More Uses For Coffee Grounds

Coffee Grounds. Photo: Oberazzi.

This is a follow-up to my earlier article "Useful Tips For Used Coffee Grounds". If you are not aware of this topic before, coffee grounds (after we use the filtered coffee) has excellent uses for it instead of just dumping in trash.

We make huge amount of coffee on a daily basis and we threw most of the coffee grounds away. When you dump the coffee grounds into landfills they create methane, an harmful greenhouse gas. If we can use them for gardening and other uses, then we can eliminate the greenhouse gas.

Here are some alternate uses:

1. Coffee grounds are excellent odor repellants. You can put the coffee grounds (either fresh or used) in small cloth bags or socks and put them in refrigerators, trash cans, shelves and more. They remove unwanted odors. I put them in refrigerators and in trash cans, I could see it works right away. In the freezer, you can put coffee grounds in a bowl to remove odors. Some add a few drops of vanilla to the coffee grounds.
2. It can be used to clean grease in homes, will make the cleaning operation easier.
3. Remove garlic and other cooking smells from hand. Just rub the grounds on your hands to get rid of the smell.
4. Before you use coffee grounds as a fertilizer, make a good composite pile around the plant and then mix the coffee grounds evenly to prevent mold formation (See the tips below). Coffee grounds provides nitrogen for plants. Also the worms love coffee grounds, it helps the plants immensely. It helps mix the soil and helps n mineralizing your vegetation. It is good for roses, azaleas, camelia, blueberries and most flowers. I also add them for Jasmine plant, grows well.
5. Another use of coffee grounds in gardening it helps to keep ants, slugs and snails from your favorite plants.
6. You can keep cats away from your garden by spreading the coffee grounds around your plants. You can also use it in conjunction with orange peels around the plants.
7. If you mix the seeds (carrots or radish) with dry coffee grounds, it helps them grow really well.

Tips for Composting Coffee Grounds from Starbucks:

• Mix grounds with soil around acid-loving plants and watch them flourish.
• Add brown leaves and grass clippings to mulch to help balance the pH of the soil.
• Mix grounds into compost to accelerate the composting process.
• Grounds should not be more than 25 percent of any compost pile. To counteract the acidity of coffee grounds, add one teaspoon of lime or wood for each five pounds of coffee grounds in your compost.
• Help a worm bin flourish by feeding worms with coffee grounds combined with brown materials.

If you need more coffee grounds for your garden you can either ask Starbucks or other coffee places, they may provide prepackaged grounds for you.

Source:

• EPA
• Green Daily
• Natural Home