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RE: Coffee filters in the compost...

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A lot of folks have already chimed in on this, but I wanted to add my
solution: permanent filters. No paper to worry about.

I use a basket filter made of strong cotton that's meant to last up to three
years, so I just dump the grounds into my compost bucket, wash the filter
and go!

My mom has a cone filter that's made of metal and is meant to be the last
coffee filter you ever buy. She's had it for about ten years, I think.
Cleaning it is easy -- she just tosses it into the dishwasher.

My $.02.

sara
zone 5, in the heart of chicago

-----Original Message-----
From: JLestochi@aol.com [J*@aol.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 1999 4:41 AM
To: sqft@listbot.com
Subject: Coffee filters in the compost...


Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

Okay, so I've got this great compost pile out back I've been working for the

past 3 years.  Up until this year I've only composted grass clippings and 
yard wastes.  This year I got hooked on gardening and have begun composting 
appropriate kitchen scraps as well...  including coffee grounds.  My wife
has 
been more than cooperative in this venture, but we both make sour faces when

scraping the grounds out of the coffee filter.  Or else we try to shake them

out and wind up with speckled skin and clothes.  Then it dawns on me that 
filter paper's gotta degrade *at least* as fast as some of the other stuff
I 
throw in there.  Right????  Is there any harm?

What do the rest of you do?
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Joe <-- Inherited love of gardening from Dad, Pappy and Grandpap.  Happy 
Father's day!
Langhorne, PA
Zone 6b, I think
p.s. - Many thanks to all of you who offered advice for my last post, "Ants 
on my Big Boys".
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