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  1. Guest of the site "With Your Own Hands"

    Collect and dry eggshells. onion peels, bread crusts: in the spring they will be useful when planting seedlings. Save up your tea too. The tea leaves can be used as a universal leavening agent - add it to the soil for seedlings, as well as to the beds in the holes when planting vegetables that love loose soil (cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes, pumpkins).

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  2. Guest of the site "With Your Own Hands"

    I never throw away eggshells, and I also ask my friend to give them to me. It accumulates quite a bit over the winter. I grind all the collected shells, first with my hands and then in a blender. I scatter some of the crushed shells on the beds around the plants - it turns out to be mulch, fertilizing, and protection from slugs.

    I also prepare a decoction, which I use as fertilizer for indoor flowers and seedlings. Pour a glass of “shell flour” into a 3-liter saucepan, add water, bring to a boil, then keep it on low heat for a couple more minutes and turn it off.
    After cooling, I filter, add about 4-5 more liters of water, stir and water the plants.

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  3. Nina Prokopenko, Odessa.

    Eggshells are an excellent fertilizer

    Eggshell is a valuable organic fertilizer. I use it to feed berry bushes.

    I collect shells only from raw eggs. I wash it and carefully remove the film, then dry it and put it in a box.
    After the berry bushes shed their leaves, the juices from the branches go into the roots. During this period, I distribute the collected shells into bags and press with a rolling pin to a powdery state. I make holes under each shrub, pour out the prepared powder and cover it with earth. Winter moisture will deliver this valuable raw material to the roots for the next harvest.

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  4. Sergey Vestochkin, Kaluga region

    I used to grind the eggshells accumulated over the winter in a coffee grinder and only then put them into the soil. Then a sober thought came to my mind: why am I doing this?! A package of dolomite flour costs mere pennies, and in order to grind the same amount of "shell" powder, I have to bathe with a coffee grinder all winter. It's worth it?!
    But it is a pity to throw away the eggshell.

    I thought that in general it would not act as a deoxidizer and fertilizer ... Or would it still work? Observations have shown that in the soil (we have
    initially acidic - sod-podzolic) shell completely dissolves in one or two seasons. Since then, I have boldly thrown a whole shell into the compost or right under the plums and apple trees.

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  5. Guest of the site "With Your Own Hands"

    The shell from chicken eggs should not be thrown into the trash, but added to soil mixtures.
    Where crushed shells are poured into the seed furrow, the calcium process will go so actively that the plants will not accumulate radioactive substances. And the bear will bypass these furrows and holes with shells.

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  6. Natalia PODGAYNA

    I pour a glass of crushed dry eggshells into 5 liters of warm water, leave it warm for 3-4 days, filter it. I water the greens growing on the windowsill, seedlings and indoor flowers with this liquid. I noticed that after such feeding, all plants begin to grow better and suffer less from a lack of light.

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  7. Lyudmila

    Examining the beds with beets, cabbage and carrots, I found drooping plants. She pulled it out, and there were almost no root crops in the ground, and the cabbage had roots - someone ate them! And they just started to get it right, as they say. And only then I remembered the warning of my neighbor Praskovya Andreevna, who had long been teaching me to throw a handful of ash and crushed egg shells into each nest when planting potatoes, assuring me that this was good protection from rodents.

    But in my spring rush I always forgot about it. And now, in the summer, what to do? Yes, and after all, it was about potatoes. But maybe you should try something after all? And around each plant I sprinkled thickly with shells. Three days later I checked the beds - there were no new "arrivals". For greater persuasiveness, I also poured onion skins. So it saved the harvest.

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  8. Guest of the site "With Your Own Hands"

    Eggshells are 90% calcium carbonate. It does not dissolve in water, and if the crushed shell is spread over the surface of the substrate or added to it, or soaked in water and insisted, it will not show its properties. It is better to use balanced ready-made fertilizers for plant feeding.

    WHAT IT WILL BE
    The shells mixed with the soil are suitable as a baking powder. Or you can pour it in as a drain. Another option is to use it as a soil deoxidizer by grinding with a submersible blender or pestle in a mortar into dust. However, it will be useful only in the garden (0,5 kg per 1 square meter), and you need to take it from raw eggs, previously washed and dried, with an inner film.

