Fruit skins can prove a-peeling for a variety of garden reasons

Fiann Ó Nualláin reports on how discarded peel can be used as a spray to make your plants stronger.

THE leathery-textured exocarp of an orange is the part we peel away to get to the juicy fruit inside. Normally this peel is binned or composted, but it is rich in oil glands and full of flavonoids, antioxidants and beneficial enzymes.