I’ve recently had an article posted on an interesting website that makes a list of everything! – Make the list. The article looks at the top 5 uses for spent coffee grounds in the garden, which is as a fertilizer, for composting, as a natural pest repellent, an earthworm attractor, and as a general soil … Continue reading »
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Composting with Coffee Grounds – Video
Coffee Grounds Help With Composting Another opportunity to record some of the things I’ve been doing with composting coffee grounds over the Australian Summer. By mixing coffee grounds, lawn clippings, kitchen scraps, rainwater, leaves, cardboard and shredded paper, I am achieving compost temperatures in the range of 65 Celsius (150 Fahrenheit). At those temperatures I … Continue reading »
Gardening with Coffee Grounds – Video
Healthy soil and Plants with Coffee Grounds Given that Summer is half way through in Australia, it seemed like a good time to record the state of my garden, plants, and use of coffee grounds. Some of the plants you will see and like on the video are Tomatoes, Capsicums, Climbing Beans, Lettuce, Kale, Nasturtiums, … Continue reading »
How I Saw It
Little wings beat on Spring’s tight drum petals clap This Haiku (3-5-3 form) inspired by the prompt ‘Memory‘ on Haiku Heights. Continue reading »
Cafe Recycling Coffee Grounds – Barma Cafe
Collecting Coffee Grounds from Cafes This post is dedicated to the Barma Pastry Cafe located at Stockland The Pines in the North Eastern Melbourne suburb of Templestowe. Barma are one of the cafes involved in the Ground to Ground initiative, which aims to make better use of spent coffee grounds. Barma has found it easy … Continue reading »
Garden Spiders – Silent Hunters
You won’t notice the little things right away. It takes time to slow down, block out the world, focus on what is right ahead. There are little silent hunters all around! Take this little Lavender bud spider, putting out his welcoming webs for bees and other flying things. There were about a dozen or more … Continue reading »
Coffee Grounds for Lawns on Sustainablog
I’ve recently had an article posted on the environmentally focused blog – sustainablog. The article looks at how used coffee grounds can be applied to your lawn as a nitrogen based fertilizer. So check out the article and give coffee grounds a try on the lawn when you get the chance. Any cafe should be … Continue reading »
Cafes Recycling Coffee Grounds – Bent Espresso
Collecting Coffee Grounds – Bent Espresso My wife started going to this cafe in Bentleigh and was going on and on about the coffee. This would be a great opportunity to complain about my wife but that will need to wait for another post. This post is about Bent Espresso. Joe is the owner and … Continue reading »
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 7,400 times in 2010. That’s about 18 full 747s. … Continue reading »
