Your plants, garbage can, and Earth will thank you.
If you’re already composting , good for you! Composting, while very advantageous for the environment and our kitchen scraps, is sometimes a hard hobby to get into. If you haven’t yet picked it up, but are looking for ways to reduce your kitchen waste, look no further. There are plenty of ways to use your leftovers in your garden, from organic pest deterrents, to yellow jacket traps, to ground covering that prevents weed growth. Read on for some of our favorite scrap-lications..
Use them as a pest deterrent. Some gardening sources recommend sprinkling crushed eggshells around plants to discourage slugs and snails. If you have a lot of eggshells on hand and don’t have a major slug infestation, this might be worth a try. In, author Jeff Gillman recommends creating a ring around plants with crushed eggshells that is at least 1/4-inch thick and 2 inches wide.
Used coffee grounds can be used as mulch in the garden to repel cats, rabbits, and squirrels. Althoughbook cautions that this treatment might repel you, too: “Few elements of vegetable garbage are as garbagy-smelling as week-old wet coffee grounds.” Bury small pieces of banana peels around plants, only an inch or two deep, to repel aphids. The key words here are “small pieces”—don’t get lazy and bury whole peels, unless you want to start attracting larger pests.
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