Thank you for the wonderful and helpful information. Hope you don't mind that I have typed up the information you shared in the video and am sharing below. I do this so that I can refer it back later. Hope this help other fellow gardeners too. Turn calcium carbonate to calcium acetate for bioavailability for plants. Bake eggshells in over at 250 degree for 2 hours. Using coffee grinder to turn crushed eggshells into very fine powder. To create calcium liquid fertilizer solution - The ratio of calcium powder vs vinegar is 1:10. In a large container, add 1 oz. eggshell powder then pour in 10 oz vinegar. Cover the top of container (to prevent fruit flies to get in) and allow it to breath while the chemical reaction will dissolve the calcium. It takes 7-10 days for the eggshell vinegar to complete. The final solution will look like milk (milky color.) Dilute 1 oz. calcium solution into one gallon of water for foliage spray and for direct ground watering for root system. For nightshade family plants (e.g., tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, etc.), do foliage spray every 2 weeks when the flowers have forms. And continue the foliage spray for the entire fruiting season. This will help grow healthy tomatoes and prevent blossom end rot. Also, can create the solution in 5 gallon bucket to drench the compost bin or the worm compost. It will help Note that the solution lasts for 2-3 months. Therefore, only make the amount for what you are going to use in the week. Must shake well before using.
short version, grind your very dry egg shells in a processor that will turn them into powder. Mix 1 - 10 ration with vinegar, egg shell powder being one. Let foam all over the place for 7 to 10 days. Bang! you have calcium acetate that is very uptake iv... to the plants. you're welcome.
Watch carefully. To make the chemical reaction solution it's 1 part eggshell dust to 10 parts vinegar (both "parts by weight"). Then it's 1oz of solution per gallon of water. [NB USA gallon (3.79 litres) not Imperial (4.54 litres)] At least that's as I heard it... 😊
Science shows that the whole carbonate to acetate conversion process takes about 48 hrs. Moreover, you may want to add some Epsom salts with your calcium to the plants. Mg in the salts is needed to invite the reactions within the plant tissue, and help the calcium get absorbed into the cell walls faster and more efficiently.
@@puravida809 if it works for you, great but I’ve never seen a good difference with Epsom salts and it can be harmful for the soil. Silicon has worked best for me for nutrient uptake.
For those more number oriented, the reaction formula is CaCO3 + 2(CH3CO2H) -> Ca(CH3CO2)2 + H2O + CO2. Egg shells are approximately 95% calcium carbonate, which is in the amorphous form meaning it would mineralize as calcite which has a density of 2.711 g/mL. Vinegar is mostly 5% and acetic acid (in liquid form) has a density of 1.049 g/mL. Calcium carbonate has molar mass of ~100.087 g/mol and acetic acid has a doubled molar mass of 120.104g/[2*mol] (60.052 g/mol), this produces a ratio of 1 part calcium carbonate to every 1.2 parts acetic acid by weight. Also you don't need to wait days for the reaction to occur, when mixed in proper ratios once the foaming and bubbles stop the reaction is done, you can strain through a coffee filter to remove any impurities from the egg shells, the liquid may appear clear at first but will become cloudy the more it accumulates. It should be noted that if you heat up the solution it will get cloudier and eventually cause the calcium acetate to precipitate, you can boil off the water and be left with a dry calcium acetate (be careful of the heat it can still burn some of the remaining impurities in the solution which will brown and that portion should be discarded). The reason the finished solution looks milky with some yellowing in the video is primarily the other minerals and impurities from the egg shells.
Thank you so much I am using it 1 tablespoons distilled vinegar to 1 tablespoons eggshell and use one gallon water to 1 teaspoon of solution and my tomatoes got sweet and lasted all season producing the sweetness of my tomatoes so spectacular but I never try spray it or use 1:10 solution wait 7 days I use it normally after 24hrs so thank so much for new information I know it worked for me in the past I am sure it will work even better.
Not trying to offend you but it's one part egg shell to 10 parts vinegar then mix that that mixture 1 oz to 1 gallon of water. Just didn't want someone to see ur misprint and do it that way or maybe I'm wrong and that's how u did it and it worked great. Let me if I'm out of line and wrong. Lol
Hello, im not sure if this will reach you but i hope it does. When you combine eggshells and vinager, you want to add an excess of eggshells vs the amount of vinager thats added, the reason is you want a complete reaction with the eggshells so that your end liquid is no longer acidic at all, it should actually be neutral because all the vinager has reacted with the calcium. If you add more egg shells to your solution and it bubbles, it means that the vinager is still acidic, which means you should add more eggshells. The end product should not burn your plant due to acidity at all. Thats not to say that it cant harm your plants if you use too much, it can, but it wont be because of burning due to acidity.
My grandmother used to put ground egg shells into her food. Little lady never suffered from osteoporosis. Guess it works for humans too. Yes, she dried them first and then ground them to a fine powder... 😆
Great video. I keep a big jar next to my sink so when I cut onions, I take the dried off part put it in the water and then I crash my eggshells and put it in the water. Throughout the winter as well I take my jar and treat the soil.
I began turning them into supplements after watching a video by Rain ... (Country?, sorry, can't remember). I think it's better to leave the film on as long as you're storing them very dry and using them within a year - hopefully the body completes the chemical process. If the eggshells have been boiled, you can dry them in a dehydrator, but if they haven't been sterilised, best to cook them in the oven as per this method. I've heard of people feeding them to their chickens, so why wouldn't that work for humans too. xx
I use the banana peel tea I make to help my plants absorb the vitamins from my eggshells... And I used Vitamin D milk to change the PH in my soil for white mold on my cucumber plants..
Thanks for that soil ph changing tip. Given that that cucumbers and squash react similarly, pie I wonder if a farm supply could offer vitamin D affordably ... I live on acres of black acidic muck!
I refrigerate it in mason jars. I copy and pasted Instructions I’ve kept for myself. It does work and is the most important compost tea that I make. Blooms are bigger and multiples on plantings that prior to tea now seemed malnourished. Ex. Zinnias, roses, sunflowers (wow) and of course vegetables. I can’t make enough of it. BP tea is essential and better effective than hundreds spent on amendments. *Dilute your fermented banana water with a 50/50 ratio of regular (not tap) water and then put it to use. Water the soil with it once a week. Bp’s are also a great source of nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium, manganese, sodium, sulfur, and a handful of other micronutrient? The organic matter in the banana peels will helps every flowering plant from roses to all edible plants to produce bigger, beautiful blooms and more nutrient rich produce. Unlike commercial fertilizer, fermented banana water isn’t loaded with excess nitrogen, so you aren’t going to overwhelm your plants. Best hack I’ve ever found Another tip bp’s can be used to raise PH by 1. I have alkaline soil 7-8, so when peppers and tomatoes go in, I ammend to get the ph up a bit although it doesn’t get me to acid. For lavender it will raise to neutral about 6.5. For the acid loving peels are chopped and added to hole to raise higher than neutral.
@@ZenGardenOasis.Oh please ! I’d love to know if we could do the same thing with banana peels as you do with eggshells; I’ve been saving eggshells (but not the way you did); and I do hydroponics too, so this is very helpful ! ; )
I have a suggestion. To ensure that you don't have an acidic solution when the process is finished, just make sure the limiting reactant is the vinegar, and the excess reactant is the eggshell. You can just add more egg shells than you need, that way all of the vinegar gets used up, and all you end up wasting is the extra eggshell you added. Extra eggshell is better than extra vinegar when it is completed. To ensure this is the case, just use some pH paper on the finished product and see if it is neutral or slightly alkaline. Thanks for the great video. I'm going to try this in my garden this season.
