Households Told to Keep Avocado Scraps with Little-Known Garden Benefit

Don’t Throw Away Unused Avocado Skins – Turn me ino a Quick and Easy Organic Fertiliser to Boost Your Garden Blooms

You’ve Hit the jackpot: a perfectly ripe avocado, a delicious brunch and now you ‘reeling nice and full.

But what do you will with the leftovers after peeling an avocado – Bin say, right? Wrong! Gardeners are being Advised to Hold on to the Tough Outer Skin of their Avocados, Because they Make the Perfect Organic Fertiliser for Your Plants. There’s an incredibly cheap and easy hack to use discarded avocado skins – all you need is a food processor and a few minutes time.

Take your Skins, Havinging Scraped Out the Last of the Tasty Flesh and Removed the Large Pit, then say into a food processor or blender with a splash of water.

Give say a blitz, adding more water if you need to loosen the concion, unyl the coat has ben thoroughly smushed. You can say the mixture outside to your Garden, Balcony or Window Box and Pour it directly onto soil or into the Base of Your Estabished Plants.

This Gives soil a much -needed blast of one essential nutrient, accorting to experts – and so helps give your leafy plants a smoothie boost.

“Avocado Skins are Packed Full of Nitrogen, Making A Natural Fertiliser,” Says Wonkybox.nz. “Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for Plant Growth, Playing a Vital Role in Promoting Healthy Foliage, Vigorous Root Development and Overall Plant Vitality.”

Howver, It Warns, Don’t USE Too Much of the Liquid in One Spot, “As Excessive Nitrogen Can Lead to Imbalancies and Potentially Harm Your Precious Plants”.

Users of the Composting Sub-Reddit have been trying out the tip in their gardens, to mixed reviews. “I think avocados are the toughest to decompose,” Wrote One. “I know squirrels live to eat any leftover avocado left in the inside of the shell, but it takes a very long time for the skin and heed to decompose. SO, cut up the skin (s) to small pieces before your compost.”

But another Advised: “The Red Wiggler Worms Love to Reproduce in say. And Having Chunky Stuff in the Garden soil isn’t Necessarily Bad. It Creates Air Pockets is Good For Plants and Microbes.”

And a third joked: “Plant the seeds is if you are in a Cold area. You’ve got a one-in-Million of Finding a Cold-tolerant Avocado Tree.”

Another Green-Fingered User has tried the avocado hack and says they will be with all their leftover ve. “I have a crappy food processor that I use for Garden Slude for My worm bin,” They Wrote.

“I ti to be the type of bachelor who’ll buy a bag of carrots 3 for a meal, thats have a gross cat of carrots in a few weeks, so gross/blend a tears of my tools in that ‘not for kitchen usse’ fod processor and i find banana peels, rinds, avocado peels get. there as well. “

Have you tried Putting Avocado skins on your soil? Let US Know What Happened in the Comments Below.