Why You Should Freeze Potato Peels: A Life Hack You Never Knew About

13.02.2024 20:32

Typically, potato peels go straight into the trash.

But in fact, such waste can be used to fertilize garden plantings.

The fact is that the peel contains many useful elements: phosphorus, magnesium, iron, zinc, manganese, and so on.

All of them have a positive effect on plants, saturate them with vitamins and improve growth.

Currants, raspberries, gooseberries, strawberries, and some ornamental plants will definitely like this fertilizer.

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If you want to preserve all the useful elements in the peel, you need to freeze it before the season.

Simply place the waste in a bag and leave it in the freezer.

How to Make Potato Peel Fertilizer

Frozen potato peels should be poured with boiling water.

For 500 grams of waste, you need to take 500 ml of water. As soon as the product cools down, it needs to be filtered. The product can be used once a month.

Previously we talked about how to harvest a good potato crop without crop rotation.

Olga Kotova Author: Olga Kotova Internet resource editor