Coffee Chaff
- Subject: [cg] Coffee Chaff
- From: "Jon Rowley" r*@nwlink.com
- Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 11:51:43 -0700
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I am wondering if any of you have experience with using coffee chaff
as
mulch in your gardens. A fair trade organic coffee roaster (www.peacecoffee.com) just moved into my office building and I have access to an ongoing supply of burlap and coffee chaff. I have been spreading the word about the chaff and burlap among community gardeners. Gardeners are interested, but are wary of putting coffee chaff in their gardens without knowing what affect it will have. Any experiences you can share would be helpful. I'll take creative suggestions for using burlap as well. Corrie Zoll Minneapolis ********************************************************************* Corrie,
I've used coffee chaff both in mulches
and compost. Coffee chaff is a terrific mulch material but I'd recommend mixing
it with other materials otherwise it can, when wet, form an
impervious mat or, if dry, blow away. It is very light and fluffy.
It is also flammable. I once had to hose down a fire in a
garden caused by a live cigarette butt carelessly thrown into a rather deep
coffee chaff mulch.
When you work with coffee chaff as
a mulch material you get the hang of it. A coffee chaff mulch is
great for suppressing weeds around tomato plants and such. A coffee
roaster will also have coffee bean floor sweepings which can be used as mulch as
well as coffee grounds.
For a good use of burlap, check out info
on the "Interbay Mulch" http://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/lists/soil/2000081841014638.html
Good tilth,
Jon Rowley
Interbay P-Patch
Seattle
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