Poking cocktail sticks through avocado stones and suspend them in water. Uh no, just plock on soil as nature intended. Rooting pineapple tops in water. 😔 nawww 😑.
Urine in the garden? Myth? Growing up my mom had huge hydrangeas and every so often she'd throw urine in the soil. (She watched kids and was always potty training one or two)
Gardening was my home therapy during a depression and after that I kept is a hobby. I have apple-bananas, plantains, pineapple, avocado and caribbean cherries.
Thank you for your clear English speaking. English is a foreign language for me and most of native speakers, speak so fast that I could just hear one word in a sentence.Please continue speaking clearly and slowly :D
Samia! On my phone there are 3 little dots at the top. Press that and there’s an option for playback speed... you can slow it down or speed it up... so helpful either way depending on the speaker(s), and thank you for pointing out it can help out ESL folks, too! 🗣👂🏼👀👍🏼🙏🏼
it's weird to me has a fish tank keeper that people think egg shells will deter snails.cause I feed egg shells to my snails to give them calcium to help maintain their shells.
@@sarahrogers7883 there's no biological difference between snails and slugs that would be relevant to egg shells in their path. The main difference in the two is habitat, and that's mainly because a gastropod with no shell can squeeze into environments that one with a shell could not.
Misnomers or myths about gardening 1) Use or misuse of eggshells (they do not deter slugs or snails). 2) Don't use pointy things (such as one-use plastic forks) to deter cats or pests, it doesn't work. 3) Blossom end rot: it is a plant condition. To avoid: consistent watering, take care of the plant 4) Pine needles acidify the soil but only minimally. Fresh pine needles are slightly acidic and old needles are barely acidic at all. You can even add pin needles to compost Side note: Awesome looking garden!!!
Another one is black walnut. A lot of people think black walnut will kill everything and leave a wasteland under it's canopy with how it "kills" plants. A guy with a sawmill actually pointed out how wrong this is by pointing out how grass still grows under most of them as well as other weed plants. The most effective way of killing off competing plants amongst trees is to simply shade them out
i started gardening as a means to manage depression and anxiety. tactile hobbies are good for that, i had a guinea pig at the start of my gardenings and he had paper bedding, which degraded very quickly so i had to clean his cage often and i did it outside. well one time i was sick during the week i normally would do a deep clean, i was sick for a little over a month and my family wouldnt clean his enclosure. turns out because it breaks down so fast, when i was finally feeling better enough to leave my bed i cleaned his cage and smelled soil, i was confused, shouldnt this smell bad? but i dug in with my gloves and there was soil underneith the top layer of bedding. i looked at my guinea pig happily munching on grass, and i decided to dump the entirety of the cages contents into the garden, paper and all. turns out guinea pig poop is a fantastic fertilizer, what had the soiled bedding over top grew faster and bore more flowers and fruit. my peppers flourished. i started using his spot cleaned bedding in my house plants, i would bag up on full clean days and use it in compost or directly in the garden. later i learned that the bedding, because it was soiled, had plant fiber, hay mixxed in, nitrogen, and other nutrients from his droppings. it was the best free compost material i had. btw the only reason why i didnt interract with him the majority of the time i was sick and didnt go do my duties as his carer was because guinea pigs have weak immune systems, and so do i.
Asteri wow that’s so cool! I had a chinchilla and she pooped ALL TIME and I never thought of doing that and when you think about it cows have essentially the same diet and their manure is good. I’ll keep that in mind!
@@dalcloud8873 i wouldn't recommemd using cat or dog poop. My parents are farmers and while they use cow and sheeppoop for their land, they told me that the poop of carnivores isn't good. They even went and picked up the poop the dogs of some hikers left on their land. I don't remeber excatly why its bad but i wouldn't use it especially if you are going to eat the plants (also sorry if this text is confusing, english isn't my first language)
Also, as someone who keeps snails as pets, they like eggshells. They scrape things for calcium to grow their shells and eggshells are actually really good for them.
I adore your channel! I am a traditional farm wife having been raised on the farm, gardening, preserving, hunting, butchering is what I do, self-sufficiency is key, ( especially in these times). I love to learn all I can from everyone and you are very no-nonsense and straightforward.
Your videos are informative and helpful especially if you’re a beginner . I like the way you get straight to the point without rambling and wasting time on the intro. You’re plant care tips are easy to follow and they work!
I come from a Mexican family, and one misconception that I always heard as a kid was that praying mantis were so poisonous/venemous that they could kill a whole cow. I grew terrified of them until I had my Garden and read more about them. Now, I find them pretty and interesting.
In defense of the forks I will say that a rabbit kept digging up all of my pumpkin and squash seedlings last year and when I barricaded them closely with plastic forks he left them alone and they grew beautifully. Because of how I have the patch set up putting a cover on it wasn’t a great option. Also as far as them being single use I pulled them out and used them again for that same use this year. Not hundreds and not everywhere, but I did find them helpful in a specific situation. My cats also tend to avoid them because there are so many areas without them. But I don’t worry about the cats much as they don’t seem to care about the raised beds.
FYI for those of you that want to use egg shells in your compost. I bought a very cheep coffee/spice grinder at walmart toss dried out egg shells in in and it turns the shells to powder.
I just grab them from a restaurant and tossing them in the compost pile. 10 yards. Of compost gets about 60 quarts of busted up eggs. Cannabis grew 10ft tall and got about 1# of dry buds from that compost pile.
I've been baking eggshells and grinding them into a fine powder to supplement calcium for my pets and myself. Even using it as a supplement for 2 cats, a bearded dragon, and myself I still end up with a whole lot of it. I've been dumping some in my compost bin as well as just a few tablespoons every 3 months in my tomato garden down what I call the root chute - PVC pipe I've embedded 1.5-2 feet in the ground with holes around the outside for weekly deep root watering, aeration, and fertilization. Still have a jar and a half of the powder on hand at any given time, lol. I think it's helping the tomatoes with "end rot" because after I started adding the powder I didn't have any more "end rot" without changing watering practice or changing season - started mid-summer. I have an automatic irrigation system (soaker hose under a layer of mulch) to water my garden every morning. I keep my cats out of my garden with snow barrier netting over a PVC pipe frame, also makes a good trellis for tomatoes as well. Only problem is it degrades after a year or two. I should probably just upgrade to chicken wire.
I can tell you've done your research on a lot of these subjects. I really appreciated the way you handled this, especially the wastefulness of using those plastic forks in the garden.
Thanks for verifying the pine needles. I've been doing a ton of research to find out how well they compost, but I've been skeptical about mulching with them. I have at LEAST 4 yards worth, waiting for me behind my house. I should probably get to shredding em. Thanks for the videos, you and Mark from SSM are my go to guys
I have used pulverized egg shells for years. They are wonderful for rose bushes. Pulverized egg shels go into my worm food, composts and directly into gardens.
Fish fertilizer and epsom salt does wonders for rose bushes shit it does wonders for everything I wish you could see my yard I wish you could see my lawn man Lush and green
I use pulverized egg shells and banana peels cut into strips to give rose bushes a little boost ahead of time. Occasionally also fish fertilizer; I use the bananas, weighted down with a teaspoon, to feed the fish
Rhoda Watkins I currently use mortar and pestle, if you want a finer grind... coffee or spice grinder may be what you’re looking for. I’m gonna switch over personally.
I clean my shells right out. Like I peel off every bit of membrane. Should I even bother doing that. I only started because it keeps them from getting smelly.
Add a piece of iron to soil nearby tree. A friend has a old boat iron anchor that was left partially buried by tree. They get so many large yummy avocados 🥑 they have to bring some to share with friends like me. I don’t know if that old iron anchor does this or not? But they are the best buttery Avocados 🥑 I’ve Ever, Ever had in my life.
@@DnolB65 That would be my idea of heaven, having an avocado tree full of buttery avocados. But such a tree is prob not poss in the UK🇬🇧 with our damp, rainy m, chilly climate.🙁
I had racoons digging up my new pepper plants a few years ago and found placing bamboo skewers near the pepper plants stopped the racoons from digging them up. They did dig around the areas where there were no skewers though, but the pepper plants were left alone.
just an f.y.i. for anybody who doesn't already know, different plants may have more or less needs of certain nutrients. some do benefit more from calcium and crushed eggshells can greatly benefit these plants. some need potassium, and banana peels help there. other plants benefit from something acidic, and used coffee grounds are great here. i moved into a house with a very sickly rose vine. it never died, but for 2-3 yrs it looked like it was going to die at any time 😕. i looked up natural stuff to use and started saving coffee grounds and other things from the kitchen and using them. also, a coffee shop near my workplace had a basket where you could pick up free bags of used grounds specifically for this. a few months after i started this a tree fell on my roof. the adjuster who came out was an avid gardener, and specifically raised roses. he went absolutely nuts over my beautiful rose bush and wanted to know my secret, because none of his looked near as good.
