Make Flower Fertilizer from Banana Peels - Your Home Plants Will Grow Like Crazy and You'll Never Need to Buy Fertilizer Again
We know that banana peels turn black from oxidation after sitting around for a while, and they seem completely useless. But for people who love growing flowers, anything can become a treasure that benefits plants. Today Huahua is here to teach everyone how to turn banana peels into a handy organic fertilizer!
Turn Banana Peels into Organic Fertilizer - Leaves Will Be So Green They Drip Oil!
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We can think of a banana as a kind of organic matter, and the leftover banana peel is rich in the elements plants need for growth. It can be cut up, fermented with water and made into a nutrient solution, or it can be dried, ground into powder and then added to soil as plant food.
Making a nutrient solution from banana peels:
1. Cut up the banana peels
Cut the leftover banana peels as finely as possible, which speeds up their decomposition and lets them take effect faster.
2. Put them in a container to decompose
Prepare a fairly large container, such as a big mineral water jug or a cola bottle. Rinse it clean, fill it one quarter full with purified water, put the cut-up banana peels into the container and seal it. Open it now and then to let air in, so you can still get the container open after decomposition.
3. Fermentation is done - use it
The banana peels will finish fermenting in about one month, and at that point the liquid in the container can be used as a nutrient solution for your plants. Add a little of it each time you water, but be careful not to overdo it, or it can easily burn the roots.
Dry them first, then grind:
1. Baking method
Use your home oven or just a flat-bottomed pan to dry the banana peels until they turn black.
Crush the dried banana peels with a rolling pin or a garlic masher, or most conveniently, grind them straight into powder with a soy milk maker; big spenders can choose a dehydrator, which is even more thorough.
Mix the prepared banana peel powder into the potting soil before use, or poke a few holes in the soil of the flower pot and pour the banana peel powder into the holes.
After your home plants get banana peels, they gain rich phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, growing more vigorously and blooming more brilliantly!
2. Sun-drying method
Just like how in winter when we eat oranges we like to toss the peels onto the balcony to dry in the sun, we can likewise leave banana peels to the sunlight and let them undergo nature's baptism.
After ten days to half a month, the banana peels are sun-dried. We can likewise use the tools mentioned above to turn them into powder and put them to further use.
Banana peels can also be used this way!
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Huahua usually loves eating bananas - they're nutritious and have many health benefits. In fact, as a protective shell, the banana peel can be put to use in all aspects of our lives. Besides being used as fertilizer as mentioned above, banana peels have far more uses than these! Let's look at what Huahua has discovered!
1. Put them with other fruits
Everyone probably knows that bananas can ripen other fruits. Bananas release ethylene, a substance that speeds up the ripening of fruit. Normally we can put bananas together with kiwis and persimmons that are slow to ripen.
2. Prevent itchy skin
As spring and summer arrive, there will gradually be more and more insects outdoors. The banana peel contains bananapeel extract, which can help us effectively drive away mosquitoes and bugs. Rub a banana peel on yourself before going out and you can be spared the misery of bites. For other itchy skin symptoms, you can also try rubbing with a banana peel!
3. Relieve mouth ulcers
Banana peel is actually a very good traditional Chinese medicine. Put it together with another traditional Chinese medicine, huotanmu (also called huotanxing), and add an appropriate amount of brown sugar, and it can treat mouth ulcers.
4. Banana peel water to sober up
Boil banana peels in water for ten minutes, drink after cooling, and it can help you sober up. If you don't like the taste, you can add some honey.
5. Polish leather shoes
Banana peels can be used to polish leather shoes, leather bags and other leather products, extending their life and keeping them shiny.
6. Polish silverware
Banana peels can be used to polish silverware. If you have silver cutlery at home or wear silver jewelry, any tarnish can be wiped away with a banana peel.
7. Remove ink stains
If you get hard-to-wash black ink stains on your hands, you can wipe them with a banana peel.
Today Huahua has told everyone about many uses for banana peels,
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