Homemade Fertilizer Mix For Roses 🌹 | Using Coffee, Banana Peels & More .. | Plants and Life
Homemade Fertilizer Mix for Roses 🌹 | Coffee, Banana Peels & More ...
by Plants and Life • Category: Organic Gardening
I still remember one winter morning when one of my rose plants suddenly gave three blooms together 🌹 Nothing feels quite like seeing roses open slowly in soft sunlight on your own terrace. For almost a week, I kept going upstairs again and again just to look at them 😄
But after that flowering cycle, the plant started looking exhausted. The leaves lost that fresh shiny look. New buds became smaller. Even the stems looked thinner somehow. At first, I thought maybe the pot was too small or the plant had some disease.
So naturally, I did what many beginners do. I bought strong fertilizers from the market. Honestly, some worked fast. The plant pushed out growth quickly. But after some time, I noticed the soil becoming hard and dry much faster than before. The plant looked fed, but the soil looked tired.
That’s when I slowly started experimenting with simple homemade things already lying around in the kitchen. Used coffee. Banana peels. Eggshells. Even leftover rice starch water after cooking rice.
What surprised me was how naturally roses responded once the soil became healthier. Not overnight. But slowly. The leaves became darker green. New shoots looked stronger. And flowering became more regular instead of one sudden flush and then silence.
At least on my terrace, roses seem to prefer gentle feeding more than heavy feeding. Small amounts. Repeated patiently. That worked much better for me than dumping strong fertilizer all at once 😅
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| Some of the simple ingredients I regularly use for feeding my terrace roses naturally. |
🎥 Watch the Fertilizer Reel
🎥 I’ve shown the full fertilizer preparation process for my rose plants here — from Plants & Life
☕ Ingredients & What They Actually Do
One thing I noticed after growing roses for some time is that healthy soil changes everything. Once the soil becomes biologically active, roses behave very differently. The growth looks more natural. Even the leaves feel fresher somehow.
- Coffee Grounds — Mainly useful for adding nitrogen and improving soil texture slowly.
- Banana Peels — Full of potassium and phosphorus, which roses need during flowering.
- Eggshells — A simple natural source of calcium.
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| Coffee |
In my experience, roses really enjoy small amounts of coffee grounds. Especially during active leaf growth. I noticed the foliage often becomes richer green after regular use. But only in moderation. One mistake I made initially was adding coffee almost every week 😅 After some time, one pot became too acidic and growth slowed down badly.
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| Dried Banana Leaves |
Honestly, banana peels became one of my favorite things for roses. During flowering season, the buds often look stronger after feeding banana-based fertilizer. Sometimes I dry the peels in sunlight and crush them. Sometimes I just chop fresh peels into tiny pieces and mix them into compost. Both work nicely.
What surprised me was how many flower buds started appearing together after regular feeding 🌹 Especially after pruning.
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| Egg Shells |
I usually wash and dry the eggshells before crushing them. Over time I realized big shell pieces decompose very slowly inside pots. Now I grind them almost into powder. That mixes much better with the soil.
At least on my terrace, stems seem sturdier when calcium levels remain balanced.
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