Topic: FREE coffee grounds and FREE parking in Peterborough City Centre

[supersprout]

I have been collecting the weekly output of coffee grounds (Brown Gold) from my local Starbucks for nine months and using them in compost. The Starbucks is in the city centre, outside the Cathedral, managed by a very community-minded lady.

The coffee grounds are collected in stout plastic bags, with some paper waste and the odd plastic spoon to take out. They are piled in a trolley which I wheel round to my car once a week, a distance of 30 paces :P In exchange, I bring in fresh veg from the lottie. The staff seem very pleased with this deal!

Now I have enough grounds for the rest of the year, but don't want this lovely stuff to go to waste if someone can use it. It's nicely packaged, friable, and anti-slug! ;D ;D

If you are in or around Peterborough, would you like a FREE regular supply of coffee grounds? I can offer FREE parking outside my flat in the Cathedral precincts so collection will be a doddle, and you could combine an e.g. weekly pickup with shopping in the Metropolis :D

Are there any takers please? There's more than enough to share around :)

[Curryandchips]

Are other gardeners on your complex not interested supersprout? If I lived closer, I would be willing to take some off your hands ...

[MikeB]

SO YOU DON'T DELIVER? ;D ;D

[supersprout]

I was going to offer a swopsie for a high specced waggle-free parsnip planter i.e. not the inferior metal version ;D ;D ;)

[MikeB]

i.e. not the inferior metal version ;D ;D ;)

Go, girl, Go ;D ;D ;D

[cardinalflower]

Thats fab supersprout  ;D

Now am going to ask a silly question. Do you compost these coffee grounds or bury them in the garden as i bury all my used teabags and they turn into compost after a few months!  8)

[supersprout]

Thank you cardinalflower, are you interested :D?
I have used spent coffee grounds in so many ways :P

1. Left in bags to weigh down black plastic and rot down in the bags
2. Layerered as a 'brown' layer in compost heap
3. On their own as a light mulch/soil conditioner to deter slugs, and to warm the beds (dark colour)
4. Layered with spent hops and blood fish and bonemeal in builders' bags to grow squash and Japanese burdock later in the year

NB: not a spade or fork in sight, just gentle sprinkling as becomes a lay-dee ;D ;D ;D

[cardinalflower]

woweee  ;D

I see coffee differently now!
 :P

[CityChick]

Me too - I feel I should resolve to drink more of it now ::)

 ;D

[purple sprouting]

and now you tell me!!!!!

Last week I was in Peterborough for a training course for two days, bought my own coffee grounds.........paid my own parking.........came home without compost!!!