Banana water is essentially a tea made from banana peels that is used as a DIY fertilizer.

In years past, plant lovers were abuzz with news about the benefits of using coffee grounds for plants and eggshells for plants. More recently, home gardeners unearthed a new promising DIY product: ...

Mix one cup of banana skin compost tea into four litres of water. Apply at the base of your plants and watch them come to life! It is especially beneficial to tomatoes, capsicum and chilli plants.

The leaves of a banana plant, for instance, are about a million times bigger than the leaves of heather. The conventional wisdom is that leaf size is limited by the balance between how much water ...