Welcome to this Friday Q&A. Today's question comes from Jake, and this is one that a lot of people have asked.

I can't believe I haven't addressed it before.

For all of you coffee drinkers out there like me, Jake asks, what is the best thing to do with coffee grounds?

Are used coffee grounds good for gardens?

I've seen yes and no answers on the internet. Some say to mix them in,

some say to dry them out and bake them first. Should I compost them and not put them directly

into my garden and soil? Those are all great questions. And let me just say that some of the

things that he's read on the internet is a really good example of how, in my opinion,

the internet can cause so much confusion. Some things are just not as complicated as the internet would make you believe. And I think this is a really good example of that. Personally, I use coffee

grounds and I just put them directly in my compost. And to me, I think that's the easiest

way to do it. I think that maybe I'm biased. I think that's the best way to do it. I don't think

it's necessary to separate them out and I've never heard about baking them. Maybe there's a reason

behind that, but I personally would never go to that trouble. Why make things a little

bit more complicated? I just, I don't know. I've just always thrown them in my compost bin.

Coffee grounds are good for the garden. They have a small amount of nitrogen. You don't have to worry

about them being acidic, or in some cases you will hear people say add coffee grounds to your blueberries

because the coffee grounds are acidic and that will help blueberries. Well, from what I

understand with the resources that I've heard over the years, coffee is acidic. But that acid

is in your coffee. It doesn't stay in the coffee grounds, at least not to a point to be able to actually

affect the acidity of your soil, unless I guess you planted in just coffee grounds.

I don't even know that it would be acidic enough for that.

So I don't really think that's an issue.

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