This. Many people compost coffee grinds. I was DUMPING them in the garden. The leach from it is still coffee, full of acid. DERP. ;/
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How is it done?
Ah ha! Thanks. I’ve considered composting again, but it was a pain in some ways. Especially our huge local tree rat population.
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It is. Plus it stinks and like you said, who wants to feed all those animals? But it’s a good thing to do with the waste instead of landfilling it. One can get good compost out of coffee grinds - it just needs plenty of other material in there, and needs time to leach out the acids and oils.
As if I’m the sudden expert now on coffee composting. Right, I just learned of this last night after wondering why my basil keeps dying and finally having the eureka facepalm ---- ohhhhh I’m poisoning my plants dammit.
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Ordered!
THANK YOU
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Our local recycling/garbage purveyor/remover offers composting bins for yard and food scraps.
They compost it and then use it in the county parks and medians. I believe that a few times a years they offer free composted soil/loam/whatever if you come and pick it up.
That is where my coffee grounds go.
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A process of bring the seedlings outside for a while, and bringing them back inside later. You start on the first day with 30 minutes in a shaded spot. Each day you increase the amount of time they are left outside exposed to the wind and sun by 30 minutes or an hour. After about a week they can be left out overnight. If you dont do this you can kill the seedlings.
Peas and beans hardening off.
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Thanks! We have a giant lily that we want to plant outside soon, it is currently in the planter and has already sprouted leaves. Supposedly it can grow 4 meters tall and the bulb is ridiculously huge. I don’t want to ruin it.
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Used coffee grounds have a ph well over 6 (Starbucks grounds are supposed to be over 6.8). This won’t acidify your soil.
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What’s “brokernewswire”?
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When I get my kit, I am going to test this H0/Ha.
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It is one of those new products that tastes like spam.
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Ah, I thought I could smell cured pig lips.
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Wanted to share this. A colleague who teaches Pre-k in NYC made these puppet shows at home for his students. They are a genuine effort to tackle both being away from his students and dealing with the feelings of being home. Also they descend into madness in a pretty fun way
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Never occurred to me that it might ‘survive’ the composting process as something problematic for any plants. I compost some but throw most in the flowering bushes, simply because it didn’t seem ideal to have wet coffee grounds making up 30% of the input.
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“Don’t shoot, I’m with the band!”
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