Coffee Didies for the Roses and Crepe Myrtles

Here is a comprehensive post on using coffee grounds.

When I take out the coffee didies, a daily or twice-daily job, I think of this passage from one of my favorite novels -

“It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to me (to Me who was what Jack Burden, the student of history, had grown up to be) "There is always something."
And I said, "Maybe not on the Judge."
And he said, "Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something.” 
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

The coffee didies are the spent grounds that gave us two mugs of pour-over coffee, the best in the world, easily made, rarely sampled.

Unlike egg-shells and epsom salt, coffee grounds are great for the soil.

This is the most complete list of coffee ground uses.

Coffee Grounds as Fertilizer

Used coffee grounds for gardening does not end with compost. Many people choose to place coffee grounds straight onto the soil and use it as a fertilizer. The thing to keep in mind is while coffee grounds add nitrogen to your compost, they will not immediately add nitrogen to your soil. The benefit of using coffee grounds as a fertilizer is that it adds organic material to the soil, which improves drainage, water retention and aeration in the soil. The used coffee grounds will also help microorganisms beneficial to plant growth thrive as well as attract earthworms. Many people feel that coffee grounds lower the pH (or raise the acid level) of soil, which is good for acid loving plants. But this is only true for unwashed coffee grounds. “Fresh coffee grounds are acidic. Used coffee grounds are neutral.” If you rinse your used coffee grounds, they will have a near neutral pH of 6.5 and will not affect the acid levels of the soil. To use coffee grounds as fertilizer, work the coffee grounds into the soil around your plants. Leftover diluted coffee works well like this too. 

Other Uses for Used Coffee Grounds in Gardens 

Coffee grounds can also be used in your garden for other things. Many gardeners like to use used coffee grounds as a mulch for their plants. Other used for coffee grounds include using it to keep slugs and snails away from plants (GJ - Don't bet on that). The theory is that the caffeine in the coffee grounds negatively affects these pests and so they avoid soil where the coffee grounds are found. Some people also claim that coffee grounds on the soil is a cat repellent and will keep cats from using your flower and veggie beds as a litter box (GJ - Haha). You can also use coffee grounds as worm food if you do vermicomposting with a worm bin. Worms are very fond of coffee grounds.
Read more at Gardening Know How: Composting With Coffee Grounds – Used Coffee Grounds For Gardening https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/composting/ingredients/coffee-grounds-gardening.htm

Fertilize Plants

As coffee grounds break down, they release nutrition in the form of nitrogen, potassium, magnesium and other minerals into the soil. For plants that do well in acidic media, augment soil with coffee grounds to help them thrive.

Let's Not Too Excited about Disposable Diapers - God Invented Them

God created many species of birds that form their own recyclable diapers, which the parents carry away from the nest. See the linked post above.

I found that simply tossing the paper filter and coffee into the garden did not work well. Although the filters decompose, they end up looking like litter for a long time. So now I drop the wet grounds and filter into the collars I have around Crepe Myrtles and roses. The collar keeps them in place and there should be peat humus on top of them soon.

Earthworms also love paper - and cardboard, so coffee didies contribute to the garden's soil nutrition and creatures.

A lot of what I do is small and laughable on a daily basis. Walking Sassy Sue, I bring back a lump of rotting wood or a clump of leaves and pine needles. Sometime I get a large section of bark to use as mulch. The individual additions to the soil are minor, but they add up over the weeks, months, and years. I have the biggest flowers, blooms, and weeds. The woody weeds I can cut at the base. The grassy weeds are formidable. Nevertheless, they also contribute by adding to the soil while growing and afterwards by decomposing - all part of God's plan.

Karl Barth and Charlotte von Kirschbaum: My Response | The Evangelical Calvinist. I Told You So Years Ago

I knew this "shattering news" in the 1970s,
heard that Charlotte did the real work in the Dogmatics,
and recently read verification of Karl Barth's career as a plagiarist. His children had two mommies under the same roof.

Karl Barth and Charlotte von Kirschbaum: My Response | The Evangelical Calvinist:



"KARL BARTH AND CHARLOTTE VON KIRSCHBAUM: MY RESPONSE


I just read a disturbing, I mean for me personally, earth-shatteringly disturbing essay by Christiane Tietz about Karl Barth entitled: Karl Barth and Charlotte von Kirschbaum (Theology Today). As most of us know, who have spent any amount of time with Barth’s theology, his “secretary”, Kirschbaum was rumored to be more than a secretary; that she was a mistress. But this, at least for me, was always in the rumor mill, and I’d never seen any substantial or decisive confirmation of this; until now.

Tietz’s essay works through some letters sent back and forth between Barth and Kirschbaum; they are letters that Barth’s own elderly children, not too long ago, felt compelled to share with the public. What they reveal is that Kirschbaum and Barth loved each other; more than that, they were lovers; more than that, Barth brought her to live in his own home with his wife and five kids. Barth was not willing to give Kirschbaum up, and it almost (it should’ve, in my opinion, and would’ve in any kind of normal situation) came to divorce between Barth and his wife Nelly; but for some reason (I’d guess for the kids), Nelly stayed with Barth in this intolerable situation. Tietz’s essay offers much more disturbing detail than I have only quipped at here, but even what I’ve noted should be enough to cause alarm."

 Church Growth is the kudzu vine that swallowed
WELS-LCMS-ELS-CLC-ELCA,
and Barth is the main theologian of Fuller Seminary.
"The fault lies not in the stars, dear Brutus, but in
ourselves."

'via Blog this'

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Did someone think this was profound?
He could have been the GA Pope, the WELS hazing ritual
where they learn to talk out of both sides of their mouths.

GJ - I found a follow-up to this blog post, where people asked the author, "Did he really commit adultery or just live with Charlotte?"

Lest I lose the G-rating of this blog, I will not go into detail, but even Barth's own mama called him an adulterer. And - "everyone knew it." When he traveled in America with Charlotte, he did not need another room or bed.

No one minds plagiarism in the Lutheran Church. Barth could have been an editor at Concordia Publishing House or the president of Mordor in Mequon, Wisconsin. As an adulterer, he might have had many important posts, such as Church Growth Expert in Columbus, Ohio - and just about everywhere else.

More importantly. Barth was a UOJ Stormtrooper. He was a little more honest than most of them. No SJ for him - that double-talk where "faith" is someone agreeing that the world is already forgiven and saved. Barth was a Universalist - so verbose that the typical Barth cult member did not notice.

I mentioned Barth as a fraud in a Facebook post. One of my Moline classmates, teaching at a famous conservative college, went postal on me. He is a distinguished professor there and leads tours about C. S. Lewis (Universalist) to England.

As I told a reader, I used to think I wasted years of time reading  selections from the "great" modern theologians. But that was how I came to realize that the UOJ being peddled by the ELS-WELS-LCMS-CLC (sic) is just the same as the mainline apostates - and ELCA.

Herman Otten's great complaint about Missouri turning liberal is completely off the mark. His Bronze Age heroes - Walther, Pieper, Stoeckhardt - prepared the LCMS for Biblical apathy, Pentecostalism, and union with ELCA. Like Barth, the leaders all come from the age of rationalistic Pietism, not from the Reformation.

What nonsense - yet the ELS-WELS-LCMS-CLC
claims this as the Gospel. Walther is a shade different from Barth, but only a bit. His UOJ made it possible to ignore and cover-up Stephan's adultery until the young ladies caught syphilis from their bishop. Then Walther suddenly discovered the adultery.