Gloria-What proportions of grinds/ash?

I mix till I get a neutral reading on the ph... usually 80% coffee grounds and 20% ash.... you have to make sure it is hardwood ash. I also have a worm farm and add castings and soil conditioner. I had more tomatoes this year than I or my neighbors could use. They also had great flavor. 

I've been putting coffee grounds on my figs, no problem.  Same as on my Meyer lemon.  Also on my vegetable beds and compost bin.  Fireplace ashes go on my lilac bushes.

Thanks everyone for the awesome turn out! Please keep the votes and very nice pics and info coming!

I basically compost anything I can get my hands on, all kitchen scraps (less Meat), COFFEE GROUNDS as already stated. I hit up all of the coffee shops if I think of it, restaurants that are close by, I have willing family members save all of the kitchen scraps, yard waste extra.  I bet I make a little over two yards of compost every year and still end up buying another couple yards to keep up.  

Leafs, most paper, unprinted cardboard, sticks and twigs get shredded, everything that is removed from the garden at the end of the year.... and on and on and on.....

Since everyone is talking about composting the coffee grounds, this may be a good time to learn more on that subject of composting. What I am going to mention, some will think it shouldn't be but it is a subject that happens worldwide. The only reason I mention it is because I was not aware of all the benefits of compost and its use until I read the book. Did you know that compost can be used for things other then the garden as a fertilizer? It can clean up oil and gasoline spills, clean the soil that was contaminated by the spill. It can clean up heavy metal contamination in the soil. It can clean up diseases in the soil. It can clean up radioactive soil, and render the radiation in it harmless.
    So if you are now really wanting to know more about composting and its benefits, ignore the title of the download, keep an open mind and read it. It really is about more then what the title says. It is full of history and documented information. If you do not know where the saying "built like a brick sh_t house" came from, the book tells you it came about after the Korean war and why our solders came back saying it.

http://humanurehandbook.com/downloads/H2.pdf

Interesting info Bevman, I've heard the statement hundreds of times during my life, interesting title of the book. I tried to download and all I got was that it had 308 pages but some reason the internet had problems, I'll give it a try later. Interesting.

     Hello jdsfrance, the coffee pods that are made up of paper on both sides and coffee in between are heat sealed. The two layers of paper are put under a lot of pressure, which generate a lot of heat, but not enough to burn the paper, to make the paper fuse to each other. No glue is applied.
    When I lay them on the top of the soil to act as a mulch, they do not last long because the worms come up from the soil below and take them apart piece by piece, including the paper edges. In just a couple months, all you see is black earth. One method I use if I just want the coffee grounds for a project, is rub them over a piece of expanded metal, the type with the diamond shaped holes. Paper stays on top of the grate and grounds go to the container below. It is like grating cheese. The paper I then put into the compost pile. Wear gloves if you do this, or tear them apart, because your hands will absorb the caffine still in the pod. After doing 300 or more without gloves, I do not sleep that night and the heart goes fast.

   I do not like the K-cups, Tassimo, Boedecker, Brew-1 or any of the other plastic or metal cased coffees. We make machines at the place I work that uses the pods, and their waste bins have labels on them that say compostables. I have a customer up in the North East that delivers an empty tub along with the fresh coffee pods to his customers. When they come back to service the customer next week they deliver another empty tub, more coffee, and pick up the used pods and they compost them. This gives their customer a smaller carbon foot print, they sold the pods to them, and now they sell those pods again to gardeners as compost. Talk about increasing your profits, selling the same pod twice.

I shamelessly sweet-talk my local cafés and donut shops into saving coffee grounds for me. I pick them up in five gallon buckets, and dump the used grounds on my lawn and garden. Any paper filters go in the compost pile. I've seen huge improvement in my soil in every place I've done this. Earthworms thrive when I apply used coffee grounds to my soil.