Your right about the shells taking years to compost, I use almond milk, 10 water to 1 milk mixture on my tomatoes once a month to stop blossom end rot......cheers and happy gardening everyone.
It's just what I drink, anything with calcium will work, plus almond milk does have other nutrients in it that milk doesn't, I like to think that helps also. I do also keep all my water from the veg I boil and I'm sure that adds a lot of nutrients back into the soil. That water goes into a pail under the sink with my banana peels thrown in for a super booster for the plants which I also mix in my watering jugs. My tomatoes are amazing every year I think.@@OceanFrontVilla3
Thank you for making a video that even though people say could be said in half the time, a thorough explanation is far more desired, than a quick "getter done" attitude to those of us that enjoy the journey, i enjoy the calm way this was shown and tid bits that added to the process of making this video, it gives people a thought process and helps people to slow down and actually understand, as it is, can't make everybody happy, but enjoying the journey is way better...
Tbh, I like a speedier presentation too but it’s easy enough to do without folk moaning at the presenter for being too slow or repetitive 🙂I just increase the playback speed to 1.25. Simple.
Great video, The vinegar will dissolve the egg shell even if you don’t grind them. The only thing that would be left as solid is the membrane. Remove the membranes and you have ths solution he showed. Breaking the shell into powder makes the reaction happen faster. If you don’t fully pulverize it, you might not have a foamy mess form. It just takes longer to dissolve.
@@aceacebedo5300 It does not take all that long, a couple of days or so…. I don’t have a time line mapped out for solid vs crushed. You can ttell when it is all dissolved.
@@aceacebedo5300I put six egg shells in a quart jar fell with vinegar and put paper towels over the top I do mine about three months before I set out my tomatoes
will add to make hydroponic nutrient. Haven't done the vinegar yet was surprised at 10 : 1 so I have heaps of ground egg shell. One thing beware the egg shell dust. It is so fine it can end up in your lungs.
I gosh. I’ve been using eggshells for YEARS and never knew this! A million thanks! Explains why I got blossom end rot for the first time last year. I stuck my tomatoes in a new bed. They’d probably been protected before, because I threw eggshells in every year so eventually some of them broke down each year.
I eat a lot of eggs, I have been using the egg shells in my gardens for many years! I put the egg shell/s in the oven when I am cooking a meal, I then grind them down, then add them onto the soil around my gardens. But I will try this method you have shown us! I have heard of vinegar being used in gardens - But I never took the chance - Now I will! Many thanks for your blog!
A few years back, maybe as long as 7 or 8 years ago, I put a lot of raw egg shells in my present day perennial garden. I saw no hint of them a year later. Lately, I've been having excellent success with most vegetables in that same place. I don't move the soil because I sowed asparagus seeds a few years ago but I do plant annuals such as tomatoes with the asparagus. Thanks a lot for the tip. Knowing it means I can repeat the success I've had in the big annual garden that I keep.
The blade attachment you used is the the blender attachment for smoothies. Use the grinder attachment. There are two flat blades both close to the bottom. The grinder attachment is made for grinding coffee and other things you want to grind. I've tried both attachments, and the grinder attachment works so much better.
Thank you. I've never gardened before, but I'm trying for the first time and found your videos on TH-cam and by far you're the most thorough so I'm going to try. Thanks again.
from calcium carbonate to calcium acetate (active calcium). dry eggshells well at 250deg Centigarde x 2hrs. Pulverize. Do 1:10 parts powdered egg shell to vinegar, wait for 7-10 days. To use as foliar or watering, do 1:1gal of calcium/vinegar solution to a gal of water. Use onc every 2 wks for foliar during fruiting season. Mixture stable 2-3months only.
I think I just watched the best gardening tip vid that I've ever seen before! Excellent instructions. Very clear, concise, and extremely informative. I'm definitely doing this in preparation for next year's garden 👍👍
@@ZenGardenOasis.Thanks again... having watched your so affordable "Crisco" heating device enhanced with ceramic pots, I wondered if I could skip the transfer of Crisco to other containers and just use the metal Crisco container with wick.
Greath DIY fertilizer but, you mention vinegar with 2 to 3 on the pH scale. It would be more practical to know the percentage you use. Household vinegar is never sold by pH scale but percentage, 5%, 7% and even 10% as cleaning vinegar. I have found that vinegar of 5% as around 2,4 on the pH scale. Also did you ever think of calculating the total ppm of calcium in your applied solution and the actual pH of it?
Thank you so much. I appreciate in depth education and your teaching style. I am 74. After 6 years of a university education, I learned up front that details matter. Especially, for important things, like investing your time in growing food for survival.
Try a hand held coffee grinder. I think that the 1st one you used was just a small food processor. You can shake a hand held coffee grinder as it grinds.
I agree. I have done this before. Old Alabama Gardener on TH-cam has this in a video. His video was Very helpful. OAG passed away. His Videos are still available for people to use! Wonderful Channel!
Yes, a coffee grinder is smaller than his small food processor... I use his process to make ground egg shells to buffer all the coffee I make in my coffee maker. Makes the coffee taste great. Very smooth! I add borax in, too, at about 1/32 of a tsp per 3 or four cups in coffee basket with the grinds. Coffee grinds, egg shells, and borax....☕
I bought a cheap manual coffee grinder just for eggshells. We use it when we're watching a show so it doesn't use electricity or take time in the kitchen. Actually, my kids use it more than I do, which is pretty cool!
This is great information. I have been throwing eggshells directly into my vegetable garden. I will now start grinding them. Thank you for this educational video.
So glad to see this video. Over the years I have seen so many TH-cam gardeners perpetuating the idea of throwing a whole egg or crushed shells into the planting hole; has been hilarious. I have been commenting to them your very info that it takes many years for the shells to break down to a form where the roots are able to absorb the calcium. There is some science to gardening but most folks watch a popular channel and they believe their idol instead of doing actual research. Same thing with just crushing shells and throwing them around your plants to deter slugs. Does not work. Aside from the salmonella factor, I have watched as slugs slowly traverse the egg shell field to feast on lettuce plants. Keep your videos coming!
I do things for my soil that have immediate AND long term results. You comment contradicts my techniques and results. There is more happening in this universe, than what you comprehend. Open eyes, ears and heart, remove the negative. You plant negative seeds in your daily life, you will harvest negative results.
Yes, slugs are definitely not put off by crushed eggshells, but although I've thrown a modest amount of shells into all the compost I make, I've never seen one come out whole even after a year or two. I make a lot of compost, but I don't use that indoors. I suspect potting compost is massively deficient in many minerals.
Than you Zen Garden Oasis for sharing this video, Our ancient fore- fathers tell our people to harvest fresh water shells in various seasons on rotation basis & not to over harvest as they seem to understand that it helps the algae's to grow & to feed the fish & also it allows the fish to lay its eggs & the fish multiplies in numbers. Thank you again & Greetings from Kambaramba villages, Sepik River, Papua New Guinea!
A note of caution: when working with fine grained and powdered substances ie, vermiculite, perlite, azomite, moss, greensand, or amendments such as calcium, sulphur and lime, it is to your advantage to wear a mask. As these substances will be airborne when transfering them to other containers etc, fine particles will be inhaled causing irritation of throat and bronchial tubes but when settled into the lowest part of the lung, the alveoli where oxygen exchange occurs, will result in shortness of breath due to stiffness in lungs caused by damage from fine particles in the alveolar sacs. Prevention is easier than reversing damage.
