Don't throw out that banana peel. There are many awesome uses for the vitamin-packed peel once you've eaten the fruit from the inside.
Wart and corn removal. Place a piece of banana peel that's a bit bigger than your wart on the affected area. Secure with a bandage and leave overnight. Remove peel the next morning, repeat daily until wart is removed.
Fights acne. Wash your face and dry well. Place a piece of banana peel over the pimple and allow to sit for 5 minutes. Remove, but don't wash off for 20 minutes. Rinse off with cool water. This is also great for large pimples that are inflamed. The banana peel enzymes will calm the bloat.
Whitens teeth. Gently rub the inside of a banana peel against your teeth for a couple minutes. Brush your teeth to remove banana residue. The citric acid can help reduce the yellow look from your teeth.
Soothes bug bites. The polysaccharides from inside a banana peel can help reduce swelling and inflammation from bug bites. This is especially handy with irritation from mosquito bites. Place the banana peel on the bite for 5 minutes, wait 15 minutes, then rinse off with cool water.
Fights puffy eyes. Scrape the white fiber from the inside of a banana peel (as pictured) and apply it over puffy under eyes and dark circles in the morning. Let sit for 10 minutes, then rinse with cool water.
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Stag horn ferns love these. Tuck them in the back shield fronds where they decompose and feed the fern
Cut in 1-2 inches pieces and bury in ground by roses roots
That and plain coffee grounds will make the grow great!
Tip from rose grower from Bermuda
Yes, coffee grounds, and excellent addition :) Enjoy your blooms in Bermuda!!!
I put banana person my compost pile
I put my morning banana peel in an old pie tin inside my oven, along with tea bags, egg shells and the occasional coffee grounds. When I'm finished with baking our dinner, I quickly pull out the dinner and slide in the pie tin back into my oven. The heat does a great job of drying everything out, there is no smell, I promise! And fruit flies don't have a chance to get breeding, since you are still putting everything into your oven while it's still at 350°F.
Once a week, you are going to take your kitchen shears and snip the banana skins as finely as you can get them. Next, you can use your kitchen shears and snip the top of your tea bags off (you can't use the tag, string or staple from the top of the bag). Gently open up your tea bags and put the sweepings into the pie tin or whatever receptacle you are using to transfer your own Miracle grow to the garden. You can also snip the tea bag itself into tiny pieces as well! The only tricky part is the coffee grounds, which must be absolutely dry (or they'll mold!), which is why I suggest that you keep accumulating everything for a week, so that you're giving them a good chance to fully dry out.
For the eggshells, you can put them into an old Ziploc baggie and then run your rolling pin over them to turn them into a fine powder. You could use your blender or food processor to grind the eggshells, but I hate cleaning mine unless I made an angel food cake or something that used up a dozen at a time (not likely in 2023, at $4 and up for a lousy box, that's for sure!!).
You can't buy a better concoction for your roses!!! I have one of those sweet mini roses that someone had given me as a gift, no bigger than your palm when I received it! You should see the little beast now! She's about 2 1/2' tall by late July/early August and bursting with flowers! I cut her back in October/November and bring her back inside (Zone 5).
Just use enough of this mixture to make a circle about a palms width and about a palm away from the main stem of your roses. If it's raining for several days, I'll replace the mixture once the ground has dried up a bit. You don't want to put this too close to the stems, as it could cause issues (mold, too much acidity, ect). Same with any other form of plant food, plus you want your plants to grow and "reach out" for the nutrients, which will mean that your roots do better in the long run.
I have been using as a fertilizer for years in the yard for my trees and bushes...
Excellent article on banana peels, specially for my home-province of Cochabamba, Bolivia, where the best bananas are produced and we are top exporters of this fruit in South America. I love banana fruit, but now I will love the peels as well. Thanks for sharing. Saul J. Escalera, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor UMSS.
with organic banana peels make a night time sleep aid. Boil water and let some peel (experiment with how much to suit your taste, I usually use 1-2 Tablespoon of crushed peel) steep for 3-5 minutes. It is naturally sweet so no need to add any sweetener but you can add some honey and it will not harm the effects of this sleep aid.
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