Eggshells In The Garden
One of the (many) things I do to prepare garden beds for next year is…
I sprinkle crushed eggshells over the soil.
I usually do this before applying compost, leaves and/or coffee grounds. This prevents the wildlife from digging in the garden bed, trying to find the yummy eggs I’ve clearly hidden from them. (grins)
Eggshells are a source of calcium and other nutrients.
They also come from nature. I figure they can go back to nature.
It takes forever for eggshells to break down, however. I don’t expect to reap the benefits of adding them to our soil for years. But hey, hopefully, we have years.
And building great soil is ALWAYS a long term project.
I don’t plan to plant in these garden beds for at least four months. So I also don’t have to worry about any contamination of food I plan to eat.
Mostly I like that it reduces waste. We eat the eggs. We spread the eggshells over the garden beds. We compost the cardboard-like egg cartons. We send nothing egg-related in the landfill.
(smiles)
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Leaves, Eggshells And Other Riches
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I have lived in our current house for decades. We hadn’t really used our back yard until recently but I knew we’d eventually put a vegetable garden there.
Did I prepare for that future?
Well…no.
(sheepish grin)
Instead of spreading leaves over a section of it and eventually creating awesome soil with that leaf mulch (black gold as many gardeners call it), we bagged the leaves and sent it to the city to compost.
Instead of crumbling dried eggshells over the soil, adding that valuable natural fertilizer, we, again, sent the eggshells to the city to be composted.
These two easy steps would have completely transformed our back yard. It would have cost us nothing and it would have taken mere minutes to do.
Anyhoo… we can’t live life backwards. I’m sharing this because you might be ‘throwing away’ the same riches, instead of burying them (literally – grins) in your back yard.
If you are fortunate to have soil (and a yard), consider taking care of it. That will pay off (in tomatoes) in the future!
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