Waste not want not....safe now to trim brown leaves and male bud clusters from my bananas, so will toss them plus big containers filled with weeds I've let die and turn brown into the kiddy pool that will soon be a giant Water Wise Container Garden in my south bed being revamped. Once I add manure from the nearby stables and dried poop from the hen house, it all gets topped with aged compost from two barrels followed by a thin layer of aged oak chips mulch.