Recycling your coffee grounds into your garden can help your veges grow. We love coffee, we love to drink coffee and we love to recycle. There are many uses for coffee grounds, so keep them and one suggestion is to put them in your garden.

1. Pest Repellent

Sprinkle used coffee grounds around your plants to protect them against destructive garden pests like ants, snails, and slugs.

2. Fertilize Your Garden

Used coffee grounds add nitrogen and potassium to the soil as well as a boost of magnesium which all plants need to stay healthy. Mix your old grounds with dead grass clippings, brown leaves, or dry straw to neutralize some of the acidity, the spread them around your plants. If you grow azaleas, hydrangeas, rhododendrons, camellias, roses, or other acid-loving plants, then used coffee is the fertilizer for you!

This fertilizer isn't a complete fertilizer as it lacks phosphorus and calcium so it isn’t ideal for encouraging blooms and fruiting. You’ll need to add lime or wood ash to the mix if you want to create a complete fertilizer using old coffee grounds.

3. Compost It

If you don’t have a use for coffee ground fertilizer right away, go ahead and throw it on the compost heap. Coffee grounds make excellent “green” matter as they are rich in nitrogen. Also, beneficial worms may be attracted to your compost with the addition of old coffee. Just be careful to limit the amount of grounds that you add to your pile so that you don’t throw off the ratio of “green” to “brown” matter.

4. Caffeine for… Carrots?

Your carrots will grow bigger with a caffeine boost! Before you sow carrot seeds, mix them with some old dried coffee grounds and this will give them an energy boost. Mixing the seeds with coffee grounds has the added bonus of deterring pests that want to eat your carrots before you do.