coffee grounds

[Derbydal]

can anyone give me help as to the best use for these please ,my wife bought me load of them yesterday and I want to use them in some way or another but after googleing them there seems to be mixed advice about there worth ! atb Dal.

[Thelma Sanders]

Fantastic in the compost bin

[Cadalot]

This guy has loads of videos about Coffee grounds and how best to use them look at his play list https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA5K...e-BS0AKbKcZFJ4

[toomanytommytoes]

Mostly use ours for composting, they're good for getting a pile hot. In autumn they get chucked onto the raised beds and covered with a layer of compost, to act as food for the worms over winter. Also use them as a top dressing in a thin layer, too thick and they form a water repelling crust during hot weather.

[Derbydal]

This guy has loads of videos about Coffee grounds and how best to use them look at his play list https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA5K...e-BS0AKbKcZFJ4

Cad I carn't acess that site for some reason ! thanks anyway .atb Dal

[SarrissUK]

That's odd... the link works for me. And it's useful too

[Bren In Pots]

Fantastic in the compost bin

I add mine the the compost bins as well.

[Derbydal]

That's odd... the link works for me. And it's useful too

its working for me now Sarriss

[bikermike]

dredging up this old thread, I get coffee grounds from my local café. Delivered to my door!

I am not sure, but as part of a regime including a slug bell (full of slug pellets), and nematodes, they seem to have helped allow my courgettes to establish themselves for the first time in 4 + years.

I have generally added them as mulch elsewhere, but putting them in a ring round the plants seems to help deter the slugs.

[bikermike]

further discoveries.

One of my beds is covered in enviomesh, and I had leeks in it that got nibbled to almost non-existence. I put some bought brassicas (cauli I think) in the space left, and put coffee grounds as a barrier round the outside edges of the outer plants to create a cordon.

Those brassicae that have coffee grounds all round them remain largely un-nibbled, one of the vestigial leeks that is surrounded has grown back a bit. The brassica in the middle of the cordoned area, that I did not put coffee grounds round, has been thoroughly eaten.


I don't definitely know what has been eating them (never caught anything at it). I can rule out rabbits, pigeons, deer, camel etc (I can't definitely rule out mice etc as I can't be sure the mesh is properly down). There are no signs of tunnels coming up inside the bed.


I assume it therefore has to be woodlice/slugs/snails etc, and that they have been deterred by the grounds.


They don't work homeopathically though, you need a good layer of them. depth doesn't seem to be an issue as such, and I'm surprised how they don't wash away.