I drink Starbucks Coffee and the stores package up their used coffee grounds and give them to gardeners to use as mulch, mix into compost, etc. The grounds are supposed to be roughly PH neutral. Supposedly they also provide some nutrients to the soil. I do know that they lighten clay soil very nicely when mixed with the clay.
So over the past several months I've been gathering coffee grounds from the 2 Starbucks stores that I frequent. Probably been averaging 20# of grounds a week, sometimes a lot more. Sometimes none All my efforts have paid off with enough grounds to fill my front end loader bucket TWICE with nice smelling coffee grounds
Now I'm not sure if their claims about making a great mulch or about working well in compost, but I've just finished planting 4 fruit trees, 6 blueberry bushes, and 1 ornamental tree. I've got more to plant but I need to reload the bucket with more coffee grounds and mix it with some more of my clay soil.
Has anyone else tried coffee grounds as a mulch mix, compost mix, soil lightener for planting? If not, do you use anything special when planting new trees?
So over the past several months I've been gathering coffee grounds from the 2 Starbucks stores that I frequent. Probably been averaging 20# of grounds a week, sometimes a lot more. Sometimes none All my efforts have paid off with enough grounds to fill my front end loader bucket TWICE with nice smelling coffee grounds
Now I'm not sure if their claims about making a great mulch or about working well in compost, but I've just finished planting 4 fruit trees, 6 blueberry bushes, and 1 ornamental tree. I've got more to plant but I need to reload the bucket with more coffee grounds and mix it with some more of my clay soil.
Has anyone else tried coffee grounds as a mulch mix, compost mix, soil lightener for planting? If not, do you use anything special when planting new trees?