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Dan L[_2_] · 11-11-2010, 03:05 PM posted to rec.gardens

Cheryl Isaak wrote:
On 11/10/10 3:27 PM, in article
,
"Higgs
Boson" wrote:

On Nov 10, 3:55 am, Cheryl Isaak wrote:
On 11/9/10 8:53 AM, in article ,

"echinosum" wrote:

Higgs Boson;904722 Wrote:
So, if you're into coffee mulching, would you pls share your
experience.
A useful property of coffee ground mulch is that it is
anti-gastropod.
So my coffee grounds go around my Lapageria rosea, which is
otherwise
the favourite food in the garden for the local snails.

Let's hear i for anti-gastropods! I lost some baby beets to the Bad
G
(I think)
so will strew my Friday grounds out there & hope for the best.

So it would be a good thing for my hostas too!

I have been using it as a general mulch in the garden when I can
find it at
Charbucks - I'm not shy, I'll just walk in and nab it!

Hah! "Charbucks" - Love it. I tried them when they first came to
town years
(decades?) ago, but never got used to the burned taste.

Tx, Cheryl
Anytime - supposedly some of my "local" places will do it too. I'll
ask next
spring.

I've heard it works as a sand/sub for icy driving, but I haven't
tried it
yet!

No icy driving here. Just awful congestion, getting worse & worse.

HB

Not sure where you are off the top of my head, but I'm in the frozen
north.
Shortly, I'll put out the driveway markers and such. All the garden
ornaments are in or on the deck. (got this great brass colored
whirling
sunflower and it looks great in a pot the deck.

C

For those in the south... Drive way markers, I put mine out last week.
These are useful to help find your driveway when then the snow comes
around. Especially those that live in the country. Get off the driveway
entrance and the car gets stuck in the drainage ditches. I remove them
for summer because they get in the way for lawn mowing.

I put my coffee grounds in the compost.

Sorry for the post, if it is too simplistic

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Enjoy Life... Dan L (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)