Our council provides us with cornstarch bags, we put all our food scraps in there, we put it in our bio-wheelie bin, and its then composted. Do you guys reckon thered be any problem with putting coffee grounds in there? Its probably o.k just wondering if its too acidic/potent or something??? Smells pretty potent :-/
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Re: Coffee grounds o.k for compost?
Theres lots of talk that coffee beans contain lots of nitrogen, which is good for making plants grow.
I havent found any real studies on roasted, extracted grinds - its all heresay as far as I can tell.
I do chuck it out on the lawn & garden and I havent noticed any dead patches yet!
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Re: Coffee grounds o.k for compost?
Not hearsay (or heresyOriginally posted by 272F27202A2C4E0 link=1339836691/6#6 date=1339865843I havent found any real studies on roasted, extracted grinds - its all heresay as far as I can tell.
). Not sure how you judge what qualifies as a real study but see this study
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Ive found (as have other) that the Black Soldier Fly larvae particularly love used ground coffee. They are a harmless fly (no mouthparts in adult stage I believe) that accelerates the early stages of composting.
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Personally, I dump my bangbox into my vermiculture unit, Yep, Worms just LOoooooooove coffee as much as I do, they certainly are thriving with it
So yeah, Although Caffeine is an insecticide, it doesnt seem to affect worms all that badly when used grounds are dumped into the pot
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Wow, thanks for all your great responses. Great to hear coffee grounds in the compost or garden are actually a good thing. Next time I have a veggie patch Ill definitely try it as a natural pest deterant!
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This may be slightly off-topic, but we have 2 large dogs who occasionally feel inclined to dig big holes in the yard when we are at work. Ive experimented with different materials to put into the holes (looking for a doggy-deterrent of course). Ive found that coffee grounds work really well - the dogs wont dig in the same place after Ive empied the knock box into the hole, then filled over it with soil. (a bit of dog poo works best, but sometimes the holes are dug a bit too close to the house, so thats where the coffee grounds come in handy).
I do realise that this is probably too much information for most people!! :P
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we had a serious "snails eating the mails" problem in our letterbox. a nice layer of coffee grounds in the bottom of the letter box sorted that right out
all of the rest of the grounds go to the compost and then on to the worm farm and we have no issues...
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