I have a question about adding coffee grounds

I don't intentionally vermicompost, I just wish more worms would com e to me compost heap. And raised beds!

Every time someone mentions "Red Wigglers, I hear a advertising jingle from "WKRP In Cincinatti"

"Reeeed Wigglers!
The Cadillac of worms!"

OK, guys (and girls) ---after reading all the replies to my starting this thread, I think we all agree--forget about what the so called *experts* say- WE know coffee grounds are great for gardens, and they do NOT delete nitrogen--so there-that's my story and I'm sticking to it! I just got home from my daily bucket collection at Starbuck's. They are the sweetest bunch- all young kids, and when they see me and my empty bucket they all say-Hi, Jo ! I have made them all some cute Valentine coasters- I always like to do fun things for people who treat me special. The world doesn't have enough good PR.

its a great way to recycle..use the cast coffee grounds..
one yr i put alot in my vegy garden..it was funny.. it was early
spring..i was just puttering around..seemed like the tiny mounds
"were moving" lol..i moved the coffee mounds around..and what
was there..a TON of tiny worms.. ahhhh.. lol
so..coffee grounds are very good.. i have a good population of
local worms..but i think i increased the population big time with
addition of those coffee grounds..
good luck to ya !!!!

Thanks, nut- I have high hopes. I am going to use my hand-held fertilizer soreader to put some over my lawn- one DG'r says he gets little hills in the lawn where he puts the coffee grounds- the worms rise up to party !!

Jo, I agree more with what you just said, than with what that link said.

But I also know that no one in the world is likelier to be wrong than some scientifically-inclined person who says that HE doesn't see how THAT could be true (and therefor it must be false).

Nature delights in complexity and in fooling people who think they know it all.

I'm going to keep scrounging all the grounds I can get. If I ever get so many that I can turn a thick layer into the soil, maybe I'll sprinkle that month's fertilizer a little early, in case there is some complex microbial subtlety going on.

I kind of like the image of hyperactive caffiene-buzzed little bacteria with a case of munchies gobbling junk food so fast that they don't get around to the main course of coffee grounds until later.

I love what Socrates said about putting something in writing makes it true even if it's not. In my other life I ran a division and was forever being bombarded by the media. To this day I will neither watch the news, listen to the radio, or read a news paper.

i so agree..with everyone..how safe is that posturing..LOL :)
i love reading articles..professional..and from enthusiasts..
my experience with some of my more esoteric plants ..that few grow..
is the enthusiasts are ahead of the professionals..
i think many times the enthusiasts just jump in..experiment..try new things,
shake things up.. and find surprises along the way..i know professionals do
to..but why dismiss an amateur just becasue he/she doesnt have a college
degree.. i have so many credits i have 2 bs degrees.. totally unrelated..
but im grateful for the education..maybe its made me just a bit more
open minded..even as mean,stuborn,and awnry as i am..LOL :)
on coffee grounds.. i think its a great soil/compost additive..

Wow this thread has gotten really technical. I'm getting a caffeine headache. Lol

Yah Lisa, I think we chased Jo off a long time ago. Hope she got what she wanted about coffee grounds and worms. I did an update on my indoor vermicompost tutorial thanks to her. Thank you Jo.

mraider3, I didn't get *chased off* at all. :-) I posted the day before last--I have been busy sifting and digging in coffee grounds, and working outside since we finally got some decent weather here. I attempted spreading them with my hand held fertilizer spreader on the lawn, but they are too dense- I'll just have to broadcast them from a scoop.
I transplanted about 75 WallaWalla onions that I sprouted into their permament home, and sowed some Sugar Lace peas. If it is too early and they don't make it I'll do more later. I also sowed about a dozen varieties of peppers in DE in egg cartons- they are on the heat mat in my sewing room. This week I'll do my tomatoes. The Groundhog DID say early Spring- I hope he's right-I'm tired of winter gloom.

Jo I recall a posting some time back from a member using coffee grounds on their law. Maybe it was you. I recently mentioned that in either a Dmail or some thread about outdoor vermicomposting, I can't remember which. Coffee grounds are a valuable commodity which should be harvested where ever possible. Something I plan on doing with my upcoming outdoor vermicomposting and gardening projects.

mraider, I would love to start with vermicomposting, but it sounds sort of complicated, and I don't have any space to devote to it. Yes, someone posted that wherever he put coffee grounds on the lawn little worm mounds appeared like they were having parties !

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Jo, will send you my recently and long overdue updated indoor vermicomposting tutorial via Dmail. It's really not that difficult, and requires little space.

The comment sounds like your neighbor Corey, but I believe it was a female who first commented on using coffee ground on her lawn.

I just returned from my next door neighbor who needed to borrow another tool. He's really a great neightbor, but he kept my 8 ft ladder for more than a month, until he got one for Christmas. Hint Hint! Well as an assistant VP in the Ag Dept. here he is a valuable resource and since he owed me one I put out the word for some rotten straw or hay bales. With his contacts I should be able to come up with several truck loads for next springs outdoor vermicomposting projects. It's incredible how many resources which are available for the asking to making compost if you stop and think about it.

Here if we get those little mounds in our grass we know we have Fire Ants. Lol