I had bad experience putting raw bananas peels next to my beautiful Jackson Perkins 🌹 bugs ate threw the roots dry the peels in the sun or cut them into small pieces so roses get the potassium they need
Thank you! That was helpful... my mom (Oregon Hippy Gardener) always put the crushed eggshells in a big jar with the coffee grounds, and water. The gross tea was then dumped straight into the compost pit. She swore that egg shell coffee tea released the calcium and de acidified the coffee (paper filters included)! Seamed to work! I do It now... so hopefully it’s true! 🤗
In Australia we use egg shells (broken up, not crushed) to keep white moths away from plants - the moths presumably see the white and assume there are already other moths there. Source: I had a whole crop of zucchini plants leaves stripped by white moths one year and egg shells saved the next crop.
Thank you. I get very tired of the acidic pine needle bit. I live in deep piney woods of Texas and use the dried pine needles everywhere in the garden. Grow where you are with what you have and reap a bounty!
@@epicgardening I ground my eggshells up into a fine powder and add it to my watering can and my compost bin. It lasts for ages in the watering can and has made a difference to my plants.
You can simply add finely crushed eggshells 1to1 with white or apple cider vinegar and it'll be ready when it's done bubbling (the sign of the chemical reactions) you can just poor some at the base of the plant, it'll be roughly neutral but if you're worried it didn't completely neutralize you can mix it with anywhere from 1 to 1 to 1 to 4 with water and it should still be very effective. The chemical reaction should also sterilize the vast majority of any harmful pathogens like salmonella to the well within safe levels
Not really. Notice he said one part per 1000 of water. I created water soluble calcium into a half gallon jar and I probably have enough of the solution for at least a year or two. It is only applied highly diluted.
Compost all your veggie scraps right into the garden including egg shells coffee grounds banana peels etc put a little soil over them and you're good to go spread them thin they'll break down in no time you'll have the best garden on the block
@Cross-Eye Box Breaks Its the only way to garden....you are so right. We switched to no-till (lasagna, sheet mulching) 6 years ago and I'll never look back. Not only is it easier and cheaper, but its so much more effective! Keep that active layer at the surface, the way nature intended....increases nitrifying bacteria which in turn means you NEVER have to fertilize (at least not with salt-based chemicals). You water less (leaching less nutrients away), and with the constant smothering of weeds...you hardly ever weed either!
Don't mix in into their feed, or they could get more calcium than they need and become egg bound. Instead, offer it free choice on the side. They'll take what they need.
Make sure crushed really good, they tend to start eating there own eggs if they associate the shape and color. Once that happens its crazy hard to stop.
I have come across many videos, but you are very thorough with your subject, it seems you have read and also researched well besides having practical experience. Keep posting videos, my 3 acre organic farm will appreciate it!
I’ve been gardening for many years. Great watching you! I was wrong on two of them. I always tried to use eggs shells to deter slugs. Don’t think it ever worked😂 thank you! I enjoyed listening to ya!
Really informative, especially about the blossom end rot. Maybe, you can tell me whether what we did was effective. We take our duck eggshells and dry them out in a dehydrator and then grind them into a fine powder. We add it to our finished compost along with rock dust and add about a cup of the finished compost with each thing we transplant or each thing that comes up from seed. My concern about your garden might be 2-legged pests. Somebody could reach over your fence from the sidewalk and have a free harvest.
Thank you for clarifying about pine needles! Hubby is always going on about how they need to be removed from the garden due to making it acidic. I’m all about mulching and just maybe those poky brown needles might deter to the slugs that are problematic in one garden, which also happens to have high clay content. If you’ve got tips on remedying clay into better soil, I’d be happy to hear.
General and much warranted thanks for rescuing my garden and veg plot. Your videos are compulsive watching and the tips, wrinkles and ideas invaluable. Your delivery is also mesmerising 😆
Good information. Try adding a tablespoon of epson salt to the hole for each of your tomato plants at planting time to assist them with the absorption of calcium in order to prevent blossom end rot. You can also use it as a foliar spray. Strong soil makes for happy, healthy and productive plants.
Myth: "There is such a thing as weed free topsoil." Usually claimed by a salesman. If you fill your bed in early fall, leave it bare and water it, weeds WILL sprout. GOOD! Using a stirrup hoe, kill them and leave them in place to decompose. Water and repeat until ground freezes. For next year's tomato beds, I sprout the weed seeds in spring while waiting for weather to warm up enough for tomatoes. Over the years, by covering beds when Dandelions bloom, and sprouting weeds and slicing through them, the weed seed load is declining. Once I plant, I side dress with 2-4" of shredded leaves. (I pay kids to drag bags of leaves to my garage.) The home gardener can easily use 200 gallons of shredded leaves a year. All the leaves feed my giant herd of earthworms, who provide micro tunnels to improve soil structure, and worm castings.
True, but the amount of seeds CAN be reduced dramatically over time. Many people don’t do enough hoeing or mowing around the edges to stop seeds from wandering in (blown, tracked, carried, kicked, etc.) And of course, tilling every year encourages weeds compared to no-till.
I’ve used pine mulch for years. It’s the best. My neighbor was an aborist with a boom. And would drop me off all his pine jobs. (All shredded). It was awesome. Then 7.5 yr ago moved to FL. We have huge slash pines here. And they even sell pine needle bundles. (Hard finding straw.). I go to areas and harvest the pine needles in huge black bags. And it’s free. i’ve been told I have the nicest yard in the subdivision. But hey, I’m a gardner. It’s my obcession. 🤣
Have been gardening for years now at the age of 50 Ive learned a lot from my grandmother and mom and dad most of what you just talked about except for the plastic forks and knives I just don't know why anybody would think that would work. I've actually gone to the trouble of taking banana peels egg shells put a little water in my blender and then adding it to the soil then tilling the soil then the plants are the seeds are planted we've been very successful with Gardening thanks for the info enjoy your video
I boil them, remove the membranes, dry them in the oven, then grind them in a mortar & pestle. I sprinkle the powder into my potting soil. I like the liquid method 😁
I personally collect all my egg shells and when they dry I crush and then throw in my ninja grinder then store till use. Last year I grew tomato trees. The plants were around 7 feet tall. I am 100% organic grower. No chemicals of any kind. I will even collect toads and place them in my garden. Or anything else that eats other bugs. And the only one of these myths I have heard is the pine needle one.
@@zemtek420 oh ok. Im in Spokane and my tomatos might get 3 feet if Im lucky. All the smoke from the fire last year cut my sunlight so much that most of my garden never fully matured! Ill try your eggshell technique.
@@brianshissler3263 we're in Portland and as a kid my mom would routinely get five foot tomato plants. She'd put a mushroom/chicken manure mix in the bed before she planted every year. I'm sure she did some other stuff, but the tomatoes loved that!
Interesting.. cause I planted my first seeds this year and the ones I planted in the egg shells are HUGE and the ones i planted just in cartons are small or not germinating.. I'll definately take it out of the egg when I plant tho! Binge watching your videos this week LOL ♡thanks!
I have been inspired. Your videos are fantastic. You hear so many people saying " use this, do that, add this, remove that" I had so much conflicting information and I was beyond confused. I did lose interest....... But after finding out that the nice little purple fern thing actually purple fenel..... wow then I saw this video....... Oh My Days...... a tidal wave of inspiration hit me. Its 02.30 here and I'm now designing my garden in my head and really can't wait to start. Your book is Absolutely fantastically amazing 👏 BTW. Shame I couldn't get it signed. Thank you so very much for your content I'm sure you have sown the seeds of inspiration in many minds. Love to you all and keep up the wonderfully informative and often funny content. 🌻
Hi I grow in pots, at the end of growing season is where I add washed and dried egg shell crushed, along with blood and bone plus slow release fertiliser and dynamic lifter. This allowes about four months for the soil to do its job breaking it down. I tend to get pretty good results.
😤 gardening seems like it requires so much patience. I feel like I gotta do some homework & study things. Why can't I just plop things into the ground, water it, & that's it? I live in the country side & don't mind all the random animals. I feed them. But I would've never thought to imagine them as a burden. I think I'm gonna try putting onions & garlic into the ground. .. they can't be intrigued by those things right? Then ill have tomatoes & carrots growing in pots, starting from inside. .. I have a fence in the backyard but it's mainly to keep anything from the back coming in. Nothing is actually fenced in. Damn these animals.
