thc&me
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While sitting at my favorite Java shop one morning I noticed this little old Chinese woman who would come in every morning and ask the clerk for their used coffee grinds. I was curious as to why she would want them, so in my broken Chinese I asked her what they were for. She told me that she used them for her garden. This piqued my interest, so I bought her a cup of tea and picked her brain a little. She went on to explain that she used a mixture of crushed egg shells, coffee grinds and something she called black honey as a fertilizer for her tomatoes and chillies. When I got home I did a little research on the subject and was quite amazed at what I found. The black honey she mentioned turned out to be Molasses which feeds the microbes in the soil, the coffee grinds are high in nitrogen and the crushed egg shells provide calcium. I decided to experiment with these natural fertilizers in my latest MJ grow and have seen a marked improvement in the health of my plants. Anyone else tried this method?