10/10/2025
🗑️ Stop Tossing Your Kitchen Scraps! 🤯 Grow Healthier Plants for FREE! 🌿
Your kitchen is hiding the best, cheapest plant food you can get! Instead of throwing away those scraps, turn them into powerful DIY fertilizer.
Here's how to feed your plants using 3 common household items:
🍌 Banana Peels (Potassium):
Good For: Any ornamental that flowers or is a houseplant like sensation, prince of orange, walichi, and green velvet. Potassium helps them produce bigger, more vibrant blooms and strong stems.
Application Tip: For indoor plants, it's safer to use the "Banana Tea" liquid (soaking peels in water) or to dry and powder the peels before mixing them into the potting soil. This helps avoid attracting fruit flies and pests that can be drawn to rotting, raw peels in a warm indoor pot.
🥚 Eggshells (Calcium):
Good For: Almost all ornamental and house plants! Calcium is a basic building block for healthy plant cells. It's especially useful for plants that have trouble with wilting or weak stems.
Application Tip: Always use the fine powder. Sprinkle a tiny bit on the surface of your potted plant soil and gently scratch it in, or mix it in when you repot.
☕ Coffee Grounds (Nitrogen):
Good For: Acid-loving ornamentals like xanado, neo orange, sensation, and green velvet. Nitrogen makes their foliage deep green and lush.
A warning about acidity: Coffee grounds can make soil slightly acidic. Do not use them directly on plants that prefer non-acidic (alkaline) soil, like lavender or salvia. When in doubt, it's safest to mix them into your compost first, which removes the acidity.
⚠️ Quick Tip!
Make sure everything is unsalted and plain! Always use a small amount—a little boost is better than too much!
Which scrap are you going to use on your garden today? Tell us below! 👇
