I finally got around to cutting off all the brown, dried leaves off my banana plants yesterday. Is it OK to use them as mulch for my raised bed veggie garden? Most of my stuff is actually still in containers in my raised bed while I work on getting the soil the way I want it, but a few things are actually planted in the ground. I didn't know if the banana leaves would attract too many bugs. I just laid it down straight off the plant, so it big dried strips of leaves.