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Anyone for Coffee
Dogbowl
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I have been offered an unlimited supply of used Coffee Grinds from our local High st cafe. I am sure I read somewhere that I can use such a windfall to my advatage. But I do not recall for what ??
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Mix it into your compost heap
It doesnt keep slugs off here, mix it in your compost heap.
I put ours in the compost heap ,didn't know about the slug thingy but I will try it
.no good giving it to verdun he won't be using it
not if he is still on his collecting sluggers scheme!
I;ve heard they can be used to fertilize the lawn but I tried in small patches and it created a horrible ammonia-y smell as they broke down. Not like coffee at all. More like stairwells in a big city car park. I go for compost heap.
Yes definitely for the compost; some branches of Starbucks will give you used coffee grounds too.
If applied thickly enough the caffeinated grounds are supposed to deter slugs who don't like caffeine but I just add ours to the compost heap with all the other green kitchen waste.
I have used it as a cat poo deterrent - works quite well