EcoRaddish - Project

Banana Peel Fertilizer in Radish

Delfina Trangoni
Science, Acquisition, ATL, and Math
Ninth B
Delivery Date:
Objectives:
● Achieve the proper growth and development of organic planting.
● Control weeds and pests on the surface to achieve better evolution in the plant.
● Put different amounts of fertilizer and see the result of each one.
● Conduct appropriate research to improve the outcome of the project.

Theoretical framework:

Radish
Radish or Raphanus sativus is one among the vegetables that grows fast and in small
spaces. Its flavor is extremely intense, you will eat it in salads, sandwiches, as a garnish,
soups, or the other dish. It is an honest source of antioxidants and vitamin C, has
anti-inflammatory properties, controls vital signs and cleanses the kidneys. Growing radishes
reception or as a faculty project may be a fun thanks to determine about the expansion
period of plants. Radishes are one among the vegetables that do not need transplantation,
therefore the part during which we sow it will be during which it'll develop until its final
product. They grow perfectly within the ground or in containers with a minimum depth of 10
cm. Use well-nourished soil that has good drainage. For carving, you will finish small furrows
1-1.5 cm deep and with a distance of 8-12cm between them, counting on the dimensions.
Place 1 seed every 5 cm and canopy with soil. Water quickly after sowing, do not let the soil
lose moisture. Small, freshly harvested radishes have a less spicy taste and better amounts
of nutrients. Prepare microgreens with radish seeds, they are an excellent source of
enzymes, minerals, vitamins, and chlorophyll. The word radish comes from the Latin "radix"
or root. This plant is native to piedra and quickly spread throughout the world. The radish
growing cycle, from planting to harvest, is approximately 3-6 weeks, depending on the
variety. The seeds are circular, dark brown in color, with a diameter of 5 mm. This crop
prefers cool climates, it is advisable to sow it in late July or early August.

Sowing
Radishes are one of the vegetables that does not need transplantation, so the place where
we sow it will be where it will develop until its harvest. They grow well in soil or containers
with a minimum depth of 10 cm. Use well-nourished soil or substrate that has good drainage.
For sowing you can make small furrows 1-1.5 cm deep and with a distance of 8-12 cm
between them, depending on the size of the variety. Place 1 seed every 5 cm and cover with
soil or mixture. Water immediately after sowing, do not let the soil lose moisture.

Care
The seedling will emerge approximately 3 days after sowing. The first leaves, cotyledons,
will be heart-shaped. When our radishes have grown a little, it is sometimes necessary to
cover them with a little soil so that they develop better. Fertilize your plants 15 days after
planting to provide more nutrients and promote growth. Always keep weed free. The
waterings will depend on the climate, the important thing is that the soil should never lose its
moisture. If the irrigation is in excess we can cause diseases, rot or the radish to break. On
the contrary, if the risks are scarce, its flavor will be more spicy. Although it is a very fast
crop, we can have problems with pests and diseases, especially aphids and larvae. Check
your plants twice a week, especially the underside of the leaves. A strong infestation of
caterpillars can kill the leaves of your plants in a couple of days. You can apply
biodegradable soapy water or remove the caterpillars by hand. To know if our radishes are
ready, we must remove a little soil around the plant to check its size. To get them out of the
ground we must take all the leaves and get our radish. If the soil is compressed it can take a
bit of work, we can help ourselves with a transplant shovel. Wash radishes to remove
adhering soil, you can use a small brush or scouring pad to carefully scrub. You can leave
the leaves and bundle them, or cut them and store them in a perforated plastic bag in the
refrigerator. Consume them within two weeks after harvest.

Tips and curious facts

Radish is an excellent crop to associate with other vegetables such as: lettuce, carrots,
peas, cress, arugula, practically with anyone. Since they grow very fast, you can grow with
slower growing vegetables, so when you harvest your radishes, the other vegetables will
continue to grow without getting in the way.

There are more than 50 varieties of radish. Try the different colors and sizes! They can be
white, pink, red, yellow, purple, black, bicolor, round, aovado. Make a mix and enjoy them,
each variety can give you a different flavor.

