buckwheat wrote:

How can one use coffee grounds in garden? I can get quite a lot of coffee
....
I am thinking of taking them and dumping into a pile, then spread it and
till it in in the spring.

if they give you a bucket a day i'd take them just for
that reason alone. good buckets are nice to have...

if you are going to use them by tilling in then i'd
do it ASAP while we have some nice weather and they can
start decomposing.

if you are going to use them as a surface mulch (say
like around blueberry bushes) you can use them any time.

the point being that any temporary decrease in nutrients
(mainly nitrogen) from decomposition will mostly be over
with by the time things warm up and you plant in the spring.

if you have a compost pile it's a good thing to run them
through that before using them as a till in amendment because
then you avoid the temporary nutrient drain.

that many sq ft can likely use a lot of buckets depending
upon what type of soil you already have and it's condition.

if you have a lot of clay then i'd use more grounds. if
you have poor soil with mostly sand i'd add some clay along
with the coffee grounds (you don't need much to make a lot
of difference).


songbird (also in mid-michigan