Coffee grounds ?

   I've been doing some work for a local coffee shop , and have been offered
as much used coffee grounds as I'd care to drag home ...I've read somewhere
that they make excellent worm food and can be used as a fertilizer on my
garden , but I have no idea how much is enough , and how much would be too
much .
  So , is there a rule of thumb or any kind of guide for this application ?
When we were kids we used a 5 gal bucket buried about 3/4 in the ground and
filled with burlap sacking as a worm farm . We used Dad's grounds as food ,
got some very healthy and active worms , and had repeat business from the
local fisherfolk ...
--
Snag
Learning keeps
you young !

 Snag wrote:


  pretty heavy to move.  buckets with good
handles will help your hands a lot.



  acid loving plants would probably be ok with
some of them, but the majority i would want to
compost first before using them in a garden.

  worm composting, probably ok too.  no idea how
long it would take to get the grounds from fresh
to processed enough to be usable as compost (i
don't drink coffee here or i could tell you exactly
as i do worm composting of all of our veggie scraps)
but it'd be a month or two as those roasted bean
pieces are pretty hard and acidic.  probably be a
good strawberry topping when done.

  having neighbors who are also gardeners would
give you other outlets.  having them help carry
would be even better.


  songbird

 

Straight on to the plant, they have killed a couple of my squash. Tread
lightly.
--
- Billy
Both the House and Senate budget plan would have cut Social Security and
Medicare, while cutting taxes on the wealthy.

Kucinich noted that none of the government programs targeted for
elimination or severe cutback in House Republican spending plans
"appeared on the GAO's list of government programs at high risk of
waste, fraud and abuse."
<http://www.politifact.com/ohio/statements/2011/mar/28/dennis-kucinich/re
p-dennis-kucinich-says-gop-budget-cuts-dont-targ/>

[W]e have the situation with the deficit and the debt and spending and jobs. And
it¹s not that difficult to get out of it. The first thing you do is you get rid
of corporate welfare. That¹s hundreds of billions of dollars a year. The second
is you tax corporations so that they don¹t get away with no taxation.
 - Ralph Nader
<http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/19/ralph_naders_solution_to_debt_crisis>

 

I have two 240 Litre worm farms to which I add all my composting items
which includes coffee grounds and filter papers. The worms certainly get
stuck into the coffee grounds and filter papers as soon as I add them.

My worm farms contain composting worms that I originally purchased and
not the usual earth worms found in home gardens. I'd tend to agree with
songbird that the coffee grounds not be used as fertilizer direct on the
garden but added by way of the compost bin first.
--

John

 We use our grounds on the evergreen shrubs around the house when it's
raining. Otherwise we save them in the bags and place them on our mulch
pile which is used once a year.

On 10/21/2011 3:12 PM, Snag wrote: