{"id":591,"date":"2009-07-08T10:35:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T10:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/07\/gardening-and-composting-with-free-starbucks-coffee-grounds.html"},"modified":"2009-07-08T10:35:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T10:35:51","slug":"gardening-and-composting-with-free-starbucks-coffee-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/07\/gardening-and-composting-with-free-starbucks-coffee-grounds.html","title":{"rendered":"Gardening and Composting with Free Starbucks Coffee Grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" height=\"276\" alt=\"compost.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/84\/import\/compost.jpg\" width=\"212\" \/><\/span>Did you know that allegedly you can walk into any Starbucks and request free spent coffee grounds to enrich your garden or compost? Me either! I haven&#8217;t actually tried this yet, not having a garden and all, but the company even has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starbucks.com\/aboutus\/compost.asp\">this whole composting\/gardening section<\/a> on&nbsp;its website. And <a href=\"http:\/\/blogsearch.google.com\/blogsearch?hl=en&amp;rls=com.microsoft:en-us&amp;q=starbucks%20compost&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wb\">bloggers galore<\/a> confirm it. <\/p>\n<p>The section offers tips to balance out coffee&#8217;s acidity when adding to soil, advising that it should be used &#8220;as a top dressing to acid loving plants like blueberries, hydrangeas, and azaleas&#8221; and should be no more than 25 percent of your compost pile. Apparently composting worms like it too. The companys&nbsp;says coffee grounds&nbsp;have nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium. <\/p>\n<p>Clearly we don&#8217;t want to take the company&#8217;s word for it, so check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunset.com\/garden\/earth-friendly\/starbucks-coffee-compost-test-00400000016986\/\">Sunset magazine&#8217;s independent test of Starbuck&#8217;s coffee grounds<\/a>. They sent the free grounds to a lab for analysis and confirmed the mineral content, also noting that they release nitrogen as the decompose&#8211;also a good thing. And here&#8217;s a handy &#8220;how to&#8221; on using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehow.com\/how_4819953_compost-starbucks-coffee-grounds.html\">grounds from eHow.com<\/a>. They suggest first testing the&nbsp;ph level of your soil.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to check out the benefits of coffee on yourself, check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Health\/2009\/05\/Hidden-Health-Secrets-of-Coffee.aspx\">Health Secrets of Coffee<\/a> gallery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you garden or compost with coffee grounds?&nbsp;How does it work for you?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that allegedly you can walk into any Starbucks and request free spent coffee grounds to enrich your garden or compost? Me either! I haven&#8217;t actually tried this yet, not having a garden and all, but the company even has this whole composting\/gardening section on&nbsp;its website. And bloggers galore confirm it. 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