No doubt , it was 27 F this morning, went up to 58 by 3 . Around 70 over my cuttings though!

Thanks Gary, very valuable information! We grow a small strawberry patch and the slugs have a party with it every year! I ll definitely try your method this year!

I mix them with my leaves and other organic matter and let them decompose over the winter.  By May the pile is like "black gold".  I vote yes.

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The steak was chewy,the asparagus stringy and the taters cold and Mrs K blames the forum! If you don't hear from me for a while it meens I'm in exile or worst!
Thanks guys for all your votes and have a great night!
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Keep the votes coming!

Thanks Ed!

Will do ,thanks Chef

Raw coffee grounds are not good for every plant because there is a naturally occurring trace herbicide in them. Never put them on tomatoes. Some plants it can kill, but mostly it will stunt the growth or fruiting capability. I do not know how it could effect figs. Composting it leaves no trace of this, and makes the composting process of other materials faster because of there high nitrogen content. They also have lots of other trace elements beneficial to plants.
  As for as compost made with coffee grounds, it is what my first two fig trees are growing in. I got these two single stem rooted cuttings in April. The one I planted in a 10 gallon pot and it grew like crazy but no figs from it, but the other I planted in a half of a 55 gallon plastic barrel, filled the bottom 8 inches with coffee grounds, then filled the rest with my compost and peat mixture. 23 figs from it this year but they came to late and I had to cut them off so I could put the tree to bed for the winter.
   Coffee grounds should never be put into the trash headed for the land fill. They have been attributed to the number one cause of green house gas production. You see, when you compost on top of the soil, the bacteria & microbes that breakdown the materials also use oxygen, (aerobic bacteria) and they do not produce the bad gases. In a land fill, they do not have oxygen to use so the breakdown is done by the anaerobic bacteria and these produce the bad greenhouse gases.
  The links I have seen posted by others are very good and tell the story well.
A little about me, I work for a large commercial coffee machine manufacturer, and we produce a lot of used grounds in our testing and research department. We also have coffee available for the employees. ALL the grounds, about 100 pounds a week, go home with me for my garden and composting piles. I do not want to see them in the trash.

I have not used ash, but I ad coffee ground to my compost and to new raised beds in the garden. 

Very interesting Bevman! Are both fig cuttings(trees) of the same variety?

Bevman I just went to check my C Hardy and I can definitely get a cutting for you! PM me an address if you're interested ! You ll probably get a few figs from it this coming season!

   Wood ashes are also very good for the garden, but never add coal ash or charcoal briquets ash which also contains coal. Never add painted wood ash to your garden because the paint may have contained lead or other harmful material.
    Wood ashes are also called potash. Never add them to your compost pile, but add directly to your soil. Adding them to your compost slows the compost process, and so does adding lime to your pile.
     During the process of composting above ground, the microbes and bacteria excreat acids that help breakdown the materials. If you add ash or lime you neutralize those acids. If you want to add something in addition too the plant / organic materials to your compost, add sand or materials like Azomite to it. The acids will help release the locked up trace elements in both of them. Also the worms that come into your pile when it cools down need the grit for there life processes.
  I have a very old book that was handed down to me, that is all about gardening, and what to add to soils to fix them, which wood ash to add and which trace elements they contained. It is a gold mine of information but not my only source.

     Both fig trees came from Gurney and they called them ever bearing, but they also said it was a Brown Turkey. I have made four air layers from them and gave them to some friends. I currently have five miniature cuttings (See post I made on those) in a pot and three have sprouted and the other two look like they too will leaf.
   A friend at work brought me fresh figs in September of 2013, these were my first and I was hooked. I have had fig cookies and dried figs before but never a fresh one. I have since begged her for a cutting, because she never does anything to her old tree but put two feet of mulch on the ground around it, and has had it for over 30 years. She got the cutting from her husbands grandpas tree, and he brought the cutting that made it from Italy when he immigrated to America in the early 1900's.
  She told me she has tried several times to give me and other relatives cuttings but they always failed for her. That is when I realized she was trying to root them herself. I told her I just wanted a stick and I would root it myself, but I also told her how to air layer using my clam shell coffee cup method and she had four successful layers and gave me one a couple weeks ago before the deep cold week set in here.
  So now I currently have a second type of unknown fig.

   I type slow and just finished my other post and now see your generous offer ChrisK, and I say thank you, and will PM you. I guess my slow gardening winter is going to get busy, because I also bought that great offer ADelmanto offered of (I am offering 20 package of these as a cold hardy collection. Nyack (2) Orangeburg (6) Sorrento (4) Westfield (6). This is a total of 18 cuttings for $25. PM me if interested.) They are not here yet but I think they will be soon. Some will go to the fridge and others to begin rooting.  If my rooting success continues, with them, I will be able to share more with others, and spread the FIGS4FUN madness, that has now infested me. But it is a good madness.

I put coffee grounds in my compost, but I would not put it directly onto fig trees as dressing.

YES!!! Besides all the good you already heard I see one more thing, FILLER... This hobby of ours can get pricey with trying so many different soil mixtures, soil-less mixtures or what ever new combination we read about... I probably go through about 3-4 of the 3lb cans of coffee a year, might not be allot but if you can get extra from a coffee shop for free, that'd make a nice pile... That's how I see it...

A litte bit of interesting info.

http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/composting/ingredients/coffee-grounds-gardening.htm

Dennis, there is a snippet about mulching with coffee grounds to ward off slugs and snails. I still vote for ducks, white or golden 300 layer, if you like duck eggs. :)

I burn about 2 cords of fir / alder each winter and the ash usually goes on the lawn.
It seems to love it.

Above, not using ash of painted wood was mentioned, I would like to add pressure treated wood to the do not use ash from it either.  I'm sure it is obvious to most people, however, I feel it is still worth mentioning for safety sake.

Hi,
YES ,
I use ashes directly on dirt - against slugs.
I use coffee ground on dirt against ants - does not work on all ants .
But just wait,
we're not speaking of coffee pads - you know the "what else ? style ". I only use the coffee I put in coffee filters to get the water through.
I was told that coffee pads have some additives - like glue to glue the two sides of the pad after putting the coffee inside - Legend or not , I don't know but I don't give it a try for now.
I would nevertheless make the garden look messy all those little bags around, and opening them one by one would be something like a punishment to me ...

Call Georges and ask ? And when he asks "What else? " just answer: " one million $ for Jdsfrance " :) , thanks :) .

Just one last word: after rain the deterrent properties are lost, so you'll have to keep on applying new ashes and used coffee .

I vote yes.. I also use coffee in my compost and I make a lot of compost. I heat with wood. Mostly oak and some others as well. Ashes usually go into a seperate pile and I add them to the garden when planting or sprinkle some around as needed.

I use lots of coffee grinds in my compost bin but never on the plants directly.  In the compost bin it is considered a green component (source of nitrogen) as opposed to a brown component (providing carbon).

I used cooffe grounds from Starbucks and ash from a local BBQ place, it is the main thing I used to fill my raised tomato bed....some grew taller than ten feet this year. I also use a similar. Mix for seed starting. Al my gardens are in raised beds and I found this mix a cheap way to get free soil. Makes for a great smelling garden too!!
This picture was a few weeks in before I had to cover it with a 6ft cage to keep the birds and bunnies out.

I vote yes ..been using them for a while