Pawpaw (Asimina) is a genus of eight or nine species of small trees with large leaves and fruit, native to eastern North America. The genus includes the largest edible fruit indigenous to the continent. They are understory trees found in deep fertile bottomland and hilly upland habitat. Pawpaw is in the same family (Annonaceae) as the custard-apple, cherimoya, sweetsop, ylang-ylang and soursop, and it is the only member of that family not confined to the tropics.

Flowers that smell like rotting flesh, and tasty too!

Pawpaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

How do I start tomatoes from seed?

How do I start tomatoes from seed? -

How to grow vegetables, in one idiot proof chart!

veseysplantingchart.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Neat planting diagram for zones 6-7 (North GA is 7).

Planting Schedule - Vegetable Gardening Forum - GardenWeb

Caffeine in soil

I did a web search to see if the effects of caffeine in soil has been studied. It has. Too much caffeine will inhibit root growth. Of course, caffeine gets broken down by certain bacteria, so the levels of caffeine will depend upon how recently the caffeine has been added to the soil

I will be modifying my gardening techniques to avoid the use of fresh UCG in the springtime. I will also be sure to add compost to those areas where I had previously applied UCG.

I suppose the regular application of UCG will ensure that the appropriate bacteria (Pseudomonas) remains available for the decomposition of caffeine.

This spring, I had turned a lot of coffee grounds into a bed where I was attempting to grow peas. The germination rate was disappointing and I wonder if the fresh coffee grounds were to blame.

Caffeine in soil - Soil Forum - GardenWeb

Map Description:
This is the map of soil organic matter derived from the national STATSGO database which was developed by the Natural Resources Conservation Service. The color scale ranges from gray sandy soils to dark brown loamy organic peats. Again the midwest stands out, and so does the Okefenokee swamp in south Georgia and the Everglades of Florida.

Soil Organic Matter Content

In studies carried out in our laboratory with Drosophila, CAF decreased mating frequency, egg-laying capacity, fertility and longevity, and increased developmental time and pre-copulation duration (Itoyama and Bicudo, 1992

Coffee grounds fight Malaria!

Genetics and Molecular Biology - Effects of caffeine and used coffee grounds on biological features of Aedes aegypti (Diptera, Culicidae) and their possible use in alternative control

100g caffeine

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Upside Down Tomato Planter

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ORGANIC TOMACCO. But with caffeine instead of Nicotine.

I have secured the grounds output of one coffee shop indefinitely. It is 50+ pounds a week. I will therefore have 2500+ pounds of well composted coffee come next year's planting season (figure some loss during composting, but I can get more coffee shops on board). It is about 2% nitrogen, not a bad fertilizer.

I find myself wondering if that much coffee grounds could caffeinate my vegetables.

So here is the plan:

1) Collect and accumulate grounds. I need them for compost/fertilizer no matter what.

2) Put 100g caffeine in the soil of one topsy turvy upside down tomato plant. They give you seeds but I think I'll use grape tomatoes.

3) Grow plant. Pick tomatoes.

4) Buy chemicals to extract caffeine from grape tomatoes. I did the extraction from tea/coffee in college, so the only tricky part will be getting the chemicals without getting raided by the DEA as a meth cooker.

If the grape tomatoes have significant amounts of caffeine in them:

5) Extract caffeine from grounds, then from well-composted grounds, to determine levels.

6) Spread grounds all in one concentrated area for growing caffeinated vegetables.

7) Extract caffeine from vegetables when they grow, to determine and verify caffeine levels. Label veggies as to caffeine content.

8) ????

9) PROFIT! Charge a premium for all naturally caffeinated, organic vegetables. Tomatoes. I might try some other plants in case those don't take it up well.

This is just about the stupidest, funnest business plan I can think of, so I will implement it immediately.

Organic Caffeinated Vegetables: A Business Plan

A lab test analysis showed that: the grounds provide generous amounts of phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, and copper. "Use of coffee grounds in amending mineral soils up to 35 percent by volume coffee grounds will improve soil structure... Use of the coffee grounds at the specified incorporation rates (rototilled into a 6- to 8-inch depth) will substantially improve availabilities of phosphorus, potassium, magnesium and copper and will probably negate the need for chemical sources of these plant essential elements."
They also release nitrogen into the soil as they degrade.
Nitrogen: 2.28 percent
Phosphorus: 0.06 percent
Potassium: 0.6 percent

Starbucks will give you like 50-100lbs of coffee grounds at a time to fertilize your garden with, with or without composting.

Which plants are best to fertilize with coffee grounds.? - Yahoo! Answers

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