Banana peel seed dressing

Vegetables from your own garden are the key to good health. Summer residents are constantly looking for healthy methods to grow crops without chemicals and nitrates. One of the convenient and simple ways is to feed the plants with banana peels.

Useful properties of banana peel

Bananas are harvested unripe, the ripening process continues all the time that the crop is delivered to the consumer. For the grower, this means that a lot of growth hormones will remain in the peel. They help seeds and saplings to root and germinate faster.

The crust of these bright fruits contains a whole complex of useful substances for the active life of the plant. It is useful at all stages, from growth and flowering to fruit ripening. The peel is especially rich in potassium, as well as calcium, magnesium and phosphorus. Nitrogen is present in an amount sufficient to gain green mass.

Banana product is not for one time

Interesting! Banana peel with its balanced complex of nutrients even compensates for the lack of sunlight, since magnesium directly triggers the process of photosynthesis. This is especially important for growing seedlings.

When feeding tomatoes with banana skins, the seedlings will receive adequate nutrition and rapid growth in fertilized soil. Strong roots, strong leaves - the whole plant will develop and gain vitality.

When you need banana peel seedlings

Tomato and pepper will tell you about their needs themselves, you just need to look at them carefully.

• if the leaves turn yellow or fall off, there is a lack of nitrogen. It is necessary to exclude mistakes in care such as overflow or hypothermia before fertilizing the soil;
• the purple tint of the leaves indicates a phosphorus deficiency.
• pale leaves with veins - this is chlorosis, iron deficiency.

In the first two cases, banana peel will solve the problem. In the case of chlorosis, the situation will improve if, in addition to fertilization, the plant is given a full rest at night without lighting.

Attention: Bananas are especially valuable because they do not accumulate foreign substances in the fruit pulp.

All minerals necessary for growth, all substances are consumed only for the growth and development of the plant itself. The edible part of the banana is not so important for survival, the plant "saves" on it. This means that pesticides, nitrates and other hazardous chemicals do not accumulate in the soft middle of the banana. Modern banana varieties without seeds have retained this natural filter inside, and breeders are trying to preserve it in new varieties.

Banana Peel - Super Fertilizer

This property of bananas is very beneficial for agrochemistry, a banana can be intensively fertilized, treated with pesticides from pests - all excess substances will remain outside.

Once harvested, unripe bananas are treated with ammonium sulfate and a variety of other chemicals to delay the ripening process and improve storage. Bananas are treated with ethylene before being sent to the shelves, which triggers the ripening reaction.

The remains of these substances must be removed when processing the skins for future fertilization. Washing the fruit thoroughly before use will help in part, but some of the substances will remain in the peel.

Among the plants familiar to the inhabitants of our country, such a biological filter is also found. These intelligent plants are Compositae and Solanaceae.Therefore, it will be optimal to use banana skins for fertilizing tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, sunflower. Feeding tomatoes with bananas has a powerful positive effect.

For other crops, it is desirable to use other feeding methods.

Methods for fertilizing tomato seedlings with banana peels

Using fresh peels. A simple and easy way to recycle profitably. When feeding seedlings, you need to proceed carefully. In indoor pots, there is not enough natural microflora, so fresh rind thrown on top can become moldy, causing seedlings to rot.

Fresh banana peels contain substances that act as papain, an enzyme from the milk juice of unripe papaya. Papain promotes digestion, softens even tough meat. This substance easily damages the root system. To avoid this, you need to act like this:

1. cut the banana peel and put on the bottom of the pot or hole;
2. sprinkle with a layer of earth;
3. plant seeds.

During the time that the root system grows and gets to fertilizer, it will partially decompose in the ground, without harming the seedlings. Even the stunted seedlings will enhance growth and speed up flowering. The top dressing itself completely disappears in the ground in a couple of weeks - the bacteria completely decompose it.

Important: only seedlings can be fed with fresh skin

Fried banana skins. A simple way if fertilizer needs to be dosed or used at home.

You need to put the peel on a baking sheet with the yellow side down so that it does not stick, and fry it dry. Then grind, add one teaspoon per plant. This dressing is ideal for tomatoes, increases the sugar content and cold resistance. This type of feeding is best used at the stage of flowering and fruiting.

Important: Scalding may occur with regular roasting in the oven.

Infusion in water. Finely chop the peel and cover with water. One banana skin is enough for a liter of water. The infusion will be ready in 3-5 days. When the liquid darkens, it must be drained and filtered. This fertilizer can be stored for about a month, until signs of fermentation appear. Bacteria readily grow on the nutrient medium, you can even breed ciliates for growing fry.

