Cats and snails - both animals that can cause a lot of damage in the garden. However, there is a simple home remedy for them: coffee grounds!
In many households, more or less coffee grounds are regularly produced. If you have a garden, then you should definitely not dispose of it carelessly, but rather make use of it. Now you must be wondering what to do with this waste. The answer is very simple: distribute it in the garden!
This may sound a bit strange at first, but after all, coffee grounds can be a good home remedy to ward off snails and cats. Don't you think so? But it's really true. We will now explain in more detail why this is the case and how you can use the coffee grounds correctly against cats and snails. Then it's time to make coffee, distribute coffee grounds in the garden and be amazed at how effective they are.
Effects or benefits of coffee grounds
➥ Bitter substances/smell deters:
Coffee grounds have a positive impact on the garden for more than one reason. On the one hand, it is of course the bitter substances it contains that provide a special smell. And it's exactly this smell that cats, snails and ants don't like at all.
➥ Ingredients stimulate mucus production:
In addition, the coffee grounds contain other substances that the snails get on their backs. These particular ingredients force the snails to produce more slime. This is very harmful to the animals and can even be fatal for them. In addition, the caffeine in the coffee grounds also acts as a neurotoxin on snails.
➥ Earthworms are attracted:
Putting the coffee grounds in the garden will do you an even better good, as earthworms will be attracted to it, and they will in turn loosen the soil.
➥ Coffee grounds are a good fertilizer:
Snails, ants and cats are not the only things that can be repelled with coffee grounds. It also contains valuable minerals. So you can also use coffee grounds as a natural fertilizer.
Using coffee grounds in the garden
Use coffee grounds against cats:
If you want to keep cats away from certain places, such as your patio, you should simply put the coffee grounds in a bowl. You can then place the bowl anywhere on your property. Incidentally, it doesn't matter to the cats whether the coffee grounds are dry or wet, they don't like either type.
This method is particularly good if you want to teach young cats not to be in the garden beds or on the patio. But strange cats can also be chased out of the garden so well:
Use coffee grounds against snails:
You can, on the other hand, mix dry coffee grounds with some garden soil and then spread them out in the beds. So you have a defense against snails and at the same time a natural fertilizer. You can collect the coffee grounds on a large plate in the kitchen and let them dry there.
You can also place the coffee grounds in a ring around individual plants or spray individual plants with strong coffee beans. This will definitely deter snails. So you always have a biologically harmless pesticide at hand.