Egg shell like fertilizer

Not every dachnik knows that the useful fertilizer for the garden he simply throws into the trash can. This is an egg shell. With other waste, she goes to the landfill, and could become useful and enrich the composition of the soil.

If you specify the goal, then in a few months you can dial 1-2 kg of shells and fertilize the soil. Thus, it is possible to increase yields and for the season to collect 2 times more harvest.

Often the shell from eggs gardeners are simply distributed over the ground surface. This method does not apply to the fertilizer of the soil, since large pieces of the shell simply lies on the soil. But just for birds, which with great pleasure flies to enjoy tasty and useful food, in this form, the egg shell brings much more benefit.

Than useful egg shell

Let's talk about the beneficial properties of the egg shell for soil and plants. Let's return to the birds: after the body processes the eggshell, the main useful component is calcium carbonate (93% of the shell consists of this substance) - it becomes useful and well-digestible for plants. Naturally, in huge quantities, such a bird can not get anywhere, therefore it is worth considering a more affordable option. Most dachas are possible and heard of eggshell for the eggs, but stubbornly continue to fertilize the soil with chalk and lime. Somewhere they are right, since these components also contain calcium carbonate, which is used to deoxine soil, but there are no such useful trace elements as sulfur, phosphorus, silicon and other substances for plants.

In the composition of the eggshell, carbonic salts of potassium predominate - about 93-94%, magnesium - 1.3%, phosphates - 1.7% and organic substances - 3%.

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How to collect shell

A month, a family of 3 people can consume up to 100 eggs! The shell from them, of course, goes to the trash can. By simple mathematical calculations, it is possible to determine that in 1 year about 10 kg of valuable fertilizer can be selected.

There are rules for collecting the shell - after the egg is broken, the shell is folded into a spacious paper box and leave to be filled. It is necessary to choose a warm place so that in a few days the protein film is not spoiled, but dried naturally. After the eggshell is completely dry (usually it leaves 3 to 5 days), it is kneading and folded into paper bags. Stored raw material in a dry place. You can not put the shell into a plastic bag to prevent moisture and damage.

There are certain rules for collecting eggshells:

1. You can simply put it in the direction of the shell and wait for it dry - it concerns raw eggs.
2. Or do otherwise - rinse the shell well, and then dry. The second option is most appropriate, because the attractive pieces of protein (thin film) will not deteriorate.
3. Collect the shell and boiled eggs, only you need to carefully remove one shell, without the inside - this caution will allow you to collect a real useful fertilizer.

Preparation of fertilizer

So that the process of grinding the egg shell did not give a lot of trouble, to do it gradually. If you have collected 1 kg of raw materials, you can start grinding.

Located on the table soft clean fabric (you can use a dense oilcloth). Then spread the eggshell and carefully walk through it with a wooden rolling pin. Dry shell grinds faster. Now it remains to grind raw materials in a coffee grinder or skip through a meat grinder. It must be done necessarily, because large pieces of shell will not bring the soil, as they will decompose very much and very slowly. The finished egg flour is folded into the jars, they are tightly covered with covers.

You can act differently and make a combined fertilizer - bake on the bore or in the furnace shell from eggs together with ash. Such fertilizer will be rich in phosphorus, potassium, magnesium and calcium carbonate. Such a cocktail, as well as the chopped egg shell itself, like fertilizer will bring more benefits for acidic clay soils, improving their structure.

Naturally, it's natural to say that the introduction of only egg powder will not replace the total loss of the soil, but if you do this from year to year, then you can increase yields.

Little nuance: Look at the inside of the shell - there remains a thin dried protein film. Protein is a good nutrient for plants. If you burn the shell in the furnace or on the fire, the protein will be destroyed, so it makes sense to make several types of feeding from the shell.

