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Banana peels good for your garden​

TIPS FOR A HEALTHY LIFE

BANANAS are full of vitamins and minerals... ...especially potassium, a nutrient well known to promote muscle recovery after intense effort. In addition, they are easy to carry around for a little snack during the day.

VIRTUES OF THE BANANA :

- Potassium
- Vitamin C, B6, B12
- Magnesium
- Fiber

Billions of bananas are consumed every day... and as many peels thrown in the trash. That's a lot of waste!
We can use them in many ingenious ways that also allow us to reduce our waste

WHAT TO DO WITH A BANANA PEEL ?

Relieve insect bites Rub a banana peel on insect bites or skin irritations.
The fruit acids, vitamins and minerals help relieve pain and itching. Not to mention, it's great for your skin!

Give your complexion a glow with banana peel
Rub a piece of ripe banana peel all over your face once every 2-3 days.
The fruit acids and nutrients in it exfoliate and nourish your skin, making it look softer, younger and healthier for Dry and Chapped Lips.

Remove warts cure warts with banana peel
Tired of that wart that just won't go away? Try rubbing a ripe banana peel on it every night before going to bed and you'll see that after a couple of weeks the wart will disappear.

Shine your shoes with banana peel
Perfect for your skin, banana peels are also excellent for cleaning and polishing leather, especially shoe leather.
Simply rub the inside of a ripe banana peel on the leather to clean and shine it! This also works for purses, boots, leather seats and riding saddles.

Shine silver with banana peel
Banana peels are also great for cleaning and shining silver. Rub the inside of the banana peel on your silver jewelry or silverware to polish it, and restore its natural shine.
It is the fruit acids that remove the dullness from silver.

Whiten your teeth with banana peel
Rub the inside of a piece of banana peel on your teeth once a day for two weeks. It'll remove stains and make them shine without using potentially harmful chemicals. 14.

Make banana peel vinegar
Use your banana peels to make vinegar. This vinegar has a slightly sour and bitter flavor with sweet undertones. It is perfect for giving a little exotic taste to your salads.

Tenderize the meat keep it tender with a banana peel
Put a ripe banana peel on the bottom of the dish containing the meat to be roasted. This prevents the meat from drying out during cooking and keeps it tender.
Prepare a juice of banana peels in a boiling pan. As you can see, banana peels contain many vitamins and nutrients. It would be a shame not to take advantage of them. Put the washed peels in a pot of boiling water for 10 minutes to extract the juice. Then remove the peels and let them cool. You can then add this juice to your smoothies or other drinks for a nice boost of vitamins and minerals. Remember to wash the peels to remove wax and pesticides before cooking.

Treat acne with banana peel
Simply rub a banana peel over acne pimples to heal them and prevent them from leaving a mark on the skin. Now it's your turn... You've tried these uses for banana peel

Prepare a banana peel tea for sleep
Remove the ends of a banana peel, wash it and boil it for 10 minutes. Strain the mixture and drink it 1 hour before going to sleep. The magnesium contained relaxes the muscles and soothes the body to facilitate sleep.

Remove a splinter with a banana peel
Place the banana peel on the area where the splinter is embedded and hold it in place with a plaster. Once the skin has softened, remove the splinter without pain, as banana peels relax the muscles and provide relief.

Relieve psoriasis
If you have psoriasis, try rubbing the inside of a banana peel on the affected areas twice a day. You'll see a quick improvement in the appearance of your skin without using a special cream.

Make compost - put banana peels in the compost pile This is the most popular and easiest use: just throw banana peels on the compost pile. They add potassium and phosphorus to the compost, which helps root development and stimulates the plant when you put them on it. Caution: banana peels are green material.
Too much of it can throw your compost off balance. In this case, you will have to add more brown matter (leaves, twigs).

Make liquid fertilizer with banana peels Don't have a compost pile? That's okay because you can still use banana peels to feed your plants. Just put a few banana peels in a bucket or a bottle of water. And all that's left is to let it macerate for a few days. Then, mix one part of this tea in five parts of fresh water. And water your flowers with it, about once a month. The potassium and phosphorus will give your flowers a boost.

Feed seedlings with banana peels when planting seedlings
Cut banana peels into small pieces and bury them at the bottom of planting holes or in seedling trays. This will give your seedlings a nutrient-packed boost that will promote root development and disease resistance. This is ideal for young tomato plants and rose bushes. Caution: Seeds and seedlings should not touch the skins directly as this can burn and damage them.

Keep aphids away with banana peels Bury a few small pieces of ripe banana peel just below the surface around aphid-prone plants. Aphids, which hate the gases emitted by rotting peels, will move on to another more suitable location.
DON'T FORCE THE DOSE: use only a few small pieces, as the smell of banana can attract wasps, rodents and other pests looking for a little sweetness.

Make houseplants shine Clean green plant leaves with banana Rub the leaves of your green plants with the fleshy side of banana peels. It's great for dusting them off and giving them a shine. Perfect for ficus, schefflera, calathea or moonflower.

Feed banana peels to animals
Humans aren't the only ones who love bananas! Chickens, rabbits and pigs love ground banana peel powder sprinkled on their food. Cows, donkeys and horses will eat the whole peel. Clean the peel well to remove wax and pesticides before feeding it to animals.

Make dried peel fertilizer reduce banana peel powder
The final tip for using banana peels as fertilizer is to let them dry completely. Then, you can grind them up and sprinkle them on your garden soil. This has the same effect as the other tips, but without the danger of burning the plants. This technique, and the previous three, can be used on almost any plant in the garden to stimulate its growth and general health.