Humans are adding vitamins to their water all the time, but why should we get all the fun? There’s evidence to suggest that fortifying the water you use to feed your plants might be just as beneficial ...

It's not as straightforward as you may think. You've likely heard that burying banana peels in your garden is a good way to add important nutrients to the soil to grow healthy plants. Banana peels do ...

Texas troubadour Guy Clark once famously sang that there are only two things that money can't buy: true love and homegrown tomatoes. For whatever reason, tomatoes are backyard garden royalty. Whether ...

If you are planning to sow seeds or transplant seedlings, you should know about how to use banana peels to help keep your new ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Soaking banana peels in water to fertilize plants sounds sustainable, but there’s little evidence it ...

Banana peels often end up in the trash without a second thought. Yet these humble kitchen scraps hide a surprising potential ...

Close up of banana peel on table - Maliflower73/Getty Images Before you toss your empty banana peels into the trash can, you may want to save a few for later. Not for you to eat, but for your plants ...

Back in the 1990s, the kids in my high school were convinced that banana peels contained a mysterious psychoactive substance that could apparently induce vivid hallucinations when smoked. I suppose it ...

One of my dear friends from church asked my advice about growing bananas many years ago. I said yes you can because I saw a banana tree growing in the corner of the main teaching greenhouse at Ohio ...