Coffee chaff as a soil improver

Thanks everyone. The coffee chaff is papery, a bit like Physalis outer covering, and does not contain caffeine as far as I am aware so if anyone reading this has experience of using it in the garden I would appreciate their advice. My intention was to use it in the compost heap as the "brown" layer, forgetting that during the winter I don't have much "green" stuff to go with it. I get about 5 sacks of it a month. So far I have used it in the compost heap and as a mulch. I will dig in the mulch once I can see where my bulbs are coming through. I've thought of using garrotta or similar to speed up decomposition. Urine might be good but I no longer have willing sons at home.

Coffee grounds on compost heaps are a good idea. Coffee chaff is not the same stuff but I expect it's also perfectly good compost-making material.

Auntiflo I didn't actually say I take any notice myself ........ ??

Well then I am in trouble, as I have used it on the garden. Our local Waitrose was putting out the used grounds for people to take away last year, but I haven't looked recently to see if they still do.

I seem to remember some bizarre EU law that it is totally illegal to use as a soil conditioner but ok to put in the compost heap. No doubt someone will be along to confirm or otherwise ...........

Agree with bags

I think you'd be better digging it into your compost heap and adding it to your borders when it has rotted down.

There was something on GQT about coffee grounds that are not good for plants. This might be when people try to mulch plants with them . I think the caffeine in them can poison plants.