How to Use Eggshells, Banana Peels, and Coffee Grounds in the Garden

Drop some comments on how you use these three kitchen scraps!

"don't make potions"
I guess he hasn't seen the results of compost tea lol.

I recently saw on another channel, someone lightly roasting crushed egg shells. It has to do with the calcium & bioavailability. They just need to get to a tan color.

Self composting saves money and works

Waste not

Egg shells and banana peels work better dried and turned into powder. Just another Ca and K boost, nothing to crazy. The Coffee grounds are high in N as well so it’s a organic somewhat freebee as well.

Yea uncle Jim's worm farm

I wish I could grow a Greener Thumb ....promise I'll try my hardest

Love the rap at the ending, the speech matching the BG music

I put bananas in water plus anion peels and in three or four days I water the plants is that ok?

Good ,sensible advice. Use any green matter, but don’t think it will be a panacea for everything

HUH. Did NOT know about the eggshells being potentially good for garden birds! Thanks for the tip - I've been an avid bird watcher my whole life. 😊❤

I’ve been reading things at eggshells take a year to basically do any good in the garden for it to turn to organic matter if that’s the right freeze

what if you blend the banana peels with egg shells coffee grounds and just add to your soil?

I BLEND MOST SCRAP FOOD IN BLENDER WITH WATER & PUT N MILK JUG WITH LID PARTIAL OPEN TO BREATH & TO LET SIT FOR A COUPLE DAYS THEN POUR DIRRECTLY N2 RAISED BEDS BUT NOT ON LEAVES OF PLANTS.

coffee in the compost should make the worms work faster

Don't forget about orange peels. 🙂

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most "banana republics" use toxic amounts or pesticides to grow bananas ( Like Costa Rica) keep that in mind when using food scrapes as well

I throw my banana peels and old bananas into a blender with some water and make a slurry of 1 banana to 5 gallons of water to feed to my plants. This increases the surface area of the peels which increases the breakdown speed and the old bananas add sugars as well to the slurry.
- For eggshells I either toss them into the compost or break them into a fine powder with an old coffee grinder then dissolve them in vinegar until the solution is neutral. This can be applied to the surrounding soil of a plant at 2:1 (water:solution) ratio or foliar fed at 10:1 (water:solution) ratio.
- Coffee grounds go straight to the compost. The worms that live in the compost pile love them especially when combined with grass clippings.

When I bake stuff I put my banana peels in the oven too. I get them brittle, break them up and throw them into pots etc.

Great video with a no- nonsense presentation. Keep them coming!

Been following your videos for a bit now and I listen to your podcast. Thank you for sharing all the great knowledge. I’m a New Yorker living in the West Midlands of England and I have a rather large allotment in a farm and I have been going at the garden for over a year now like an animal. The garden is a marvel to be in and look at but it’s overwhelming at times and jobs are always needing to be done. I’m finding out this year (my first year growing a garden of this magnitude) what I would do differently already. But the mistakes I’m making are good learning experiences. Next year is going to be amazing!

Very knowledgeable.

I plan to dry both egg shells and banana peels in the oven then throw them both in the blender. That, mixed with the wood ashes from my smoker, creates a nice addition to an organic fertilizer that I’ll use in the garden when planting. I’ll add bone meal and an organic source of nitrogen to create a balanced fertilizer. My coffee grounds go into the compost pile. Every week I have about a gallon (I drink a lot of coffee) and when I pull back the compost to put in the new coffee grounds, it’s always steaming where the coffee grounds were from last week. The coffee grounds really heat up the pile.

I dehydrate my banana peels and then make them into a powder and I sprinkle it in the soil and then with eggshells I break them down with vinegar then dilute it with water and will water my plants with it.

Dont the egg shells act like a spike strip and gut the slugs as they climb over? Kind of a death by 1000 cuts type deal

Thanks for dispelling some of the BS myths!!!

I made a soak of banana peels, coffee grounds and eggshells, and just one application of that made my house plants go CRAZY! One that I thought was a goner started producing new leaves almost immediately.

Plants are bloodthirsty… they love dead animals 🌱 🌈 yes you can bury bones and scraps deep down and it will feed the plants… fish heads aren’t just a myth for tomatoes… they LOVE fish.

