Coffee Grounds in Compost?
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Are coffee grounds safe to use in compost? And if so, how do you use them best?
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| 0:00.0 | What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | Today we're going to be talking about one of my favorite drinks of all time and what to do with what's left over and that would be of course the coffee ground. |
| 0:11.0 | What do we do with this in the garden? What are some interesting ways to use it? Before we get into that, let's talk about our podcast review of the day from Jettigal Steff on iTunes. So title, so good I can't stop listening, so I'm already a very big fan of this review. I just recently |
| 0:26.2 | started listening to a podcast or two, having graduated slowly to get another media format a month ago, |
| 0:31.1 | I searched and I found several likely right up my walkway |
| 0:33.7 | podcasts on my new growing obsession gardening. Gardening for food, beauty, fun, and |
| 0:38.0 | now for the environment. I tried epic gardening first and so far I can't stop. |
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| 0:58.4 | and go ahead and give the podcast a review. |
| 1:01.2 | Today, coffee grounds and how do we use them in our compost. So there's a lot |
| 1:06.4 | of different ways to use it today. We're just going to discuss compost. The first |
| 1:09.6 | thing we have to do is talk about coffee grounds in general. Let's clear up potentially some misconceptions and just give some facts about this potential soil amendment. First of all, what are they composed of? So coffee grounds are about two-ish percent nitrogen by volume and contrary to popular belief the grounds themselves are not acidic. |
| 1:28.0 | When you're brewing coffee, the acid in coffee is water soluble so you're actually drinking the acidity. |
| 1:34.0 | Coffee itself is an acidic drink and the grounds are actually closer towards pH neutral. |
| 1:39.2 | They're closer towards that 6.5 to 6.8 range. |
| 1:43.1 | If you are adding them to your soil, |
| 1:44.6 | they do tend to improve your soil structure, |
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