PUT YOUR GROUNDS IN THE GROUND! HOW TO MAKE COFFEE FERTILIZER
cinnamon and club soda. When these ingredients are combined, it creates a solution full of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and other minerals that plants love! Apply this coffee mixture directly to the soil of your plants every two weeks, ensuring you spread the fertilizer over the entire surrounding area to distribute the nutrients evenly. This mixture is excellent for indoor potted plants, outdoor plants, and even different bushes or shrubs. With this easy DIY fertilizer, you can reduce waste, help the environment, save money, and help your plants grow happier and healthier!
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They say April showers bring May flowers, but sometimes, even with Mother Nature’s help, some sprouts have trouble growing. When this happens, the natural next step for many people is to give their precious plants a little fertilizer. But traditional chemically formulated fertilizers “[run] off into waterways or [get] broken down by microbes in the soil [and release] the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide into the atmosphere,” according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. So, if you’re looking for a more natural way to help your plants grow, you can make your own fertilizer at home — with coffee grounds! This eco-friendly alternative uses cinnamon as a natural pesticide and club soda for extra macronutrients.
4-6 tbsp used coffee grounds
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1 tsp cinnamon 1 cup club soda
Your coffee grounds must have gone through a brew cycle to make them less acidic so they don’t harm your plants. You can save the needed amount of coffee grounds throughout the week (depending on whether you use single- cup machines or drip pots) or brew a pot using 4–6 tablespoons specifically to use for fertilizing.
Then, once your grounds have been brewed, mix them in a bowl with
MEET JENN MULLEN Newest Monast Employee a Great Addition
Our newest employee, Jennifer, affectionately known here as “New Girl,” isn’t new to work in general or legal work in particular. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Jenn grew up helping her mom and dad at their fruit stand on the south end of Columbus. Mae’s Market on Marion Road has been there for 45 years and featured several times in the Columbus Dispatch. Her mom kept it going even after Jenn’s dad passed in 2000. Jenn says, “Everyone knows her and her country twang!” After graduating from Groveport Madison High School, Jenn learned styling at The Ohio State School of Cosmetology but then decided “big hair” wasn’t in her future. She obtained an associate degree in business with an emphasis in paralegal studies, followed by a bachelor’s
degree in business forensics. Jenn is also a certified paralegal with the Columbus Bar Association and Ohio State Bar Association.
exams, and works with doctors’ offices to get medical records and reports. She also obtains Medicare and Medicaid lien information for people settling their workers’ compensation claims, files documents with BWC and the Industrial Commission, and generally brightens Jim and Todd’s lives with her insight, assistance, and bubbly personality. Embodying the phrase “blood is thicker than water,” Jenn enjoys traveling with her son, Chandler, to Cincinnati Bengals and “That Team Up North” football games, even though she is a fan of The Ohio State University Buckeyes. She also likes any kind of concert with her daughter Caitlyn, volunteering at her local food pantry, and traveling with her family, especially to sunny beaches in Florida.
She cut her legal teeth in a domestic relations
practice, supporting attorneys with divorce and child custody matters, before moving to personal injury law. For the last 10 years before joining us, Jenn was the office manager of a Social Security Disability/SSI Law practice, helping disabled individuals get the benefits they were entitled to.
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