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Is there any reason you can't reuse coffee grounds?
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I throw them into the compost bin or straight into the rose bushes dirt. Put I do put dirt over them. Covers the smell.
Very long. True.
Our plants and flowers, flower beds, heathers, shrubs and bedding plants just love coffee grounds and positively thrive on them.
I'd read years ago that once they begin breaking down in a few weeks, they provide phosphorus and nitrogen to the roots. It encourages green growth and flower/fruit development. Our hyacinths love tea leaves though.
Was just coming to post this. Old grounds make excellent compost material.
They have high nitrogen content, so it's a great fertilizer, which reinforces the idea that you don't want to brew old grounds. It doesn't take long for stuff to start growing in it, particularly fungus.
Good for garden...not good for drinking!
UNTHINKABLE,YACK!!!I drink quite a bit of coffee and usually reuse the same grounds twice, it tastes about the same to me but everyone else who drinks coffee tends to think its a sickening idea.
Now that said, the only thing I'd use them for is the compost pile! How cheap can you get??
I drink quite a bit of coffee and usually reuse the same grounds twice, it tastes about the same to me but everyone else who drinks coffee tends to think its a sickening idea.
Depends how much of a coffee snob you are.
Some places even do "pulled short" shots that apparently taste better.
If you can't tell the difference or don't mind using them twice, go for it.
I made the mistake of using them for various mint plants a few times before the nitrogen factor popped up in my head. I divided the overgrowth. I now have several dozen large mint bushes. I do use a fine netting to keep them away from moths and other bugs.Was just coming to post this. Old grounds make excellent compost material.
They have high nitrogen content, so it's a great fertilizer, which reinforces the idea that you don't want to brew old grounds. It doesn't take long for stuff to start growing in it, particularly fungus.
Good for garden...not good for drinking!
Haha, this is a funny thread.
I just began to do the same sometimes when I run out of my coffee capsules and don't get awake enough to do anything. It really tastes almost the same if I use the capsule again an hour later, but if there is still caffein in there I can't really say.
Usually I need at least three of them to be really awake. I think it's some kind of espresso. It did it not that often and maybe it's just a placebo effect, but it feels like there is still enough caffein in it.
I think I would recognize a placebo effect, because one day I accidentally drank four caffein free without knowing it and did not came out of my bed almost the whole day.
I just began to do the same sometimes when I run out of my coffee capsules and don't get awake enough to do anything. It really tastes almost the same if I use the capsule again an hour later, but if there is still caffein in there I can't really say.
Usually I need at least three of them to be really awake. I think it's some kind of espresso. It did it not that often and maybe it's just a placebo effect, but it feels like there is still enough caffein in it.
I think I would recognize a placebo effect, because one day I accidentally drank four caffein free without knowing it and did not came out of my bed almost the whole day.
Lol, this is also known as just growing mint.
Well, I may run the risk of sounding as though I am veritably ancient, but, in the very long, warm, hot (by our more usual wet, windswept, sodden, standards) and sunny summer of 1995, our basil - normally nursed lovingly in small pots, and shivering horribly as it has been transplanted from its more usual balmy sunny Italian climes, suddenly burst forth into the sort of mad, passionate growth that necessitated endless re-potting into much larger and ever more commodious containers.
It positively blossomed, and, instead of having to be nursed gingerly, thrived for the only time I have ever seen this happen in our sodden corner of north west Europe…..the warmth and well as the sunlight encouraging it to grow.
My mother - who was the gardening expert (and gifted at it, too) thought it hilarious, and managed to keep those basil plants healthy and growing until well into November.
reminded me of this cover
just keep a few leaves going on at all times and nip all the flowering, and it will last long.
i have a still productive basil plant in my apartment which is 2 years old. the base of the plant has turned woody
Lol, this is also known as just growing mint.
Its fast growth it often overstated. SoCal soil isn't too idea for mint, and its runners tend to die off fast.
Genovese basil? Depending on where you live, it can die and then come back again. I've got one plant that's a bush, but I've had it for several years now. I assume it's in a good position. It's woody and has new growth. In a better environment, I've heard of genovese growing throughout the year.
Of the mints family, spearmint and what I believe is called Israeli mint (no idea of its actual name) are incredibly easy to kill off. Lemon balm, while not a true mint, will die and flourish within 2 days of a deep watering. It's quite odd.
In 1995, if memory serves, I think that my Mother finally put the basil into the airing cupboard - nice, and warm, and dry - for a short while - where it managed to thrive a while longer that particular November.