@@ahhwe-any7434 You're right. Gardening does require lots of patience. I used to hate gardening. But I started with one tomato plant, and worked up from there. Start small and work up from there.
Ahhw E-Any Marigolds will deter the deer at least a little. Plant like a fence all the way around & see if that does anything--a fence will help, though. Rabbits won't be deterred.
Great video! I’ve always wondered if egg shells would help or not. Also, I’ve always had blossom end rot on my tomatoes. I’ll be investing in some drip irrigation or times watering system in the future because I’m terrible at consistent watering.
Had a problem with slugs over 20 years ago. First put out beer I was going through a six pack every other day. Had a lot of dead slugs but they were still gobbling my lobelia, lost half of a planted flat in four days. Next I tried diatomaceous earth, no help as I lost another half flat. Finally resorted to slug pellets, didn't want to as I had children and pets but they were still turning my lobelia into leafless sticks and had started in on my vegetable garden. Go after my veggies and I declare war! My husband laughed and said, "Poor slugs, first you put out a salad bar for them, then you gave them cocktails, next a lovely white beach, now they'll see the pellets and think 'Ooo the nice lady's giving us hors d'oeuvres!' " The pellets worked and my vegetables and flowers survived the attack of the slimy slugs. Not happy I had to resort to chemical warfare and have never had pests push me that far again.
Blanche Konieczka You need to try nematodes (biological control) I had a massive slug problem in my London garden (shady, damp and I suppose relatively warm) plants would be stripped bare overnight. A neighbour gave me a little sachet which you add to a watering can and sprinkle all over the garden. The following day- nothing. Same on the second and third day. I assumed it hadn't worked. On the morning of day four however, it was slug apocalypse. The lawn, path, flowerbeds and every surface were littered with dead slugs. It was a horrible job to collect them all up though. The nematodes live on in the soil and continue to kill any slugs that do stray into my garden. I reapply a couple of times a year. Try them, completely safe and non toxic, and I haven't found anything else as effective.
@@spencerwilton5831 wow! Wish I had known about them before! If I ever have another slug invasion I'll remember nematodes. So much better than poison. Thank you!
Best explenation of bottom rot I have heard yet. Thanks that is why different things seem to cause the same problem. I have an area I have been growing my tomatoes for a number of years. There aren't a lot of options so I will feed the worms in that bed blended pitcher of egg shell and water.
Love the wooden fence at 5:22, good video. My cat loves to be in the garden with me, she will end up laying on some plants, but really never bothers them.
I use cinnamon in my espresso maker with the coffee--I put that stuff straight out on top of the mulch layer--of course that's just 1-2 tablespoons per day, so it isn't much...edited: typo
I think burying it could be good. Am a beginner though. Interested to hear from someone who has tried this. Gardening seems so creative with quite a learning curve.
Coffee grinds provide lots of nitrogen for a compost pile but will also add acidity (may be bad depending what you're growing). The real problem is the caffeine. Studies show caffeine may stunt plant growth a d fruit production
@@dalcloud8873 when you dig a hole to plant your plants mix used coffee grounds/egg shells too into the soil and plant your plants. Used coffee grounds are also great to get rid of ants, if you have ants living in your mulch sprinkle it around.
I rinse my egg shells first, then nuke then for 2 minutes, crush them up and put in my bird feeders.... Helps the birds, need calcium for shell production🤗
Journeys End, ... just curious, but WHY? Are you nuking the eggshells? I know of no purpose of doing that, ... has nothing to do with preventing any disease, or whatever from the spreading of, ... all you will do is make any soluble organic matter cook, ... turning it onto cooked organic matter, ... the egg shell will not soften, or change its molecular structure in any way, shape or form, ... and birds will not eat the cooked shells, ... unless it has some type of nutritional food source which, it does not, ... birds will program their food intake, much the same as any other type of animal, or plant, ... they will only seek out that, which can give sustenance to their bodies, ... yes they will eat, or chip away at a clam/oyster/mussel shell, but that is primarily to sharpen their beaks, & their talons, ... always see very small chips in the bottom of a birdcage, ... it takes a whole different process to break down the calcium, (by chemical means), in an egg shell, to make it useful to an animal to use for its own system, ... and I do not know if any other birds, have gizzards, but they eat small pebbles to assist in grinding up of nuts, & seeds, ... but that function only takes place in their gizzards, ... as far as I have seen, ..
@@johne.osmaniii7217 it is to kill bacteria, and there is nutritional value in them, and they will eat them if they're sitting there. Its almost like you didnt read the comment
More than 15 years ago my wife and I moved into our home and started gardening a rather large garden. The first few years we had a major problem with tomato end-rot. A neighbor, who is a master gardener, told us that when we plant our seedlings we should add crushed eggshell to the hole. I know you say it’s a myth but, we have hardly seen any tomato and rot since that day. And, that is the only thing we changed in the planting of our tomatoes.
Sir this TH-camr is making an argument against eggshells because he knows it’s a popular topic amongst gardeners. He is a youngster or a little kid as we would call him in the UK and has no idea about what he is talking about but is purely doing it for views. Egg shells is an ancient method used across all parts of the world by farmers from not so rich countries. Don’t pay attention to this dude and know that most TH-camrs prioritise views. God bless sir
Has either of you even paid attention to what he said in the video? He clearly mentioned you could add crushed eggshell in your soil, at 3:50. What he was explaining was that using the whole eggshell and expecting immediate benefit from its calcium was not the right way.
Love your videos!! I've been gardening for over 20 years and still learn alot from your awesome videos! Thank you for taking the time make and to post them!
Thanks for busting these myths. I do have a source of pine needles and really like them as a mulch. I'll try grinding up those eggshells for my compost.
Eggshells too sharp for snails? I have seen a video of snails crawling over razor blades. They distribute their weight and the slime offers protection too.
Wow! The last one was a shocker. Two years ago I had moved to a mountain community, having come from a city where we had a compost, recycling and trash, I contacted my local trash company asking if they had a compost service because well, there was a ton of oak leaves, pine needles, acorns, etc. But their reply was that they don’t have a compost service because, “really the pine needles are too acidic to compost anyway, so it’d be a waste of money and time” 🤔
Picked up gardening herbs (in pots in my studio apt) during quarantine. I'm so prideful in them and sing when they grow new leaves. I have learned how much I adore taking care of things. While I've kept succulents for two years prior to quarantine, I have a lot to learn with herbs still.
I used egg shells to plant seedlings and my seedlings grew probably 5x faster than all the rest of my plants which were planted in regular seed starters
Eh. Tomatoes are tough. Mine has come back to life from almost totally wilting and turning brown. All plants are actually quite hardy once you get a few basics down.
That's awesome news about pine needles. I just started composting and have plenty of pine needles, old and new, but not a lot of other sources besides food scraps to draw from. I'll be out there after work with a rake tomorrow to bulk up my compost pile!
Wow!Very informative video! Your explanation is logically and scientifically accurate...Keep sharing your knowledge how to take good care of outdoor and indoor plants..Gardening will really relieve stress and homesickness.Having a beautiful and healthy plants in the garden will be a bonus and will make the gardener happier....
Egg shells def work in my area! I've tested it and the same varieties of peppers that had an eggshell circle were spared while their neighbors were all devoured!! I've also tested it in potted plants that kept being targeted, and after that they were left alone. Same for my young clematis sprouts. When the slugs go after the spring shoots and keep them from growing the eggshell trick always does the job! Then again, I'm in Quebec Canada, so maybe it depends on the type of slugs? I'm sure a slug that is motivated enough would probably rather face the discomfort rather than starve, and perhaps the species in your area are bigger and bolder and don't care at all?
I think he's focusing on the videos where the snails where enclose in eggshells and were forced to crawl over them. Some tests where they were given the choice generally showed that they could go over them, but didn't like to. Which is enough to be a decent help in your garden. th-cam.com/video/aJ2e_Wisvu0/w-d-xo.html
My dad puts whole egg shells into our potted plants. I asked my mom "don't people normally crush those?" and she just shrugged at me. I don't think it's doing exactly what it's supposed to, but it doesn't seem to be doing much harm either lol
I remember my Mom tried composting uncrushed eggshells and they were still there 10 years later! I was always puzzled, when people used eggshells to start seeds in. You end up losing half your plants, if you try to take the seedlings out of the shells, so I don't get it🤷 After many trials and tribulations, I have found the peat pots with the mesh on them work best. Easy peasy! I start seeds indoors, because I live in an area with a shorter growing season.
