These are direct quotes from an email I received about uses for coffee grounds. "Years ago, I grew a salsa garden of tomatoes, hot peppers, bell peppers, onions and garlic. I worked broken egg shells and used coffee grounds into the garden soil. Watered with liquid fish fertilizer. No pesticides. There were no pests, no nibbled on leaves. The pungent odor of the garlic, peppers and onion might have repelled the pests without any additional help, but I like to think creating a nutrient-rich soil with used coffee grounds and egg shells contributed to my pest-free garden.
1. Fertilize plants. Old coffee grounds are nutrient-rich for plants that thrive in an acidic soil.
2. Add used coffee grounds to the pots of indoor plants.
3. Work used coffee grounds into your garden soil before seed planting. After your plants start to emerge, work in coffee grounds near the plants. Used coffee grounds are said to repel snails and slugs as well as adding nutrients to the soil.
4. Increase your carrot and radish harvest by mixing seeds with dry coffee grounds before planting the seeds.
5. Use coffee grounds to repel ants.
6. Keep cats from using your garden as a kitty box by spreading used coffee grounds and orange peels throughout flower beds."

~Jeanann

Thanks.