- Sprinkle them on top of the soil in your potplants, to keep slugs, snails and ants away.
- Coffee grounds contain nitrogen, potassium & magnesium, so use them to fertilize your garden. Acid-loving plants like roses, azaleas and hydrangeas will thrive in coffee grounds. You can also pour your left-over diluted coffee directly on plants as a fertilizer
- It also makes an effective mulch in the summertime on your potplants, to increase water retention and prevent evaporation
- Put some grounds in a small bowl and place it inside your refrigerator to absorb strong food smells like garlic and onion.
- Add them to your compost bin
- Scrub your face with coffee grounds – it’s a skin defoliant
- Put a large pinch of coffee grounds in the bottom of a vase to add life to cut flowers
- If you’ve been handling fish or seafood, scrub your hands with coffee grounds to remove the stinky smell
- Mix coffee grounds with baking soda and a little water and you have an abrasive cleaner for your pots and pans.
- After shampooing your pets, rub some coffee grounds through their fur and rinse, for a flea repellent
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