From Coffee Grounds Come Beautiful Roses According To Jim

It's early this quiet Labor Day morning. I'm sitting here on the patio enjoying my Boca Sunrise coffee from Boca Java.
Boca Sunrise is a medium roast coffee with a crisp fresh taste. It's a blend from African, Central and South American beans. It's a perfect morning coffee.

Most of my neighbors are sleeping in on the last day of this three day weekend.

My neighbor Jim recently retired. Jim's a handy guy and one of the first things he did was to make some raised beds in his back yard. As I'm not a gardener I was curious. Seems the soil in San Antonio isn't of the best quality. Lots of rocks and not the best for growing. Well Jim decided to have soil brought in for the beds and next thing I knew one day one of the local nurseries delivered about 30 bags of soil.

Jim dutifully shoveled it into the beds and started his growing. He planted tomatoes, zucchini and lots of roses. He's left several tomatoes at my front door, but it's the roses I marvel at.

When I sit on my patio I get to admire Jim's roses. So it was no bother when he asked to have my used coffee grounds. Seems coffee provides some of the nutrients to the roses to make them grow better. Well those roses evidently liked the coffee as they've bloomed all this summer through the heat, thunderstorms and all the rest of the San Antonio weather.

I'm not the only one who has contributed to the roses. Other neighbors have been saving their grounds as well. Jim left a small plastic garbage can by the garage so the neighbors just drop off the grounds.

Jim told me he just scoops out the grounds and then works them into the soil. A big coffee guy Jim says the fragrance of the coffee is something special and makes the work go faster as he works the grounds into the soil.

So if you have some gardeners nearby you may want to offer your used coffee grounds. As for me I get to enjoy my coffee twice, once when I brew it and then when the flowers grow.

Not the usual grind,