Marianne's Response
Growing healthy tomatoes
Are coffee grownds good for growing tomatoes?
Posted by Leo Pietrykowski on June 3, 2019
Marianne's Response
No. Coffee grounds benefit acid loving plants such as lettuce but other plants such as ryegrass, wheat and tomatoes are negatively affected by the lowering of the pH that coffee grounds can do. This is from a 1997 university study by Kitou and Yoshida. Working aged but not freshly used coffee grounds into the soil will benefit most plants but it may be best to add coffee grounds to the compost pile and then use the aged compost around your tomatoes. This will help mitigate the lowering of the soil pH. Keep growing, Marianne Binetti
