{"id":791820,"date":"2026-10-04T16:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791820\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T16:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:12:13","slug":"gardeners-urged-to-spread-coffee-grounds-over-1-area-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791820\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardeners urged to spread coffee grounds over 1 area in October"},"content":{"rendered":"

People are being urged to spread their spent coffee grounds outside to help benefit one key area of their garden.\"Coffee<\/p>\n

Gardeners urged to spread coffee grounds over 1 area in October(Image: Dominik Spalek via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

If you’re looking to use up all of those spent coffee grounds<\/a>, believe it or not, instead of simply throwing them away, you can use them to power one key garden area \u2013 your lawn. After a prolonged, sweltering summer, while it’s been wonderful to enjoy the garden and soak up the sun, many lawns are now looking brown, patchy, and rather worse for wear<\/a>. The insufficient rainfall has caused damage and encouraged weed growth.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, with cooler weather arriving and before winter approaches, there’s still time to restore your grass to its former glory.<\/p>\n

Gardening<\/a> experts suggest that a common kitchen item often discarded can prove remarkably useful \u2013 coffee grounds.<\/p>\n

Jim and Mary Competti, who possess more than two decades of practical gardening expertise and run This Is My Garden<\/a>, have observed that coffee grounds can “improve your lawn” during autumn.<\/p>\n

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Coffee grounds can be raked into your lawn to improve conditions(Image: Stefan Cristian Cioata via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

They explained: “Coffee grounds are perfect for raking into lawns to help fertilise the grass and add organic matter to the top layer of the soil.”<\/p>\n

Spent grounds are filled with phosphorus, nitrogen, and other trace minerals. These minerals are vital for healthy, green, lush lawns.<\/p>\n

“When raked into lawns, the grounds slowly break down, leaching these nutrients into the soil \u2013 much like a synthetic fertiliser would be, but without all the chemicals.”<\/p>\n

Additionally, coffee grounds benefit earthworms. As these creatures move through the soil, they consume the readily digestible grounds.<\/p>\n

In doing so, they produce worm castings while simultaneously aerating the soil.<\/p>\n

How to apply coffee grounds to your lawn<\/p>\n

There’s no need to stockpile large quantities of used coffee grounds. Simply distribute them on a daily or weekly basis to begin feeding your lawn.<\/p>\n

Simply allow the used coffee grounds to cool and dry slightly before application. Scatter them across the lawn, aiming to use roughly a cup per square yard of grass.<\/p>\n

Once spread, water the area gently. This will assist the grounds in settling through the thatch and reaching the soil beneath.<\/p>\n

Take care to distribute the coffee grounds evenly rather than leaving clumps on the lawn. Alternatively, you can deposit the grounds in several small piles and use a rake to spread them across the desired area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People are being urged to spread their spent coffee grounds outside to help benefit one key area of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,6738,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-791820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-gardening","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}