One of the waste products from coffee shops are the spent coffee grounds.
What to do with the coffee grounds?
A few coffee shops, Surrey Hills Coffee is a good example, put outside the shop for passers by to collect for the garden. A pity more do not follow this example.
But what to do with in the garden?
Claimed to be a slug repellent, use as a mulch around plants, add to the compost heap.
Only one way to find out, pick up a bag.
I was quite surprised and not happy, to find in a zip lock plastic bag.
I assume because wet. Only not wet, a little moist maybe.
Cakes rather than loose grounds.
I have spread around a couple of tomato plants.
I will have to obtain more, as omitted runner beans.
To spread organic matter around plants not a good idea, best to compost.
But what impact on the compost heap? Will it kill it dead, act as an accelerant, or merely act as organic matter?
Half way down the garden I can now smell coffee.
The compost heap is now the site of two experiments, compostable coffee cups and coffee grounds.
As a slug repellent a nonstarter. This evening a slug was on the coffee grounds by the tomato plants. Though it did not live to tell the tale.
