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dun1kirk Berkeley, CA(Zone 9a) Jul 28, 2006

Along with all my kitchen vegetable scraps, I throw in coffee grounds into my compost. Any chance that the resulting soil has a high acid content?

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vossner East Texas, United States(Zone 8a) Jul 28, 2006

oh no, not high enough that will burn plants or anything like that. The other things in the pile will counterbalance the acidity of the grounds.

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brigidlily Lumberton, TX(Zone 8b) Jul 28, 2006

And the worms loooooooooove coffee -- filters and all.

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pajaritomt Los Alamos, NM(Zone 5a) Jul 30, 2006

I live in an area where soil tends to be a bit alkaline. Whenever a plant looks a little pale I dump my coffee grounds on it for a while. It seems to really help. The worms carry the grounds down to the roots, I suppose, and the plants just love them.

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sugarweed Taylor Creek, FL(Zone 10a) Jul 30, 2006

Starbucks has a garden friendly attitude and saves all of their coffee grounds for gardeners. You just go in and ask and they have big foil sacks full for a mere sum of FREE.
Also many big truck stops and such will put them in a certain trash can for you if you ask one to and are regular and appreciatetive about picking them up.
;)

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cececoogan Waukesha, WI(Zone 5a) Aug 04, 2006

sugarweed I never knew that We have a starbucks in town would that be all over the counntry or just your state. I guess I could go in and ask, right.

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Dravencat Edgewater, MD(Zone 7a) Aug 04, 2006

Try asking any coffee shop, some will want you to provide a five gallon bucket but you can even buy those pretty cheap at some hardware stores. I love driving home with a big bag of coffee grounds in the car. All those different coffees and the car smells great, just need to control my drooling LOL.

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cececoogan Waukesha, WI(Zone 5a) Aug 04, 2006

I imagine it does. Actually I drink alot of coffee and have been putting grounds on my penny mac hydranga. It had blue flowers when I bought it and I want them to stay blue. Must be working because the new blooms are coming up blu.

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