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Post by september on Feb 10, 2018 9:52:33 GMT -5
I usually eat one banana a day, but usually toss the peels in the trash except during warm weather when I keep a bucket outside my back door for vegetable scraps for my compost pile (or deer snack pile as it happens.) I accidentally ran across this video which has other ways of using them as well. I suppose saving the peels in a bag in the fridge and drying them in the oven when baking something else would be one way to get the powder form.
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Post by farmerjack41 on Feb 10, 2018 10:10:12 GMT -5
Banana peels around here are placed at the base of rose bushes. A number of years,a gardening class instructor, advised this will help cure the aphid problem on roses. Do not seem to have an aphid problem, so must be helping.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Feb 10, 2018 11:49:55 GMT -5
I eat bananas all the time, and every time I peel one I toss the peel on a sheet in my oven, where they dry out from the heat of the pilot light. When I need the oven, I remove the sheet, and when it becomes overloaded, I take the dried peels and grind them to a powder in the vitamix, and dump it in a large container I keep out on my gardening shelves. I use this to hopefully prevent aphids on my covered peppers, where they can be a problem. If it's a fertilizer too, that's good, but that's not my main intention.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Feb 10, 2018 12:00:28 GMT -5
pepperhead212, farmerjack41, Well Dadgum, you 2 guys taught me something today! september, I don't know if you'd want to bake them. It's been a long time back and it may be an internet hoax, but I remember reading about people getting high from baking banana peels.
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Post by september on Feb 10, 2018 12:16:43 GMT -5
Well, I guess I may have to find out for myself, ha, ha! I don't have a pilot light like pepperhead.
I have dried herbs in the microwave once, but I suspect banana peels are too thick to do that practically, though if you chopped them up first you probably could.
Don't want to make work out of this or it won't get done! So doing double duty when baking something else, or at least putting the peels in when the other stuff comes out and so they get benefit of hot oven as it cools down over an hour or so would be doable on my end.
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Post by tomike on Feb 10, 2018 14:15:17 GMT -5
I was thinking of dropping pieces of banana peel in the garden in the transplant hole for my tomatoes this year.......
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Post by brownrexx on Feb 10, 2018 19:01:50 GMT -5
I throw them into the compost pile with my other fruit and vegetable scraps.
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Post by aqua on Feb 11, 2018 15:09:19 GMT -5
Anytime I put anything sweet in my compost, the ants go crazy.
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Post by Hensaplenty on Feb 12, 2018 8:25:12 GMT -5
I oven dry banana peels and grind to a powder, but also do the same thing to egg shells. It usually turns out to be about a 50/50 mix between the two. Great for any garden soil. Wood ash is also a great thing to throw back into the garden.
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Post by brownrexx on Feb 12, 2018 11:57:20 GMT -5
Wood ash is also a great thing to throw back into the garden. You have to be careful using too much wood ash because it is alkaline and can raise your pH.
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Post by tomike on Feb 14, 2018 18:38:29 GMT -5
Wood ash is also a great thing to throw back into the garden. You have to be careful using too much wood ash because it is alkaline and can raise your pH.
The key words "too much"... never "too much" of anything should be thrown back into the garden......
The pH is very important and should be below 7..... closer to 6.5...... at least for me.....
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Post by brownrexx on Feb 14, 2018 19:42:39 GMT -5
Depending on your wood ash the pH can be anywhere from 9 to 13 and it is usually quite high in calcium.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Feb 15, 2018 8:42:16 GMT -5
Since we moved into this house, I've put them in the roses and raspberry bushes. I don't even bother to dry them, I just throw them out.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Feb 15, 2018 14:18:16 GMT -5
My brother had a huge stack of tree limbs that he had piled up. One evening, he set that sucker on fire and after it burned, me and Mom decided right there was going to be our garden spot. We set 8 squash and 5 tomatoes in that spot. They must have really liked it, cause they grew like gangbusters.
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