Let the Fruit on Your Counter Create Magic in Your Garden

21 Apr 2009 Kelley In: Gardening Tidbits

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Breakfast is over and you have banana peels sitting on the counter. You could compost them but why not give supplement your soil by burying them in the garden. Banana peels contain potassium and will release it into your soil to feed your plants when buried nearby.

In the past, I have dug a little trough about a 6″ deep and about a foot away from my roses and buried whole banana peels. The roses seem to love it and I have heard from other gardeners they do the same thing with their flower and vegetable plant with amazing results. My experience was that the roses that got banana peels a couple of time in the growing season had bigger and prettier flowers than the plants that didn’t receive the peel.

Website eHow.com has some other uses for banana peel including using it as a teeth whitener or drying it and grinding it up and sprinkling it on the soil as a fertilizer.