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We Vegetable Gardeners Know What to Do With Those Keurig Cups

It seems as if every one of our neighbors and relatives received one of those Keurig individual coffee makers. If you are not familiar with them they are pretty neat, especially if you want to enjoy a quick, fresh cup of coffee. They give you the flexibility of manufacture an individual cup of coffee in a wide range of flavors (over 200 the last time I checked their website) without having to make a whole pot, measuring the grounds and so on.

With the convenience of manufacture your own cup of specialized coffee though comes the added waste of the cup itself. They are made out of a thin plastic, that can be recycled if you live in a part of the world that accepts <1> or <2> grade plastics, but us vegetable gardeners can put them to better use and better yet they can serve us two fold as I will show you in a moment.

Cup Coffee

First let us diagnose the evidence in question, in this case the cup. There are a number of cup manufacturers, however the cup is made from the same material and are all the same size. The top will be whether foil or a thick paper. The top is strong adequate to keep the contents of the cup in (i.e. The grounds), but pliable adequate so the machine can puncture a hole into it.

Inside the cup, the contents if you will, are coffee grinds and a filter. The machine punctures a hole into the top and one in the lowest of the cup. Water is then sent straight through the top hole where it is mixed with the grounds of the cup and ultimately comes out of the lowest hole and into your waiting coffee cup.

Now that you have the basics of how it operates, how can it unmistakably help vegetable gardeners? Well very simply, let's start with the confident and that is the coffee grinds and filter sitting inside the cup. Both make for a great expanding to any compost pile. To get the grinds and filter out, first take off the top foil or paper exterior on the cup. Then dump the coffee grinds into a isolate bowl (or anything you use to secure your kitchen waste).

The next step is to take off the filter. It is attached fairly well to the cup so I used a knife and plainly cut it and then put the filter into the same bowl with the grinds. We have the grinds and filter ready to go into our compost pile but we still have the cup. Do not throw that cup away!

You now have in your hands the makings of a great seed starter. And although the cup is small, it works exquisite for starting such things indoors as celery or oregano and thyme, the small seeded collection vegetable and herb plants. What makes the cup a exquisite fit as a seed starter is your coffee machine has done a quantum of the work for you already; it punctured the drainage hole on the bottom, so all the cup needs now is some soil and seeds!

There you have it. Using your Keurig coffee make as a means to add to the compost pile and create seed starters all while you get to enjoy a nice cup of hot joe!

Enjoy!

We Vegetable Gardeners Know What to Do With Those Keurig Cups

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