All About: Coffee Grounds

March 03, 2022

All About: Coffee Grounds

Coffee grounds!

Keep a container in the fridge for your used coffee grounds !

We use it in the garden. We just toss it on the ground and walk away. Coffee grounds contain nitrogen, calcium, potassium, iron, phosphorus, magnesium and other nutrients. Plants love it!
It can be tossed in a compost pile to give it a boost.
Repels slugs n snails!
Mix dried grounds with baking soda as a deodorizer and keep in an uncovered bowl in fridge.
Add dried grounds and baking soda in a coffee grinder to finely powder to use as a rug deodorizer. Sprinkle on a rug, let sit, vacuum up a few hours later.
Fleas do not like coffee grounds.
Use the grounds to exfoliate hands with leaving a bowl of the grounds next to the sink. Just scoop up a bit in your hands, use soap at the same time to make gritty suds.
Coffee grounds offer excellent baking pan cleaning.
Mix fine coffee grounds with coconut oil to make a good body scrub.
Rebrew the grounds and use half the water measure to make coffee again to then marinate beef. Marinade the beef soaking in the coffee, in the refrigerator for 24 hours before cooking.
For roses and tomatoes, mix 1 cup of use grounds in 1 gallon of water and water your roses. This helps to lower the pH in your soil and roses love diluted coffee water.
Coffee grounds attract earth worms to the soil! Big time!
We also sprinkle coffee grounds in the chicken coop.
You can throw coffee grounds into stagnant water like a ditch or low areas as it changes the water and prevents mosquitoes from laying eggs. 
You can also start creating a barrier of coffee grounds if you have hedges around the house as ants do not like coffee grounds.
Or if you have chickens, there are always ants trying to move in. Keep a barrier of coffee grounds around the coop.