So...banana peels, coffee grinds and egg shells...what other scraps do you all use in your garden?

[Baltimike]

And what do you use them for?

[dutch777]

1. We compost all our veggie and most fruit scraps. End of season we bury compost in trenches in beds and cover

with soil. Add the eggs shells too. Coffee we use on our rhodies. Last year was first year we had a serious amount collected of compost and was gratified this spring when turning the beds and the composted areas were rich with earthworms.

[piddyprints]

2. I got the coolest toy.

It’s called Lomi and it turns my kitchen waste into the most beautiful compost overnight. I’ll admit that I feed it mostly banana peels, coffee grounds, and eggshells, with a weekly dose of carrot peels, with sweet pepper cores, onion peels, and apple cores several times a week. Now and then, some ginger peels. Boy, does it smell good when it gets ginger!

This is my first year with this delightful compost, but so far I’m just sprinkling it in the garden beds. I added some to my vegetable seed starter and my little seedlings look strong and healthy. Fingers crossed.

[NJCher]

3. outer leaves of lettuce & cabbage heads, carrot peelings, onion skins are just a few

Banana peels are good for roses.

Ferns like eggshells, so I put my eggshells in large former kitty litter containers of water. Then I water my outdoor ferns with them.

Also, I work crushed eggshells into the areas where I plant tomatoes.

Coffee and tea grounds can be used to like a "mulch" around seedlings while they are still in their starter trays.

When I dig a hole to plant a vegetable outdoors, I will often take my veggie clippings along with crushed egg shells and work them into the soil. In addition, I save the wood shavings that bulbs and tubers sometimes come in. I soak the shavings so they are moist. I also add chopped leaves and organic composted cow mature. After I've worked all this in, I pour a little water in the area where the roots will touch and build the soil back up around the plant.

One nice thing about having a bamboo forest is the leaves don't have to be chopped because they're already small enough. I use up a lot of bamboo leaves that way.

[MiHale]

4. All that and more goes into compost pile...

Along with the grass clippings collected and let to sit for a while. All the garden debris like trimmed leaves etc., used straw … be ready next year.

Coffee grounds also used along with finely crushed egg shells mixed for slug and snail control.