How to Use Eggshells, Banana Peels, and Coffee Grounds in the Garden
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Date: 2022-07-18
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Drake
there is not a lot of nutrients in compost, but you might as well use the stuff. i put coffee grounds in my potting soil, they are free of weed seeds without cooking. eggshells go in the wood stove or down the dog's gullet. but you can just throw all your vegetable junk in the weeds, or dump it on the ground and plow it under.
you're not really gonna use all the energy to bake and blend eggshells that weigh a gram each! if you gotta do all this, dry your banana peel, throw it on the lawn and use a catch bag mower to make leaves, grass and banana peels and egg shells into chipped compost.
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there is not a lot of nutrients in compost, but you might as well use the stuff. i put coffee grounds in my potting soil, they are free of weed seeds without cooking. eggshells go in the wood stove or down the dog's gullet. but you can just throw all your vegetable junk in the weeds, or dump it on the ground and plow it under.
you're not really gonna use all the energy to bake and blend eggshells that weigh a gram each! if you gotta do all this, dry your banana peel, throw it on the lawn and use a catch bag mower to make leaves, grass and banana peels and egg shells into chipped compost.
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Creepy
I'm barely starting gardening, but I like to use Pottato peel, a little bit of carrot, eggshells, leaves, a small amount of black tea leaves, and (if it's available) banana peels and Apple remnants, since I started doing it I always left my components to dry out, mix them on a blender to make them into a powder, then I mix it into the soil or save up for when I need it. I don't know for certain if it's recommended to do this, but so far my plants are growing nice
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I'm barely starting gardening, but I like to use Pottato peel, a little bit of carrot, eggshells, leaves, a small amount of black tea leaves, and (if it's available) banana peels and Apple remnants, since I started doing it I always left my components to dry out, mix them on a blender to make them into a powder, then I mix it into the soil or save up for when I need it. I don't know for certain if it's recommended to do this, but so far my plants are growing nice
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InitialArtiist
Hello new to the garden scene here, but Ive noticed you mentioned diatomaceous earth, do you use that or silica? (I went with RAW silica b. c of a YTer I watch lol)
But I couldnt find out if the diatomaceous earth was made out of silica or vice-versa?
Also Im thinking about using the coffee grounds along with the silica, and I use boiled-egg-Water hoping to mix all 3 at one feeding, I dont get nutrient burn or mess up my plants PH lol
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Hello new to the garden scene here, but Ive noticed you mentioned diatomaceous earth, do you use that or silica? (I went with RAW silica b. c of a YTer I watch lol)
But I couldnt find out if the diatomaceous earth was made out of silica or vice-versa?
Also Im thinking about using the coffee grounds along with the silica, and I use boiled-egg-Water hoping to mix all 3 at one feeding, I dont get nutrient burn or mess up my plants PH lol
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Coffee
I add no-salt for potassium whenever my plants tend to yellow a little more just a small sprinkle usually every other year and they green up really quickly - around 4 weeks. No banana peels. Always coffee grounds and I honestly put a lot of scraps just on top of my garden bed as organic matter that the lizards eat, bugs, etc between desert heat and the bugs out here not much doesnt just dissolve or disappear within a month or two.
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I add no-salt for potassium whenever my plants tend to yellow a little more just a small sprinkle usually every other year and they green up really quickly - around 4 weeks. No banana peels. Always coffee grounds and I honestly put a lot of scraps just on top of my garden bed as organic matter that the lizards eat, bugs, etc between desert heat and the bugs out here not much doesnt just dissolve or disappear within a month or two.
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matt
Banana Peels: Due to filling my Birdie's tall bed a little too well, I had a roly-poly (pill bug) infestation that actually munched through most of my first batch of transplants before I realized what was happening. Rather than other more traditional methods, I laid out large pieces of banana peels in my bed and simply transferred the roly-poly bugs that were on the peels to the compost bin. Got some slugs that way as well.
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Banana Peels: Due to filling my Birdie's tall bed a little too well, I had a roly-poly (pill bug) infestation that actually munched through most of my first batch of transplants before I realized what was happening. Rather than other more traditional methods, I laid out large pieces of banana peels in my bed and simply transferred the roly-poly bugs that were on the peels to the compost bin. Got some slugs that way as well.
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JRNurse2013
I have clay soil and since we moved here in 2018, I have been trench composting. I havent been drying the eggs shells and only crunch them up. I just throw my banana peels, coffee and tea grounds, vegetable scraps, toilet paper rolls, leaves, etc in a hole and cover with dirt. I can now dig anywhere in my yard and the soil is rich with lots of earthworms now. Maybe this is all wrong but it seems to have helped.
