If you’re a gardener, you know how much good coffee grounds can be to your garden. They’re great for compost, they keep many animals away, and the list goes on and on.
We have coffee grounds. No…correction…we have LOTS of coffee grounds. And we figured we might as well get them to you. They’re in the big white bin outside the roastery door. you can come by anytime you’d like and scoop up as much as you like. Bring your own bucket, bag or other carrying sack. Please don’t run off with the entire bin.
If it’s empty, we’re really sorry. We’ll make sure we fill it up with more grounds very, very soon!
If you need to know how to get to our place, here’s a map for you:
Didn’t know Coffee Grounds were so useful?
Here are a couple of hints of things you can do with coffee grounds:
- Add it to your compost bin
- Mix it in the soil to add nitrogen
- Sprinkle it around the plants to keep away animals like rabbits
- Change the pH level of the soil so your blooms bloom blue (or other colors depending on the plant)
- Keep slugs away
- Works great for carrots and raddishes and other root plants
- It attracts worms which are fantastic for your garden
- Put together a mushroom farm in a 5 gallon bucket
- Mix 1 teaspoon of it with your dog’s shampoo for a natural flea bath
There are a million other uses for used coffee grounds. Let us know your favorite uses in the comments below!
I put a ring of coffee grounds, about three inches wide, around my lettuce patch, which works well at keeping the slugs away. I am assuming the jagged edges of the grounds irritate the soft underbelly of slugs thereby deterring them from crossing over the ring to the lettuce. The rest of the spent grounds I produce go into the compost bins year round.
We do that with some of our plants as well – we’ve noticed it keeps the rabbits away. And we have lots of grounds in our compost.
Coffee grounds can also be used as fine flour for baking. I’ve tried it and it works wonderfully with cookies and other pastries. I also use the extra grounds to keep bugs away from my flowers.
I’ve never done that one. If you stop by our shop and you want to use grounds for baking, be sure to come inside and get some new ones. Putting them in the garden is one thing – putting them in food is another!