I’m glad that I listened and subscribed. Ive been grinding shells , but didn’t know about the vinegar chemistry. You bonsai people are patient and detailed. We could all take a lesson from you.
I whirl our egg shells in the blender then dry them in the AZ sun. When dry, I blend again. I use this powder in my compost pile and/or directly on my plants. They love it!
what do you mean dry the that you collect in fall? does this mean to dry tree leave that fall off in the fall - and do what with them? Or does this mean to dry the leaves off veg plants that fall during growing season? and do what with them?
Vinegar is a weak acid. It's salt (acetate) will lower pH. Calcium is basic so the total is neutral till your plants start eating the Ca. An acid soil is left. When you do it, do it with the strong acid nitric acid. Result will be Ca and nitrate! (Yep, the firtilising nitrate) But maybe better, add the eggshellpowder together with woodash. Woodash will release Ca as well. It takes longer to be freed but that means it works longer.
Thank you. I love your video on how to use egg shells. I was buying calcium for my tomatoes at the store which gets expensive. I was just throwing.my egg shells into the garden. I can't wait to try your method on my tomatoes.
This is great use of the shells. i mix in 1-2 oz of seaweed concentrate to spray on plants for even more healthy plants and the neem oil helps with sticking to plants and bugs too. when i have a lot of egg shells i make a big batch in 5 gallon bucket and just use it all over the garden and water the garden beds.
I wouldn't do that. Anyone who dehydrates knows to let the food/item cool before jarring and they will "condition" it for at least a week (place in a container big enough to be able to shake the dried item and move it around). If moisture forms or the item clumps, it needs to be dried more before final storage. TBH, I don't think it's a huge issue for eggshells to be used on plants, but I still wouldn't try to create a vacuum on dehydrated food in this way. xx
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Thanks for posting this video. I've been putting egg shell powder directly onto the soil in my raised beds for several years and have noticed that even as a fine powder, the shells take a long time to break down. This will speed up the process and I'll give it a try.
To make sure you haven’t left any large chunks of eggshells in put the powder through a flour sifter or sieve. Any pieces too large to pass you can throw back in the blender.
i do something similar.. i use wood ash, powdered baked bones, powdered baked egg shells, and worm castings in a vinegar solution. then when i water i just add a few caps from the jug. not enough info about this out there but honestly i think this stuff is just about the best fertilizer i've found.
When my kids were little and they'd have a small partial cup of leftover milk from breakfast, I'd pour that on my tomatoes and they acted like they got a calcium boost. But for my egg shells, I bake them, crush them, mix with red pepper flakes and seed and feed back to my chickens for extra calcium.
@@margaretmclane2928 I forgot to mention garlic flakes too. Between the addition of red pepper flakes and garlic is so that lice and mites are turned off by those chemicals/scents in the chickens and leave them alone. My brother raised Japanese Quail, and would feed them a slurry of Tobasco sauce, chili peppers, garlic, and cilantro, and when he took them to auction, everyone remarked how clean his birds were, free from lice and mites and they were so healthy and clean looking. So I follow that practice of giving my chickens red pepper and garlic flakes with crushed eggs shells.
Thank you for a very informative video. May I add a rider rider to this - it is about the birds. In the past (65 - 70 years ago) my dad used to breed canaries, and he would add finely crushed egg shells to add to the bird feed to help in their egg production. I recall him telling me that it was because the caged birds did not have the freedom to obtain all the nutrients needed for reproduction from the wild. I was fascinated to learn that wild birds were chemical processors in their egg laying. O have no idea how he measured the quantities, but your video brought back many happy Childhood hours finger training young birds. Happy days of so long ago! Thank you!
I have been intending to use egg shells this year for my tomatoes, and other fruiting veggies but was under the impression that just puting crushed egg shells around the base of the plant would do. Now I know better. Thank you for this information!
GREAT VIDEO!!!! This has my gears turning because not only do I compost EVERYTHING but I dehydrate and grind different things into powders that I mix into my soil and mix into a tea to feed my herbs and veggies. I have aloe powder, coffee grounds, onion peel powder, garlic peel powder and banana peel powder. So I'm wondering what if I were to mix them together and do the same 1:10 ratio of powder and vinegar? Do you think that would change the chemical process of breaking down the calcium? Should I do a 1:10 ratio of each powder individually then mix all the solutions after they're done? Or keep them separate until I mix them with water? What do you think?
Wow! This is great! Not only are you recycling "garbage" and putting it to good use but it is also great for the environment. It occurred to me that this would also make a good and simple science project for school. Kudos
😇one of the best about how to get calcium going for your soil and plants i have come acros. of course, as with everything, there is a limit- observe balance...blessings to all
Great informational video. I have been grinding up my egg shells for years. I Air dry them on a cake cooling rack that can also double as an air drier. I also use a food processor with the metal blade to grind egg shells into a fine powder and I store the powder in a plastic container. My friend told me about doing the vinegar/egg shell solution but it is her husband who does it and she did not know the ratio or recipie or dilution for spraying and drenching the soil. Thank you for this information as I have grown lots of tomatoes and peppers and have had occasional end rot. Now, if you could give me a viable solution to tomato horn worm! Yuck! Never had this problem in the city, but now in rural MO, I keep a weather eye cause they completely destroy a tomato plant in a couple of days! Thanks again!
Look into alyssum plants at the base of your tomatoes. Apparently they attract a type of wasp that kills the horn worm. Epic gardening might be where I learned this? I thankfully don’t have that issue so I can’t quite remember the details. 😊
I grow basil plants around my tomatoes and let them grow as tall as they want - I now get 1 or 2 hornworms a year - total! I also interplant flowers into the beds which confuse the pests. If you have too many plants and little time you can always buy Bt (often sold in big box stores as Thuricide). You mix it with water and spray it onto leaves (avoid spraying flowers) - all types of caterpillars eat it and die. It's organic and won't hurt other creatures but just in case avoid flowers or spray late in the day when pollinators are not active.
For those who do not have an oven or are worried their plastic blender goblet would be scratched ,a way around this would be to pound the dried egg shells in a mortar and then sieve it before blending it in the dry blender grinder. I did this and I had very very fine powdered egg shells If you dont have an oven you can sun dry the washed egg shells.
I have been saving my egg shells for years. But never rinsed them. They are hand crushed now. Almost a gallon Ziploc bag of them. I'm assuming I might have more of a bacteria issue by not cleaning them first? Will be cleaning them from now on. But will try this with what I already have.
I do mine exactly like you. I throw them in the garden beds throughout the year, and work them into the soil in the spring. Been doing this for years. No blossom end rot ever.
Ty for sharing! U have confirmed exactly what I do. I use it in my compost and in my chicken feed and my chicken eggs shells are stronger. I also use my ninja grinder. Ty for your time and info! But I never knew about adding the second process.
Thank you. Very nice video production. In the southwest desert region (where I live) the soils are high in calcium-not enough rain to leach out primary and micronutrients. Midwest and east of the Mississippi, the high rainfall country, soil pH lower and your method is very helpful. Compost is the best soil ammendment, thank you again.
