DIY Fertilisers: How to Feed Your Garden With Banana Peels
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The Micro Gardener - Anne
(IC: blogger)
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Want to save money in your garden and grow healthier plants? One of the easiest ways to do this is to make your own free DIY fertilisers. How? With organic materials and household food 'waste' like banana peels. Recycle valuable nutrients back into your soil to feed your plants. A sustainable solution for home gardeners. This is how I do it.
I grow my own bananas, so have plenty of peels! If you're a banana lover, you probably do too. I recycle all food 'waste' from the kitchen back into my garden. Cycling nutrients from the garden -> kitchen -> garden is a 'closed loop' system that helps grow more food by constantly adding free organic matter to the soil. So how exactly do you recycle banana peels to make free fertiliser?
There are 4 easy ways you can turn the banana peel 'waste' into a plant food supplement:
3. BANANA PEEL ON A BACKBOARD OR TREE TRUNK: If growing a staghorn, elkhorn, orchid or similar plants, put a whole banana peel between the plant and the backboard or tree trunk it is supported on. By placing it in this position, the banana peel will gradually decay and slowly release nutrients when the plant is watered or it rains. I also toss my peels into the centre of birds nest ferns every month or so. As you can see, they're pretty healthy and regularly grow new leaves.
Bananas are rich in nutrients, particularly phosphorus. Flowers and flowering plants including edibles need phosphorus to produce many blooms and fruit. I also bury my banana peels around roses, flowers and my edibles like tomatoes, fruit trees and beans etc. Helps more buds form. My article also shares 5 tips for using your bananas as free DIY fertilisers and explains how to feed your garden. Dig in!
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Published December 8th, 2016 3:22 AM
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Valerie on Dec 10, 2016What a wonderfully informative post! I know what I will be doing with my banana peels from now on ...!
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The Micro Gardener - Anne on Dec 10, 2016Thanks Valerie. So glad you enjoyed it.
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