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Starbucks Fertilizer
Heya, I'm back for the season now that school's out, and I stumbled across
something interesting my mom picked up the other day so I thought I'd post. If you have a Starbucks nearby, stop in and see if they'll give you their used coffee grounds. Ours is handing out bags full of them free for fertilizing plants, and it seems to be doing a good job. Or, I suppose you could save your own used coffee. According to the label, the brewing process removes most of the acidity so it's got a pH of about 6.9, and the carbon-nitrogen ratio is 20:1. You can add it directly to the garden near nitrogen-loving plants, along with brown materials like leaves. Or, you can add it to your compost and use it within two or three weeks. -- -Jill S. |
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"Jill S" wrote in message .. . Heya, I'm back for the season now that school's out, and I stumbled across something interesting my mom picked up the other day so I thought I'd post. If you have a Starbucks nearby, stop in and see if they'll give you their used coffee grounds. Ours is handing out bags full of them free for fertilizing plants, and it seems to be doing a good job. Or, I suppose you could save your own used coffee. According to the label, the brewing process removes most of the acidity so it's got a pH of about 6.9, and the carbon-nitrogen ratio is 20:1. You can add it directly to the garden near nitrogen-loving plants, along with brown materials like leaves. Or, you can add it to your compost and use it within two or three weeks. -- -Jill S. Coffee grounds and steeped tea leaves are old-fashioned additives that can be worked in to improve the soil. |
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"Jill S" wrote in message ...
Heya, I'm back for the season now that school's out, and I stumbled across something interesting my mom picked up the other day so I thought I'd post. If you have a Starbucks nearby, stop in and see if they'll give you their used coffee grounds. Ours is handing out bags full of them free for fertilizing plants, and it seems to be doing a good job. Or, I suppose you could save your own used coffee. According to the label, the brewing process removes most of the acidity so it's got a pH of about 6.9, and the carbon-nitrogen ratio is 20:1. You can add it directly to the garden near nitrogen-loving plants, along with brown materials like leaves. Or, you can add it to your compost and use it within two or three weeks. Lucky you. I used to go by the local Starbucks daily, politely inquiring about the offer. The answer was always, "Sorry, we just gave away our last bag." After a while it became, "You again?" Yes, it's me again! I still haven't got my #&@!^!)( grounds! There is another thread along these lines (on a Composting message board) where I spell out my sob story, but the bottom line is that I am not impressed. The corporation has done the right thing with the idea, but there is no mandate to the local stores to do this, and that translates to "do it if you feel like it." Tell that to a teenager that serves $5 cups of coffee for a living, and whay would you expect? It's surprising because other stores that serve coffee and do not advertise anything of the sort go out of their way to give you used grounds when you ask for them. |
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This probably isn't a whole lot of help but if you search the archives for this
group you'll find a thread about coffee grounds. Someone posted some pretty good information about coffee grounds not having much left in the way of nutrients because they'd all been leached out. Still makes your garden smell nice though. And adds some bulk to your soil I suppose. Laura B. I used to go by the local Starbucks daily, politely inquiring about the offer. The answer was always, "Sorry, we just gave away our last bag." After a while it became, "You again?" Yes, it's me again! I still haven't got my #&@!^!)( grounds! There is another thread along these lines (on a Composting message board) where I spell out my sob story, but the bottom line is that I am not impressed. The corporation has done the right thing with the idea, but there is no mandate to the local stores to do this, and that translates to "do it if you feel like it." Tell that to a teenager that serves $5 cups of coffee for a living, and whay would you expect? It's surprising because other stores that serve coffee and do not advertise anything of the sort go out of their way to give you used grounds when you ask for them. |
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There's a Starbucks next to my subway stop. For about a year now, on my way
home from work, I stop by and pick up the grounds. About 20 pounds a day, from the expresso machine, and no trash or filters. The manager said that in a few months Starbucks will begin putting their coffee grounds in special bags and leaving them by the front door for people in the neighborhood to pick up. But since I'm their regular coffee pickerupper, they'll save the bags for me inside. The problem becomes having too much coffee. Not a really bad problem. Like having too much compost. -- Compostman Washington, DC Zone 7 "Jill S" wrote in message .. . Heya, I'm back for the season now that school's out, and I stumbled across something interesting my mom picked up the other day so I thought I'd post. If you have a Starbucks nearby, stop in and see if they'll give you their used coffee grounds. Ours is handing out bags full of them free for fertilizing plants, and it seems to be doing a good job. Or, I suppose you could save your own used coffee. According to the label, the brewing process removes most of the acidity so it's got a pH of about 6.9, and the carbon-nitrogen ratio is 20:1. You can add it directly to the garden near nitrogen-loving plants, along with brown materials like leaves. Or, you can add it to your compost and use it within two or three weeks. -- -Jill S. |
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