Vic, I had an outdoor plant that had scale on it. I trimmed what I could and then sprinkled coffee grounds and left over coffee on it last winter. It came back beautifully and I've kept up the regime now. No more scale! Good tip!

Leftover coffee.... leftover coffee..... hold on, I'll figure that one out in a minute.....

I was going to ask "what is leftover coffee?"

Karen

I am going to give this a try if I have some left over coffee. Wonder if it will work on gnats?

umm.. how strong do your plants prefer their coffee to be in tablespoons per ounce of water? i use about 4 tbls of fresh roasted beans per 8 ounces. failry strong i guess.

i save my coffee grounds so i can ferment them with effective microbes from teraganix or scdprobiotics & then feed them to my worms.

it's the worm poop my plants like the most. =)

For 8 cups I add 2/3 cup coffee.

It's pretty strong.

I compost the grounds as well

Good tip Vic. I never thought about it but plants do like our coffee grounds so why not?

If your spoon won't stand straight up in your coffee cup, it's not strong enough!

That's exactly what my dad always told me. He call anything weaker than that - mother-in-law coffee

I drink mother-in-law coffee I guess. When we were in Spain I ordered my first expresso and my hair all stood on end it was so strong! With a little cream and sweetener, my coffee is like a mini desert all day long!

I've never had expresso Becky. That would really get the ole heart racing, huh?

We used to make expresso in a regular electric percolator. And drank it out of big mugs like it was regular old coffee. We used to say it smelled like duplicating fluid (remember school mimeograph machines?)!
Can't do that any more though. But still, we make strong coffee & sweeten with lots of honey. Yaaaaaaaaa.....

Ah yes, the old mimeograph and dictaphone machines. What fond memories.

Vicki, it was served in teeny cups because the brew is so powerful. I like medium coffee so that was a bit much for me.

I poured cold coffee onto a weak, yellowish holly near my door and when the winter was done; I had the best looking holly that I had ever seen! It went from twigs to full bushiness and never lost most of it's leaves in winter again. There had been a white fly infestation and some kind of 'smut' on the leaves from either scale or aphids when I had moved in that fall. The following summer, I put the grounds on all of the hollies and while I still had a yard full of white flies, my shrubs had dark green, healthy looking leaves. Well, we always knew that coffee was a miracle drug

Yeah, I was a total loser skag before coffee, now I'm on my way to Hollywood!