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  2. Should You Use Banana Peels In The Garden? Experts Weigh In - AOL

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    When you use banana peels in this way, you don't know how much, if any minerals are being added to the soil, whereas when you use a fertilizer you know what you're adding.

  3. Banana Peel Fertilizer: Does it Really Work? Here’s ... - AOL

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    Everybody loves money-saving DIY ideas, especially if it repurposes something that’s ordinarily trash. So, the idea to use banana peels as fertilizer seems, well, rather appealing (you knew we ...

  4. Chenpi - Wikipedia

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    Chenpi has a common name, 'ju pi' or mandarin orange peel. [ 1 ] Chenpi contains volatile oils which include the chemical compounds nobiletin , hesperidin , neohesperidin , tangeretin , citromitin , synephrine , carotene , cryptoxanthin , inositol , vitamin B 1 , and vitamin C. [ 2 ] Traditional Chinese herbal medicine uses the alcohol extracts ...

  5. Compost - Wikipedia

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    Compost used as fertilizer. On open ground for growing wheat, corn, soybeans, and similar crops, compost can be broadcast across the top of the soil using spreader trucks or spreaders pulled behind a tractor. It is expected that the spread layer is very thin (approximately 6 mm (0.24 in)) and worked into the soil prior to planting.

  6. Manure - Wikipedia

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    For instance, sheep manure is high in nitrogen and potash, while pig manure is relatively low in both. Horses mainly eat grass and a few weeds, so horse manure can contain grass and weed seeds, because horses do not digest seeds as cattle do. Cattle manure is a good source of nitrogen as well as organic carbon. [3]

  7. Orange Peel - Wikipedia

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    The Goode homolosine projection, often called the "orange-peel projection" Orange peel (effect), a type of finish on painted or cast surfaces Orange peel effect, on a gramophone record; Orange peel colour, a shade of orange; Orange peel fungus (Aleuria aurantia) Peau d'orange (French for "skin of an orange"), describing anatomy with the ...

  8. Ornamental grass - Wikipedia

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    Deer grass (Muhlenbergia rigens) and canyon prince wild blue rye (Leymus condensatus) are popular in larger settings, natural landscaping, and native plant gardens. There are Miscanthus grasses whose variegations are horizontal, and appear even on a cloudy day to be stippled with sunshine .

  9. Hypericum gentianoides - Wikipedia

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    Hypericum gentianoides is a species of flowering plant in the St. John's wort family Hypericaceae.Its common names include orangegrass and pineweed.. Native to eastern North America, it ranges from Ontario; Nova Scotia and Maine south to Florida, west to Texas, and north to Missouri and Minnesota.