Eggs are widely used in preparation of various dishes. The shell from them is usually utilized as unnecessary garbage. But, as it appears, in vain! Most of summer residents and gardeners use egg shell as fertilizer for kitchen garden.
Of course if just to take and to scatter skorlupk on kitchen garden, to sense from it will be a little, but here after certain preparation the shell will serve as quite good mineral fertilizer for personal plot. First of all skorlupk need to be washed out well from residues of protein, the plenochka at the same time does not need to be deleted. Then previously to warm oven, to pour out the prepared egg shell on baking sheet and to warm up within 15-20 minutes to remove the remained protein and bacteria which instead of advantage can only do much harm to the soil. After warming up the shell is crushed by means of rolling pin, the coffee grinder or glass bottle and poured out in dry capacity for further storage.
Where use egg shell
When landing seeds in soil or on seedling. For this purpose the earth is strewed with the processed shell and watered. There is also other way: to dissolve the processed shell in water and to water with this solution any saplings. The egg shell will help sprouts to be created quicker and escapes will be stronger and viable.
When replacing seedling to the open ground the ground shell is added directly to hole, it helps plant to take root and preserves against wireworm larvae.
The shell is scattered on kitchen garden before autumn plowing or digging up. For winter months the soil will manage to be enriched with calcium and in the spring the soil will be fertilized.
General recommendations:
- it is possible to fertilize shell only the soil with the increased acidity, for the alkaline earth it is useless;
- to scatter the processed shell on all site it is silly, this fertilizer therefore it is necessary to pour powder in the place of landing;
- for the best comprehensibility of calcium from skorlupok when watering it is possible to drip in watering can a little any biofertilizer;