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coffee grounds vs. tea grounds
Comments (6)"I hate top possibly sound stupid, but what would you use them on your lawn for. I have never heard of that." They provide organic matter and are also a mild fertilizer (about 1% - 2% N). Starbucks gives them away for free, so if there's a Starbucks convenient to you and you have a small lawn, you can take care of fertilizing the lawn for free. Since they're fairly low in N, they're not that practical for a large lawn....See MoreCoffee Grounds vs Tea Grounds
Comments (5)I've not found any problem with dumping them, bag and all, in or on either the compost pile or the garden soil. The bags are also biodegradable....See MoreCoffee grounds more acidic than the are thought to be?
Comments (6)Starbucks UCG are mostly expresso pucks. They've been ground exceedingly fine and pressure brewed, to boot. They won't be comparable to coarsely ground, drip brewed home coffee. I certainly hope there's no life in the grounds. :O Our Starbucks also puts out their regular grounds,in regular double garbage bags, with filters included--but now that I think about it, they never apply the nifty garden label on it, the one that states the pH. They just do it by popular demand for us composters. I've never spread a lot of regular grounds straight to my lawn, but I've scattered a few. I've not had any noticable problems, no mold. I've also put a few directly on my rhododendrons, again no obvious problems. I haven't had my soil tested lately from these areas, but I also put on so much of my own compost, any testing now wouldn't show the effect of a steady diet of lots of straight regular grounds with no other amendments. I don't think I'd recommend spreading a half inch of regular grounds, uncomposted, straight on the lawn. Not even a quarter inch. Does anybody do that? More importantly, does anybody buy little bags of compost from GardensAlive? I don't think newpaper ink is toxic, but it's bleached and dioxins are bad. BAN NEWSPAPERS! Yeah..... Seriously, once I have a newsprint, that comes as junk mail I didn't ask for, it either goes to a landfill or my compost pile. I agree leaves, straw, and sawdust beat newsprint as a brown for my compost. But nobody puts sawdust in my mailbox every day for me to deal with....See MoreTea grounds instead of coffee grounds on the lawn
Comments (4)Coffee grounds do have some fairly good levels of nutrients but you need a goodly amount to have much affect on a lawn. http://www.lenawee.mi.us/departments/solid-waste-department/backyard-composting/composting-with-coffee-grounds I have not yet found comparable information on tea leaves. Recycling both in the garden or on the lawn is much preferable than tossing them in the trash. What would the cornmeal be used for? I have seen alfalfa pellets and cubes but not powder, at least not in quantities to be economical to be added to a lawn....See Morebpgreen
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