I use plastic forks/spoons/knifes in my big plants and it works wonders. It might not keep the cats out completely, but it definitely stops them from using them as litter boxes, which was my main issue. I don't consider it wasteful because I clean and reuse them. I started with the ones in my "party" stash and have never had to buy more.
I’ve used forks to Mark where something is that I won’t see until the next season. Things like bulbs or a new to me perennial that goes dormant all the way to the ground. Just so I don’t go digging my stuff up. Done that before
Have been growing tomatoes for 25 years. Any and every time I've had blossom end rot, it's been quickly and effectively eliminated by working finely crushed egg shells right into the soil around the stems over the roots. I've never had it fail.
wow, you live right next to the street like that. it must be so cool to pass by and say "hey, there's epic gardening's garden. i've seen it on youtube. it looks so awesome".
From what I saw on videos testing these methods, slugs CAN technically crawl over coffee grounds and eggshells, but prefer not to. With the latter the finely ground powder sticks to them and makes it hard for them to crawl. So, it won't deter all snails and you couldn't trap any with it, but you can still use it to suggest they go another way.
Totally helpful!!! I hate pine needles. In eastern North Carolina, we have a lot of stands of old pine. We live next-door to an acre of old woods and have some huge trees in our yard. I’m constantly raking off loads and loads of Pine needles. Always thought it added acid. This was probably the most helpful tip I’ve ever gotten since so much of my time is spent clearing off!
Ick! I bake my eggshells to prevent rot & if you blender the eggshels in vinegar, oil & really hot peppers & cinnamon--let sit for about a day for the shell to soak in the other items--then sprinkle it around! Most garden pests do not like the burning sensation of the spices and the eggshell & oils help hold that stuff at the surface. (started writing before hearing your whole post).
I used egg shells last year in my garden as my dahlias were destroyed by snails, and this worked really well, so I personally have found that it works.
What happens if you crush a multivitamin and put it in the dirt around the plant? You get bright yellow fruit lol no seriously would the plant use the vitamins?
We used to use pine needles on our rose gardens when we got hard freezes during the winters! Our bushes were always the first to bloom again after the frost too! My favorite misconception is that you have to prune rose bushes on Valentine’s Day 😂
With regard to the plastic forks in the multiple raised beds keeping our cat and multiple neighborhood cats out of our garden, I wonder if you are referring to my garden! Lol. Maybe I am just another person that uses that method, but that is quite the coincidence. I would like to add a bit of info: for us, it does work to keep the cats out. The barrier around the outside did not work. I must place the forks close together so the cats can't get their little cat bottoms in between forks. I take the plastic forks out each season once the seedlings mature and reuse them the following season. Thank you for sharing what you have learned. I appreciate the work you have put into teaching.
i saved all my coffee and tea grinds in a bucket for a long time in garbage also added crushed egg shells and minced banana peels with other minced garbage scraps. after i got like 5 gallon bucket filled i simply used it in garden bed or low spots (or rabbit burrows) in lawn ...
*Myth: I am mulching correctly, as long as keep El mulcho away from El trunko.* *_Truth: Flat is where it's at, just like mother nature mulches trees in her forests._* No donuts rings, no Charlie Brown pitchers mound. Goal is to replace layer of suffocating grass with layer of beneficial mulch in order for more ideal atmospheric oxygen exchange between breathing feeder roots just below grade. Too much suffocating mulch results in New emergency Roots growing above ground throughout mulch layer, becoming a wooden noose tightening around trees own trunk. Now imagine all those unseen roots growing throughout all those above ground mounds you see below trees everyday of the week, especially young trees.
Hey Kevin, It’s me again. Thanks for clearing up these misconceptions! Ive used eggshells thinking that they would keep the slugs away for the past few years. Thanks for telling us not to!
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Do you have a favorite gardening myth or misconception?
Don't water a plant until it wilts. That one drives me nuts, especially when applied to peace lilies.
Poking cocktail sticks through avocado stones and suspend them in water. Uh no, just plock on soil as nature intended.
Rooting pineapple tops in water. 😔 nawww 😑.
Yeah, that is definitely a major misunderstanding of how plants operate
Haha I can tell you're very passionate 😉
Urine in the garden? Myth? Growing up my mom had huge hydrangeas and every so often she'd throw urine in the soil. (She watched kids and was always potty training one or two)
Gardening was my home therapy during a depression and after that I kept is a hobby. I have apple-bananas, plantains, pineapple, avocado and caribbean cherries.
Lovely!
Ya- that's awesome 😃🌼
You are obviously not in Minnesota 😉
I’m in the Caribbean. Very hot and humid in summer... but the plants are sooooo green.
@@CaToRi- it sounds beautiful!
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wow my goals are to do exactly what you’re doing 😍
Thank you for your clear English speaking. English is a foreign language for me and most of native speakers, speak so fast that I could just hear one word in a sentence.Please continue speaking clearly and slowly :D
Such a good reminder for us to speak clearly and slowly. 😉😉👍🏾
You do have excellent articulation and grammar, it’s true!
Samia! On my phone there are 3 little dots at the top. Press that and there’s an option for playback speed... you can slow it down or speed it up... so helpful either way depending on the speaker(s), and thank you for pointing out it can help out ESL folks, too! 🗣👂🏼👀👍🏼🙏🏼
Wha de fukya talkin bout?
I agree he does a great job :) like a teacher !
it's weird to me has a fish tank keeper that people think egg shells will deter snails.cause I feed egg shells to my snails to give them calcium to help maintain their shells.
Brianna Harter whaaaat? Wow I just learned something
lol i love it
@@sarahrogers7883 there's no biological difference between snails and slugs that would be relevant to egg shells in their path. The main difference in the two is habitat, and that's mainly because a gastropod with no shell can squeeze into environments that one with a shell could not.
@@sarahrogers7883 both molluscs.
@@green_eye_gossip Yep, snails love it because the extra calcium shores up their little shells!
Misnomers or myths about gardening
1) Use or misuse of eggshells (they do not deter slugs or snails).
2) Don't use pointy things (such as one-use plastic forks) to deter cats or pests, it doesn't work.
3) Blossom end rot: it is a plant condition. To avoid: consistent watering, take care of the plant
4) Pine needles acidify the soil but only minimally. Fresh pine needles are slightly acidic and old needles are barely acidic at all.
You can even add pin needles to compost
Side note: Awesome looking garden!!!
Another one is black walnut. A lot of people think black walnut will kill everything and leave a wasteland under it's canopy with how it "kills" plants.
A guy with a sawmill actually pointed out how wrong this is by pointing out how grass still grows under most of them as well as other weed plants. The most effective way of killing off competing plants amongst trees is to simply shade them out
i started gardening as a means to manage depression and anxiety. tactile hobbies are good for that, i had a guinea pig at the start of my gardenings and he had paper bedding, which degraded very quickly so i had to clean his cage often and i did it outside.
well one time i was sick during the week i normally would do a deep clean, i was sick for a little over a month and my family wouldnt clean his enclosure.
turns out because it breaks down so fast, when i was finally feeling better enough to leave my bed i cleaned his cage and smelled soil, i was confused, shouldnt this smell bad? but i dug in with my gloves and there was soil underneith the top layer of bedding. i looked at my guinea pig happily munching on grass, and i decided to dump the entirety of the cages contents into the garden, paper and all. turns out guinea pig poop is a fantastic fertilizer, what had the soiled bedding over top grew faster and bore more flowers and fruit. my peppers flourished.
i started using his spot cleaned bedding in my house plants, i would bag up on full clean days and use it in compost or directly in the garden. later i learned that the bedding, because it was soiled, had plant fiber, hay mixxed in, nitrogen, and other nutrients from his droppings. it was the best free compost material i had.
btw the only reason why i didnt interract with him the majority of the time i was sick and didnt go do my duties as his carer was because guinea pigs have weak immune systems, and so do i.
Asteri wow that’s so cool! I had a chinchilla and she pooped ALL TIME and I never thought of doing that and when you think about it cows have essentially the same diet and their manure is good. I’ll keep that in mind!
Your guini pig must think you are a bit off
What type of bedding did you use? I’m curious
Neat. Thanks for sharing. I have been (inadvertently) adopting stray cats. I wonder if their poop/urine does anything.
@@dalcloud8873 i wouldn't recommemd using cat or dog poop. My parents are farmers and while they use cow and sheeppoop for their land, they told me that the poop of carnivores isn't good. They even went and picked up the poop the dogs of some hikers left on their land. I don't remeber excatly why its bad but i wouldn't use it especially if you are going to eat the plants (also sorry if this text is confusing, english isn't my first language)
Eggshells are essential. Spread on the floor around difficult people in a common space. ☺️
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Thanks for knowledge, great information
Hahaha love it
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Scarecrows prevent yeti from stealing from the garden. Not true. Ive seem them out there eating salads.
