Like potato peels that can be used to make liquid detergent, avocado peels that nourish skin and dye clothes, or apple peels that make aluminum shine and keep bread longer, potato and onion peels can be useful for many applications. Recycling them allows you to lighten the load on your garbage cans, reduce food waste and ingeniously improve your everyday life. While you can always use the peels for household chores or reuse them in the bathroom to beautify yourself, it is often in the orchard or garden that our food waste finds its best application. Discover how to reuse onion peels in gardening. Your plants will thank you and so will gardeners Why recycle onion peels in the garden? Onions are a food rich in good nutrients (vitamin C, antioxidant quercetin, potassium, sulfur, iodine, iron, phosphorus, etc.) that
It is also found in skins. Using these skins in the garden benefits plants, strengthening and sterilizing them. In addition, this is part of a zero waste approach, which is good for the planet and reduces the need to resort to chemical plant protection products. You will see that onion skins can act as fertilizer, fungicide, pesticide, etc. Recycling this waste is also an ecological and economic gesture in every respect, since less expensive chemicals are used to care for the garden and nothing is wasted. Get good value for money!
A great addition to your compost pile The easiest and quickest tip is, without a doubt, tossing onion peels into your compost bin. Once broken down, they will provide all the nutrients they contain. They will also help balance the pH of your compost by reducing its acidity level. This will provide a rich fertilizer to improve plant growth and make your plants stronger. However, be careful not to add them to your vermicomposter, as worms may not like their oniony smell.
Onion Peel Fertilizer for Garden Plants Prepare a maceration rich in good nutrients! To make it, gather your ingredients: 100 g of peels that you have cut and 1 liter of rainwater. Mix these two elements in an airtight container and leave to marinate for 24 hours before filtering. Ready! To use, dilute 100 ml in 1 liter of rainwater and spray this mixture on your plants once every two weeks to give them a boost.
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