29.09.2024

How to Use Banana Peel as Fertilizer?

By Lesia

If you are also a plant lover, and especially succulents, you know how difficult it is to keep them healthy and protect their appearance. Succulents tend to turn yellow, wrinkle or rot due to many different factors.

Instructions
To prepare the fertilizer, you need peels of 4 or 5 bananas, preferably organic, and 3 liters of water.
Cut the peels into pieces, then bring a liter of water to a boil and cook the peels over low heat for 15 minutes.
Remove from heat, let cool and mix. Then mix the freshly mixed mixture with two liters of water.
The ideal is to use fertilizer when the succulents are in bloom. The nutrients contained in the compound stimulate their growth and will help them not to rot.

The benefits of banana peel
Banana peel contains many interesting elements for taking care of your garden and plants.

Indeed, banana peel contains:

Up to 40% starch, especially plantain.
About 30% more fast sugars when the banana is ripe.
About 30% fibers composed of cellulose, lignin and hemicellulose.
A large amount of proteins very rich in nitrogen. After drying, up to 9% of the materials making up the banana peel contain these famous nitrogenous proteins.
Vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C.
Mineral salts such as calcium, magnesium and potassium.
A significant amount of manganese, copper and antioxidants