When I fill the buckets the top 1/4 gets mixed into the soil 1 cup of used coffee grounds 1/4 cup crushed egg shells and 1/4 cup Epsom salts.
The rest of my coffee grounds go in my composting worm bin.
Posted on 04/17/2015 3:23:11 AM PDT by nikos1121
This post is in follow up to "ken5050" posting about "what kind of coffee maker do you use?"
Posted on 4/14/2015 1:23:50 PM by ken5050
I started saving my grounds as a compost for my herb garden. I'm not sure if it will over power them or be balanced. So I googled the topic and not surprisingly someone else has already thought about it.
Please check out the following and share what you do with them.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Uses+for+Coffee+Grounds
When I used to supply a bait shop with night crawlers and red worms, I dumped the grounds into a base of regular soil. They grew so good I actually had bait shops contracting with me for weekly orders.
You might need to add granulated limestone if the soil gets sour. Powdered limestone or processed lime can cause problems with soil aeration and composition.
compost...along with egg shells.
Put them on the rose bushes.
When I fill the buckets the top 1/4 gets mixed into the soil 1 cup of used coffee grounds 1/4 cup crushed egg shells and 1/4 cup Epsom salts.
The rest of my coffee grounds go in my composting worm bin.
When I gave some to my money tree, the thing shot up a foot in a week.
Coffee grounds are great for: Roses, Hydrangea, Blueberries, Evergreens of any type and Geraniums.
The average yard should have most or all of those plants, so it’s easy to use them up, directly.
Other than that, they go in the compost bucket - except in the winter when I can’t GET to the compost heap - then I toss them in the trash for three months and pray that the local EnviroNazis don’t catch me! ;)
Just being honest.
“...assuming one has any strange odors in the freezer.”
Well, how ELSE am I going to keep Daddy’s SS Checks coming, now that he’s passed?
*SMIRK*
My favorite ‘composting’ poem:
Post Humus
by Patti Tana
Scatter my ashes in my garden
so I can be near my loves.
Say a few honest words,
sing a gentle song,
join hands in a circle of flesh.
Please tell some stories
about me making you laugh.
I love to make you laugh.
When I’ve had time to settle
and green gathers into buds,
remember I love blossoms
bursting in spring.
As the season ripens
remember my persistent passion.
And if you come in my garden
on an August afternoon,
pluck a bright red globe,
let juice run down your chin
and the seeds stick to your cheek.
When I’m dead I want folks to smile
and say, “That Patti, she sure is
some tomato!”
Would love to hear your input...ping
I’d compost it if i had the space.
But there isn’t a good space here for a compost spot.
We used to see fireplace logs in the store that were made from coffee grounds; I think they were called ‘Java’ logs. They smelled really nice burning, and they burned very slowly and evenly.
We liked them a lot, but they don’t appear in the stores in our area anymore...
JT
Seems to be the best thing to do with coffee grounds.
I was wondering if yours were used to eat holes through solid substances, or something like that. ;)
Years ago I mistakenly picked up a bucket of coffee grounds instead of my bucket of seed starting mix. Not realizing what I’d done, I filled my trays and planted my seeds. I had nice delphiniums that year.
Could probably be dried out and used in place of rock salt in those “farmer’s friend” handload shot shells.
Non-coffee drinkers can get old coffee grounds from Starbucks. At least you used to be able to. So if you have a big compost pile and you don’t drink coffee - you’re in luck. They’ll give you bags of the stuff.
LOL
Wonder what it would look like?
“Son, were you over at....that place again?”
“No father.”
“You had to have been. You smell like a coffeeshop and have chunks of blecch on you.”
“And the coffee smells stronger!”
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