I have been making filtered coffee (due to my cordless kettle hanging up its lunch tin) and I have a vague feeling that you can either pour cold coffee or the grounds onto your pot plants. Does anyone know if that is correct or not?
I know cold tea is good, but am trying to rack this rapidly aging brain, as to whether it works for cold coffee/grounds.

Cheers, Irene

I was going to talk about nitrogen and mulch and....but this website just happens to cover everything you need to know about coffee grounds (with some interesting ideas as a bonus! )

[seattlepi.nwsource.com]

Jennifer, how do you find these websites!! That is fantastic thank you. Although I don't know about a coffee pathway - mmmm, might smell nice but imagine the mess on the bottom of your shoes.
Awesome, will pour cold coffee and place the grounds on to the tomatoes for starters.

Cheers for that!!!!!!! Irene

Hi there... I have used coffee grounds as a snail deterrent around my hostas and other scrummy (for snails) plants... seemed to work as this year I haven't done it and the hostas are looking more like fruit salad leaves with all the holes!!

How would coffee grounds go around the herb garden? I know the tread that talked about Basil, said that it needed lots of food. What sort of fertilizer do you use? Something like Thrive all purpose?
Thanks Linda

Linda, every year I grow basil "trees." No special care- just a sprinkle of general garden fertilizer dug into the ground before it is planted. THe only thing I do is stake the plants, as the summer wind sometimes blows them over.

I think the path mentioned in that fantastic little article (thanks Jennifer!) was made with over-roasted beans - not grounds - which I guess are discarded by the roasters big-time in Seattle! what a great idea - don't you just love the internet....



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I put our used coffee grounds into the compost, after seeing Aucklanders queuing up to buy the used grounds in a cafe a few months ago..... asked my citywise daughter what this was all about and she told me they were buying them for their compost......so it must even be trendy, do you think????

I had heard about coffee grinds being great for the garden, so I have got 4 bags waiting for me to do something with.I got them free from a cafe!!! Someone told me that they had put them straight onto the garden and the snails came running!!!!! Would it be best for me to put them in the compost bin?

I put spent coffee around the bases of our veggies, and the slugs and snails won't go near them, and other bugs give the coffee grounds a wide berth too. I noticed that even our dogs and cats won't go near the garden when the stuff is spread liberally on the ground. (They know they aren't allowed in the garden...)
jen

Thanks, Jen. I did look up the website that was posted earlier and I put my goffee grinds around rhubarb and hostas.
This gardening pastime is all trial and error for me. All successful so far.But very early days yet. It's my first season.
Gill