29 March 2009
Egg shells as green garden tip
Posted by Cecilia under: Home .
Egg shells are useful for green gardening as fertilizer, pest control and as material for the compost.
Egg shells consist of calcium carbonate which occurs also in lime, chalk and marble. That’s why ground egg shells are great fertilizers of sour soils.
The sourer a soil is the more soil nutrients are bound and therefore not available for vegetables and plants. Keeping the soil in a balanced ph level makes it healthy and rich.
Calcium provides cell growth in all plants. Fast growing plants need chalky soil such as peppers, fennel, green beans and most of all tomatoes.
The other benefit of egg shells in your garden is that it keeps slugs and cutworms away when you place them around your vegetables.
Egg shells can be used together with coffee grounds because both, calcium in egg shells and nitrogen in ground coffee keep your garden soil and plants healthy.
How can you work with egg shells? Shells from hard boiled eggs are best. When you use shells from freshly cracked eggs rinse them with warm water and let them air dry in order to be able to store them in the refrigerator until ready to use.
Even the chalky water in which you boiled the eggs are useful for watering the garden soil after cooling down.
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Today in Sikantis - March 29, 2009 « Sikantis Says:
29 March 2009 at 2:15 am.
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Cherie Says:
29 March 2009 at 8:03 am.
Egg shells can also be used as biodegradable seed starters - fill clean shells with dirt and plant seeds in them; keep in a used egg carton until ready to plant; gently crack the bottom of the shell and place in the garden.
Brody Hall Says:
28 March 2010 at 8:43 pm.
FYI, I can’t see this correctly on the latest Montif browser.
