Can I feed my plant people food?

Question

Some websites say I should feed my plants... but can I feed them chicken and biscuits?

Answer 1

there are quite a few items that plants do well having mixed into their soil. Coffee grounds, tea bags broken apart and sprinkled into soil. I also give my pepper and tomato plants powdered milk. just a little powder ( apout 2 tablespoons) in a big watering can and pour it very slowly so that all the vitamins and nutrients go straight to the roots and dont run off.  also if you mix a llittle sugar into the soil then water when your tomatoes are just beginning to turn makes them taste wonderful.

Answer 2

Do you really have plant people where you live......what do they look like............I know what I would give them....a little rabbit manure tea..........great stuff..........just soak the rabbit droppings in a bucket and make a tea out of it. enjoy

Answer 3

Not unless they are a carnivorous plant (meat eating).

Regular plant food is what regular plants need.

Answer 4

Depends on the plants.  Banana peels provide potassium to some plants (roses), coffee grounds are recommended for some, even egg shells.  

Type in "how to grow . . . ." whatever plant you have on your search engine & see what you find.

Answer 5

my son did..... the food he didn't like , he would manage to slip into the large potted swedish ivy that sat on our table by the window.... it always flourished!!.... it grew so good that I finally had to repot it.... and that's when I found the bits of tomato, green beans, peas, and various other things that he didn't want to eat at dinner.......

much people food, like potato peels, apple cores, etc, ends up in compost, too, so in essence, we are feeding the plants 'people food'......I did forget that roses like banana peels, coffee grounds and eggshells for the calcium...

Answer 6

what a waste of chicken and biscuits!

Answer 7

By "food" the experts mean compounds for the plant, as found in well-balanced fertilizer.  Plants need 19 nutrients for a healthy growth:  besides carbon dioxide, oxygen, and water plants need nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.  In smaller amounts they need iron, calcium, boron, magnesium and a few other micronutrients.

You would certainly invite rats, mice and roaches and flies into your yard by feeding your plants "people food."

You can feed your plants blood and bone meal for fertilizer