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I have clay soil and since we moved here in 2018, I have been trench composting. I havent been drying the eggs shells and only crunch them up. I just throw my banana peels, coffee and tea grounds, vegetable scraps, toilet paper rolls, leaves, etc in a hole and cover with dirt. I can now dig anywhere in my yard and the soil is rich with lots of earthworms now. Maybe this is all wrong but it seems to have helped.
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Michelle
I feed banana peels to my goats and use their poop to fertilize my garden and compost. Also I have blended my peels with water and pour in garden beds or around plants. And if they are organic then you can use them in your smoothies to get extra potassium
I dry my eggshells and feed to my chickens and use their droppings to feed my garden. I also dry and grind to very fine crumbles and use in garden.
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I feed banana peels to my goats and use their poop to fertilize my garden and compost. Also I have blended my peels with water and pour in garden beds or around plants. And if they are organic then you can use them in your smoothies to get extra potassium
I dry my eggshells and feed to my chickens and use their droppings to feed my garden. I also dry and grind to very fine crumbles and use in garden.
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Aziris
If you don't have an oven or live way in the sticks with precious electricity, you can just cook the egg shells in a firepit. The egg shells get blanched by the heat and turns into calcium carbonate. Calcium carbonate reacts with water, specifically rainwater. When calcium carbonate is soaked in rainwater, it becomes water soluble. You can then use it as a source of calcium additive.
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If you don't have an oven or live way in the sticks with precious electricity, you can just cook the egg shells in a firepit. The egg shells get blanched by the heat and turns into calcium carbonate. Calcium carbonate reacts with water, specifically rainwater. When calcium carbonate is soaked in rainwater, it becomes water soluble. You can then use it as a source of calcium additive.
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RALPH
I usually dry the banana peels and then blend them in my coffee grinder. Since we have chickens, I also grind my dry egg shells in my coffee grinder. I mix the ground dried banana peels, ground dried egg shells and dried coffee grounds to my soil. My indoor and outdoor plants love the additional nutrients from these additions.
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I usually dry the banana peels and then blend them in my coffee grinder. Since we have chickens, I also grind my dry egg shells in my coffee grinder. I mix the ground dried banana peels, ground dried egg shells and dried coffee grounds to my soil. My indoor and outdoor plants love the additional nutrients from these additions.
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handmade
I've read aphids don't like banana peels so flipping a peel over say, a tomato branch may help. I chop the banana peels and minimally crush eggshells for the chickens.
I do put banana peels in bottom of hole for new plant sometimes. To me, burying instead of composting just breaks things down faster.
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I've read aphids don't like banana peels so flipping a peel over say, a tomato branch may help. I chop the banana peels and minimally crush eggshells for the chickens.
I do put banana peels in bottom of hole for new plant sometimes. To me, burying instead of composting just breaks things down faster.
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James
I'll use eggshells as a mulch that slowly breaks down and releases calcium into the soil overtime and have noticed birds swooping down to eat some of them. Perhaps it helps with their calcium deficiency or increases fertility. Who knows.
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I'll use eggshells as a mulch that slowly breaks down and releases calcium into the soil overtime and have noticed birds swooping down to eat some of them. Perhaps it helps with their calcium deficiency or increases fertility. Who knows.
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Lindsey
You can ferment all of those things separately and create your own liquid fertilizers. The fermentation process breaks down the materials faster. You just need containers, 2 to 3 weeks, and a lot of molasses.
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You can ferment all of those things separately and create your own liquid fertilizers. The fermentation process breaks down the materials faster. You just need containers, 2 to 3 weeks, and a lot of molasses.
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Connie
I was told that coffee grounds are high in nitrogen. We got some old grounds from Starbucks in bags and threw them in the hole when we planted an almond tree. That tree grew up fast and was very healthy
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I was told that coffee grounds are high in nitrogen. We got some old grounds from Starbucks in bags and threw them in the hole when we planted an almond tree. That tree grew up fast and was very healthy
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Southern
I tried the banana tea on all my tomato plants except 3 and you can definitely see a major difference in the plants! I am planning on trying it out on some others to see if it seems to help.
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I tried the banana tea on all my tomato plants except 3 and you can definitely see a major difference in the plants! I am planning on trying it out on some others to see if it seems to help.
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Franz
Ive been adding a homemade mix of ground eggshells, seaweed & epsom salt when planting tomatoes, for the past few years. I used to have blossom end rot but now since using the above, I dont.
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Ive been adding a homemade mix of ground eggshells, seaweed & epsom salt when planting tomatoes, for the past few years. I used to have blossom end rot but now since using the above, I dont.
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