How to use egg shell

Prepare liquid fertilizer from the shell powder:

1. Dry shell from eggs.
2. Grind it naturally, skip through a meat grinder or a coffee grinder.
3. Powder fold into a glass bottle, pour with water. Close up a dense lid.
4. The jar can be put in a dark cool place.
5. After 2 weeks, the water will become muddy and an unpleasant smell will appear. This will mean that the nutritional fertilizer is ready.
6. Before performing the filter of plants, it needs to be divorced by ordinary water in proportions 1 to 3.

Using this fertilizer you can get a good yield of cabbage, root, onions, vegetables, plums and cherries.

Application of egg shell:

1. How protection against moles. Thus, you can forever get rid of these pests, if in the fossa during the landing, put several pieces of dry egg shell. Rodent will not like sharp edges and he will no longer dig a move.
2. Using the shell, you can protect the plants from the reinforcement of the root part of the plants ("Black leg"). In order to prevent, the powder sprinkles the soil where plants are planted. With therapeutic goal, if part of plants are amazed, they are completely pulled out, and the soil sprinkle with a powder of a crushed shell.
3. How to perform the deoxidation of the soil. If you have large shell stocks (it can be taken in huge quantities on the poultry farms), then 1m ² add 500 grams crushed shell. If you do not have a lot of fertilizer, then a handful of egg powder is put before landing into each well.
4. How to make a fertilizer for all plants: Take 10 eggshells (from 5 eggs), fill with 5 glasses (it turns out 1 l. Fluid) hot water and insist 5 days. When infusion acquires an unpleasant smell - just you can use it. We feed any plants with such a useful drink in order to enrich microelements.

Eggshell

You can get a good yield of cauliflower on 1 fertilizer - chopped eggshell. It will take all the handful of powder, which is added when landing in the well.

As mentioned earlier, the large pieces of the shell do not like the clocks, so you can only hamper these rodents in this way: add to each well pieces of shells.

You can also declare a war of slugs using this fertilizer - scatter from above on the cabbage gardening a part of the crushed shell and a bit of large pieces.

To get rid of the bear and protect the plants, it is also possible to deposit into the wells when landing a little crushed egg shell powder.

Very love "White bedspread" from the crushed shell peppers, eggplants, watermelons and melons. Need to 1m ² Land Add 2 cup powder.

You can often encounter such a nuisance when tomatoes begin to blush early, and then it turns out that the bottom they have black and dries. It is impossible to get rid of this, but if you feed the soil in advance before landing, you can get a good harvest. This is often found if the soil suffers from lack of calcium.

If the tomatoes began to be black, try to put a little crushed fertilizer from the eggs in the soil. An instant effect should not be expected, but after a while the plant will begin to recover.

The eggshell must be added to the compost bunch, as well as in a small amount in the soil for seedlings and for growing indoor plants to break the ground.

In what cases the shell is not useful

It is necessary to know that in large numbers the eggshell will be harmful to seedlings of peppers, tomatoes and early seedlings. It is impossible to add eggshell to those plants that love acidic soils - violets and gloxinia.

From large pieces of shells, you can get a good drainage for growing strong seedlings - it is necessary to put a bit of egg shell on the bottom of each cup, and then add an earth from above. Such a drainage will love all plants without exception.

Indoor flowers can be watered with an egg shell. To prepare it, you need to take part of the shell - screaming it with boiling water, pour ordinary water and leave for 4 days. After that, you can use fertilizer for watering plants.

How to determine the acidity of the soil

To make fertilizer and get a good harvest, you need to know the acidity of the soil. It is not always possible to check the soil from the garden in a special laboratory. Dachnik-lovers have their own secrets - can be recognized as the soil acidity. It is necessary to take a little soil, grind it, pour into a bottle (for feeding babies) to the 2nd mark, then pour water up to the 5th mark, close the pacifier and shake it well for 3 minutes. If there is a lot of acid in the soil, then the nipple will deal. When the acids are not enough - the nipple will be straightened slowly or in general, will remain rotten.