So...banana peels, coffee grinds and egg shells...what other scraps do you all use in your garden?

[NJCher]

3. outer leaves of lettuce & cabbage heads, carrot peelings, onion skins are just a few

Banana peels are good for roses.

Ferns like eggshells, so I put my eggshells in large former kitty litter containers of water. Then I water my outdoor ferns with them.

Also, I work crushed eggshells into the areas where I plant tomatoes.

Coffee and tea grounds can be used to like a "mulch" around seedlings while they are still in their starter trays.

When I dig a hole to plant a vegetable outdoors, I will often take my veggie clippings along with crushed egg shells and work them into the soil. In addition, I save the wood shavings that bulbs and tubers sometimes come in. I soak the shavings so they are moist. I also add chopped leaves and organic composted cow mature. After I've worked all this in, I pour a little water in the area where the roots will touch and build the soil back up around the plant.

One nice thing about having a bamboo forest is the leaves don't have to be chopped because they're already small enough. I use up a lot of bamboo leaves that way.