Coffee Grounds in the Septic

[Hoosier Gun Coat]

May be a silly question....but. Can coffee grounds be washed down the sink if you are on a mound type septic? My wife bought me a french press coffee maker for x-mas. If you've never used a french press to make coffee, you have to try it. I will NEVER use an electric coffee maker again. Anyhoo, I was just wondering because the press doesn't use a paper filter like a regular coffee maker does. I don't know what to do with the grounds besides wash them down the sink.

 

[Pami]

I've heard coffee grounds make a good mulch. You might save them up and put them in your garden this spring.

 

[RogerB]

I've heard coffee grounds make a good mulch. You might save them up and put them in your garden this spring.

Yep! If you grow your own tomatoes work the coffee grounds into your soil. The tomatoe plants will grow like crazy.

 

[Scutter01]

I don't know if you can put them in the septic, but Pami's right. The caffeine in the grounds does wonders for your houseplants, or you can mix it into your mulch.

Barring that, can't you put them in your trash?

 

[Hoosier Gun Coat]

Didn't know coffee grounds made good mulch. I will hang on to them. Thanks for the advise!!!

 

[Scutter01]

Didn't know coffee grounds made good mulch. I will hang on to them. Thanks for the advise!!!

Water your plants with the leftover coffee in the pot, too.

 

[Pami]

It's what plants crave!

 

[Hoosier Gun Coat]

Wouldn't the leftover coffee "muck" start smelling after a while?

 

[Rooster Cogburn]

Won't the plants become addicted to the caffeine? Forget to use the coffee one week and your house turns into the Little Shop of Horrors.

 

[RogerB]

It's what plants crave!

that and you get to watch the earthworm races once they start eating the coffee grounds. They get all hopped up on the go juice

 

[Drail]

I would not put coffee grounds down the sink.

 

[Dogman]

We throw ours in the trash, we don't want the wildlife to become depended on handouts. There nothing worst than angry earthworms that haven't had their morning grounds.

 

[Crystalship1]

I don't know if they still do.... but you used to be able to go to Starbucks and get all the free grounds you want to add to your garden.

 

[Rooster Cogburn]

We throw ours in the trash, we don't want the wildlife to become depended on handouts. There nothing worst than angry earthworms that haven't had their morning grounds.

Tremors comes to mind...

 

[Pami]

I don't know if they still do.... but you used to be able to go to Starbucks and get all the free grounds you want to add to your garden.

As a person who lives at Starbucks, yes, they still do this. I usually only see the bags out on the stands in the spring, though, but I'm sure if you ask they'd hook you up with a couple bags.

 

[repair]

You know that putting coffee grounds on gardens is a wast of time in Indiana because of our soil PH.

This practice was started in the eastern states where their soil PH need to be buffered.

Dr Dirt says so

Because of the kind of fish that I keep I have learned a lot about PH and hardness and if you do some searching online you will see that we (Dr Dirt and I) am right.

 

[right winger]

They are good for rose bushes also. I put tea and coffe grounds around my roses.I keep them in the freezer during winter months.

 

[gage]

As a matter of reality, We have a worm compost bin and coffee grounds are very good for the compost...and you plants. Very yummie indeed, Starbucks use to bag up and give their old coffee grounds away for compost etc. Does anyone know if they still do that?

 

[Pami]

As a person who lives at Starbucks, yes, they still do this. I usually only see the bags out on the stands in the spring, though, but I'm sure if you ask they'd hook you up with a couple bags.

As a matter of reality, We have a worm compost bin and coffee grounds are very good for the compost...and you plants. Very yummie indeed, Starbucks use to bag up and give their old coffee grounds away for compost etc. Does anyone know if they still do that?

As noted above.

 

[indyjoe]

You know that putting coffee grounds on gardens is a wast of time in Indiana because of our soil PH.

It is a good thing to test the soil pH. Most coffee grounds are about 6.9 pH, so adding them should not hurt anything. Leaves will make an alkaline compost, so you should not use them if you are trying to go more acid.