Something free for your garden from Starbucks. Their Grounds For Your Garden program offers up free, used coffee grounds for your use in the garden. Just contact your corner Starbucks to learn more.
The grounds can be of use directly in your garden or in your compost bin...
Applying coffee grounds directly in the garden: Coffee grounds can be applied along with other materials as a side dressing for vegetables, roses, and other plants. Coffee grounds are high in nitrogen, but are also acidic. Adding brown material such as leaves and dried grass to the mulch will help keep a balanced soil pH.
Mixing coffee grounds in your compost: Coffee grounds act as a green material with a carbon-nitrogen (C-N) ratio of 20-1. They make an excellent addition to your compost. Combined with browns such as leaves and straw, coffee grounds generate heat and will speed up the composting process.
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I am a grounds horder from Starbucks from April on. Great garden addition, plus the gardens smell pretty perky!
Wonderful use of product that might otherwise go to the dump. Our soil is very clay and the grounds help break it up.
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Yeah but what if you don't garden or have any friends who garden.
Slightly off topic -- I would love to compost instead of throwing out all my coffee grounds and other food scraps, but don't possibly have time to garden. I called the city community garden program and they won't take my compost. This has got to be such a common problem...
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mjoe, have you tried to offer the compost on Freecycle? Seems like there'd be many takers for it.
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Our local Starbucks' grounds fly out of the store like lightening. After asking for grounds for three years (!), I've only gotten them once.
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