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Obtain Free Used Coffee Grounds

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Starbucks Gardening hack to control weeds and fertilize for free!!

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Visit a local coffee shop, such as Starbucks, and inquire about their used coffee grounds program. Many establishments offer these grounds for free as part of their 'Grounds for your Garden' initiative or similar recycling programs, often bagged in their original coffee bags or other containers, to customers for gardening purposes. The presenter suggests visiting around 2:00 PM in the afternoon to avoid peak times and ensure a higher chance of availability, as this is when the morning rush's used grounds are often ready.

Goal: Locate and acquire free, used coffee grounds from a local coffee shop to use in your garden.

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  • Used Coffee Grounds

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show you now so these are grounds for your garden they are from starbucks and i'm going to get dirty hands here in just a second but i've been testing out a plant bed with this stuff and what this is again is just old coffee grounds they take and recycle the bags that they pour coffee out of and inside here is that black gold guys so inside there is black gold for your garden and what i've been doing is simply pouring this stuff out in my garden in this garden bed to try and show you the difference in the two garden beds i've got one garden bed down here that is in dire need of weeding and then i have this garden bed which is not in dire need of weeding because i've used the starbucks coffee grounds now should you compost these yes you can compost these if you've got one of those little compost rollers or if you've got a compost pile it's free you walk into starbucks typically you walk right in the door and there are bags like that sitting right by the door for you to scoop up and for you to take home and use so they don't waste this product which is really really cool now if you've got starbucks in your local area and check your other coffee shops too ask them if they'll save your grounds their grounds for you if you've got people that garden in your area you may want to hit up the starbucks about two o'clock in the afternoon if possible that's when uh you you beat the crowd in other words people get off of work they stop by and they get it if you can beat the crowd you end up getting the spoils so let me show you exactly what we do and how we put it around the garden and we'll also show you a section of garden that i have not weeded and i have not used this product and i'm telling you it works it's really cool so simply put you can

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