compost what's not to love! I've never used coffee grounds.
At last…a garden commentator who talks sense re ph of used coffee grounds. I did ph tests on them and found them to be neutral…esp when using our hard water to make coffee😀😀😀jinxy
I use a 50/50 mix of coffee grounds and sawdust to keep my worms fed as well as kitchen scraps. I cover that with a layer of bagged garden soil. To harvest the worm castings, I stop feeding for 2 weeks then bury a couple of halved frozen bananas at one end of the bin so the worms migrate there, then after a week, I collect the castings from the opposite side to add to my soil. I have a small patio with 4 raised 18-gal storage totes. Zone 9a. It's December and we haven't had freezing temps yet!
What a great system you have going there!
I am glad to have found this video.. I save my kitchen compost up in one container. Then just dumping onto my compost pile, mix it in. Thinking that was good.. Wow. I am wide eyed on this subject now. I trust everything you are saying in your videos because my college's horticulture office emails these to me. I am confident in what you have informed me of. Thank u
Hi Kayla. Thanks for watching and for your kind comments. Quite a bit or research goes into the videos to make sure we only ever give proper advice. There's a lot of questionable stuff out there!
I save egg shells, leaves, tea leaves, orange peels, and food scraps
I find Coffee grounds are great for keeping snails off your seedlings.
I add tea ☕️ bags , egg shells, banana peals , and kitchen scraps to my garden.
Nice one Kathy!
I have used everything in the video except the Ash, as for the Egg Shells i chuck mine in the microwave for 30 sec before crushing them up in a mini food chopper, then into an old ice cream tub before using them on my beds and Compost Heap.
Stay Safe,
Barry (Wirral)
Nice one Barry - and you. :-)
Brilliant. I compost them all except wood ash because we have no wood-burning stove. In fact, we salvage our veggie waste for the compost heap. Not only do we end up with healthier garden soil and more veggies, we also save things going to the landfill. You know: saving the planet, one banana peel at a time. :-)
Absolutely Leo!
I just collected lots of bagged leaves and cardboard for the garden. Now I just need to water them and add green material such as some bags of composted cow manure to speed up the decomposition. I plant tomatoes in them the following Spring so the worms will enrich my soil. Keep up making your great programs! They keep me motivated.
We'll keep making our programs Mark, don't worry. We want to keep you motivated!
I've worked in the local grocery store's produce department for over a year, and I regularly obtain cardboard (which I cut up into small squares, for carbon) and various scraps for my dad's composting, which he's been doing for nearly three years. The scraps I used to retrieve cabbage leaves and corn husks as the primary, and asparagus trimmings and bell pepper shells secondary, but the district produce merchandiser (ie, district manager of the company's produce division) recently adjusted cabbage presentation, meaning we have to leave the leaves on, so now I can't get those. Fortunately, there's a small Starbucks kiosk at my store's main entrance and an actual location about a quarter mile down the road, so I guess I'll try to start collecting the real location's grounds.........
Definitely start collecting those grounds!
I boil my egg shells, then dry them in oven, before grinding for grid for my worms in my worm bag