Blending Banana Peels With Water: Why Gardeners Recommend It and What It’s Used For

compost pile
Have only a few kitchen scraps
Want to reduce waste
Enjoy experimenting with homemade garden inputs
If you already make good compost, there’s no urgent reason to remove banana peels from it just to make banana water.

Composting is still an excellent use for them.

1. Gardeners Use It Around Tomatoes
Tomatoes are probably the plant most frequently mentioned in connection with banana-peel fertilizer.

The reasoning is usually potassium.

Tomatoes require potassium along with nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, and numerous micronutrients.

A small amount of decomposing banana peel