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How to Use Potato Peels in the Garden: 3 Great Ways
18.09.2023 18:22
Since any housewife often prepares potato-based treats, you can collect a huge amount of peels if you want.
Not everyone knows that this is not food waste, but an excellent supplement that can safely be called universal.
As a rule, the peel is used in three familiar ways, reveals the secrets of the expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", scientist-agronomist and landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh .
What options are worth knowing about?
Compost
Some gardeners simply throw the peels into the general compost pit with other waste. But you can also make a special compost based on potatoes.
Take a convenient container of large volume and fill it with water by 50%. Put the peel in it. Afterwards, the product can be used as an excellent natural fertilizer.
For those who don't want to wait
Many have heard that peels can be simply buried in the area to enrich the soil. This is indeed true: the soil becomes more fertile and of higher quality.
Currants especially like this "treat". The berries start to grow incredibly large and sweet.
Decoctions
You can prepare any infusions and decoctions based on potato peels. Often such products are used for seedlings to strengthen young plants.
