Grounds for Your Garden at Local Starbucks
Posted by Chad Norman February 18th, 2008 .
In my composting update last week, I mentioned that Jen has been bringing home bags of used coffee grounds from our local Starbucks. On Friday, five more bags arrived. Heavy moist bags of expired grounds might gross some people out, but the inner-composter in me knew this would be a windfall to the pile.
Coffee grounds truly are a welcome addition to any compost pile. In volume, they can provide an oft needed green (nitrogen) boost — just don’t go overboard. I know I am always looking for extra food scraps, green leaves, and other things with good rotting potential, and these grounds have started to make a difference.
I have to give credit to Starbucks for promoting this simple, but effective program. Grounds for Your Garden helps people like me live a more sustainable lifestyle, and helps Starbuck’s reduce the impact of their massive global bohemoth. Check out one of the 10+ local Starbucks on Fridays to pick up bags of organic goodness for your compost pile or spring garden.
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Since I live in an apartment I have no compost pile. When we had our own house, I had a nice one, but it is not the same for apartment living.
My apartment is filled with house plants and a few miniature palm trees.
My question, can I use coffee grounds in my house plants?
I have mixed used tea bags into potting soil to allow the seeds something else to grow on when I ran out of Jiffy Pots, but I was wondering about the grounds.
There is a local Starbucks just down the street from me. We have a “pod” pot here in the apartment as I prefer regular coffee and hubby need decaf, so those grounds aren’t much help.
If you can answer this question for me I will go down and get a bag of grounds for my new bag of potting soil. I just bought a cubic yard of Miracle Grow high Moisture soil for transplanting next week, so the coffee grounds might be added to this?
Thanks!
Hi Rose,
I’ve personally found success with mixing coffee grounds in with a potting matrix, such as the MiracleGrow product you mentioned. Below are two articles I found on the subject which may help:
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/lab/msg022139567362.html
http://www.sustainableenterprises.com/Business/coffeefert.htm