Chris Garlington said:

I read earlier postings about coffee grounds in the compost and dirt
for tomatoes. Does it change the taste? Coffee is a pretty powerful
thing and it's taste after having been discarded, is rank. It's very
different from horse manure or other compostings. It's acrid and
sharp. Has anyone used a lot of ciffee grounds around tomatoes or
peppers and noticed a taste difference? I'm only asking because I
drink a LOT of coffee and I have a LOT of grounds to discard.

I've used coffee grounds mixed with shredded leaves and cocoa shells
to mulch tomatoes. Doesn't change the taste (unless it makes them better).


Many, MANY pounds of coffee grounds from a cafeteria go into my home
compost piles. Yes, it gets a little rank while waiting to go into the piles.
Curiously, the freshly built piles tend to have a barnyard smell. (One visitor
who was allergic to horses got very nervous because he was sure there was
a pony around here somewhere.)
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