Coffee grounds and egg shells

markpenzenik said:

Am I doing good? USED coffee grounds, and roughly ground eggshells and finely cut up bannana peels, letting it sit for a few days. I'm now getting tiny worms going through it. Then I believe I should mix it up with some of the soil. I do not know what the PH is of my soil. I'm trying to get a mango to grow better. Its about 5" high now from a seed. I also want to help along my Gardenia which rarely blooms. . Am I doing good or killing it with kindness?

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I've been doing this for years for my veggie garden. In fact all of our food waste gets composted in a tumbling composter and fed to the worms.

Sounds good to me.

Worms don't like citrus either, as I hear it. Just added some worms to my pile.
About a 14 yard pile now. We have a bait shop nearby.

markpenzenik said:

trying to start a Mango tree from a seed. Yea I know - thats where they all come from-.

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IDK about fruit/mango trees but most maple/oak ornamentals etc are grown from cuttings so they carry the same good genetics from the mother plant like disease resistance, shape etc. From seed can be hit or miss but it should be fine.


Most tree-ripened fruit especially mangos are another level, the ones we get up here probably come in through the bronx hunts point produce terminal barged from another country picked way too early for longer shelf live, some things like bananas are put in who-knows-what gas chambers at hunts point to induce ripening once they arrive. You can go there they sell cases of things for like $3 for 50 tomatoes it's crazy. Mangos ripen hit or miss often stringy. Good mango should almost be chalky, not mush, no strings. Berries are another one best tree-ripened because they don't have a long shelf life once ripe so they pick em real early otherwise they'd be mush by the time people buy them but are often sour, or figs that are like cork, I got all types of berry plants they're sweet as sugar at the right time.


I've even been considering ordering worms online if can't find them locally to add to sandy/clay yards after reseeding, they're basically free compost how they eat and compost dirt. I use lots of milorganite/oceangrow which also helps improve soil structure but is sorta controversial for food gardens due to possible traces of pharmaceuticals so I mostly just use purely organic lawn food for food gardens which is just grain-based.