❤ Thank you for the educational information on this. I've wanted to try this for a long time, but was too scared that i would kill my plant's! Now i have a lot more confidence to try this, especially with the way you explained everything. Thank you ❤❤❤ Vancouver Island, BC
So very interesting and informative you are a blessing my brother. My wife lives in Thailand right now. Try to get her here soon. She a problem with fruit worms in her tomatoes. I think that's what it is. I never saw worms in tomatoes. I looked on the internet that what it said it is. God Bless!
It could be from a flying insect that laid eggs on the skin of the tomato. I have a few videos about insect control. I know Thailand has massive insect issues. My wife is from Asia as well. Thailand is a fascinating place to me. My true love is Japan.
Very interesting video. Well done, so I subscribed. Question: I have a deck garden of tomatoes every year on the south side of my house. This year, I had a massive crop, huge plants, and I used some tomato fertilizer and bone meal when planting, which worked amazingly well. I had some blossom end rot on a couple of the plants. My sister, who is a knowledgeable gardener, had me buy some powdered Calcium Carbonate for next year. Can I use this to make the mix with the vinegar to turn it into Calcium Acetate? In the meantime, I will start saving my eggshells and try your method. I plan to wash the eggshells as I go, and save them to do a batch.
Thank you so much for this fabulous video! I really appreciate your knowledge and the fact that you share it with us! I used eggs the wrong way and just tossed a ton of crushed shells in my compost pile. Well, I will look forward to using it properly! Again my thanks to you for sharing! May God Bless You!
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Here in South Louisiana We are having a problem with snails eating on my Boc Choy leaves. I had a pint jar of toasted and crushed egg shells from my little hens that I had ground a bit in my old Nutra Bullet cup. I have used the egg shells around my strawberry plants also. I will try the next batch with the vinegar for my peppers and tomatoes. I will watch the video again and take notes. I do wish the notes were on a download sheet. Thank you. Subscribed and liked.
I really appreciate your teaching on how to make the calcium more bioavailable to my plants. I knew I needed to change how I was adding calcium, so when I came across your video it really helps. I will be trying this this year and see how it works out!
Thank you for explaining your methodology of calcium acetate. While i have learned a similar process, i enjoyed your video. Also, for the person who was confused about pH, 1. he did mention the percentage, and 2. the fact that he said white , rice, and ACV speaks for itself. Guys dont make things more complicated, and please dont rob others who dont have information such as this. Thanks. Happy gardening
Thank you for this! You do not talk too much! I haven't used my blender to grind my shells but I do find my coffee grinder does grind it fine. Now I'm going to try my ninja!
thank you.. we used to rinse, store in a open container as they drip dry two or four at a time daily (punch to reduce size), then when full, bag and stomp them, hammer to a powder...no 2 hr bake.. we add old stored pee. Tomatoes love this.. Can't wait to try your science
And thank you for sharing your knowledge who is just getting into gardening this is my first year gardening but if it wasnt for people like yourself l couldnt go on every help counts
A very enlightening tutorial, thanks for the advice, I will try it and send you feedback. Keep up the great work. There are coffee grinders that can grind to a talcum powder consistency, this may help.
I shimmy my Ninja around to get the stuff at the bottom to move. Works like a charm. Im so to see this. I always notice the egg shells never really break down in my compost.
I always ground them up in my little blender and added the powder to the planting hole when I planted my tomato plants with coffee grounds. Never had blossom rot on my tomatoes with this method.
@@ameliagfawkes512 actually if you look it up online used coffee grounds are not acidic they actually become pH neutral between 6.5 - 6.8. Also as a bonus, the eggshells and coffee grounds, kill slugs.
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Thank you for the wonderful and helpful information. Hope you don't mind that I have typed up the information you shared in the video and am sharing below. I do this so that I can refer it back later. Hope this help other fellow gardeners too.
Turn calcium carbonate to calcium acetate for bioavailability for plants.
Bake eggshells in over at 250 degree for 2 hours.
Using coffee grinder to turn crushed eggshells into very fine powder.
To create calcium liquid fertilizer solution - The ratio of calcium powder vs vinegar is 1:10.
In a large container, add 1 oz. eggshell powder then pour in 10 oz vinegar. Cover the top of container (to prevent fruit flies to get in) and allow it to breath while the chemical reaction will dissolve the calcium. It takes 7-10 days for the eggshell vinegar to complete. The final solution will look like milk (milky color.)
Dilute 1 oz. calcium solution into one gallon of water for foliage spray and for direct ground watering for root system.
For nightshade family plants (e.g., tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, etc.), do foliage spray every 2 weeks when the flowers have forms. And continue the foliage spray for the entire fruiting season. This will help grow healthy tomatoes and prevent blossom end rot.
Also, can create the solution in 5 gallon bucket to drench the compost bin or the worm compost. It will help
Note that the solution lasts for 2-3 months. Therefore, only make the amount for what you are going to use in the week. Must shake well before using.
I also use deluded milk peroxide and Epsom salt
Thank you!
@@earlfultz8603will this make the calcium from the milk more bioavailable too?
What is milk peroxide?
Thank you
short version, grind your very dry egg shells in a processor that will turn them into powder. Mix 1 - 10 ration with vinegar, egg shell powder being one. Let foam all over the place for 7 to 10 days. Bang! you have calcium acetate that is very uptake iv... to the plants.
you're welcome.
Thank you this video is so long winded I couldn't watch it
So you don’t need to further dilute the solution to use it on your plants??
Watch carefully. To make the chemical reaction solution it's 1 part eggshell dust to 10 parts vinegar (both "parts by weight").
Then it's 1oz of solution per gallon of water. [NB USA gallon (3.79 litres) not Imperial (4.54 litres)]
At least that's as I heard it... 😊
@@bertkutoob 30 ml of the carbonate solution for 4 liters of water. Don't overdo it, you could kill your plants.
You give l the best desctiption ever. I live in Palm Springs California.Gardening is not easy here. Thank you very much.
Science shows that the whole carbonate to acetate conversion process takes about 48 hrs. Moreover, you may want to add some Epsom salts with your calcium to the plants. Mg in the salts is needed to invite the reactions within the plant tissue, and help the calcium get absorbed into the cell walls faster and more efficiently.
Silicon would be better than epsom salts
@@dadgadify how?
@@puravida809 if it works for you, great but I’ve never seen a good difference with Epsom salts and it can be harmful for the soil. Silicon has worked best for me for nutrient uptake.
I was wondering if I could do that. Cal mag is $45/gal.
@@skipgrumblis it's a $100 where I am
For those more number oriented, the reaction formula is CaCO3 + 2(CH3CO2H) -> Ca(CH3CO2)2 + H2O + CO2. Egg shells are approximately 95% calcium carbonate, which is in the amorphous form meaning it would mineralize as calcite which has a density of 2.711 g/mL. Vinegar is mostly 5% and acetic acid (in liquid form) has a density of 1.049 g/mL. Calcium carbonate has molar mass of ~100.087 g/mol and acetic acid has a doubled molar mass of 120.104g/[2*mol] (60.052 g/mol), this produces a ratio of 1 part calcium carbonate to every 1.2 parts acetic acid by weight. Also you don't need to wait days for the reaction to occur, when mixed in proper ratios once the foaming and bubbles stop the reaction is done, you can strain through a coffee filter to remove any impurities from the egg shells, the liquid may appear clear at first but will become cloudy the more it accumulates. It should be noted that if you heat up the solution it will get cloudier and eventually cause the calcium acetate to precipitate, you can boil off the water and be left with a dry calcium acetate (be careful of the heat it can still burn some of the remaining impurities in the solution which will brown and that portion should be discarded). The reason the finished solution looks milky with some yellowing in the video is primarily the other minerals and impurities from the egg shells.