Small, freshly harvested radishes have a less spicy taste and higher amounts of nutrients.

Prepare microgreens with radish seeds, they are a great source of enzymes, minerals,
vitamins and chlorophyll. Its flavor is very intense, you can eat it in salads, sandwiches, as a
garnish, soups or any other dish.

A highly prized variety in Japan and the United States is Daikon, an elongated white radish
that provides large amounts of vitamin C, B6, magnesium, and calcium. It is a good source
of fiber, helps clear mucus and is considered a diuretic.

Fertilizers
The depletion of the event environment with microplastics, defined as particles smaller than
5 mm, has become a popular competition because it can represent a reward for biota and
public health. Authentic exploration focuses mainly on aquatic systems, after which it is
known comparatively apex about the sources, pathways and the imaginary deposit of
malleable particles in terrestrial ecosystems. Plastics are a complete constituent of everyday
liveliness. They fulfill a wide class of functions, firstly the chirona (39.9% of the world of
plastics used in Europe in 2016). Additional applications are in architecture and building; the
electrical, electronic, automotive and sweet agricultural sectors; and, ultimately, household
and consumer appliances, trousseau, sports, health and ease. However, its various
applications, around 80% of the polymer produced is divided into six categories:
polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyurethane (PUR), PE
terephthalate (PET) and polystyrene (PS). The universal production of malleable has grown
endlessly since 1950, reaching an annual production of 322 million metric tons throughout
the community in 2015, of which around 40% was used in one-way merchandise. It is not
surprising that, due to an inopportune therapeutic at the end of its useful vitality, plastics are
increasingly found as pollutants in the environment. The genius of organic fertilizers from the
fermentation of biological remains and composting as a way of microplastic particle doors to
the middle scene. The particles were sorted by prominence and identified by Fourier
evolution infrared spectroscopy of attenuated full masculinity. All the samples of topsoil
fertilizers that convert biological offal contained plastic particles, however the amounts
differed significantly according to substrate pretreatment, packaging, and offal category (by
prototype, domestic vs. commercial). In contrast, the digestates of the agricultural energy
crop digesters tested for rendering contained only isolated particles, if any. Among the most
abundant synthetic polymers observed are those used for common consumer stocks.

Organic Fertilizer
Organic floriculture emphasizes the floriculture of your orchard so that it maintains a lucrative
road, groundcover and beneficial insects. This is accomplished by avoiding the use of
synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, and by using items that nurture the asphalt in your pen
and the organisms it contains. When you embrace organic floriculture compliance, your
canopies experience a prudent and bountiful ecosystem that functions as nature intended.
CREATING BENEFICIAL LAND
Organic stocks are ideal for your clairvoyance, because they feed the road, creating a
sustainable sequence. A Flemish street leads to healthy flora. But when you grow
organically, you do much more than lactate your greens. As in nature, a biological biological
paving with microbes and fungi gradually releases nutrients to the flora. By repairing the
paving with organic supplements and supporting the development of natural beneficial
organisms, you give your groundcover the tools they need to enter the nutrients in the
pavement and the vigor to shelter from harmful pathogens and pests. Take the natural
approach and tweak it with paver conditioners, like roadworms, which add organic advice,
including humic acid, and desirable microorganisms to the footprint of your rose garden. This
helps make floor nutrients, such as reed, more available to flora. Organic gardening also
requires adding plain or bagged compost to the floor. This improves pavement loam sling as
organic teaching grows, which improves nutrient release to vegetative cover and increases
consumption confiscation. adding manure even reduces runoff and erosion, and suppresses
certain diseases.
NUTRITIVE "FOODS" FOR THE FLORA
Organic thin adhesion fertilizers are commodities of deductive decomposition and are easy
for plants to absorb. events from natural sources, organic fertilizers provide carmen flora with
permanent, slow-release nourishment. This "health food" diet makes your flora strong and
self-sufficient. In order to recognize from you to feed them a perennial reservoir of synthetic
fertilizers, they find what they need in a soil that has been fed with organic fertilizers. Organic
fertilizers that feed the firm and maintenance vegetation cover include animal scraps and
by-products, such as bird and bat manure, crime meal, target albumen and feather albumen,
as well as fertilizers for fish and seaweed.
Banana peel Fertilizer
Bananas contain important nutrients, which could be recycled into useful materials to be
reused for different purposes. The extraction of mixed nano-biostimulant fertilizer from
banana peels is the main objective of this research. The nanofertilizer breviary was
subjected to physical and chemical observation for its characterization. The thickness of the
fertilizer components ranged from 19 to 55 nm, and the histogram illustrates that the main
nanoparticles were 40 nm with an average percentage of 36%, while the 55 nm particles
were the youngest with an average percentage of 6 %. The exciting nanobio fertilizer can be
unsheathed from banana peels under alkaline conditions. In this observation it was found
that the recapitulation of banana residue contains around 80 g / L of principal potassium
chelated with citric acid. Likewise, other minerals such as rejón, magnesium, copper,
sodium, calcium and manganese chelated with citric acid in the form of nanostructure. The
synthesis contains spherical nanostructure components, which have a larger apex bulge (40
nm). The nano-biostimulant obtained shows great effectiveness from birth in the first week of
sowing both tomato and fenugreek, so it is recommended as a biological promoter for the
birth of grains and the seedling change fruit. Exploiting nanotechnology to freak out the
banana-skin record in the manner common to the nanoform added real audacity to this dig
and reinforced its positive impacts as a promoter of progress. Due to the alkalinity of the
Egyptian firm, the pH of the gained nano-biostimulant was adjusted to 5 using citric acid.
Based on the laboratory-scale results obtained in this exploration, future aeronautic and
artificial ladder investigations should be carried out with the calf of agricultural engineers and
teachers, taking into account soil varieties, cereal categories, and flushing elixir. and the
saving of nanofertilizers.

