How to Fertilize your Indoor Plants with Coffee from your Keurig Coffee Maker
Make your own organic fertilizer with ground coffee "tea" using your K cups or Keurig coffee pods. Water your indoor plants every 7-10 days with this liquid fertilizer. This natural fertilizer is great source of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus for your plants. See notes below for a list of plants that love coffee!
Equipment
- 1 Keurig Coffee Maker
- 1 Fine mesh strainer
- 1 Jar or pitcher that holds 6 Cups of water
- 1 Watering can
Materials
- 1 container ( 2 Teblespoons) Coffee Pod or K-Cup
- 6 cups Cool tap water
Instructions
- Using a Keurig or other single serve coffee maker and a coffee pod or K-Cup - brew a cup of coffee. (enjoy the coffee as you normally would)
- Remove Pod or K-cup from the Keurig and allow to cool.
- After the pod or K-cup is cool open the container and empty the coffee grounds into a pitcher of 6 cups cool water. 2 Tablespoons of Coffee grounds : 6 cups water is the coffee grounds water ratio.If you have a container that has a cover use that to make shaking the mixture easy. If you do not have a cover, simply stir the mixture once a day.
- Let the coffee grounds and water mixture sit for 72 hours.
- Swith a strainer strain the grounds leaving just the diluted coffee mixture. Discard the coffee grounds.
- Add the diluted coffee to a watering can and water plants on the top of the soil.
- For best results repeat every 7 to 10 days (or as needed. )
Notes
The following plants especially love this coffee ground "tea":
African Violets, Pothos, Philodendron, Azalea, Christmas cactus, Cyclamen, Miniature Roses, Jade Plant, Snake Plant, Spider Plant, Peace lily