Thank you so much I am using it 1 tablespoons distilled vinegar to 1 tablespoons eggshell and use one gallon water to 1 teaspoon of solution and my tomatoes got sweet and lasted all season producing the sweetness of my tomatoes so spectacular but I never try spray it or use 1:10 solution wait 7 days I use it normally after 24hrs so thank so much for new information I know it worked for me in the past I am sure it will work even better.
Not trying to offend you but it's one part egg shell to 10 parts vinegar then mix that that mixture 1 oz to 1 gallon of water. Just didn't want someone to see ur misprint and do it that way or maybe I'm wrong and that's how u did it and it worked great. Let me if I'm out of line and wrong. Lol
@@traceykays433 egg shells and vinegar. One is a solid, the other liquid. So it's one part what? By volume?, by weight?
@@traceykays433 I wonder if you soak the powdered shells?
@@trebledogounce is weight, is it. I think you can eyeball it, since you dilute it with lots of water later.
@@trebledog It would be easier to do by weight. I weigh 10 g of shell powder and then 100g of vinegar.
Hello, im not sure if this will reach you but i hope it does.
When you combine eggshells and vinager, you want to add an excess of eggshells vs the amount of vinager thats added, the reason is you want a complete reaction with the eggshells so that your end liquid is no longer acidic at all, it should actually be neutral because all the vinager has reacted with the calcium. If you add more egg shells to your solution and it bubbles, it means that the vinager is still acidic, which means you should add more eggshells. The end product should not burn your plant due to acidity at all. Thats not to say that it cant harm your plants if you use too much, it can, but it wont be because of burning due to acidity.
My grandmother used to put ground egg shells into her food. Little lady never suffered from osteoporosis. Guess it works for humans too. Yes, she dried them first and then ground them to a fine powder... 😆
Good idea
Great video. I keep a big jar next to my sink so when I cut onions, I take the dried off part put it in the water and then I crash my eggshells and put it in the water. Throughout the winter as well I take my jar and treat the soil.
I do this and add it to my dogs dinner.
@@ms.rickiewhat do the onions do?
I began turning them into supplements after watching a video by Rain ... (Country?, sorry, can't remember). I think it's better to leave the film on as long as you're storing them very dry and using them within a year - hopefully the body completes the chemical process. If the eggshells have been boiled, you can dry them in a dehydrator, but if they haven't been sterilised, best to cook them in the oven as per this method. I've heard of people feeding them to their chickens, so why wouldn't that work for humans too. xx
I use the banana peel tea I make to help my plants absorb the vitamins from my eggshells... And I used Vitamin D milk to change the PH in my soil for white mold on my cucumber plants..
As soon as I read that I started research on it….perhaps I’ll make a video about it….thanks. Cheers
Thanks for that soil ph changing tip. Given that that cucumbers and squash react similarly, pie I wonder if a farm supply could offer vitamin D affordably ...
I live on acres of black acidic muck!
I love banana as a fertilizer, but tea? How do you keep the bananas from getting bugs? Wintering in Zone 4..
I refrigerate it in mason jars. I copy and pasted Instructions I’ve kept for myself. It does work and is the most important compost tea that I make. Blooms are bigger and multiples on plantings that prior to tea now seemed malnourished. Ex. Zinnias, roses, sunflowers (wow) and of course vegetables. I can’t make enough of it. BP tea is essential and better effective than hundreds spent on amendments.
*Dilute your fermented banana water with a 50/50 ratio of regular (not tap) water and then put it to use. Water the soil with it once a week.
Bp’s are also a great source of nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium, manganese, sodium, sulfur, and a handful of other micronutrient? The organic matter in the banana peels will helps every flowering plant from roses to all edible plants to produce bigger, beautiful blooms and more nutrient rich produce. Unlike commercial fertilizer, fermented banana water isn’t loaded with excess nitrogen, so you aren’t going to overwhelm your plants.
Best hack I’ve ever found
Another tip bp’s can be used to raise PH by 1. I have alkaline soil 7-8, so when peppers and tomatoes go in, I ammend to get the ph up a bit although it doesn’t get me to acid. For lavender it will raise to neutral about 6.5. For the acid loving peels are chopped and added to hole to raise higher than neutral.
@@ZenGardenOasis.Oh please ! I’d love to know if we could do the same thing with banana peels as you do with eggshells; I’ve been saving eggshells (but not the way you did); and I do hydroponics too, so this is very helpful ! ; )
I did mine in a coffee grinder and it worked great.
I have a suggestion. To ensure that you don't have an acidic solution when the process is finished, just make sure the limiting reactant is the vinegar, and the excess reactant is the eggshell. You can just add more egg shells than you need, that way all of the vinegar gets used up, and all you end up wasting is the extra eggshell you added. Extra eggshell is better than extra vinegar when it is completed. To ensure this is the case, just use some pH paper on the finished product and see if it is neutral or slightly alkaline. Thanks for the great video. I'm going to try this in my garden this season.
Thanks for your tip. Cheers
What about adding a touch of baking soda?
@@kleineroteHex same thought here 🤔
Where to get litmus strips?
@@violaspencer5628 the place where you can get just about anything LOL amazon - or ebay.
Your right about the shells taking years to compost, I use almond milk, 10 water to 1 milk mixture on my tomatoes once a month to stop blossom end rot......cheers and happy gardening everyone.
Why almond milk?
It's just what I drink, anything with calcium will work, plus almond milk does have other nutrients in it that milk doesn't, I like to think that helps also. I do also keep all my water from the veg I boil and I'm sure that adds a lot of nutrients back into the soil. That water goes into a pail under the sink with my banana peels thrown in for a super booster for the plants which I also mix in my watering jugs. My tomatoes are amazing every year I think.@@OceanFrontVilla3
How much almond milk please
@@lynnechilton5794he just gave you the ratio lol. 1 cup milk 10 cups of water. Simple.
On the soil or on the leafs?
Thank you for making a video that even though people say could be said in half the time, a thorough explanation is far more desired, than a quick "getter done" attitude to those of us that enjoy the journey, i enjoy the calm way this was shown and tid bits that added to the process of making this video, it gives people a thought process and helps people to slow down and actually understand, as it is, can't make everybody happy, but enjoying the journey is way better...
Thanks Virginia your too kind. Be blessed.
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Tbh, I like a speedier presentation too but it’s easy enough to do without folk moaning at the presenter for being too slow or repetitive 🙂I just increase the playback speed to 1.25. Simple.
Great video, The vinegar will dissolve the egg shell even if you don’t grind them. The only thing that would be left as solid is the membrane. Remove the membranes and you have ths solution he showed. Breaking the shell into powder makes the reaction happen faster. If you don’t fully pulverize it, you might not have a foamy mess form. It just takes longer to dissolve.
This is good to know thank you for sharing! If i may ask, how longer would it take if they were just “hand-crushed”?
@@aceacebedo5300 It does not take all that long, a couple of days or so…. I don’t have a time line mapped out for solid vs crushed. You can ttell when it is all dissolved.
@@sheila7814 thanks Sheila!
That is exactly how I make mine I start it about three months before I put out my tomatoes. Works great
@@aceacebedo5300I put six egg shells in a quart jar fell with vinegar and put paper towels over the top I do mine about three months before I set out my tomatoes
will add to make hydroponic nutrient. Haven't done the vinegar yet was surprised at 10 : 1 so I have heaps of ground egg shell. One thing beware the egg shell dust. It is so fine it can end up in your lungs.