Before use, the infusion is diluted in half with water. You can also water seedlings and any plants that require increased nutrition with fertilizer. Watering rates:

• for seedlings, use once a week 1-2 tablespoons in a 2-3 liter pot;
• for tomatoes in a greenhouse or planted in the ground half a glass per bush once a week.

Drying the skins. It is convenient to make supplies for the winter. They are laid out on a battery, covered with gauze from insects, and after drying, they are poured into a paper bag or cloth bag.

Freezing. The skins can be stored in the freezer in a specially designated tray, used as needed.

Compost. Mix the shell with earth, pour over any compost yeast and stir occasionally

Feeding plants with banana peel compost

Scalding with boiling water. Not a bad way, growth stimulants will remain in the finished fertilizer. Some of the substances that damage the roots also remain.

Wilting in the fresh air. All minerals, growth stimulants remain in the peel, and unnecessary organic matter is destroyed. The peel must be cut or torn into strips, then strung on threads and dried like mushrooms. It can be cool outside, the main thing is to keep it dry. The fertilizer obtained in this way is best used during flowering or ripening of fruits.

Banana peel as fertilizer for tomato seedlings is an effective and safe top dressing, you can stock it up in any convenient way.

Banana Insect Peel

Aphids cannot stand an excess of potassium, so you can water the affected bushes with a banana extract, this will save the plants from the pest for a long time.

Ants, on the contrary, are lovers of sweets, and watering with banana infusion can attract them to plantings, as well as pollinating insects.

An important point: The high content of potassium and phosphorus in bananas stimulates flowering and fruiting. But plants also need calcium.

The most affordable and safest remedy is eggshells.

You can prepare the following liquid top dressing:

• Wash the shells of 4 eggs, dry, grind in a coffee grinder.
• Buy the well-known magnesia in the pharmacy, 20 grams.
• Dry banana skins and grind in a coffee grinder too.
• Pour a liter of water, insist and spray the seedlings once a week.

You can find a way of planting tomatoes with a banana and a raw egg. It is better not to use this crazy method for seedlings. The nightmare smell that will appear in the house is not worth the potential benefit.

Experienced gardeners appreciate wood ash. Its usefulness cannot be overemphasized. Potassium and calcium, sodium and magnesium - it contains absolutely the entire set of necessary trace elements, because ash itself is a product of plant processing. It stimulates active growth of tops, improves the palatability of tomatoes and makes plants more resistant to pests.

Advice: when planting seedlings, it is advisable to put a handful of ash on the bottom of the pot or hole; when planting in the ground, you can also add a teaspoon of superphosphate and a pinch of compost to each plant.

Common yeast is very useful for the development of seedlings. 10 grams of dry yeast is added to a bucket of water, to which eggshells, banana peels, and onion peels have already been added. Yeast is an excellent growth stimulant. If, when planting in the ground, each seedling is poured with a glass of this mixture, the plants will perfectly adapt to new conditions.

The best protection against pests

Banana tomato feed can be substituted for onion peel. From it it is possible to prepare an infusion for irrigation or simply mix it with the ground.

When feeding seedlings, you need to rely not only on ready-made recipes, but also on your individual situation. Simple rules for feeding seedlings will help you avoid mistakes.

Seedling feeding rules

• Watering and fertilizing is best done in the morning so that the earth dries up by evening. At night, the plant does not photosynthesize and does not consume moisture, if the soil remains waterlogged, growth will slow down.
• Purchased seedling soil is much poorer in nutrients than soil from the garden. In this case, the plants will need to be fertilized once a week.
• Signs of starvation are changes in the brightness and shade of the leaves. If your plants are fertilized regularly and the signs of starvation persist, you may need to change the fertilizer composition.
• It is undesirable to apply fertilizers to dry soil, there is a risk of root system burns.
• Top dressing will work more if you gently loosen the soil near the roots an hour after watering.

So, banana peels for watering seedlings of tomatoes and other Asteraceae will provide it with everything you need, because the bright peel contains the trace elements necessary for growth. In order to secure planting, it is necessary to thoroughly rinse the fruit. This will rid them of harmful chemicals. This fertilization method is best suited for nightshades and Asteraceae: tomatoes, eggplants, peppers and sunflowers.

For successful feeding, you need to follow the rules and monitor the condition of the seedlings. Finding the right way to feed naturally will be a fun summer experiment and will certainly end with a wonderful harvest of your favorite vegetables.