The Best Place for Kitchen Scraps is Your Garden
Put your kitchen and household scraps into the garden to make the most out of your soil.
Waste not, want not, as the old saying goes. Our ancestors fed themselves daily with the products of the kitchen garden, and likewise fed the garden with the kitchen scraps. Here are some tips for bolstering the soil quality of your garden with your table leavings, and where they will be put to the most effective use.
Tea Leaves
Save your tea leaves to put out as a mulch on the garden. Wet or dried, they will provide nutrients to trickle down. In the flower garden particularly, Camellias will benefit from tea leaves.
Milk
When milk cartons or jugs are finished, they should be rinsed with a cup of water and the contents spread on the garden. A little bit of nutrients added in a frequent watering will go a long way.
Banana Skins
Banana skins should be laid just below the surface of the soil around the base of rose plants, as they are known to benefit the roses by releasing a considerable quantity of calcium, magnesium, sulfur, phosphates and silica.
Beer
Like the milk, rinse beer bottles with water and toss the contents out on the kitchen garden. The yeast in the liquid will do wonders for your nearby plants.
Old Boots
Never toss your worn out soles into the garbage; real leather is full of good things for your soil. Toss them in the compost instead. The leather will rot down eventually and the rubber parts can be retrieved easily afterwards.
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Great article and very helpful!