I gosh. I’ve been using eggshells for YEARS and never knew this! A million thanks! Explains why I got blossom end rot for the first time last year. I stuck my tomatoes in a new bed. They’d probably been protected before, because I threw eggshells in every year so eventually some of them broke down each year.
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I eat a lot of eggs, I have been using the egg shells in my gardens for many years! I put the egg shell/s in the oven when I am cooking a meal, I then grind them down, then add them onto the soil around my gardens. But I will try this method you have shown us! I have heard of vinegar being used in gardens - But I never took the chance - Now I will! Many thanks for your blog!
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If you store washed eggshell in open storage so they dry completely over weeks do you have to dry in oven?
A few years back, maybe as long as 7 or 8 years ago, I put a lot of raw egg shells in my present day perennial garden. I saw no hint of them a year later. Lately, I've been having excellent success with most vegetables in that same place. I don't move the soil because I sowed asparagus seeds a few years ago but I do plant annuals such as tomatoes with the asparagus. Thanks a lot for the tip. Knowing it means I can repeat the success I've had in the big annual garden that I keep.
Your welcome…thanks for watching.
The blade attachment you used is the the blender attachment for smoothies. Use the grinder attachment. There are two flat blades both close to the bottom. The grinder attachment is made for grinding coffee and other things you want to grind. I've tried both attachments, and the grinder attachment works so much better.
Thanks very much for your advice. Much appreciated 🙏
Thank you. I've never gardened before, but I'm trying for the first time and found your videos on TH-cam and by far you're the most thorough so I'm going to try. Thanks again.
Thanks for your kind words…..have a great day.
from calcium carbonate to calcium acetate (active calcium). dry eggshells well at 250deg Centigarde x 2hrs. Pulverize. Do 1:10 parts powdered egg shell to vinegar, wait for 7-10 days. To use as foliar or watering, do 1:1gal of calcium/vinegar solution to a gal of water. Use onc every 2 wks for foliar during fruiting season. Mixture stable 2-3months only.
250 Fahrenheit.
=121 celcius...
Also - it's 1 ounce egg/vinegar solution to 1 gallon water for spray and drench - not 1:1 dilution!
I think I just watched the best gardening tip vid that I've ever seen before! Excellent instructions. Very clear, concise, and extremely informative. I'm definitely doing this in preparation for next year's garden
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Thanks for your kind words. A rarity in the world today.
@@ZenGardenOasis.Thanks again... having watched your so affordable "Crisco" heating device enhanced with ceramic pots, I wondered if I could skip the transfer of Crisco to other containers and just use the metal Crisco container with wick.
I had heard/read about it before but this is the first time it was actually explained more specifically how to actually do it.
Greath DIY fertilizer but, you mention vinegar with 2 to 3 on the pH scale. It would be more practical to know the percentage you use. Household vinegar is never sold by pH scale but percentage, 5%, 7% and even 10% as cleaning vinegar. I have found that vinegar of 5% as around 2,4 on the pH scale. Also did you ever think of calculating the total ppm of calcium in your applied solution and the actual pH of it?
Thank you so much. I appreciate in depth education and your teaching style. I am 74. After 6 years of a university education, I learned up front that details matter. Especially, for important things, like investing your time in growing food for survival.
You are so welcome! Happy gardening
FYI: That’s not a coffee grinder. You may use it to grind coffee. It’s actually a small food processor
Haha! Thank you for saying it. My OCD was kicking in to make the correction!
@@tressakindred2402 👍I drink aaaalot of coffee.
Well aren't you so smart
@@dietarychef2212 just dont tell anyone
Try a hand held coffee grinder. I think that the 1st one you used was just a small food processor. You can shake a hand held coffee grinder as it grinds.
I agree. I have done this before. Old Alabama Gardener on TH-cam has this in a video. His video was Very helpful. OAG passed away. His Videos are still available for people to use! Wonderful Channel!
Yes, a coffee grinder is smaller than his small food processor... I use his process to make ground egg shells to buffer all the coffee I make in my coffee maker. Makes the coffee taste great. Very smooth! I add borax in, too, at about 1/32 of a tsp per 3 or four cups in coffee basket with the grinds. Coffee grinds, egg shells, and borax....☕
Yes. I use a small coffee grinder. I’ll shake it while it’s grinding. The egg shells turn to powder quickly. It only takes about 15 seconds.
I bought a cheap manual coffee grinder just for eggshells. We use it when we're watching a show so it doesn't use electricity or take time in the kitchen. Actually, my kids use it more than I do, which is pretty cool!
I shake my small food grinder
This is great information. I have been throwing eggshells directly into my vegetable garden. I will now start grinding them. Thank you for this educational video.
I also throw them into my compost.did not dry them previously.
So glad to see this video. Over the years I have seen so many TH-cam gardeners perpetuating the idea of throwing a whole egg or crushed shells into the planting hole; has been hilarious. I have been commenting to them your very info that it takes many years for the shells to break down to a form where the roots are able to absorb the calcium. There is some science to gardening but most folks watch a popular channel and they believe their idol instead of doing actual research. Same thing with just crushing shells and throwing them around your plants to deter slugs. Does not work. Aside from the salmonella factor, I have watched as slugs slowly traverse the egg shell field to feast on lettuce plants. Keep your videos coming!
Thank you sherry for your kind words. I have a cat just like the one in your avatar. She’s featured in the garden tour video. 👍
I do things for my soil that have immediate AND long term results.
You comment contradicts my techniques and results.
There is more happening in this universe, than what you comprehend.
Open eyes, ears and heart, remove the negative. You plant negative seeds in your daily life, you will harvest negative results.
Yes, slugs are definitely not put off by crushed eggshells, but although I've thrown a modest amount of shells into all the compost I make, I've never seen one come out whole even after a year or two. I make a lot of compost, but I don't use that indoors. I suspect potting compost is massively deficient in many minerals.
@@ameliagfawkes512 Compost is quite acidic and it would eventually dissolve the egg shells.
Than you Zen Garden Oasis for sharing this video,
Our ancient fore- fathers tell our people to harvest fresh water shells in various seasons on rotation basis & not to over harvest as they seem to understand that it helps the algae's to grow & to feed the fish & also it allows the fish to lay its eggs & the fish multiplies in numbers.
Thank you again & Greetings from Kambaramba villages, Sepik River, Papua New Guinea!
Tank yu true. Mi sori long Nui Guini.
A note of caution: when working with fine grained and powdered substances ie, vermiculite, perlite, azomite, moss, greensand, or amendments such as calcium, sulphur and lime, it is to your advantage to wear a mask. As these substances will be airborne when transfering them to other containers etc, fine particles will be inhaled causing irritation of throat and bronchial tubes but when settled into the lowest part of the lung, the alveoli where oxygen exchange occurs, will result in shortness of breath due to stiffness in lungs caused by damage from fine particles in the alveolar sacs. Prevention is easier than reversing damage.
I’ve been saving all my egg shells and now I know how to use them! Thank you!
They add up quickly. Cheers
I’m glad that I listened and subscribed. Ive been grinding shells , but didn’t know about the vinegar chemistry. You bonsai people are patient and detailed. We could all take a lesson from you.
Happy gardening
Winter research gives way to successful Summer gardening. Keep growing!!
OK. Yours was beautiful!
Thanx to everyone that’s contributed in sharing info. May You all be blessed.
