Do Compost Worms Eat Coffee Grounds Nutritious or Dangerous? (Morning Pick Me Up)
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- Do compost worms really like to eat coffee grounds. The question being are they nutritious, dangerous or dam right awesome?
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These worms sure do love a range of foods and different food types definitely have different benefits.
I find that feeding them grains helps them lay more eggs, with rice being a real winner.
Some pro worm farmers use organic pellets that are high in vitamins and proteins.
However, they can be expensive, where the coffee from the cafe is free.
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I know most of the world likes to drink coffee, seems worms are quite partial to a pick me up also.
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Marty you can pin this comment, or any other, so it stays at the top of the comment section. Best wishes Bob.
Thanks @@BobMelsimpleliving. for letting me know,,much appreciated
Great video, Marty.
I've been using coffee grounds with my worms by years. But now I use it around the hydrangeas. Every month. With incredible results.
That's cool,,I have some Hydrangeas also,,,will give it a try.
Thanks for sharing with me.
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Marty
Loved the video.
Thanks a lot
Thank you, a great introduction to this for me!👍👊
Glad it was helpful!
Hi Marty, loved this video. Am going to the garden now to add my coffee grounds from this morning's coffee.
Hi Kathy, coffee is awesome and 100% free from anywhere that sells coffee.
It's definitely an undervalued free resource that just ends up in landfills. If you just have a small amount, put it in the same spot for a while and it will attract the worms...Earthworms love it too!
Thanks for watching
Marty
Thanks for the advice we just started a little worm farm and were wondering about the use of used coffee grounds. So thanks for this informative video!
Coffee grounds are wonderful. If you are really interested in using them *I am creating some recipes using coffee grounds* and cardboard that may interest you. They are going into the Worm Wranglers members area soon. Check this out Eric ruclips.net/channel/UCnPkv-JUX4Pqn_LYbykzAtwjoin
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Marty
Good morning Marty, Greetings from Windermere, Florida zone 9b 🇺🇲
I give my Can-O-Worms wigglers coffee grounds every single morning along with a banana peel and strawberry 🍓 tops. 12 years later I have a healthy little garden 👩🌾👍🪱💩
Your doing great work spreading the Worm word👩🌾👍🪱🪱💩
Thanks for sharing and caring
@@martysgarden my pleasure. Thanks for doing all you do 🪱💚🪱
Worms are always concentrated in my compost bins where I last dumped coffee grounds. Apparently they love it and congregate anywhere there are grounds.
They sure do Paul, I think it even attracts them to an area at times😀
Nice just wanted to learn about coffee in the heap thanks mate
No problem 👍
Hello nice to find your channel.
Welcome to Marty's Garden channel. Hope you enjoy the content Michael
I’m from USA nice job!
Hi Rocko from the USA!
Hello Marty, I am interested to use coffee grounds to add futility to my garden, hence watching your informative video on the subject. It gives me a starting point to work towards using my successful worm farm, compost bin and garden in general. Over the years I have continued to add large amounts of organic matter, and now want to start using the excess amounts of coffee grounds from cafes in town. I saw coffee grounds at a cafe yesterday, to give away for free, and thought why not start using this product usually thrown out. Thank you for your video, it is very good.
Hi William, that's great. Get in there and use this amazing free resource. Mix it with a carbon source and you will end up with an awesome compost...coffee grounds are everywhere.
I use coffee grinds, in the worm farms I ix it in with the diced up scraps use hardwood saw dust as well, I have a tumbler mix 50/50 grinds with hardwood saw dust makes a beautiful compost, I also put about 10 cups of grinds in a bucket fill it up with water then use the liquid 100ml with 100ml worm T 2 level table spoons of epsom salts in 10 litre water can stand back and watch the growth
Hi Alan,,,thanks so much for sharing that with us all,,,very cool.
My main bedding these days to start off with,,is a chemical free sawdust,,,30% coffee grounds,,,works well for me too!
After that I add other things like cow and chicken manure near the end.
Once it's cooled down I then let the worms run through it..
