This post is dedicated to The Tuckshop cafe located in the NAB Building at 500 Bourke Street. This cafe is one of the participants in the Ground to Ground initiative, which aims to make better use of spent coffee grounds. The staff at The Tuckshop simply empty their grounds container into a specially marked bag, … Continue reading »
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pH of Soil from Coffee Grounds
Exploring the notion that coffee grounds will increase soil acidity. Based on my own practical experiments, let’s see if it’s true! Continue reading »
A Benefit of Organic Gardening – Insects
Coffee Grounds and Insects I just had to share this picture of a little garden friend of mine. It is just that I don’t know his name, and wouldn’t know how to ask. My garden is in good health, productive, and free of commercial pesticides. So much so that I had a good look around … Continue reading »
Coffee Grounds and Pepino
Pepino fertilized with coffee grounds Coffee grounds are a safe and freely available natural product, and also serve well as a nitrogen based fertilizer for fruit and vegetable plants. They certainly seem to be doing well for this Pepino Gold that is sitting in a pot on my front lawn. Inside the pot is a … Continue reading »
Have Your Latte and Compost it too! on 40 Mums Club
Yet another opportunity to reach out about the wonders of used coffee grounds with a guest post of mine ‘Have Your Latte and Compost it too’, on 40 Mums Club. Star of the show is a big home grown tomato, that was later enjoyed with some fava beans and a nice chianti (edit 12/2 – … Continue reading »
Effect of Used Coffee Grounds on Mosquitoes
The Yellow Fever Mosquito Looses to Coffee Grounds I came across an interesting study into the effect of used coffee grounds on the Aedes aegypti L. (Diptera: Culicidae), otherwise known as the Yellow Fever Mosquito. The authors suggest of used coffee grounds (UCG): …the results obtained herein reinforces the validity of considering used coffee ground … Continue reading »
How to Grow Amazing Roses with Coffee Grounds on Sustainablog
Rose fertilizer is available cheaply with used coffee grounds! Continue reading »
The Top 5 Uses for Spent Coffee Grounds on Make the List
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 »
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 »
