My husband loves to make a cup of coffee using his trusty cafeteria and he has usually thrown away the coffee grounds.
Using coffee grounds in your compost bin is really good. They are a great green material as it helps with composting all the material down, it’s very rich in nitrogen and it also contains many minerals. So it’s really worth adding to the compost heap.
Coffee grounds are great to add in the compost bin, they quickly decay with the other things that are added in the compost bin and making a beautiful compost.
You can also add the coffee grounds straight onto the garden soil. Mix it into the soil and it will start to release nitrogen into the soil.
Many people think that coffee grounds are acidic, which isn’t true – because when the coffee is made the acid is somehow removed and the ground becomes close to pH neutral between 6.5 and 6.8. Which is why it’s so perfect for the garden.
Some people also make a coffee feed. Add 2 cups of coffee grounds to around 10 to 15 litres of water and let it steep overnight or for a day. This makes a great feed for your vegetable garden, and you can also use it feeding pots and containers. Some gardeners also water it on the plant’s foliage which is a great pick me up for your plants.
You can add coffee grounds to your houseplants just add a scoop to the compost of the plant and water it in, they will love you for it.
Really…? Do coffee grounds repel slugs and snails
Whilst many people love the smell of coffee, others hate it. Slugs and snails hate the smell so you can deter them by making a ring-fence of coffee grounds around your plants.
The only thing is you will have to continue doing it as the coffee ground smell evaporates very quickly, so every few days keep adding coffee grounds as the previous lot will start to decompose quickly into the ground.
You can also use coffee grounds as a mulch in your garden, this is especially good if you have one of the large coffee outlets like Costa or Starbucks who give away bags of coffee grounds every day. Just use it around the plants to keep the weeds down.
