Coffee Grounds: 8 Uses for Home and Garden

Can’t you start your day without your morning coffee? While this dark brew is great for giving you energy, its residue can help you maintain your home and vegetable garden.

Instead of throwing them away, you can keep them and do some gardening, especially when the warmer months arrive.

So what are you waiting for? Here are all the ways to use coffee grounds in the garden and at home.

1 – COFFEE GROUNDS FOR TOP-NOTCH PIPES

Coffee grounds also help maintain pipes without resorting to chemical drain unblockers. They remove grease that clumps on the walls of pipes, as well as soap residue, hair and hair that always end up blocking pipes. You can pour a spoonful into the sink and washbasins every day and then run a little very hot water. It is an extremely effective natural solution to put an end to pipes that regularly get clogged and there is no longer any risk of suffering the inconveniences due to nauseating odors coming up from the pipes.

2 – CLEAN THE WOOD

Mixed with water and white vinegar, coffee grounds become a magic ingredient to clean wood and restore its beautiful original color. To do this, let your potion infuse for an hour, then apply it to your wood before rinsing.

3 – FERTILIZE THE PLANT

Perhaps the most famous alternative method of using coffee grounds: fertilizing the plant.

You can actually fertilize plants in two ways.

The first is to take the coffee grounds and chop them into smaller pieces, until you get a real powder.

Then spread it on the soil of the plant you want to fertilize.

Alternatively, you can take 2 coffee grounds and steep them in 2 L of water for about 24 hours.

Filter and use the resulting water as irrigation water.

Be careful, however, coffee grounds should only be used as fertilizer for acid-loving plants.

4 – IT KEEPS AWAY WASPS

In summer, wasps can be a real problem. To repel them, a grandmother’s trick is to burn dry coffee grounds in a thick container. In addition to giving off a very pleasant smell for you, the smoke has a repellent effect on insects.

5 – ANT REPELLENT

Sow it in areas where you have ants: terrace, garden, balcony but also in your vegetable garden. It will be effective in repelling slugs and snails without killing them.

6 – CLEANING A CHIMNEY

A little bit of grounds can also make cleaning your chimney easier (not always easy), and without having to use any additional chemicals or dangerous products!

Here’s how to clean sooty, dusty fireplace walls with coffee grounds: After moistening them, apply a little coffee grounds along the walls of the fireplace, then rub with a soft, slightly damp cloth. This will magically capture the ashes, in addition to cleaning the walls!

7 – REPEL CATS FROM YOUR FLOWERS

Does your beloved kitty love to come and walk in your flowerbeds and relieve himself there? Know that by using it as fertilizer, not only will your flowers be more beautiful, but your cat will no longer want to approach them!

8 – HUNT FOR SNAILS

Behind their harmless and almost friendly appearance, there is a danger for our plants: we are talking about snails.

These small animals, in fact, love to feed on the plant, biting its leaves.

Sometimes finding pitted leaves is the clearest indication of the presence of snails.

To keep them away, nothing could be simpler: sprinkle coffee grounds dust around the most affected plants.

This way you will create a natural barrier that snails will not be able to cross.

A secret to an even more effective barrier? Mix coffee grounds with ash or eggshells.