Your Questions About Gardening

GardenersCardiff answers:

Certified Organic Kona coffee would fit that description. You can find it in some specialty coffee shops, but that doesn’t help you. Sorry.

Most Kona coffee is not shade grown because we don’t have to shade the trees. We have a volcanic haze that surrounds the higher altitudes that serves as a natural UV filter. Since it was volcanic soil with little growing on it there was no deforestation. It is free trade as you can get… We go to the farm and deal directly with the grower. The typical coffee farm in Kona is between 10 and 12 acres and family owned an operated.

GardenersCardiff answers:

You can make coffee from dandelion roots,I think you just clean them and dry them,use the leaves and flower in salads.

GardenersCardiff answers:

To make soil from compost: put all your organic waste in a bucket with coffee grounds (or tea grounds), a scoop of your lawn dirt and mix daily to keep air flow. Cover with an old t-shirt to make sure no bad bugs get in, but it still has access to air. This can decompose down to soil, but you really don’t need soil.

From this, you can make compost tea! Just fill up the bucket with water once it’s mostly decomposed and leave it overnight. That water is then so full of nutrients that it’s great to just pour over the potatoes.

Also, potatoes are very easy to grow anywhere (live swiss chard) but do good in warm soil (sunny spot). Just buy potatoes from the store, let them sprout then cut them into chunks, put them in the ground with the sprout facing up, cover with dirt and add compost tea.