It all began with me saving some coffee waste because I heard that it’s good for… plants, or something… Then it got covered in mold. So I looked into what to do with moldy pile of coffee ground and that’s when I learned about it.
I started by putting the moldy coffee ground in a bucket. Then I incorporated green kitchen scraps that wouldn’t get too wet like onion skin, bokchoy root, and some dried leaves from the yard. After a while it became like soil (even smell like it), and that’s when I knew I succeeded.
Right now I am onto a new batch. I tried something different this time with fruit scraps as well as eggshell. I also put some shallots that I thought was going bad. Instead of rotting, it sprouted in that pile. Guess it shows that it’s good for something, right?
Add some red wriggler worms and you can get some great soils addendum out of it. The castings are fantastic fertilizer (they don’t like onions, garlic, and citrus as much though).
I’m planning on putting together a composter this summer. Do you make coffee every day? If so, do you generate too many spent grounds and have to throw some away?
I make coffee everyday. I brew about two teaspoon of coffee once a day, sometimes twice.
I’d say I’d never generate too much coffee ground as it’s really easy to handle. It pretty much has everything it needs to make compost, yet it can also help other stuff too, be it onion peel, banana peel, green onion bottom, eggshell, ash, you name it!
I recently found that it really goes well with leftover fruit pulps. My wife likes to make juice and would filter it sometimes. That leftover would then sit there fermenting for a few days. In a few days the spoiling fruit smell disappeared. I think I found one of the best combination I could find!
Thanks for the info! That’s about how much I use, too, so that’s great news.
There was also a time in my life when I made triple B (beets, bananas, Battlestar Galactica berry) smoothies daily but I stopped because I got tired of dealing with the pulp…might be time to start that up again…
Composting.
It all began with me saving some coffee waste because I heard that it’s good for… plants, or something… Then it got covered in mold. So I looked into what to do with moldy pile of coffee ground and that’s when I learned about it.
I started by putting the moldy coffee ground in a bucket. Then I incorporated green kitchen scraps that wouldn’t get too wet like onion skin, bokchoy root, and some dried leaves from the yard. After a while it became like soil (even smell like it), and that’s when I knew I succeeded.
Right now I am onto a new batch. I tried something different this time with fruit scraps as well as eggshell. I also put some shallots that I thought was going bad. Instead of rotting, it sprouted in that pile. Guess it shows that it’s good for something, right?
Add some red wriggler worms and you can get some great soils addendum out of it. The castings are fantastic fertilizer (they don’t like onions, garlic, and citrus as much though).
I’m planning on putting together a composter this summer. Do you make coffee every day? If so, do you generate too many spent grounds and have to throw some away?
I make coffee everyday. I brew about two teaspoon of coffee once a day, sometimes twice.
I’d say I’d never generate too much coffee ground as it’s really easy to handle. It pretty much has everything it needs to make compost, yet it can also help other stuff too, be it onion peel, banana peel, green onion bottom, eggshell, ash, you name it!
I recently found that it really goes well with leftover fruit pulps. My wife likes to make juice and would filter it sometimes. That leftover would then sit there fermenting for a few days. In a few days the spoiling fruit smell disappeared. I think I found one of the best combination I could find!
Thanks for the info! That’s about how much I use, too, so that’s great news.
There was also a time in my life when I made triple B (beets, bananas,
Battlestar Galacticaberry) smoothies daily but I stopped because I got tired of dealing with the pulp…might be time to start that up again…I started saving grounds because i heard they were a mosquito repellent. When mine molded i threw them away. Good job learning the better way!