They're worse than vine borders.
I seem them lol
But everyone knows that.
Had the same problem till I took the deck chairs away.
were the scarecrows eating the salad or the yeti?
Also, as someone who keeps snails as pets, they like eggshells. They scrape things for calcium to grow their shells and eggshells are actually really good for them.
Interesting!
I adore your channel! I am a traditional farm wife having been raised on the farm, gardening, preserving, hunting, butchering is what I do, self-sufficiency is key, ( especially in these times).
I love to learn all I can from everyone and you are very no-nonsense and straightforward.
Your videos are informative and helpful especially if you’re a beginner . I like the way you get straight to the point without rambling and wasting time on the intro. You’re plant care tips are easy to follow and they work!
I come from a Mexican family, and one misconception that I always heard as a kid was that praying mantis were so poisonous/venemous that they could kill a whole cow. I grew terrified of them until I had my Garden and read more about them. Now, I find them pretty and interesting.
Bless your heart ❤️
Bull
🙄🙄🙄
Yet, when I go to Mexico, I see scorpions sold as food.
Mantis are cool. Little scary when a 5 incher is on your back😂 but good bugs😉
In defense of the forks I will say that a rabbit kept digging up all of my pumpkin and squash seedlings last year and when I barricaded them closely with plastic forks he left them alone and they grew beautifully. Because of how I have the patch set up putting a cover on it wasn’t a great option. Also as far as them being single use I pulled them out and used them again for that same use this year. Not hundreds and not everywhere, but I did find them helpful in a specific situation. My cats also tend to avoid them because there are so many areas without them. But I don’t worry about the cats much as they don’t seem to care about the raised beds.
Well, you made a fence. That makes sense. More of a physical barrier than assorted stabbys.
FYI for those of you that want to use egg shells in your compost. I bought a very cheep coffee/spice grinder at walmart toss dried out egg shells in in and it turns the shells to powder.
That's smart I use mortar and pestel
What happens if someone was to snort the powder ?
@@Not_Sure_ he would be a cluck
I just grab them from a restaurant and tossing them in the compost pile. 10 yards. Of compost gets about 60 quarts of busted up eggs.
Cannabis grew 10ft tall and got about 1# of dry buds from that compost pile.
I've been baking eggshells and grinding them into a fine powder to supplement calcium for my pets and myself. Even using it as a supplement for 2 cats, a bearded dragon, and myself I still end up with a whole lot of it. I've been dumping some in my compost bin as well as just a few tablespoons every 3 months in my tomato garden down what I call the root chute - PVC pipe I've embedded 1.5-2 feet in the ground with holes around the outside for weekly deep root watering, aeration, and fertilization. Still have a jar and a half of the powder on hand at any given time, lol. I think it's helping the tomatoes with "end rot" because after I started adding the powder I didn't have any more "end rot" without changing watering practice or changing season - started mid-summer. I have an automatic irrigation system (soaker hose under a layer of mulch) to water my garden every morning.
I keep my cats out of my garden with snow barrier netting over a PVC pipe frame, also makes a good trellis for tomatoes as well. Only problem is it degrades after a year or two. I should probably just upgrade to chicken wire.
Moral of this story is just because it looks good on Instagram or Pinterest doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea.
Noname Foru This applies to so many areas.
...and journalists and bloggers don't really know the subjects in-depth that they write about
The 5 minute hacks , I despise the most. Looks like they do things to make it look like a good idea but it never works
Noname Foru, I agree, u can’t judge a book by its cover
Abelardo Pascual, I SWEAR
I blend the dry eggshells in a Bullet blender. Totally powderizes them, then add to soil. NPK 1.9 .38 .14.
Nice way to use
Gardening is sacred. Outside with the Earth...of which you are made....keeping things growing....and oh such excellent exercise.😃
Gretta Lemabouchou Yes!! I put my money into gardening and not the gym. Drag around bags of planting mix and dig some holes. OUTSIDE ! 👍
From the earth we were made & so shall return🌱🤱 ⚰️⚱️
Become one with Mother nature 💐☃️🌬️🐈🐕🏕️ & enjoy father time🕰️ their Son 🌞 gives us all life😇😁🤸
Totally agree. I am happiest working manual labor, hands in dirt then watching fruits of my labor grow!
Articulate, straight to the point, and obviously, knowledgable! Thank you!
I can tell you've done your research on a lot of these subjects. I really appreciated the way you handled this, especially the wastefulness of using those plastic forks in the garden.
Thanks for verifying the pine needles. I've been doing a ton of research to find out how well they compost, but I've been skeptical about mulching with them. I have at LEAST 4 yards worth, waiting for me behind my house. I should probably get to shredding em. Thanks for the videos, you and Mark from SSM are my go to guys
I have used pulverized egg shells for years. They are wonderful for rose bushes.
Pulverized egg shels go into my worm food, composts and directly into gardens.
Awesome!
Fish fertilizer and epsom salt does wonders for rose bushes shit it does wonders for everything I wish you could see my yard I wish you could see my lawn man Lush and green
I use pulverized egg shells and banana peels cut into strips to give rose bushes a little boost ahead of time. Occasionally also fish fertilizer; I use the bananas, weighted down with a teaspoon, to feed the fish
@@rieriec.36 you could always upload a video tour of your yard.
Great video as always. A small correction. Egg shells are actually 40% calcium, not 50ppm, which is like 0.005%
calcium magnesium phosphate at that, perfect for fertilizer...
Ha, I just made this comment above before reading all of the comments
Yes
I use a old coffee grinder to powder eggshells then add to garden.
Metal Adder101 I was thinking of using a mortar and pestle, or a plastic baggie and a hammer.
@@rhodawatkins4516 mortar and pestel is better
True. Studies showed it works when particle size is small
Rhoda Watkins I currently use mortar and pestle, if you want a finer grind... coffee or spice grinder may be what you’re looking for. I’m gonna switch over personally.
I clean my shells right out. Like I peel off every bit of membrane. Should I even bother doing that. I only started because it keeps them from getting smelly.
Your English is impeccable! I love to hear you speak. Good grammar is so refreshing!
Ladies and gentleman. I have a 4 year old avocado tree that needs your prayers. She's grown crooked and got hooked on miraclegro.
Should be slightly easier to come off of the miraclegro than meth. 😅
Prayers for your sweet crooked avocado tree ❤
Hahahahaha
Add a piece of iron to soil nearby tree. A friend has a old boat iron anchor that was left partially buried by tree. They get so many large yummy avocados 🥑 they have to bring some to share with friends like me. I don’t know if that old iron anchor does this or not? But they are the best buttery Avocados 🥑 I’ve Ever, Ever had in my life.
@@DnolB65 That would be my idea of heaven, having an avocado tree full of buttery avocados. But such a tree is prob not poss in the UK🇬🇧 with our damp, rainy m, chilly climate.🙁
Daniel Fiorini mine keeps loosing its leaves 😢
I had racoons digging up my new pepper plants a few years ago and found placing bamboo skewers near the pepper plants stopped the racoons from digging them up. They did dig around the areas where there were no skewers though, but the pepper plants were left alone.
just an f.y.i. for anybody who doesn't already know, different plants may have more or less needs of certain nutrients. some do benefit more from calcium and crushed eggshells can greatly benefit these plants. some need potassium, and banana peels help there. other plants benefit from something acidic, and used coffee grounds are great here. i moved into a house with a very sickly rose vine. it never died, but for 2-3 yrs it looked like it was going to die at any time 😕. i looked up natural stuff to use and started saving coffee grounds and other things from the kitchen and using them. also, a coffee shop near my workplace had a basket where you could pick up free bags of used grounds specifically for this. a few months after i started this a tree fell on my roof. the adjuster who came out was an avid gardener, and specifically raised roses. he went absolutely nuts over my beautiful rose bush and wanted to know my secret, because none of his looked near as good.
Well said 😁
my husband's uncle swears by bananas and the peels for roses. when he plants a rose bush he always puts in a few bananas whole first
Peeled or unpeeled? Raw or baked? And what about bugs aren’t they attracted to the banana?
@@lynn9588 uncle used the whole banana!
I had bad experience putting raw bananas peels next to my beautiful Jackson Perkins 🌹 bugs ate threw the roots dry the peels in the sun or cut them into small pieces so roses get the potassium they need
Thank you! That was helpful... my mom (Oregon Hippy Gardener) always put the crushed eggshells in a big jar with the coffee grounds, and water. The gross tea was then dumped straight into the compost pit. She swore that egg shell coffee tea released the calcium and de acidified the coffee (paper filters included)! Seamed to work! I do It now... so hopefully it’s true! 🤗
In Australia we use egg shells (broken up, not crushed) to keep white moths away from plants - the moths presumably see the white and assume there are already other moths there.