Mind you, she is (or was) one of these individuals born with the proverbial 'green fingers'. Plants responded to her encouragement, and positively glowed under her praise and strangely negligent attention.
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Well, I haven't grown anything in SoCal, but my mint has, in the past, been so aggressive that it jumps pots (you wouldn't dare plant it in the ground).
Jumps pots? A plant with lebensraum in mind?
Mother used to talk to her plants, sometimes. She would lean down over them, and wag a finger, admonishing, encouraging, or, offering a polite threat. ("You're on your final chance. You need to do something, or...".) Or, to a marauding plant, a reprimand would be in order, along with a brandished exquisitely made secateurs (which Mother knew very well how to use).
Somehow, most of the time, the plants responded. And, if they didn't, the consequences could be quite severe…..
Curious, where do you live? I know just how bad mint can be, which is why I don't have an issue. But berries thrive here due to the sandy-ish soil.
I've heard this myself. I've never done it, mostly because I don't fancy being branded a quack by my neighbors overhearing me in the yard. Mythbusters did a special on it many years ago and the results were inconclusive. I imagine the sound waves stimulate growth in some fashion. Possibly penetrating just under the medium's surface and hitting the roots.
I have no idea whether the plants responded to tone, or the actual words, or, whether 'sound waves' also worked.
However, I do know that my Mother has had the proverbial 'green fingers'; in a garden, she had flair, creativity, a great eye for texture and colour, knowing when to prune and when to tweak and when to cosset, and yes, since my father's death eleven years ago, until she became too ill to attend to such things, she used to derive great solace and pleasure from her garden and she did talk to the plants, entirely unselfconsciously, and with much enjoyment. Now, she was good at stuff such as snail killing, too, a strategically aimed trowel, and occasionally, evil chemicals did for them when she spotted their slimy trails.
She threatened, she cajoled, she coaxed, she bribed , she (occasionally) bullied, and she chatted, and, oddly, it seemed to work.
Ah, well most of my experience growing has been in Michigan, but I no longer live there. My partner lives in Alabama right now, which is where we have been doing our planting the past couple years. I'm currently in northern CA. Unfortunately, space is a bit of a scarce commodity in the Bay Area, and I don't have much to work with.
You thought I would share?
my wifeI drink quite a bit of coffee and usually reuse the same grounds twice, it tastes about the same to me but everyone else who drinks coffee tends to think its a sickening idea.
No problem, you just get a decaf coffee. If it's of good quality the taste will be good, although different. Just don't let it sit too long (more than 3 hours ) or it will start to grow mold etc.I drink quite a bit of coffee and usually reuse the same grounds twice, it tastes about the same to me but everyone else who drinks coffee tends to think its a sickening idea.
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NO!! That's the way to make decaf so you don't load your nervous system with too much caffeine, and it's a good way to save some money and Recycle.....Um gross? You should need to thoroughly dry it if you want to reuse it. Why do you want to reuse them anyways? Coffee been shortage?
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Yeah...exactly, it's a good way to get naturally decaf coffee
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Bleah! that's crap
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because the first rebrew is good, the second it's usually too watery, unless the coffee it's superior quality....Right?
Reminds me of those World War Two stories one heard from grandparents, the ones where, because tea was rationed, it was re-used.
Mind you, when observing an election in Gorazde (in Bosnia) a few years ago - which had been besieged for ages by Serbs during the Yugoslav War of the early 1990s (and hadn't fallen), I leaned that they never drank anything other than fresh coffee. All through the Balkans, the coffee culture is impressive and it is almost impossible to obtain a poor cup of coffee.
Actually, I was informed that during the siege a thriving black market (at night) operated in and around the town, when hostilities would temporarily cease.
Cooking oil, coffee and cigarettes were the preferred commodities, and people I knew in the city swore that whatever else they ran out of during the siege, they never an out of coffee, cigarettes or cooking oil.
The idea of re-using coffee grounds would have struck them as an appalling lapse in taste.
Mind you, when observing an election in Gorazde (in Bosnia) a few years ago - which had been besieged for ages by Serbs during the Yugoslav War of the early 1990s (and hadn't fallen), I leaned that they never drank anything other than fresh coffee. All through the Balkans, the coffee culture is impressive and it is almost impossible to obtain a poor cup of coffee.
Actually, I was informed that during the siege a thriving black market (at night) operated in and around the town, when hostilities would temporarily cease.
Cooking oil, coffee and cigarettes were the preferred commodities, and people I knew in the city swore that whatever else they ran out of during the siege, they never an out of coffee, cigarettes or cooking oil.
The idea of re-using coffee grounds would have struck them as an appalling lapse in taste.