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Organic Rose Care-Banana Peels

January 12, 2011 by Jeanne

I picked up a great little book over Christmas called Tips from the Old Gardeners. I’ll blog more about in the weeks to come since so many of the tips appeal to me – frugal uses for your kitchen scraps, wisdom for using the weather to guide planting, and all sorts of folklore. Some of it is really funny, like the tip to take off your pants and sit your naked butt on the ground in the spring to tell whether or not it is time to plant. No thanks. I’d probably get arrested and would certainly frighten anyone catching a glimpse of me. Yet many of the tips, including the one I explore below in my latest article for MainLine Gardening, are actually backed up by modern-day gardeners.

Here’s the first tip: using banana peels as an organic fertilizer for roses. I am going to try this for sure since my family goes through more bananas than a cage of monkeys at the zoo!

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  1. ~Gardener on Sherlock Street

    January 12, 2011 at

    If I had roses, I could do that too. We love bananas! Are they good for any other plants in particular?

  2. keewee

    January 12, 2011 at

    My roses seem to like banana peels around their roots.

  3. Jeanne

    January 12, 2011 at

    I don’t know about any other flowers, but now you have me curious. I’m going to have to research that one!

    Thanks for leaving comments!

  4. Jean M. Heimann

    January 12, 2011 at

    Jeanne,

    When dad retired, he cared for the many rose bush plants around his parish church, which were just gorgeous. His secret was banana peels. Ever since he shared this with me, I have been using them around the rose bushes in my yard and they seem to be forever in bloom. My miniature yellow rose bush had blooms in December.

  5. Simply Bonkers!

    January 13, 2011 at

    I am going to try the banana peels in my veggie garden in the spring. Thanks for the tip!

    I cant wait for Spring to start planting!! As for the butt thing -no thank you. Ewww..

    🙂

    ~M

  6. tina

    January 13, 2011 at

    I never plant a rose without placing a whole banana in the hole. The potassium and organic matter is good I think. They are also good for peonies and other floriferous flowers. I think the tip about learning when to plant in the spring is priceless. Haven’t heard that one before.

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