Coffee grounds left over from freshly brewed coffee have many uses in the garden. You don’t necessarily have to be a coffee fan to use the grounds in your garden. Many coffee shops offer them for free, all packed and ready for you to pick up. This valuable waste is being generated in...
We use coffee grounds in a whole slew of ways in our vegetable garden. For starters, when we plant in early spring, we add a few tablespoons of grounds (along with worm castings, crushed egg shells and compost) to every planting hole.See: Why To Plant Egg Shells With Tomatoes This litt...
Luckily, the grounds are almost as valuable as the liquid coffee, and we save them for use in the garden, thereby getting the most bang for our fair-trade-coffee-buck. These are my five favorite ways to use coffee grounds in the garden. Sheet Mulch The majority of our grounds get dumpe...
We produce a lot of coffee grounds with our cold brew program and donate all of the used grounds to a company calledAlways Green Recycling(our cafes are also able to bag up coffee grounds for your garden if you ever need). Each year, we re-use several thousand cardboard boxes that come...
Coffee Grounds in Garden Coffee Grounds have a reputation for solving all kinds of garden problems. It is claimed that they reduce the number of diseases, ward off insects, fertilize the soil, and even keep slugs from eating your plants. Let’s have a look at the truth behind coffee ...
Perk up your garden with coffee groundsGuy Tridgell
According to a handy fact sheet from Washington State University, Coffee grounds will buzz your garden. Coffee grounds build humus, boost nitrogen, phosphorus and zinc, bind pesticides and toxins, prevent bacterial and fungal infections and feed earthwor
The answer is that processing and production can be more complex than you might imagine – even when we’re talking about simply using coffee grounds in your garden. What’s more, manyrecycling initiativesto turn waste coffee into valuable commodities are still in their early stages. ...
Worms love coffee grounds, it’s one of their favorite foods. When it comes to your used coffee grounds, if you raise your own worms or just want to give the worms in your garden a friendly snack to keep them around, coffee grounds are great for that. ...
Coffee has undeniable benefits when it comes to waking up the human body, especially during the pre-noon hour. However, its power is not limited to the kitchen. Instead, this caffeine staple is equally as impactful in the garden, where many gardeners are using coffee grounds to benefit their...