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    • "Do it yourself"

      I would not say unequivocally that there is no benefit from the shell. Still, when added to the soil, calcium is subsequently released. Yes. this process is slow, and the flowers want to "eat" now, especially the flowering ones. For them, ready-made fertilizers are preferable. And in I, for non-I rebovachel cacti and other succulents, the shell is an excellent food.
      The shell does slightly acidify the soil. This useful property can be used when preparing earth-mixes. For example, add to the substrate if the drainage is made of granite stones, which acidify the soil.

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  9. Svetlana Martynova, city of Orel

    I collect eggshells throughout the winter. I use it as a natural fertilizer that is quickly absorbed by plants. From my own experience I was convinced that the shell reduces the acidity of the soil and makes it looser. I noticed that the shell from raw eggs "works" much better (it contains more calcium, magnesium, fluorine, copper, iron and manganese).

    Before you dry it, be sure to mine it, store it in shredded form in paper bags. I bring in when digging the soil, 1 tbsp. for 1 sq.m. When planting potatoes and planting seedlings of tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, I add a handful to the hole. After such feeding, the plants grow faster, they get sick less often.

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  10. Inga Sleptsova, agronomist, Moscow

    Helper shell
    Like fertilizer. To improve soil fertility, add 1 - 2 handfuls of crushed (in a blender) eggshell per 1 sq. M, then close it into the ground when digging. Use in combination with other fertilizers.
    To improve the structure of the soil. The shell crushed into the middle fraction will decompose in the soil for 5-6 years, working all this time as a baking powder.
    Deoxidizing agent. The shell contains a large amount of calcium carbonate, therefore, helps to reduce the acidity of the soil. The application rate is 200 g per 1 sq.m. It is better to use it as a part with dolomite flour or chalk.
    Glasses for seedlings. The egg is gently broken in half, washed and dried. Awl make several holes in the bottom. Fill with moistened soil and sow seeds. Cardboard boxes for eggs are used as a stand. Seedlings can be planted in the ground in the shell, after tapping on it with a spoon so that it cracked.

    Drainage. The shell is crushed into medium
    fraction and fill it with the bottom of the tank, fill it with soil and plant a plant.

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  11. Lydia Averkeeva, Dnipro

    Eggshell protects against rot
    I collect egg shells all year round. To avoid an unpleasant smell, carefully wash and dry. Keep in cardboard boxes on the balcony.

    In a greenhouse, where the soil eventually becomes less fertile, I scatter crushed ground shells at the rate of 2-3 in a handful per 1 sq.m. Then I plug it into the ground with a hoe. I noticed that it not only deoxidizes the soil, but also protects peppers and tomatoes from top rot.

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  12. Irina ISAEVA, doctor of science

    Collect eggshells

    Throughout the winter, gardeners periodically look into the shops in search of mineral fertilizers or toxic chemicals, without taking into account the opportunities available in their families. How much, for example, does an egg shell weigh? Xnumx? Little! But throughout the year the family

    out of three people, with the 3-6 trash, throws up a kg of valuable fertilizer. Now this is not so little. Meanwhile, in the composition of the shell 94% of calcium carbonate salts, 1,3% of magnesium,
    1,7% phosphates, 3% organic substances.
    Only collect the shells need to be careful not to decompose
    protein residues and no unpleasant smell. It is better to put it in a cardboard box.

    The shell must be brought into the soil in a carefully crushed form, for which, during the winter, you can 2-3 fold it through the grinder.
    The systematic and purposeful use of this tool contributes to the improvement of soil fertility.
    The shell must be applied to the soil when digging in early spring or autumn after harvesting (about 300 g per 1 m).

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  13. Lydia Voronina

    I begin to collect egg shells for feeding peppers in the fall. Before drying carefully wash with dishwashing detergent. I put the dry shell into a fabric bag, crush it into a powder with a rolling pin and store it in a three-liter jar near the battery.

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