If you’re like most people, you’re probably tossing your fruit peels into the trash bin without a second thought. Well it’s time to stop this wasteful behavior. The benefits in those peels are too valuable to be thrown away and can be put to better use in your garden or compost bin. Wouldn’t it be great to replace all your chemical fertilizers and pesticides with the kitchen scraps you’ve been dumping? By adding your peels to your garden, not only will you be minimizing household waste, you will also be limiting the chemicals you need to put on your land while keeping the landscape looking beautiful.
What do you have to lose? Put those banana peels to work for you!
4Using it for Fertilizer
When they break down, almost all fruit peels put nitrogen back into the soil. Bananas are the most efficient for use as a natural fertilizer because their high water content causes them to rot extremely quickly when they are buried, resulting in plenty of essential nutrients being added to the soil. One banana peel can quickly restore potassium, calcium, sulfur, phosphorus, magnesium and sodium to the soil. Another alternative is to dehydrate the banana peels and grind them into a mulch that can be added right to the space where you want to plant.
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