Fertilizer from banana peel is very useful for begonia, violet, cyclamen , fern and other indoor plants. The secret is in a rich content of a banana substance such as potassium. At the stage of budding and flowering, it is simply necessary, and thanks to it the flowering of indoor plants is longer and more violent.
How to make a flower for banana peel?
There are many recipes for the preparation of fertilizer from banana peel. Having learned about this, you can only lament over how much potential fertilizer was thrown into the urn. On the other hand, now we will be more respectful of what was previously considered garbage.
The most famous and simple recipes of fertilizers from banana peels for indoor plants:
- Inflation in the water . Perhaps, this method is the simplest and consists in the fact that you put the skins from 3 bananas in a jar of room temperature water and insist for 2 days. After this, the infusion should be filtered and diluted with clean water 1: 1. The mixture should be watered 1-2 times a week.
- Complex fertilizer with banana peel . In the composition of multicomponent fertilizer, in addition to banana purification, onion and garlic husks and a little dry nettle are included. In a three-liter jar you need to put 2-3 banana peels, to them add on hand a peel of onion and garlic and dried leaves of nettle. All this pour cold water and put on a sunny window for 4 days. After this, the infusion will only be filtered and diluted with water 1: 1. This dressing is very useful for flowers.
- Roasting the banana peel . To do this, put a foil on the baking tray, spread the banana peel on it and send it to the oven. Toasted peel is cooled and put in a sealed bag. To fertilize a single houseplant, a tablespoon of fertilizer is sufficient.
How to treat banana peel before preparing a fertilizer from it?
Since bananas get to our stores very far away, they are subjected to multiple treatments for better preservation. For sprinkling and soaking, ammonium and chlorine sulphate, ethylene and many more unknown and untested chemical compounds are used.
To avoid getting into the fertilizer chemicals from spraying bananas, skins should be thoroughly washed with hot water. And generally, before you are going to open and eat a banana, it should always be thoroughly rinsed under running water.