Materials:

● Watering can
● 18 Radish seeds
● 9 Banana peels
● 1 Blender
● 2 pots
● 2 bottles
● Gloves
● 1 kg Sowing land
● 8 plants grow

Methodology:
● First, I cutted the two bottles in half, with a hot metal and the extreme care I did the
holes to the water.
● When the bottle was at a normal temperature again I put in the soil, checked if
everything was all right.
● Then, I made three holes in the soil per pot and in each hole I put two seeds.
● Right after I plant I do the first watering, and everyday after that I water the plant so
the soil never gonna be dry.
The banana tea fertilizer process:
● First, a week before I started recollecting the banana peels.
● Next, I fill the cooking pot with 1,5 liters of water and start cutting the banana peel in
small pieces.
● Then I placed the banana peel in the cooking pot and started boiling it for 15 minutes.
● After boiling the banana peel I let the banana tea cool down to put it in a bottle.
● After putting the banana tea in the bottle that same day I applied the fertilizer in the
plant.

Results:

This is how my radish grows since I put the banana peel fertilizer. My plant has two days
without growing anything, then it starts growing till 3,5 centimeters.

This is another form to see the growth of the plant always compared to putting off the
banana peel liquid fertilizer.
Conclusions:
At the start I was so excited with my radish and the fertilizer and it was gonna grow and be
perfect. When I see the plant takes a long time to grow, I pull down all my objectives and
start to be realistic. Now we can see that 4 of the 16 seeds that I plant grow and they are still
alive. At first it was growing 9 of 16; then 2 of 9 never grew, they are still as a little leaf of
2mm. The other three plants that died were affected by the ash that came and dry the plants
I supposed.

My recommendations to a project like this one are; Never put the growing plants outside put
inside in a place that reaches the sun rays, enough to live but not to reach climate and
environmental hazards; And my other recommendation is to measure the amount of fertilizer
that I put in the water otherwise the plant can die.

Anexos:
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Hussein, H. S., Shaarawy, H. H., Hussien, N. H., & Hawash, S. I. (2019). Preparation of
nano-fertilizer blend from banana peels. Bulletin of the National Research Centre, 43(1), 26.
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LÍDIA PENELO, Rábano: propiedades, beneficios y valor nutricional (03/09/2018)

https://www.lavanguardia.com/comer/20180903/451539385726/rabano-valor-nutricional-ben
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