Source: I had a whole crop of zucchini plants leaves stripped by white moths one year and egg shells saved the next crop.
Thank you. I get very tired of the acidic pine needle bit. I live in deep piney woods of Texas and use the dried pine needles everywhere in the garden. Grow where you are with what you have and reap a bounty!
Gracious me. A lot of work for egg shell calcium. I think I'll stick with crushing them into the compost.
To each their own
@@epicgardening I ground my eggshells up into a fine powder and add it to my watering can and my compost bin. It lasts for ages in the watering can and has made a difference to my plants.
You can simply add finely crushed eggshells 1to1 with white or apple cider vinegar and it'll be ready when it's done bubbling (the sign of the chemical reactions) you can just poor some at the base of the plant, it'll be roughly neutral but if you're worried it didn't completely neutralize you can mix it with anywhere from 1 to 1 to 1 to 4 with water and it should still be very effective. The chemical reaction should also sterilize the vast majority of any harmful pathogens like salmonella to the well within safe levels
Not really. Notice he said one part per 1000 of water. I created water soluble calcium into a half gallon jar and I probably have enough of the solution for at least a year or two. It is only applied highly diluted.
@@michaelgraham768 Hi there... won't the vinegar kill the plant? Vinegar is used to kill weeds and even grass as weed killer?
Compost all your veggie scraps right into the garden including egg shells coffee grounds banana peels etc put a little soil over them and you're good to go spread them thin they'll break down in no time you'll have the best garden on the block
Only organic peels
@Cross-Eye Box Breaks Its the only way to garden....you are so right. We switched to no-till (lasagna, sheet mulching) 6 years ago and I'll never look back. Not only is it easier and cheaper, but its so much more effective! Keep that active layer at the surface, the way nature intended....increases nitrifying bacteria which in turn means you NEVER have to fertilize (at least not with salt-based chemicals). You water less (leaching less nutrients away), and with the constant smothering of weeds...you hardly ever weed either!
@Cross-Eye Box Breaks gotta be the mulch! It's AMAZING how it locks the moisture in and keeps that active layer near the surface!
Yup! Going to make a raised bed doing this this weekend!
Watch out...animals will come...compost 1st..
You can also crush the eggshell and add it to your chicken feed. Its calcium added to their diet... 😊
Or for tortoises :)
Yep I do that.
Seems kinda morbid, feeding the shells that the chickens pooped out themselves 😂😂 I know chickens don’t “poop” out eggs, but you get my point.
Don't mix in into their feed, or they could get more calcium than they need and become egg bound. Instead, offer it free choice on the side. They'll take what they need.
Make sure crushed really good, they tend to start eating there own eggs if they associate the shape and color. Once that happens its crazy hard to stop.
I have come across many videos, but you are very thorough with your subject, it seems you have read and also researched well besides having practical experience. Keep posting videos, my 3 acre organic farm will appreciate it!
I’ve been gardening for many years. Great watching you! I was wrong on two of them. I always tried to use eggs shells to deter slugs. Don’t think it ever worked😂 thank you! I enjoyed listening to ya!
Really informative, especially about the blossom end rot. Maybe, you can tell me whether what we did was effective. We take our duck eggshells and dry them out in a dehydrator and then grind them into a fine powder. We add it to our finished compost along with rock dust and add about a cup of the finished compost with each thing we transplant or each thing that comes up from seed.
My concern about your garden might be 2-legged pests. Somebody could reach over your fence from the sidewalk and have a free harvest.
That's a great way to do it re: eggshells. And fortunately i don't have a lot of rude people walking by!
Thank you for clarifying about pine needles! Hubby is always going on about how they need to be removed from the garden due to making it acidic. I’m all about mulching and just maybe those poky brown needles might deter to the slugs that are problematic in one garden, which also happens to have high clay content. If you’ve got tips on remedying clay into better soil, I’d be happy to hear.
Snails will ride on a razor. Dehydration is a better option.
I use the eggshell because it makes it easier to transplant my seedling.... I crack it up in little pieces/ pop it out to bury the transplant
General and much warranted thanks for rescuing my garden and veg plot. Your videos are compulsive watching and the tips, wrinkles and ideas invaluable. Your delivery is also mesmerising 😆
Good information. Try adding a tablespoon of epson salt to the hole for each of your tomato plants at planting time to assist them with the absorption of calcium in order to prevent blossom end rot. You can also use it as a foliar spray. Strong soil makes for happy, healthy and productive plants.
Would love to see a video on the making of water soluble calcium? Very informative video!
I use the egg shells and pulverized in the coffee maker machine and them mix them with the soil. Love ❤️ your videos are really helpful 🙏
Thanks you!
Same
I spread mine to keep deer away. Usually spreading them in the spring keep deer away all season. They hate the smell.
Myth: "There is such a thing as weed free topsoil." Usually claimed by a salesman.
If you fill your bed in early fall, leave it bare and water it, weeds WILL sprout. GOOD! Using a stirrup hoe, kill them and leave them in place to decompose. Water and repeat until ground freezes. For next year's tomato beds, I sprout the weed seeds in spring while waiting for weather to warm up enough for tomatoes. Over the years, by covering beds when Dandelions bloom, and sprouting weeds and slicing through them, the weed seed load is declining.
Once I plant, I side dress with 2-4" of shredded leaves. (I pay kids to drag bags of leaves to my garage.) The home gardener can easily use 200 gallons of shredded leaves a year.
All the leaves feed my giant herd of earthworms, who provide micro tunnels to improve soil structure, and worm castings.
Yup, totally good ideas there!
True, but the amount of seeds CAN be reduced dramatically over time. Many people don’t do enough hoeing or mowing around the edges to stop seeds from wandering in (blown, tracked, carried, kicked, etc.) And of course, tilling every year encourages weeds compared to no-till.
As long as there aren't pesticides or herbicides on the leaves
The pine needle one blew my mind. I was definitely convinced that they acidify soil before I watched this -- thanks for letting us know!
I’ve used pine mulch for years. It’s the best. My neighbor was an aborist with a boom. And would drop me off all his pine jobs. (All shredded). It was awesome. Then 7.5 yr ago moved to FL. We have huge slash pines here. And they even sell pine needle bundles. (Hard finding straw.). I go to areas and harvest the pine needles in huge black bags. And it’s free. i’ve been told I have the nicest yard in the subdivision. But hey, I’m a gardner. It’s my obcession. 🤣
Have been gardening for years now at the age of 50 Ive learned a lot from my grandmother and mom and dad most of what you just talked about except for the plastic forks and knives I just don't know why anybody would think that would work. I've actually gone to the trouble of taking banana peels egg shells put a little water in my blender and then adding it to the soil then tilling the soil then the plants are the seeds are planted we've been very successful with Gardening thanks for the info enjoy your video
Thanks for the comment! Glad you enjoyed
I boil them, remove the membranes, dry them in the oven, then grind them in a mortar & pestle. I sprinkle the powder into my potting soil. I like the liquid method 😁
I never boiled them mmh goood idea I just rinsed them off and let them air dry completely then blend it
I personally collect all my egg shells and when they dry I crush and then throw in my ninja grinder then store till use. Last year I grew tomato trees. The plants were around 7 feet tall. I am 100% organic grower. No chemicals of any kind. I will even collect toads and place them in my garden. Or anything else that eats other bugs. And the only one of these myths I have heard is the pine needle one.
Wow, where roughly do you live?
@@brianshissler3263 Kansas City
@@zemtek420 oh ok. Im in Spokane and my tomatos might get 3 feet if Im lucky. All the smoke from the fire last year cut my sunlight so much that most of my garden never fully matured!
Ill try your eggshell technique.
@Eriss R. I would if i could
@@brianshissler3263 we're in Portland and as a kid my mom would routinely get five foot tomato plants. She'd put a mushroom/chicken manure mix in the bed before she planted every year. I'm sure she did some other stuff, but the tomatoes loved that!
Interesting.. cause I planted my first seeds this year and the ones I planted in the egg shells are HUGE and the ones i planted just in cartons are small or not germinating..
I'll definately take it out of the egg when I plant tho!
Binge watching your videos this week LOL ♡thanks!
I have been inspired. Your videos are fantastic. You hear so many people saying " use this, do that, add this, remove that" I had so much conflicting information and I was beyond confused. I did lose interest.......