Have an awesome weekend,
Marty
Hi i'm rich and i just started my first worm farm this week like on the 21st of this month. I have the worm farm 5 tier i think its called the 360 tower but i could be wrong . I also have 1000 worms all to start and i am able to keep all of this indoors in my basement the tamp. is kept like the rest of the house so they have the same living condition as i have. And im just learning about worm farming and I know this will be hard work and it will not happen over night. So i watch your videos i really liked this one it is the first one that told me about the coffee grounds now i know that i can feed them to the worms thank you.
Glad to see I could help Richard. If you really want to get going without having to do hours of research take a look at this. ruclips.net/channel/UCnPkv-JUX4Pqn_LYbykzAtwjoin It's all in here in fast easy quick vids. Cheers Marty😀
Thanks for doing this video. Can you talk about onions in worm,its hot topic. Got some Starbucks coffee and I let it set in my yarn in the bag that coffee came in. A year or two the worm were loving it. They made their bed in the bag. These worm were just worms from my yard.
Hi Alechia, I will look more into the onion thing,,see what I can find out. I do put it in my compost bins where the worms eat it. Sounds like they loved that bag of coffee and it made a nice home for them.
Thanks for sharing and watching my latest video.
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Marty
I have that much I'm burying it in holes around the Yard to encourage more worms around the yard
Hey Marty just saw your channel on Justin Browns live stream .... great production on your channel ... I use my worm production for my garden and sell a few worms from our farm gate stall. Regards Russell
Hi Free Radicals, that's cool that you found me on that live show. Been watching Justin for a while now. Thanks for the feedback on my production. I joined his members site to work on taking it further.
Be nice to keep in touch.
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Marty
Nice looking power cat across the street!!!!!!!!!.
Yes,,for sure
Seems to be great worm food. Best wishes Bob.
Hi Bob,,as you know would know,,they like lots of different, but especially fond of coffee.
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Marty & Karin
Thanks Marty.
Put my hungry bin inside added 4inches to one side of the bin. Put a compost thermometer. Hopefully it doesn't get too hot.
Yer, keep an eye on that. But I think you should be sweet!😀
I've not used coffee grounds but my worms do like tea. It's prob cause I'm in the uk. 😆
Hehehe, yes UK Worms like a morning cuppa to hehe.
Thanks for watching and saying hi
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Marty
Marty Where abouts in OZ are you I'm on the Mid North coast NSW
I am in Mullumbimby Gary. I was at North Haven for a few years recently
Hi Marty, whats the best to feed them, 3 months old coffee or older or fresh.
Either but fresh used grounds work best for me, aged starts to go moldy in my experience
I can only handle decaf. I buy organic decaf so wonder if that's okay
yes that's okay
I’m in Perth with sandy limestone soils, it loves coffee grounds.
My compost bin has the usual red compost worms, after using coffee grounds it has been taken over by big fat bush worms ! Awesome very happy.
Way cool, love it!😎
How do you protect your worms from rodents or critters? Thanks for sharing.
That's a tricky one. The more exposed the outdoor compost is, the less attack it gets from Mice ect. Because they don't like to risk being out in the open.
The other way is I cover mine with shade cloth,,,keeps the birds out.
Snails and slugs don't like the coffee grounds as it's too rough.
Hope that helps.
Thanks for watching
Marty
@@martysgarden Great information. Thanks for your reply.
@@AJsGreenTopics your welcome
Hello Marty,I am collecting coffee grounds from Starbucks,for now I am throwing it to my composting 20 gal.Garbage can,adding some dry leaves ,kitchen waste,(veggies,fruits,shredded brown paper) layer by layer I add little bit of coffee ground,but I haven’t turn it,is that Okay just keep on adding and cover it up.
Look at getting your carbon to nitrogen correct, coffee grounds and kitchen scraps are counted as nitrogen,,leaves, sticks, bark, paper are carbon. Hope that helps? Please consider subscribing to my channel if you havent already as I am sure you will like the up and coming content. Thanks Marty😀
Coffee grounds are definitely excellent for composting. A great combo are leaves and coffee grounds for composting. The leaves and coffee break down and red wrigglers in it love it. I did this last year from around May and my compost heap is basically a heap of worm castings.