I whirl our egg shells in the blender then dry them in the AZ sun. When dry, I blend again. I use this powder in my compost pile and/or directly on my plants. They love it!
My chickens convert eggshells into a very usable form of fertilizer! It must be diluted also! Seriously though, thankyou for this useful video.🥚👍
Oh dude that must be an absolutely insane fertilizer! Everyone says chicken poo is the best all around fertilizer already.
I love kitchen scraps, and dry leaves that you collect in falls, ….it makes the best fertilizer.🥰❤
So true!
what do you mean dry the that you collect in fall? does this mean to dry tree leave that fall off in the fall - and do what with them? Or does this mean to dry the leaves off veg plants that fall during growing season? and do what with them?
Vinegar is a weak acid. It's salt (acetate) will lower pH. Calcium is basic so the total is neutral till your plants start eating the Ca. An acid soil is left. When you do it, do it with the strong acid nitric acid. Result will be Ca and nitrate! (Yep, the firtilising nitrate) But maybe better, add the eggshellpowder together with woodash. Woodash will release Ca as well. It takes longer to be freed but that means it works longer.
I ground my clean, dry eggshells into a powder. I add them to my orchid’s as well.
Thank you. I love your video on how to use egg shells. I was buying calcium for my tomatoes at the store which gets expensive. I was just throwing.my egg shells into the garden. I can't wait to try your method on my tomatoes.
This is very helpful information about eggshells 🤩 Thanks for sharing!
This is great use of the shells. i mix in 1-2 oz of seaweed concentrate to spray on plants for even more healthy plants and the neem oil helps with sticking to plants and bugs too. when i have a lot of egg shells i make a big batch in 5 gallon bucket and just use it all over the garden and water the garden beds.
Great tips happy gardening
When heating egg shells, add a small másin jar and lid in oven. After grunding empty into hot madon jar place lid it will seal.
I wouldn't do that. Anyone who dehydrates knows to let the food/item cool before jarring and they will "condition" it for at least a week (place in a container big enough to be able to shake the dried item and move it around). If moisture forms or the item clumps, it needs to be dried more before final storage. TBH, I don't think it's a huge issue for eggshells to be used on plants, but I still wouldn't try to create a vacuum on dehydrated food in this way. xx
You have used this method for many many years with my eggshells and by shared it with other people and it seems to work just fine
Been growing tomatoes indoors this winter. Flowering season is constant. I ALWAYS have tomatoes! 😁
Sounds great!
Mortar and pestle might be more work, but you should be able to get a good powder from it.
Your bonsai trees are beautiful.
Thanks very much. 😁
Thanks for the recipe. I have been putting egg shells directly in the ground. That will change now.
Smartest investment ever! Suggest the reflective mylar, if not available I have used emergency survival blanket (it does tear), forget the handles and hinges require drilling in glass (easier to glue grooved/trough rubber hinges and pull handle). My Milwaukee-Burns has a rubber tab-like pull handle. Happy for your Solar Oven project!
You forgot to mention that you should use rain water or 24 hours decholinated water, you were great and straight to the point.
Excellent point thank you. Be blessed
Thank you, I will surely give this a try. God bless you and your family.
Your too kind ….thank you
Thanks for posting this video.
I've been putting egg shell powder directly onto the soil in my raised beds for several years and have noticed that even as a fine powder, the shells take a long time to break down.
This will speed up the process and I'll give it a try.
To make sure you haven’t left any large chunks of eggshells in put the powder through a flour sifter or sieve. Any pieces too large to pass you can throw back in the blender.
i do something similar.. i use wood ash, powdered baked bones, powdered baked egg shells, and worm castings in a vinegar solution. then when i water i just add a few caps from the jug. not enough info about this out there but honestly i think this stuff is just about the best fertilizer i've found.
When my kids were little and they'd have a small partial cup of leftover milk from breakfast, I'd pour that on my tomatoes and they acted like they got a calcium boost.
But for my egg shells, I bake them, crush them, mix with red pepper flakes and seed and feed back to my chickens for extra calcium.
I feed them to my chickens too!
Why the red pepper flakes?
@@margaretmclane2928 I forgot to mention garlic flakes too. Between the addition of red pepper flakes and garlic is so that lice and mites are turned off by those chemicals/scents in the chickens and leave them alone. My brother raised Japanese Quail, and would feed them a slurry of Tobasco sauce, chili peppers, garlic, and cilantro, and when he took them to auction, everyone remarked how clean his birds were, free from lice and mites and they were so healthy and clean looking. So I follow that practice of giving my chickens red pepper and garlic flakes with crushed eggs shells.
What an informative and clear video! Thank you so much for sharing.
Glad it was helpful!
I really enjoyed your presentation. Just subscribed and look forward to more wisdom
Awesome, thank you!
Thank you for a very informative video. May I add a rider rider to this - it is about the birds. In the past (65 - 70 years ago) my dad used to breed canaries, and he would add finely crushed egg shells to add to the bird feed to help in their egg production. I recall him telling me that it was because the caged birds did not have the freedom to obtain all the nutrients needed for reproduction from the wild. I was fascinated to learn that wild birds were chemical processors in their egg laying. O have no idea how he measured the quantities, but your video brought back many happy Childhood hours finger training young birds. Happy days of so long ago! Thank you!
Great story…cheers
Thanks for the info. I have taken plenty of notes and will be making my powder in the next couple of days and acetate in three or four months time.
I have been intending to use egg shells this year for my tomatoes, and other fruiting veggies but was under the impression that just puting crushed egg shells around the base of the plant would do. Now I know better. Thank you for this information!
Crushed eggshells are great around plants to deter slugs and snails.
GREAT VIDEO!!!! This has my gears turning because not only do I compost EVERYTHING but I dehydrate and grind different things into powders that I mix into my soil and mix into a tea to feed my herbs and veggies. I have aloe powder, coffee grounds, onion peel powder, garlic peel powder and banana peel powder. So I'm wondering what if I were to mix them together and do the same 1:10 ratio of powder and vinegar? Do you think that would change the chemical process of breaking down the calcium? Should I do a 1:10 ratio of each powder individually then mix all the solutions after they're done? Or keep them separate until I mix them with water? What do you think?
Wow! This is great! Not only are you recycling "garbage" and putting it to good use but it is also great for the environment. It occurred to me that this would also make a good and simple science project for school. Kudos
😇one of the best about how to get calcium going for your soil and plants i have come acros. of course, as with everything, there is a limit- observe balance...blessings to all
Thank you Paul. Same to you.
Beginner Gardner here. Thank you so much for this very informative video. I can’t wait to try this.
Great informational video. I have been grinding up my egg shells for years. I Air dry them on a cake cooling rack that can also double as an air drier. I also use a food processor with the metal blade to grind egg shells into a fine powder and I store the powder in a plastic container. My friend told me about doing the vinegar/egg shell solution but it is her husband who does it and she did not know the ratio or recipie or dilution for spraying and drenching the soil. Thank you for this information as I have grown lots of tomatoes and peppers and have had occasional end rot. Now, if you could give me a viable solution to tomato horn worm! Yuck! Never had this problem in the city, but now in rural MO, I keep a weather eye cause they completely destroy a tomato plant in a couple of days! Thanks again!
