Recently, I’ve been seeing advice on Facebook about adding banana peels to your soil for potassium. Bananas and their peels ...

Recently, I’ve been seeing advice on Facebook about adding banana peels to your soil for potassium. Bananas and their peels do indeed contain potassium, which is a major nutrient for plants. The other ...

It’s OK to add banana peels to your compost bin. Two other myths that master gardeners have debunked are that adding coffee grounds will help acidify the soil and that eggshells are good for the ...

Compost, the dark, crumbly, earthy-smelling material produced by natural decomposers, provides many benefits to gardeners and ...

Do Banana Peels Really Help Plants Grow? Yes! Banana peels are rich in potassium, phosphorus, and calcium—three nutrients ...

Half of nearly one million tonnes in household waste Montrealers generate each year goes to landfill. To do it right, only 15 per cent would.

Instead of throwing away edible and nutrient-rich peel of bananas ... over a 20-year time span. Composting food waste instead of sending it to landfill can help reduce the amount of methane ...

Is it finally time for large-scale composting in South Florida? The reality is that we’re still years or more away from being required to sort our eggshells and banana peels from the rest of our ...