What plants are nitrogen loving plants?

At your local Starbucks they have packaged up the coffee grounds and make them available for you to take them home for free! The grounds are naturally plentiful in plant-goodie-nitrogen’s for your foliage. If you go in and ask, its call 'Grounds for your Garden'!



However, I do not know which ones of the plants in my garden are nitrogen loving plants. What if I only have nitrogen Hating plants??!!! Yelp - Help!

What plants are nitrogen loving plants?
Coffee grounds have an N-P-K 2 - 0.3 - 0.2

Coffee grounds are highly acidic, so are best for use in alkaline soils or on acid loving plants. Place them on your rhodies, azaleas, maples, peris, trilliums or camellias.



I bring home two 5 gallon buckets a week so most has to go in the compost but I put a lot directly in the yard mixed with mulch or with compost. It does smell like coffee grounds though.



Coffee grounds are recommended as a home remedy for keeping slugs and snails at bay but a caffeine solution is much more effective. A cup of drip brewed coffee has about 115 milligrams of caffeine enough to kill most small slugs. Just spray it on as an organic slug control.
Reply:There is no such thing as a nitrogen hating plant. All plants use nitrogen as a part of their metabolism. However, the picture is a bit more complex than than. Plants must also have the proper PH and I would suspect that coffee grounds might cause harm to more sensitive plants if you just dump them directly in your garden. The nitrogen also needs to be in a form than can be readily absorbed by the plant. This is what composting of pretty much any organic matter does. It breaks it down so the plants can use the goodies. The thing to watch out for is that the composting process itself can deplete the surrounding soil of nutrients even though the end result is a nice nitrogen rich compost that plants will love.



If I were you I would add the coffee grounds to your compost pile rather than directly to your garden and add in the composted material each time you turn your soil in preparation for the next planting.
Reply:Well, basically all plants need nitrogen to survive. I'm not so sure that coffee grounds have nitrogen in them though, I'd have to study on that.



Fertilizer contains NPK (Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium)
Reply:I would say all plants love the nitrogen. So spead the coffee grounds into the soil.
Reply:The short answer is -- all of them.



Almost all plants require nitrogen in the soil, but it can be difficult for some plants to attain -- especially if the soil has a low organic content. As a composter, I mix carbon- and nitrogen-heavy ingredients together for the optimal mixture of nutrients.



Incidentally, coffee grounds are a regular addition to my compost pile and will be mixed into my garden when it's ready. Thanks for the tip about Starbucks, though. I'll ask my local store if they can spare any grounds.