Nurture houseplants again - with the help of banana peels
Created: 04/12/2022, 09:00
By: Anne Hund
Banana peels contain important nutrients that help our plants.
Find out here how you can easily make a liquid fertilizer out of it.
Banana peels contain important minerals such as potassium, magnesium and calcium.
And these active ingredients can have a positive effect on indoor or balcony plants.
Namely when it is a question of reviving limp plants.
In the event that the plant lets its leaves hang at home, you should enrich the irrigation water with the active ingredients of the banana.
Liquid fertilizer made from banana peels - use it to water your houseplant
Banana peels contain important nutrients for plants.
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According to gardening expert Karin Greiner, the insider tip works like this: For the liquid thinner made from banana peels, first crush the peels and boil around one hundred grams with one liter of water.
Then let the broth steep overnight and the next day strain off the remains of the peel with a fine sieve, according to the recipe according to
Bavaria 1
.
Now dilute the “banana tea” 1:5 with water.
The irrigation water for the houseplant is ready.
Banana peels: Potassium and magnesium important nutrients for plants
Potassium can, for example, support the transport of nutrients from the leaves to other parts of the plant and increase plant stability.
Magnesium is also a building block in chlorophyll in plants and is essential for photosynthesis.
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Of course, there can be other reasons why indoor plants suffer in the apartment.
This can be due, for example, to the wrong room temperature, to the dry heating air or to the lighting conditions.
You can find out all the information about care, variety selection and the right location for indoor plants here.
Incidentally, you can also recycle coffee grounds and use them for your indoor plants.