But after finding out that the nice little purple fern thing actually purple fenel..... wow then I saw this video....... Oh My Days...... a tidal wave of inspiration hit me. Its 02.30 here and I'm now designing my garden in my head and really can't wait to start. Your book is Absolutely fantastically amazing 👏 BTW. Shame I couldn't get it signed.
Thank you so very much for your content I'm sure you have sown the seeds of inspiration in many minds. Love to you all and keep up the wonderfully informative and often funny content. 🌻
Hi I grow in pots, at the end of growing season is where I add washed and dried egg shell crushed, along with blood and bone plus slow release fertiliser and dynamic lifter. This allowes about four months for the soil to do its job breaking it down. I tend to get pretty good results.
Wow! 750 forks?! She can repurpose them to use as plant labels 🤷🏽♀️
Stephanie Fayla smart idea!
Good idea! I use plastic spoons for labels now.
😤 gardening seems like it requires so much patience. I feel like I gotta do some homework & study things. Why can't I just plop things into the ground, water it, & that's it? I live in the country side & don't mind all the random animals. I feed them. But I would've never thought to imagine them as a burden. I think I'm gonna try putting onions & garlic into the ground. .. they can't be intrigued by those things right? Then ill have tomatoes & carrots growing in pots, starting from inside. .. I have a fence in the backyard but it's mainly to keep anything from the back coming in. Nothing is actually fenced in. Damn these animals.
@@ahhwe-any7434 You're right. Gardening does require lots of patience. I used to hate gardening. But I started with one tomato plant, and worked up from there. Start small and work up from there.
Ahhw E-Any Marigolds will deter the deer at least a little. Plant like a fence all the way around & see if that does anything--a fence will help, though. Rabbits won't be deterred.
Great video! I’ve always wondered if egg shells would help or not. Also, I’ve always had blossom end rot on my tomatoes. I’ll be investing in some drip irrigation or times watering system in the future because I’m terrible at consistent watering.
Watering system help a TON
Something that actually works on slugs is mayo jar lids sunk even with the soil and filled with beer. At least they die happy.
Had a problem with slugs over 20 years ago. First put out beer I was going through a six pack every other day. Had a lot of dead slugs but they were still gobbling my lobelia, lost half of a planted flat in four days. Next I tried diatomaceous earth, no help as I lost another half flat. Finally resorted to slug pellets, didn't want to as I had children and pets but they were still turning my lobelia into leafless sticks and had started in on my vegetable garden. Go after my veggies and I declare war! My husband laughed and said, "Poor slugs, first you put out a salad bar for them, then you gave them cocktails, next a lovely white beach, now they'll see the pellets and think 'Ooo the nice lady's giving us hors d'oeuvres!' " The pellets worked and my vegetables and flowers survived the attack of the slimy slugs. Not happy I had to resort to chemical warfare and have never had pests push me that far again.
Blanche Konieczka You need to try nematodes (biological control) I had a massive slug problem in my London garden (shady, damp and I suppose relatively warm) plants would be stripped bare overnight. A neighbour gave me a little sachet which you add to a watering can and sprinkle all over the garden. The following day- nothing. Same on the second and third day. I assumed it hadn't worked. On the morning of day four however, it was slug apocalypse. The lawn, path, flowerbeds and every surface were littered with dead slugs. It was a horrible job to collect them all up though. The nematodes live on in the soil and continue to kill any slugs that do stray into my garden. I reapply a couple of times a year. Try them, completely safe and non toxic, and I haven't found anything else as effective.
@@spencerwilton5831 wow! Wish I had known about them before! If I ever have another slug invasion I'll remember nematodes. So much better than poison. Thank you!
I just use salt most slugs and snails hate salt.😂
Spencer Wilton they also deter fleas...
Best explenation of bottom rot I have heard yet. Thanks that is why different things seem to cause the same problem. I have an area I have been growing my tomatoes for a number of years. There aren't a lot of options so I will feed the worms in that bed blended pitcher of egg shell and water.
Love the wooden fence at 5:22, good video. My cat loves to be in the garden with me, she will end up laying on some plants, but really never bothers them.
Please talk about coffee ground.
Add coffee grounds to compost pile, not directly on ground around plant.
I use cinnamon in my espresso maker with the coffee--I put that stuff straight out on top of the mulch layer--of course that's just 1-2 tablespoons per day, so it isn't much...edited: typo
I think burying it could be good. Am a beginner though. Interested to hear from someone who has tried this. Gardening seems so creative with quite a learning curve.
Coffee grinds provide lots of nitrogen for a compost pile but will also add acidity (may be bad depending what you're growing). The real problem is the caffeine. Studies show caffeine may stunt plant growth a d fruit production
@@dalcloud8873 when you dig a hole to plant your plants mix used coffee grounds/egg shells too into the soil and plant your plants. Used coffee grounds are also great to get rid of ants, if you have ants living in your mulch sprinkle it around.
I rinse my egg shells first, then nuke then for 2 minutes, crush them up and put in my bird feeders.... Helps the birds, need calcium for shell production🤗
Journeys End, ... just curious, but WHY? Are you nuking the eggshells? I know of no purpose of doing that, ... has nothing to do with preventing any disease, or whatever from the spreading of, ... all you will do is make any soluble organic matter cook, ... turning it onto cooked organic matter, ... the egg shell will not soften, or change its molecular structure in any way, shape or form, ... and birds will not eat the cooked shells, ... unless it has some type of nutritional food source which, it does not, ... birds will program their food intake, much the same as any other type of animal, or plant, ... they will only seek out that, which can give sustenance to their bodies, ... yes they will eat, or chip away at a clam/oyster/mussel shell, but that is primarily to sharpen their beaks, & their talons, ... always see very small chips in the bottom of a birdcage, ... it takes a whole different process to break down the calcium, (by chemical means), in an egg shell, to make it useful to an animal to use for its own system, ... and I do not know if any other birds, have gizzards, but they eat small pebbles to assist in grinding up of nuts, & seeds, ... but that function only takes place in their gizzards, ... as far as I have seen, ..
Just broadcast compost a few in the yard, i see songbirds peck at them but THEY get to choose to eat it.
@@johne.osmaniii7217 it is to kill bacteria, and there is nutritional value in them, and they will eat them if they're sitting there. Its almost like you didnt read the comment
@@johne.osmaniii7217 nuking also kills all Amino acids and enzymes in food as well. Microwaves kill your food in a bad way. Throw out your microwaves
@@chaznonya4 you cant kill an enzyme or amino acid. It isnt alive.
More than 15 years ago my wife and I moved into our home and started gardening a rather large garden. The first few years we had a major problem with tomato end-rot. A neighbor, who is a master gardener, told us that when we plant our seedlings we should add crushed eggshell to the hole. I know you say it’s a myth but, we have hardly seen any tomato and rot since that day. And, that is the only thing we changed in the planting of our tomatoes.
Sir this TH-camr is making an argument against eggshells because he knows it’s a popular topic amongst gardeners. He is a youngster or a little kid as we would call him in the UK and has no idea about what he is talking about but is purely doing it for views. Egg shells is an ancient method used across all parts of the world by farmers from not so rich countries. Don’t pay attention to this dude and know that most TH-camrs prioritise views. God bless sir
Has either of you even paid attention to what he said in the video? He clearly mentioned you could add crushed eggshell in your soil, at 3:50. What he was explaining was that using the whole eggshell and expecting immediate benefit from its calcium was not the right way.
Love your videos!! I've been gardening for over 20 years and still learn alot from your awesome videos! Thank you for taking the time make and to post them!
Thanks for busting these myths. I do have a source of pine needles and really like them as a mulch. I'll try grinding up those eggshells for my compost.
Eggshells too sharp for snails? I have seen a video of snails crawling over razor blades. They distribute their weight and the slime offers protection too.
Wow! The last one was a shocker. Two years ago I had moved to a mountain community, having come from a city where we had a compost, recycling and trash, I contacted my local trash company asking if they had a compost service because well, there was a ton of oak leaves, pine needles, acorns, etc. But their reply was that they don’t have a compost service because, “really the pine needles are too acidic to compost anyway, so it’d be a waste of money and time” 🤔
Too acidic to compost ffs 🙄
“ first of all what an Incredible misuse of 750 forks for a single use item” lmfao
LOL
Single misuse item
Picked up gardening herbs (in pots in my studio apt) during quarantine. I'm so prideful in them and sing when they grow new leaves. I have learned how much I adore taking care of things. While I've kept succulents for two years prior to quarantine, I have a lot to learn with herbs still.
