What do you do with coffee grounds or tea leaves after you've made coffee or tea?

I've known that coffee grounds were good for some plants for years, but didn't know much else. Recently my husband read an article about using coffee grounds to help treat a scale insect on our Sago. So, we are now saving all coffee grounds to use on our Sago and intend to also mulch around all our acid loving plants with them. I've also learned that tea leaves help enrich soil and aid with preventing some pests...so I'm saving tea leaves too.





Do you toss your leftover coffee grounds and tea leaves? Do you use the grounds/tea leaves? If so, how do you use the grounds or leaves?

What do you do with coffee grounds or tea leaves after you've made coffee or tea?
coffee grounds I spread around the foundation of the house to keep out ants.
Reply:I think that you could use them in composting.
Reply:hydrangeas like acidy soil and that makes them turn blue in color, otherwise they are pink. So it's the mixing of the soil with coffee grounds that changes the color.





Tea used to be used as haircolor.
Reply:i throw them in the garbage!!!





God bless you
Reply:I put them both in my plants as you have stated, it also keeps cats from using your garden as a litter box. As far as scale goes on a sago, scale comes from the soil and the soil must be treated to cure it. Malathion and dish soap work wonders, till up the soil and treat it. I would also wait until late in the afternoon and drench the plant with it and then cover the plant over night. You may have to do this several times to cure the scale
Reply:We use them on some plants and we used to compost but we no longer grow enough to deal with it. The tea leaves I have at times put in a pouch of a soft wash cloth and used for my puffy eyes. Lately a lot of the coffee grounds have just been thrown away
Reply:I use them in the garden
Reply:I just throw them out. But my parents use to use the coffee grounds in a compost pile we had in the back yard when we lived in FL.
Reply:We put our coffee grounds on the compost heap, The worms don't get much sleep, but the coffee is great for the gardens.
Reply:I no longer drink coffee and tea, so I don't have any grounds or leaves to dispose of. And if I did, I would just toss them in the trash because I now live in an apartment again (sold my home) and gardening, etc., is not an option.





I discovered that (for me anyway) the caffeine in such products is addictive. I used to get occasional headaches and would take headache mecidation for that, but later learned that the headaches were a withdrawal symptom from caffeine. In other words, if I drank coffee one day, but not the next, I would get a headache. The headache medication which contains caffeine would appease my symptoms. Now that I no longer drink coffee or tea, I have no use for headache medications. Haven't swallowed a tylenol in 30 years. I shared that information with my brother-in-law and he told me "Ya, well you're not married anymore." Hmm, I thought my sister was such a sweetheart and most likely incapable of giving him headaches. Anyway, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, and assume that my no longer having a spouse might be a contibuting factor to my no longer having headaches. But I think the caffeine was the real culprit.





I'm not suggesting that you give up coffee or other caffeine containing products (such as chocolate) if they don't cause you any grief. Just sharing my experience with you.





Oh. Not suggesting you get rid of your spouse either. That was my brother-in-law talking.
Reply:i eat them
Reply:in the compost pile!!!
Reply:i use them in my garden
Reply:Sense I live in an RV trailer, in an RV park with no lawn or plants, I toss mine in the trash.
Reply:ya definately


i use it for enriching the soil as well as making a face wash


really cofee and tea are very use full recidue





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Reply:Smart woman. In Starbucks they give away used coffee grounds for anyone that wants to use it for their garden. Also tea is very good for roses and ferns. Good for you.
Reply:I put in my flower pots in the garden x
Reply:I have been throwing them away, but this year, we are planting a garden. May keep the grounds for that.





My Dad kept them and spread them in the garden. He also rinsed out, dried, and pulverized egg shells to scatter thru the garden.
Reply:I throw mine away, I live in an area where I can't do yard stuff or grow anything
Reply:Coffee grounds are great on roses along with egg shells and cow manure. However, I can only use so many of them so they sometimes get pitched. I did read about a new use. In order to dispose of old or unused medicine and not let it get into the ground water by flushing it or putting it in the dump, you crush the pills, add a little water to dissolve them and put them into a zip lock bag filled with coffee grounds which absorbe the liquid. They wont pollute the environment.
Reply:I hate coffee and use tea bags. I remember my grandma always put them on the soil in the garden and dug them in.
Reply:coffe grounds make a great mulch. tea and tea leaves are good for ferns. I just compost mine along with the rest of the kitchen vegetable waste.
Reply:I periodically put coffee grounds, with lots of water, on my Azalea plants and it makes them flower like mad. Only do it now and again. They are an acid soil plant.





Green tea I keep sometimes, and pat my face with the cold tea (after I have drunk some - you realize how good this is for you right?) it is good for the skin, refreshes helps with blotches and cleanses from the outside as well as the inside when you drink it.





I take the seeds of Avocado's and grow them/ Have a 7ft one from way back. Also I have a large Mango tree grown from seed.
Reply:We put our coffee grounds into our compost heap..it's great for gardens.