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Multipurpose Coffee Grounds


Green Lifestyle  (tags: eco-friendly, environment, food, green, greenliving, home, humans, recycling )

Daphna
- 15 days ago - naturalhomemagazine.com
Every day, people enjoy roughly 1.4 billion cups of coffee. That's a lot of coffee. More importantly, all those grounds add up in landfills across the world. But coffee grounds offer more then just a fantastic and addictive drink; use the grounds around y
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mary f. (71)
Friday November 6, 2009, 12:47 am
thanks daphna great idea
 

Marthe B. (10)
Friday November 6, 2009, 3:09 am
hello:)
Even more good news about coffee grounds,please visit www.theworldchallenge.co.uk,you'll find one of the finalists growing mushrooms on coffeegrounds,it's worth a visit to "fungi town",and enjoy all the other propositions too and vote!have a nice day :)
 

Pam Rhia S. (152)
Friday November 6, 2009, 8:09 am
We use ours in our gardens. My Grandmother also always put her coffee grounds in her flower beds. It really helps enrich the soil, gives it a lighter feeling, and her flowers were always bug free and beautiful
 

Tierney Grinavic (294)
Friday November 6, 2009, 8:22 am
Compost everything green and brown! Thanks Daphna
 

Elvira S. (43)
Friday November 6, 2009, 2:20 pm
Excellent, I posted this one on my facebook site. I've been using coffee ground for years in my garden, but didn't know about it's other uses. Thanks Daphna.
 

LLOYD H. (4)
Friday November 6, 2009, 7:51 pm
They missed one that my mother and her father did all the time, use them to ring around, but do not work in to the soil let them sit on top, the bases of roses and other plants under attack from slugs and snails as a very effective non-toxic non-poisinous to pets and children slug bait/repelleant, never have figured out if the texture hurts their little footsies or if the oils or the low dose caffine is toxic only to them.
 

Angelina Miller (0)
Friday November 6, 2009, 8:30 pm
Its really great idea. Thanks
 

Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (248)
Sunday November 8, 2009, 10:26 am
Thannxxx.. now I don't have to feel at all guilty about my cuppa.. there are now a 101 uses for it... so keep on drinking
 

Kathleen Robertson (8)
Sunday November 8, 2009, 9:05 pm
I've always used them for my rosebushes as they help make them thrive an have noticed the more they get the better, tried an experiment this summer with giving one side of my front planters double the grounds of the other an there was a noticable difference in size an buds on the one that got the most
 
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