Used coffee grounds and seedlings

Placing used coffee grounds around seedlings keeps snails and slugs away (coffee grounds are poison to them), and they also help improve the growth of young seedlings by adding a good source of nitrogen to the soil.

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Posted on October 29, 2013, in Gardening and tagged . Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.

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