Bananas are the Germans' favorite fruit: around 12 kilograms of the sweet fruit are eaten per person per year in this country. There are a lot of banana peels that are too good to throw away. This is how you make valuable fertilizer from it.
Can you use bananas as fertilizer?
Bananas or their peels are ideal as organic fertilizer for all kinds ofGarden and ornamental plantsThey containa lot of potassiumas well as magnesium, calcium, nitrogen and some sulfur. With this composition, banana peels, dried or fresh, areideal for roses and other flowering plants
How to use banana peels as fertilizer?
Bananas and especially their peels can be used as fertilizer in various ways. In the garden you can simply incorporate thesmall cut piecesinto the root area of the plants to be fertilized. Use eitherfresh or dried banana peels, depending on what you have on hand.
The only important thing is that you useuntreated organic bananas! Bananas from conventional cultivation are treated with fungicides until shortly before harvest due to a dreaded fungal disease and are therefore not suitable as fertilizer. This is especially true if they are to be used to fertilize crops!
How do you make liquid fertilizer from bananas yourself?
For houseplants, make a liquid fertilizer from the peels of organic bananas as follows:
- Cut fresh peels into small pieces
- per liter 100 gramsBoil banana peel in water
- Let the broth steep overnight
- Filter out solids
- Mix banana tea with soft water in a ratio of 1:5
- Water indoor and potted plants with it
Make the fertilizeralways fresh as it molds quickly and therefore cannot be stored. Instead of fresh peels, you can also use dried ones, which can be easily preserved in the oven or in a dehydrator.
Which plants like homemade banana fertilizer?
Flowering plants in particular benefit from using banana peels as fertilizerespecially flowering plants, as flowering is stimulated by the high potassium content. Since bananas also contain little nitrogen, the risk of over-fertilization is also averted. You can use the peels or the liquid fertilizer made from them all year round.
EspeciallyRoses, fuchsias and geraniumslike fertilization with banana. But the exotic fruit is also suitable for the vegetable patch, becausetomatoes and cucumberscan also be fertilized very well with it. Allow forabout 100 grams offresh banana peel per plant, which you should work superficially into the soil.
Tip
How to use bananas for foliar care?
Decorative leaf plants such as Monstera, Philodendron etc. tend to collect dust. You can easily wipe off this dust with the inside of a fresh banana peel. This allows the leaves to absorb enough light again, and they also shine beautifully after such treatment.
