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Often, Marino says, people have mixed success with using coffee grounds for their plants, which she says could be due to the type of coffee grounds being used.
Companion planting of carrots and onions. The onion smell puts off carrot root fly, while the smell of carrots puts off onion fly. [1]Companion planting in gardening and agriculture is the planting of different crops in proximity for any of a number of different reasons, including weed suppression, pest control, pollination, providing habitat for beneficial insects, maximizing use of space ...
Coffee grounds could be used as an ingredient to make concrete stronger and greener, according to researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
The dry coffee grounds contain significant amounts of potassium (11.7 g/kg), nitrogen (27.9 g/kg), magnesium (1.9 g/kg), and phosphorus (1.8 g/kg). [5] The quantity of caffeine remaining in used coffee grounds is around 48% of that in fresh coffee grounds. [6] There are significantly less tannins in used coffee grounds than fresh coffee grounds ...
This increase in bee abundance results in a direct increase in the pollination of shade trees as well the coffee plants themselves. A study in Indonesia showed that bee species diversity increases fruit set in coffee; coffee plants visited by 3 species of bees had 60% fruit set while those with 20 species or more had 90% fruit set. [7]
Pellaea andromedifolia, with the common names coffee cliffbrake and coffee fern, is a species of cliff brake fern in the Cheilanthoideae subfamily of the Pteridaceae. [2] It is native to California in the United States and Baja California in Mexico.
Frangula californica is a shrub 0.9–3.7 metres (3–12 ft) tall. [7] It is variable in form across subspecies.In favorable conditions the plant can develop into a small tree over 3.7 m (12 ft) tall. [3]