Coffee Grounds in the Garden?

ZBQ · March 31, 2007

Ok guys, you have me ready to start collecting coffee grounds form Starbucks but I have a couple of questions.

Everyone has said that the coffee grounds "attract" earthworms and this sounds great but I have one concern.

What about moles?

Will the abundance of earthworms "attract" moles to my raised beds? We have a fairly bad mole problem around here and that would be the last thing I would need is to have my tomato beds assaulted by those nasty little things!!

The deer are bad enough!!

Also, Monday I am going to be in Columbus and there are a bunch of Starbucks there and I was thinking of hitting quite a few since I don't get there very often.

How much UCG do you think I could put in my beds that overall measure 50X3 feet without harm prior to my spring tilling? Then till them in. Is it possible to add too much at once?

Last fall I spread about 50# of alfalfa pellets over the same area and let it lay over winter and I have about 7 or 8 buckets of rabbit poop that has set over the winter (in the buckets)that I was going to till in as well. Do you think all of these would be too much?

March 31, 2007	#23
ZBQ Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Southern Ohio Posts: 170	Ok guys, you have me ready to start collecting coffee grounds form Starbucks but I have a couple of questions. Everyone has said that the coffee grounds "attract" earthworms and this sounds great but I have one concern. What about moles? Will the abundance of earthworms "attract" moles to my raised beds? We have a fairly bad mole problem around here and that would be the last thing I would need is to have my tomato beds assaulted by those nasty little things!! The deer are bad enough!! Also, Monday I am going to be in Columbus and there are a bunch of Starbucks there and I was thinking of hitting quite a few since I don't get there very often. How much UCG do you think I could put in my beds that overall measure 50X3 feet without harm prior to my spring tilling? Then till them in. Is it possible to add too much at once? Last fall I spread about 50# of alfalfa pellets over the same area and let it lay over winter and I have about 7 or 8 buckets of rabbit poop that has set over the winter (in the buckets)that I was going to till in as well. Do you think all of these would be too much? __________________ "To wander this country and this world looking for the best barbecue — and never actually finding it would be a life well spent, a delicious journey in which enlightenment comes with the search — not the arrival." - Anthony Bourdain