So stoked to hear about the pine needles! I have so many! 🌲🌲🌲
Could you do a video about that eggshell water? Or different composts for indoor/balcony plants? :)
I'll add to the list!
Oo!! And biochar for those of us with less than desirable "smell-cations" for compost? Like-how to do it right?
I used egg shells to plant seedlings and my seedlings grew probably 5x faster than all the rest of my plants which were planted in regular seed starters
That tomato plant looked very sad...
It got transplanted, don't worry
Eh. Tomatoes are tough. Mine has come back to life from almost totally wilting and turning brown. All plants are actually quite hardy once you get a few basics down.
midget wizard it did.
All his plant looking dead af 🤢🤕☠😱
That's awesome news about pine needles. I just started composting and have plenty of pine needles, old and new, but not a lot of other sources besides food scraps to draw from. I'll be out there after work with a rake tomorrow to bulk up my compost pile!
Awesome Rob! Glad you can make use of them
Never use pine needles..
Wow!Very informative video! Your explanation is logically and scientifically accurate...Keep sharing your knowledge how to take good care of outdoor and indoor plants..Gardening will really relieve stress and homesickness.Having a beautiful and healthy plants in the garden will be a bonus and will make the gardener happier....
Egg shells def work in my area! I've tested it and the same varieties of peppers that had an eggshell circle were spared while their neighbors were all devoured!! I've also tested it in potted plants that kept being targeted, and after that they were left alone. Same for my young clematis sprouts. When the slugs go after the spring shoots and keep them from growing the eggshell trick always does the job!
Then again, I'm in Quebec Canada, so maybe it depends on the type of slugs? I'm sure a slug that is motivated enough would probably rather face the discomfort rather than starve, and perhaps the species in your area are bigger and bolder and don't care at all?
I think he's focusing on the videos where the snails where enclose in eggshells and were forced to crawl over them.
Some tests where they were given the choice generally showed that they could go over them, but didn't like to. Which is enough to be a decent help in your garden.
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I save two dozen and place them in the blender and sprinkle it in my raised bed and turn over the soil. I. Just do.
Why turn soil
My dad puts whole egg shells into our potted plants. I asked my mom "don't people normally crush those?" and she just shrugged at me. I don't think it's doing exactly what it's supposed to, but it doesn't seem to be doing much harm either lol
Lol good woman
I remember my Mom tried composting uncrushed eggshells and they were still there 10 years later! I was always puzzled, when people used eggshells to start seeds in. You end up losing half your plants, if you try to take the seedlings out of the shells, so I don't get it🤷 After many trials and tribulations, I have found the peat pots with the mesh on them work best. Easy peasy! I start seeds indoors, because I live in an area with a shorter growing season.
I use plastic forks/spoons/knifes in my big plants and it works wonders.
It might not keep the cats out completely, but it definitely stops them from using them as litter boxes, which was my main issue.
I don't consider it wasteful because I clean and reuse them. I started with the ones in my "party" stash and have never had to buy more.
Thank you for the info. I'll now go pluck my forks out of my garden. Lol.
😂
I’ve used forks to Mark where something is that I won’t see until the next season. Things like bulbs or a new to me perennial that goes dormant all the way to the ground. Just so I don’t go digging my stuff up. Done that before
Have been growing tomatoes for 25 years. Any and every time I've had blossom end rot, it's been quickly and effectively eliminated by working finely crushed egg shells right into the soil around the stems over the roots. I've never had it fail.
I’ve had excellent results avoiding blossom end rot by putting a tablespoon of epsom salt in the hole when I plant tomatoes.
Epsom salts are great for most plants in flower!
Thank you. I really like your videos because you get to the point quickly and clearly!
wow, you live right next to the street like that. it must be so cool to pass by and say "hey, there's epic gardening's garden. i've seen it on youtube. it looks so awesome".
8:48 I use compost tea to right the ship when a tomato plant gets blossom end rot. It's worked every time for me.
Yea if you have calcium in it, of course it will help with a lack of calcium.. lmao
@@gg-gn3re I compost lots of eggshells. So that has the calcium you're referring to.
Eggshells work really well on tomatoes anyway. I know some old-time gardeners that will plant the the whole egg and fish bones in their tomato beds.
Literally just put egg shells around my tomatoes. 😂 Great video! Subbed!!
This is the best method for no slugs/snails th-cam.com/video/oAA9nCqNfR4/w-d-xo.html
From what I saw on videos testing these methods, slugs CAN technically crawl over coffee grounds and eggshells, but prefer not to. With the latter the finely ground powder sticks to them and makes it hard for them to crawl.
So, it won't deter all snails and you couldn't trap any with it, but you can still use it to suggest they go another way.
Great tips, you have so much knowledge of plants! Thanks for the video.
Totally helpful!!! I hate pine needles. In eastern North Carolina, we have a lot of stands of old pine. We live next-door to an acre of old woods and have some huge trees in our yard. I’m constantly raking off loads and loads of Pine needles. Always thought it added acid. This was probably the most helpful tip I’ve ever gotten since so much of my time is spent clearing off!
Ick! I bake my eggshells to prevent rot & if you blender the eggshels in vinegar, oil & really hot peppers & cinnamon--let sit for about a day for the shell to soak in the other items--then sprinkle it around! Most garden pests do not like the burning sensation of the spices and the eggshell & oils help hold that stuff at the surface. (started writing before hearing your whole post).
I used egg shells last year in my garden as my dahlias were destroyed by snails, and this worked really well, so I personally have found that it works.
they were too full from egg shell to eat your plant lol
1:39 Pea gravel or poultry grit is a better slug repellent, I think.
And I agree about diatomaceous earth working well, too.
I’ve seen slugs crawling over a layer of poultry grit to get to the plants they like to eat. The most effective barrier is electricity.
I have found use of hydrated or pickling lime spread around a tomatoes and watered in stops blossom end rot in no time at all.
Do a TH-cam search for water glassing for eggs. The hydrated like preserves eggs for 8 to 12 months.
Thank you Epic Garden!! Love it! Great video
People may not know this but after you boil eggs the calcium from the shell will be in the water you can pour it on your plants once it cools off..
OMG I use the same eggs brand- one of the best tasting and colour!
Wow, you go guy! Thanks once again for great advice!🥰
Powdered milk is a great calcium source for tomatoes
irishdva dairy farming is an environmental nightmare though, not to mention the questionable ethics of using edible foodstuffs as a fertiliser.
I have been using oyster flakes....phenomenal results!
Very expensive fertilizer.
Calcium Nitrate is better for tomatoes :^)
What happens if you crush a multivitamin and put it in the dirt around the plant? You get bright yellow fruit lol no seriously would the plant use the vitamins?
We used to use pine needles on our rose gardens when we got hard freezes during the winters! Our bushes were always the first to bloom again after the frost too! My favorite misconception is that you have to prune rose bushes on Valentine’s Day 😂
With regard to the plastic forks in the multiple raised beds keeping our cat and multiple neighborhood cats out of our garden, I wonder if you are referring to my garden! Lol. Maybe I am just another person that uses that method, but that is quite the coincidence.
I would like to add a bit of info: for us, it does work to keep the cats out. The barrier around the outside did not work. I must place the forks close together so the cats can't get their little cat bottoms in between forks. I take the plastic forks out each season once the seedlings mature and reuse them the following season.
Thank you for sharing what you have learned. I appreciate the work you have put into teaching.
i saved all my coffee and tea grinds in a bucket for a long time in garbage also added crushed egg shells and minced banana peels with other minced garbage scraps. after i got like 5 gallon bucket filled i simply used it in garden bed or low spots (or rabbit burrows) in lawn ...
*Myth: I am mulching correctly, as long as keep El mulcho away from El trunko.* *_Truth: Flat is where it's at, just like mother nature mulches trees in her forests._* No donuts rings, no Charlie Brown pitchers mound.
Goal is to replace layer of suffocating grass with layer of beneficial mulch in order for more ideal atmospheric oxygen exchange between breathing feeder roots just below grade.
Too much suffocating mulch results in New emergency Roots growing above ground throughout mulch layer, becoming a wooden noose tightening around trees own trunk.
Now imagine all those unseen roots growing throughout all those above ground mounds you see below trees everyday of the week, especially young trees.
I've ACTUALLY fallen in love! A man who wants to talk about gardening!
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Hey Kevin,
It’s me again. Thanks for clearing up these misconceptions! Ive used eggshells thinking that they would keep the slugs away for the past few years. Thanks for telling us not to!
Ewan Kirkpatrick try chopped up cucumbers
From what I've seen on tests slugs can crawl over them but prefer not to, probably because a really fine powder makes it harder for them to crawl.