Coffee grounds keep aphids of Aschlepsia Tuberosa. Butterfly weed.

coffee grinds come from the petrol station bin eggs from neighbour I hate bananas so where do I get banana peel from
I got old paint buckets drilled holes and buried them in the bed then put the scraps in there for mini compost bins
worms especially love banana skin coffee vege leaves and fruit cores

If the banana peel is not from organic origin i would be cautious. Normal grown banana peels are normally highly contaminated with fungizides and insecticides.

Very interested in this topic but had to wait far too long to find out HOW to use them.

Love your shirt!! I used to work for Jim on his worm farm. Incredible operation, let me tell you. Tractor bucket after tractor bucket full of worms all day every day. Hundreds and hundreds of pounds of worms. Gently harvested from (enormous) bed surfaces by pitchfork into the bucket, then into a big ol spinning screen cylinder that dumps the sifted bedding below and the worms come out the end into 1/2 50 gallon drums cut lengthwise, and then the drums are laid out alongside eachother on tables in the sun. The worms dig an inch into the dirt to escape the sun, and you go barrel to barrel scraping off the top inch of soil and throwing it into a tractor bucket to be thrown back on the beds. By the time you scrape each one the worms have buried themselves again and you do it until the dirt is all gone and you have nothing but 60lbs of straight up spaghetti. Then there are more empty 1/2 drums prepared with a shallow bed of fresh, wet peat moss, and each bed gets 20 lbs of worms. They’re cumulatively stored during the days harvest in a large, cooled trailer fitted with wooden makeshift rack systems for the worms. When 1pm comes the sun is south central florida is too direct and powerful to sun-sort anymore without killing the worms so harvesting stops and manpower is diverted to packaging and order fulfillment. We’d make 400-1000 bags of worms, shipping boxes and tape labels to them all, load a trailer with a AC wall unit and gas generator rigged to it for the 45 mile drive to the post office…. Where one or two of us would unload and count and scan every single box and stack half a dozen pallets with live product…all while covered head to toe in stinking worm shit! LOL
Jim is one of the greatest men I’ve ever met in my life. He is an awe inspiring soldier of Christ who proclaims the gospel boldly and gives God credit for all things. He has a wonderful family that loves and respects him. He conducts his business on his own personal property and has made every single piece of infrastructure on that MASSIVE farm himself.
My time spent working there was an incredible period in my life, both in and out of work. My faith became profound and God revealed Himself to me daily- and boy did I learn a LOT!
Thanks for the video, and thanks for being God’s vessel this morning to remind me of such a wonderful time. To God be the glory!

Now, mythbusting is great, but it is just as easy to mythbust with more myths. Some citations would really bring videos like this to the next level.

My mom feeds eggshells back to her chickens, to replenish their calcium.

Since egg shells break down so slowly, wouldn't they be good for aerating the soil in smaller containers, similar to perlite but without the expense? THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO, KEVIN!

Helpful. Thanks.

Then what to do with peels?

Hello? Can you only use the banana peel and not the banana when you start composting

Say hello to opossums and raccoons.

Thx for the great info!
Another idea: I was recently shopping for organic weed killer for my lawn, & the store associate showed me their best options then said he's seen coffee grounds used successfully to kill weeds effectively. He also explained it is not at all harmful to the grass & is actually good for it.
I'm experimenting with it now.
I'm trying to keep my lawn & garden as organic as possible. After getting 2 huge bags of grounds from Starbucks, I remembered that most coffee is doused in very toxic pesticides--& I'm not sure how much of those toxns would still be present in the grounds.
Now I'm using my daily small bits from my organic coffee. It's taking longer to test, but worth it til I can be sure. 😊

Practically dump it all in a pit, and let nature do its wok, ive noticed that there are more eathworms when you add chopped banana trunk in in the planting hole

Real magic happens when you work with copper and magnets in your soil!

Feed all three of these to my worms

Use a coffee grinder to break down your egg shells after you bake them for about 1520 minutes then you can dust the garden with calcium can also put it in your shakes in your food and your dog food.

I just throw everything on my compost pile.