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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: TISH on April 07, 2011, 10:43:17

Title: Coffee Chaff
Post by: TISH on April 07, 2011, 10:43:17
Someone recently gave me a garbage bag full of coffee bean chaff (comes off the beans during roasting I think). I am not sure what to do with it. Internet search came up with the info that it is a good mulch but doesn't let water through - so not exactly sure what plants that would benefit...

Anyone have any experience with it?
Title: Re: Coffee Chaff
Post by: aquilegia on April 07, 2011, 14:13:02
does it smell like coffee? I'm not sure too much about the chaff, but I know you can use coffee grounds to form a ring around plants to keep slugs off them. Might be worth a try?