Coffee, and Expresso grounds in the food garden.

[MossflowerWoods]

I'm a coffeeholic and I have a composter that I put all my coffee grounds & filters, egg shells, dead flowers from the table arrangement, and similar. Thing like the scraps from making salad I feed to the chickens..

The majority of the material in my composter most of the time is the coffee grounds by volume, my secret is every couple months I dump all the ashes from the fire pit on the deck. After a week or so that soaks up the excess water nd makes an amazing looking deep brown topsoil like material.

At the place in town I would just toss the grounds over the railing on the deck into the "garden" spot and turn it over every spring and fall.

I've always used my grounds for compost.

Great thread!

Be well all,
David

 

[lostcreekranch]

We sprinkle coffee grounds around azaleas and other acid loving plants at Houston townhouse. Neighbor lady, who also had azaleas, told me I was wrong and that it would make no difference.

When she was gone I would sprinkle grounds around half of her azaleas over the course of about 6 months during winter.

She never could figure out why half of her bed (the one with no grounds) looked so bad. I never did break the news to her. I think I will put grounds on the other half only this winter and drive her nuts when the "good" and "bad" sides switch. :-D

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[dave1949]

Coffee filters will decompose eventually, but they are made to get wet and not disintegrate.

Once in a while I have to gather filter papers that have blown around in the spring as the snow melts off the compost pile. They don't rot much frozen in the snow.

 

[oosik]

Rick - you are my kind of person - ha, ha.

 

[300UGUY]

Coffee filters will decompose eventually, but they are made to get wet and not disintegrate.

Once in a while I have to gather filter papers that have blown around in the spring as the snow melts off the compost pile. They don't rot much frozen in the snow.

My goats eat them sometimes. Then they run around baaaaing for awhile. A little caffiene buzz goes a long ways with a goat!

 

[Jstpssng]

We sprinkle coffee grounds around azaleas and other acid loving plants at Houston townhouse. Neighbor lady, who also had azaleas, told me I was wrong and that it would make no difference.

When she was gone I would sprinkle grounds around half of her azaleas over the course of about 6 months during winter.

She never could figure out why half of her bed (the one with no grounds) looked so bad. I never did break the news to her. I think I will put grounds on the other half only this winter and drive her nuts when the "good" and "bad" sides switch. :-D

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Oh, that's a rotten trick!! :thumbsup:

 

[daugen]

besides the ph change and the nutrients, i would think the physical nature of the grounds would add friability. Or do they dissolve in six months??

 

[lostcreekranch]

Rick - you are my kind of person - ha, ha.

When I am in Houston during the week ........... I get bored sometimes and have to entertain myself. :-D

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[lostcreekranch]

Oh, that's a rotten trick!! :thumbsup:

Yes ...... I am a very bad boy! :-D

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[SPIKER]

If you have the chickens the egg shells are great supplement for them, just crush them up a bit into their feed. Helps them produce eggs with better shells, risk breaking your best cast iron in AM tho One of my Co-Workers (I dont work there anymore) I bought eggs from her all time. Barb eggs I called them. She used the above method and you would have to really bang the eggs to break them, deep yellow yokes. We still bought store bought eggs as her's slowed down (normal) in winter and got a bit scarce. Picked 2 of her eggs and 2 of the store bought, cracked her's and then next was store bought and hit it just as hard went down sides of skillet straight thru the egg & same force just to crack Barb's...


Used to always compost everything that was not ate or fed to the dogs. Sisters garden was some of the best growing dirt going. Takes a while but we humans put out a lot of good waste into landfills :/

Mark