Well you can possibly guess from the photo above that the coffee collecting has started. I was soooo excited about picking it up today, and rushed to the cafe after work to grab it. There was A LOT of coffee in my bin. Really quite a lot more than I expected. I'd say around three standard size buckets worth. I couldn't help myself either, I stuck my hands in it as soon as we got home. And it felt so fabulous to the touch that I yelled out to the boys to come stick their hands in it too.
If you ever get the chance, you really must try it. The texture is simply marvelous.
Anyway, I dutifully took a sample upstairs and tested it carefully with my fabulous little pH testing kit.
And, if we could have a drumroll please, the results are in. I tested it twice because it seems that I am a little colour blind, but we stuck the little colour chart right into the test patch and concluded that the coffee tested a pH value of 5. So slightly acidic? Most of the research I have been doing on the net seems to suggest that the pH usually tests a little higher, but I am guessing that it must depend on all sorts of factors.
And while I was experimenting...
Lots of people had mentioned that it deters slugs and snails... and so... before work this morning I grabbed a strawberry with a slug on it... and sprinked it with coffee... and... when I got home from work this afternoon - dead slug.
I didn't take any photos of that.
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Ha. Thanks for sparing us the dead slug shot.
I'm buzzing from just the image. Imagine what the garden will do...
I've always wondered if the coffee grounds were good for the garden, I hate to throw them away, sometimes I've even put them in with the chook scraps!(and I wonder why the roosters are up crowing all night!!)
Anyway, Must save them for the garden now.
Oh, must remember to save some grounds after some little buggers started snaking on my sunflower seedlings! Good reminder, thank you.
If it had been me, I would have taken a photo of the dead slug. You know that.
I always put my coffee grounds in the compost bin - which could possibly account for the fact that I don't have much problem with slugs and snails...
All the coffee in Cuba wouldn't rid me of the slugs we've had this year!
Maybe I should go and talk to my local coffee shop about their coffee grinds. Couldn't hurt.
I put my grounds in the compost bin too. I did not know that about coffee grounds and slugs, will have to spread them around a bit more.
Gasp! You murdered a slug! :) Could you please come over and do all mine in as well, I've just about given up on strawberries because the slugs won't leave them alone!
Now I want some of my own coffee grounds to sink my hands in. - that looks amazing Ali. Good luck finding a use for all of it.
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dear Ali, I'm giving you one more chance, but if this terrible murder is repeated I'll just have to call the Royal Society for the Protection of Snails and Slugs (RSPSS). cheers, catmint
Catmint, if you like, call them and have them pick up all my slugs and snails. I surrender :D
The coffee grounds have really worked on the slugs (I don't have any snails, why is that??), I have not seen one on the strawberries since I caffeinated them. I am kind of hoping the rodents don't like the stuff either. If that turns out to be the case, I will be building the Great Wall of Coffee around our home.
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