If you're anything like us, there is at least one cup of coffee between you and the front door every morning. We've been collecting our coffee grounds to help out some of our plants that like acidic soil — but as it turns out, used coffee grounds have even more to offer...
As this article from Natural Home points out, coffee grounds can be used for more than just adding nitrogen to your soil. Try it as an exfoliant, for instance, or even as a dish scrubbing tool.
And if you've got more grounds than you can use, think about starting a compost pile or sharing with your neighbors.
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An elderly neighbor told us to sprinkle used grounds in our flower garden to keep a neighborhood cat from using it as a littler box. He even came over every morning to add his grounds just to help us out. It works.
this is so cool, and such good timing. my husband and i were just talking about ways we can use our coffee grounds. we don't have a garden, and we don't compost for that reason, but i think i'll try using the grounds to repel refrigerator odors, and may have to try out the facial mask.
About once a month I take some of my day's coffee grounds and put it in the pot of my window plant.
He hasn't really complained, so I guess it's doing something right.
Coffee grounds and hard-boiled egg shells keep slugs away from my flower beds.
I use my coffee grounds to get rid of smell in my refrigerator! Just place it in a small open container and replace every few days - works wonders!
Does anyone use coffee grounds to repel ants? When I was a little girl my mom would send me outside with the coffee grounds in the basket of the little aluminum percolator with instructions to sprinkle the grounds on any ant hills I saw.
Come to think of it, that may have just been a way to get me out from under her feet!