Are coffee grounds truly good for garden soil?

In a word? Yes.
The burnt kind. I dump them into my compost, around rose bushes, azaleas, etc. all the time.

I find that they also work pretty well at getting rid of ant hills. Just pile them on, and I guess the ants just move...Don't believe it kills them, but they do vacate the area!

We do trench composting and have used them for years.

I don't throw any coffee grounds away............ever. Depending on the time of the year, I am either broadcasting the grounds around azaleas or dumping them into my potting media. I custom make all my own potting mixes in a 5 cf. wheelbarrow. I just mix it into the media. It does no good in the short-term, but given time, these grounds become a weak organic fertilizer. I used to believe that the grounds were acidic, and thus my using it around the azaleas. It is basically neutral, but still, as it breaks down around those bushes, it feeds them organically.

YES! They are full of nitrogen, and the caffeine doesn't do the plants any harm either. I put all of mine in the composter. I also sometimes take old coffee that got cold in the pot and use it to water my plants.

They also work well as a cat deterrent ... My neighbor's cat used to love to use my freshly mulched beds for her cat box. I sprinkled dried, used coffee grounds on top of my mulch and I never had any problems finding cat poo in the mulch after I started top dressing the mulch with a bit of coffee grounds ...

That's a great idea, that I hadn't thought about! Thanks Lyn! Bye-Bye Kitty's!!!!

Wallflower said:Are coffee grounds truly good for garden soil?

Yes, yes, and yes. But used coffee grounds.

Thank you very much everyone!😄
The part about the cats is a huge bonus!!!!!front yard will be cast few very soon!!!!!! 😆

I did not know that, Lyn. When I bring my (best) blooming plumeria inside the solarium to over-winter, my Puff loves to curl up in the pots. I guess the potting soil is cool. I am going to try that. Of course, I guess I will end up with a solarium that has the aroma of a Starbucks. I guess there are worse smells.

If I had to choose between the scent of coffee and cat poo ... no contest ...

RoseBlush1 said:If I had to choose between the scent of coffee and cat poo ... no contest ...

No poo, just cat-in-the-pot. She gets dirty.