What can I do with used coffee grounds? / myLot

Australia

December 5, 2024 4:08pm CST

After I make my morning coffee, I end up with these used coffee grounds. I've heard you can use them on plants to help them grow better and so I sometimes dump it on the lawn or pots or on my lemon tree. Is there a better way of using them for plants? Or is there anything I can use them for?

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (14805)

• Ireland

5 Dec 24

@pitstop I add mine to my compost pile.

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Pitstop

@pitstop (15551)

• Australia

6 Dec 24

How do you make your own compost

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (14805)

• Ireland

6 Dec 24

@pitstop I throw all my kitchen scraps, coffee grinds, and garden weeds and raked leaves in a pile at the end of the garden and let the worms turn it all to worm poop.

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Four Walls

@FourWalls (86652)

• United States

6 Dec 24

My dear mother of blessed memory said that, growing up in the Great Depression with World War II on its heels, her mother saved the coffee grounds and would “dry them out” in the oven, then re-use them (I think two scoops old/one scoop new). Different era, for certain.

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Judy Story

@jstory07 (148731)

• Roseburg, Oregon

6 Dec 24

I do not drink coffee but I have heard they are good to mix in dirt for your garden.

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Pitstop

@pitstop (15551)

• Australia

6 Dec 24

I try that. Was wondering if there was a particular way of doing that

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (135690)

• Marion, Ohio

5 Dec 24

We just throw ours out

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Pitstop

@pitstop (15551)

• Australia

6 Dec 24

That's what I end up doing half the time.

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NJ Chicaa

@NJChicaa (127127)

• United States

5 Dec 24

compost them.

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Pitstop

@pitstop (15551)

• Australia

6 Dec 24

That seems like a good idea

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Yumeko

@aureategloom (11025)

• Bosnia And Herzegovina

6 Dec 24

my grandparents used it for plants as well, i don't know what else you can do with it. i've seen people using it as a face mask, but i think that's different kind of coffee