Banana peel fertilizer anyone?

[Bud Lightyear]

Old school rose growers would chuck a banana or two in the planting hole....Just a bit of info I picked up along my horticulture journey


Regards BL

[redisiel]

This shows the diastatic power of all yhe common brewing malts.

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Much appreciated mate.

Old school rose growers would chuck a banana or two in the planting hole....Just a bit of info I picked up along my horticulture journey


Regards BL

I’m sure it was British Green that said to me the the other day his grandparents used to do this exact same thing!
Redz

[budfarmer]

could you put the banana skins in tinfoil ... pop them in the oven till totally dry then blitz them up to a powder in a blender ... then simply add a teaspoonfull or so in each plantpot of soil ?

[IceCalibur]

could you put the banana skins in tinfoil ... pop them in the oven till totally dry then blitz them up to a powder in a blender ... then simply add a teaspoonfull or so in each plantpot of soil ?

Absolutely you can budfarmer, I've personally over the years always sun dried mine then used a mortar & pestle to grind them up and used them for my roses and tomatoes..I also know you can use the oven to quick dry them too

[IceCalibur]

I remember mentioning it to Macky a little while back - Clicky

I use a tablespoon in every 5 litres, also good for magnesium

[Gaz]

Absolutely you can budfarmer, I've personally over the years always sun dried mine then used a mortar & pestle to grind them up and used them for my roses and tomatoes..I also know you can use the oven to quick dry them too

Awesome I will try that too, I found several blogs and vids with this method so thought it would be a nice little bit of fun.

No different to drinking a fruit juice, still plenty of vits and sugars in it

[Gaz]

Old school rose growers would chuck a banana or two in the planting hole....Just a bit of info I picked up along my horticulture journey


Regards BL

Thats wicked Bud thanks for this lol all fascinating and alot of fun IMO

[British green]

Much appreciated mate.


I’m sure it was British Green that said to me the the other day his grandparents used to do this exact same thing!
Redz

My grandmother would grow tomato plants out of old marrows . The would cut a plug out of the marrow plant the tomato in the plug hole and then plant the hole marrow into the ground. We had a constant supply of tomatoes they would also have a large barrel with a hessian sack hanging in it and dump horse manure in the bag and and let it stew in the water and feed everything in the garden with the water. I suppose some form of tea


in a green and pleasant land

[Gaz]

My grandmother would grow tomato plants out of old marrows . The would cut a plug out of the marrow plant the tomato in the plug hole and then plant the hole marrow into the ground. We had a constant supply of tomatoes they would also have a large barrel with a hessian sack hanging in it and dump horse manure in the bag and and let it stew in the water and feed everything in the garden with the water. I suppose some form of tea


in a green and pleasant land

Fantastic

We have lost alot of this kind of stuff I think, fabulous that some of this info is still around

[IceCalibur]

Awesome I will try that too, I found several blogs and vids with this method so thought it would be a nice little bit of fun.

No different to drinking a fruit juice, still plenty of vits and sugars in it

Absolutely Gaz mate..this method you're doing now looks great too, I'm gonna give it a go with my roses this year, see how they go