The worms survived the hot dry summer too as I think the heap had the mass a size for the worms to take shelter in, plus the heap never dried out. The heap is in a sheltered area under a large tree and behind a tall hedge so that helps too.
Once I dumped a bucket of coffee grounds in my worm farm. The worms did not survive it. Your method of spreading out handfuls of grounds is the way to go.
Hi Karl,,,I am about to add some grounds to a pile of grass cuttings I have been collecting. I am making it as a trap to capture free range compost worms that escape my wind rows and farms.
I find that just a little coffee in the plastic farms is the way to go for sure.
The method of spreading onto of the pile,,,I do fork it through if the air isn't getting in...but that usually if it's place onto to thick.
They really do love it,,and as you said great for composting.
Thanks heaps for watching and sharing here with me and the community.
Happy Gardening
Marty Ware
I agree coffee is great, although this limits the diversity of nutrients. There should be much more nutrients than just 5. 100 seems better. Add ash, add newspaper soaked in water and stirred into mush, add bones. Leaves crushed. But the best thing you can add is compost! Make it their bedding
It's just one food source of many,,and a quite good one at that. However, you're getting off-topic which is Do Compost Worms Eat Coffee Grounds? That's what we are discussing here. If you see my other videos I talk about many different food sources and beddings.
how do you know when the coffee grounds have been fully composted?
They lose smell and look like compost,,,usually the worms eat most of it and turn it into castings.
@@martysgarden I can get upwards of 10 gallons of spent coffee grounds a week. So I'm considering sprinkling them onto my grass or attempting worm compost with them
Mate I have the same tumbler, and was bloody shocked to see a worm in there haha. I am like, how the hell did you climb up the stand of the tumbler, all the way into the barrel?! Amazing.
By the way, arent you worried about spinning the worms around in the tumbler and disorientating the worms?
Healthy looking worms there Marty, but I got one question for you.
How the heck are you going to know when you've reached a million worms?
Hope you're not going to give Karin the chore of counting them !
hehehe
Hmm that's a good question,,,I will have to work off weights, how many worms square feet.
I have a few things up my sleeve,
Karin would give up after counting then hehehe.
Have a lovely weekend
Marty
Can they eat decaf coffee grounds?
yes, as long as it's used
What type of worms do you have in the garden. If they are red wigglers, do they eat the roots of your live plants?
No they don't eat the roots,,I have 4 different types of compost worms with Tigers being the larger in number
Thank you.
I tried to subscribe , but , got an error code network problem [503] !!!
That's strange, try again later on my channel url. Must be a youtube issue Ken
Wait so can they eat coffee grounds that have already been used to make coffee
They sure do, and love it. I have more vids about this right through my channel. Thanks for watching😀
Do you think worms produce "more" castings, if they eat the coffee grounds? I know coffee tends to move things along the digestive track in humans. Does it do the same thing with worms? Do they eat more and produce more castings?
That's a great question Jo. It's the nitrogen in the coffee that kicks things off. That's why some farmers including me coat their worm food in coffee grounds. I coat and soak my egg cartons in it and it really speeds things along. Sets of the fungi too! Check out the rest of my latest videos and you will see it all in action. 😀
What about jar coffee ?:)
Needs to be processed I would say
@@martysgarden thanks dude...I decided to use tea bag innards seems ok :)
I bet your neighbours love seeing piles of compost all over the place, right next to their well groomed properties, & the smell must be great in the summer, hmm rotting veg, lav it.
No because I dont use rotting veg, there is no smell other than coffee grounds. Otherwise I would have been closed years ago. My neighbours buy my compost and fully support what I do.
Do you sell your compost?
Yes, I do from my home at North Haven
If you are an organic gardener, I would never use non-organic coffee grounds. Coffee is the most heavily sprayed crop in the world! Second most sprayed is strawberries
Yer, but by the time it goes through a process of dried, heated and composted its very good. My worms love it and it has never once created an issue. Growing some of my best crops ever. As I sold this as well, many, many others had similar results. Straight from the source though,,yer it would be horrible stuff