Coffee And Blueberries

About a year ago, we had a coffee fairy start showing up at our house. We'd head outside to be greeted by a tub of coffee grounds sitting in front of our garden gate. They say coffee grounds are good for blueberries, so we started putting the grounds around our blueberry bushes.

We have four blueberry bushes, and I guess even we have a little bit of laziness to us, because for the last year we have been spreading the coffee grounds around the two blueberry bushes closest to the garden gate.

Blueberry bush #1

Blueberry bush #2

Blueberry bush #3

Blueberry bush #4

(If you can't see blueberry bush #4, it's because it doesn't exist anymore)

We do a lot of experimenting in our garden, but this was by accident. We naturally spread the coffee grounds over the two bushes closest to the gate, bushes #1 and #2, and a year later they have grown and are bearing a nice crop of blueberries! Bushes #3 and #4 did not receive the coffee grounds, and as you can see from above, we lost blueberry bush #4, and #3 is quite a bit smaller than the first two!

This spring we started walking the few extra feet to give the third blueberry bush some coffee grounds and it is starting to look better already!

Not only does your morning coffee give you your daily energy, but it gives your blueberry bushes energy too! And it's a great use for those leftover coffee grounds, so feed them to your blueberries!