Posts Tagged ‘Composting’
Putting Used Coffee Grounds to Ground
Composting is the most well known use for old coffee grounds. You can add your grounds, filters and even used tea bags right onto your compost pile. As they decompose, they will add nitrogen to your compost. You can also add your old grounds directly into the soil around your plants, or in your flowerpots. The old coffee grounds will increase the acidity of the soil so you’ll want to be careful about the amount that you use.
Regards Madeleine
Composting methods
There are a number of composting methods. They can be classified as either hot or cold. All have in common the ratio required for successful composting: 1/3 nitrogen, 2/3 carbon
Hot composting is where you build a pile that purposely generates heat, and is fast. The fastest I’ve seen is a 21 day composting system that I learn’t about from Geoff Lawton.
Cold composting is a pile where it may take 12 – 18 months to give you the finished product.
There are disadvantages to both methods.
A variation of cold composting is the no dig garden.