Look into alyssum plants at the base of your tomatoes. Apparently they attract a type of wasp that kills the horn worm. Epic gardening might be where I learned this? I thankfully don’t have that issue so I can’t quite remember the details. 😊
I grow basil plants around my tomatoes and let them grow as tall as they want - I now get 1 or 2 hornworms a year - total! I also interplant flowers into the beds which confuse the pests. If you have too many plants and little time you can always buy Bt (often sold in big box stores as Thuricide). You mix it with water and spray it onto leaves (avoid spraying flowers) - all types of caterpillars eat it and die. It's organic and won't hurt other creatures but just in case avoid flowers or spray late in the day when pollinators are not active.
For those who do not have an oven or are worried their plastic blender goblet would be scratched ,a way around this would be to pound the dried egg shells in a mortar and then sieve it before blending it in the dry blender grinder.
I did this and I had very very fine powdered egg shells
If you dont have an oven you can sun dry the washed egg shells.
I have been saving my egg shells for years. But never rinsed them. They are hand crushed now. Almost a gallon Ziploc bag of them. I'm assuming I might have more of a bacteria issue by not cleaning them first? Will be cleaning them from now on. But will try this with what I already have.
I've never ever rinsed egg shells. I leave them on trays in the sun. When dry I crush them in a calico bag. Zero electricity wasted.
I do mine exactly like you. I throw them in the garden beds throughout the year, and work them into the soil in the spring. Been doing this for years. No blossom end rot ever.
I'm so glad that I found your page
Thankyou i wil like add it in my veggie garden ..❤🎉
Thanks!
Your very welcome Dwight. Happy gardening.
Very nice. I think it is really helpful.
Ty for sharing! U have confirmed exactly what I do. I use it in my compost and in my chicken feed and my chicken eggs shells are stronger. I also use my ninja grinder. Ty for your time and info! But I never knew about adding the second process.
Ninja blender is the best….love it.
Thank you so much-- now i know what i am doing wrong with eggs
This was an amazing video! And very informative but easy to take in! I cant wait to try this. Thank you for sharing!!
Glad it was helpful! Happy gardening
Thank you. Very nice video production. In the southwest desert region (where I live) the soils are high in calcium-not enough rain to leach out primary and micronutrients. Midwest and east of the Mississippi, the high rainfall country, soil pH lower and your method is very helpful. Compost is the best soil ammendment, thank you again.
So nice of you
❤ Thank you for the educational information on this. I've wanted to try this for a long time, but was too scared that i would kill my plant's!
Now i have a lot more confidence to try this, especially with the way you explained everything.
Thank you ❤❤❤
Vancouver Island, BC
Cheers and happy gardening
Thank you thank you thank you!!!! My dad mentioned this but he forgot how grandpa did it.
It’s amazing how those eggshells turn into a powder.
So very interesting and informative you are a blessing my brother. My wife lives in Thailand right now. Try to get her here soon. She a problem with fruit worms in her tomatoes. I think that's what it is. I never saw worms in tomatoes. I looked on the internet that what it said it is. God Bless!
It could be from a flying insect that laid eggs on the skin of the tomato. I have a few videos about insect control. I know Thailand has massive insect issues. My wife is from Asia as well. Thailand is a fascinating place to me. My true love is Japan.
@@ZenGardenOasis. Thank you my brother God bless you and your family!
Your explanation makes more sense
Thanks for sharing the important information in gardening. May God bless you.
You to my friend
Thank you! Wish I’d used egg shells and vinegar to make my 4th grade volcano!
Just crush egg shells and sprinkle plenty round the plants acid rain does the rest.❤😊 great stuff
Very interesting video. Well done, so I subscribed. Question: I have a deck garden of tomatoes every year on the south side of my house. This year, I had a massive crop, huge plants, and I used some tomato fertilizer and bone meal when planting, which worked amazingly well. I had some blossom end rot on a couple of the plants. My sister, who is a knowledgeable gardener, had me buy some powdered Calcium Carbonate for next year. Can I use this to make the mix with the vinegar to turn it into Calcium Acetate? In the meantime, I will start saving my eggshells and try your method. I plan to wash the eggshells as I go, and save them to do a batch.
Thank you so much for this fabulous video! I really appreciate your knowledge and the fact that you share it with us! I used eggs the wrong way and just tossed a ton of crushed shells in my compost pile. Well, I will look forward to using it properly! Again my thanks to you for sharing! May God Bless You!
Thanks greatly
Thanks for sharing your experience
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I have always used my food dryer on very low heat for a minimum of 12 hours to dry my egg shells.
Here in South Louisiana We are having a problem with snails eating on my Boc Choy leaves. I had a pint jar of toasted and crushed egg shells from my little hens that I had ground a bit in my old Nutra Bullet cup. I have used the egg shells around my strawberry plants also. I will try the next batch with the vinegar for my peppers and tomatoes. I will watch the video again and take notes. I do wish the notes were on a download sheet. Thank you. Subscribed and liked.
Did the ground eggshells stop the slugs? They were bad here last year!
I have a dedicated old magic bullet blender for crushing the eggs into a powder. Eggshells will really scar up the plastic cups.
And probably add microscopic plastics to soil. 😢
I use a coffee grinder
I really appreciate your teaching on how to make the calcium more bioavailable to my plants. I knew I needed to change how I was adding calcium, so when I came across your video it really helps. I will be trying this this year and see how it works out!
Glad it was helpful! Happy gardening
Also Sun drying is good.
Thank you for explaining your methodology of calcium acetate. While i have learned a similar process, i enjoyed your video. Also, for the person who was confused about pH, 1. he did mention the percentage, and 2. the fact that he said white , rice, and ACV speaks for itself. Guys dont make things more complicated, and please dont rob others who dont have information such as this. Thanks. Happy gardening
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$40 spice grinder does an incredible job on egg shells!
Great tip
Thank you for this! You do not talk too much! I haven't used my blender to grind my shells but I do find my coffee grinder does grind it fine. Now I'm going to try my ninja!
Have you experimented with food grade diatomaceous earth?
I'm guessing it would be good for anything .. Around fruit trees, melons, etc
Too expensive
⚠️Diatomaceous Earth is fatal to many pollinators.
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@@What2B Only if ts dry.. If youre adding it to soil with water, it shouldn't hurt bees or any other critters.
@@huggybear539It's bad for insects and it's really bad for your lungs.
thank you.. we used to rinse, store in a open container as they drip dry two or four at a time daily (punch to reduce size), then when full, bag and stomp them, hammer to a powder...no 2 hr bake.. we add old stored pee. Tomatoes love this..
Can't wait to try your science
Heat kills salmonella. Just in case. Cheers.
You said near the end in "order to extract the Phosphorus", I thought it was the Calcium that you were extracting from the eggs???
And thank you for sharing your knowledge who is just getting into gardening this is my first year gardening but if it wasnt for people like yourself l couldnt go on every help counts
A very enlightening tutorial, thanks for the advice, I will try it and send you feedback. Keep up the great work. There are coffee grinders that can grind to a talcum powder consistency, this may help.
Awesome, thank you!
I shimmy my Ninja around to get the stuff at the bottom to move. Works like a charm. Im so to see this. I always notice the egg shells never really break down in my compost.
I always ground them up in my little blender and added the powder to the planting hole when I planted my tomato plants with coffee grounds. Never had blossom rot on my tomatoes with this method.
Great tip!
Just an observation that coffee is acidic - that might be why that works.
@@ameliagfawkes512 actually if you look it up online used coffee grounds are not acidic they actually become pH neutral between 6.5 - 6.8.
Also as a bonus, the eggshells and coffee grounds, kill slugs.