Two ideas for making use of coffee grounds…

Of course, you could simply throw your coffee grounds in the bin, but some of you may be creative, environmentally aware, or open to different ideas. If so, read on… First idea: use it to touch up scratched furniture. Some clever minded soul has posted this suggestion online with a view to helping us to improve the quality of battered wooden furniture. How does this suggestion work? The idea is to use coffee grounds to cover up the scratches by colouring the wood to a similar shade as the rest of the furniture – as such, this coffee-ground-tip only really works on medium or dark stained furniture.
How to do it? Dip a cotton wool bud into some old coffee grounds and paste it over the scratches in the furniture. Wipe away around ten minutes later. And (hopefully) hey presto!

Second idea: use the coffee grounds to make some mulch for your soil. The better quality the soil, the better chance plants have at keeping their roots nice and healthy.

How to do it? Aerate the soil first, but turning over the earth. Once this has been done initially, you can let the earthworms take over this process in subsequent years. Next it’s time to add the compost – and this is where the coffee grounds come in. Of course, you can buy good organic compost, but did you realise that you can also scatter coffee grounds on your beds? About an inch will do. Finally, add mulch.

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