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- Few gardeners will use this method of creating the ultimate vegetable or plant fertilizer. Made from one of the most common items in our kitchen today, and its almost always thrown away or if it is used, its often done incorrectly. Chemistry is the key to making this perfect powder that results in healthier plants and vegetables in your garden.
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Dear Sir, hello. I am most likely your oldest viewer. I am 101 yrs old. I have been gardening a long time. And you do not talk to much!!!! I like that you explain clearly. So don't listen to the disrespect. People today have no attention span at all. But I am going to try the eggs. Kelley my visiting nurse will help me. I have a big garden every year and I share with my neighbors. Kelley helps me. It keeps me alive. I live to get out into my vegy and flower garden as I always have. I am careful and it brings me so much joy. Thank you so much for your recipe, I am going to try it. I will let you know. Ann👵
Thank you Ann…your too kind. I think gardening and spending time in nature keeps us young. May you have many more years in your garden. (Sadly human attention span has dropped so much in the computer age.) God bless you…
Very interesting. I did not know this. I usually put my egg shells in the composted which I leave alone for 3 years. Still the egg shell are not composted. I then put my egg shell compost on the garden. The next year the egg shells are all laying on top of the soil. This last fall I ran my compost through my wood chipper. My compost came out nice and fine ready to use in seeding pots with no sign of egg shells. I will see how that turns out. But I will try this videos method.
Thank you for your comment... I was worrying about aging as I garden... Your comment gave me hope! Thank you again!
Thanks so much, this is new for me,I pray I remember all that you have said.
I’m am so happy 😀 found you 😇before I went to bed last night I was thinking - what can I do to grow potatoes and tomatoes on my balcony (apt) - and I know many have issues with tomatoes 🍅 so I will def try this and thank you for your patience! It shows you spend lots of time in nature because that is where patience grows from 🍃
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
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
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.
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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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.
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.
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 🤔
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@@violaspencer5628 the place where you can get just about anything LOL amazon - or ebay.
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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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.
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.
I’ve been saving all my egg shells and now I know how to use them! Thank you!
They add up quickly. Cheers
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 ! ; )
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.
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
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 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.
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 🙏
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.
My chickens convert eggshells into a very usable form of fertilizer! It must be diluted also! Seriously though, thankyou for this useful video.🥚👍
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.
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....☕
Winter research gives way to successful Summer gardening. Keep growing!!
OK. Yours was beautiful!
I have always used my food dryer on very low heat for a minimum of 12 hours to dry my egg shells.
I did mine in a coffee grinder and it worked great.
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.@@snowbird6855
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?
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!
This is very helpful information about eggshells 🤩 Thanks for sharing!
Thank you. I bake egg shells to crush up and add to my chicken feed. I'll do this now as well. Awesome video and thanks for explaining the why's.
Mortar and pestle might be more work, but you should be able to get a good powder from it.
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
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I ground my clean, dry eggshells into a powder. I add them to my orchid’s as well.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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!
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!
Thankyou for the clear instructions. Much appreciated.
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-- now i know what i am doing wrong with eggs
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.
Thanks for sharing your experience
Thankyou i wil like add it in my veggie garden ..❤🎉
first time listener and never knew all these very important topic for gardening. Thanks
Thanks for the recipe. I have been putting egg shells directly in the ground. That will change now.
I love kitchen scraps, and dry leaves that you collect in falls, ….it makes the best fertilizer.🥰❤
So true!
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
Your bonsai trees are beautiful.
Thanks very much. 😁
What an informative and clear video! Thank you so much for sharing.
Glad it was helpful!
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.
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
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Thank you for this amazing information! I will definitely do this!!!!
Thank you, I will surely give this a try. God bless you and your family.
Your too kind ….thank you
Your explanation makes more sense
Thanks for sharing the important information in gardening. May God bless you.
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Thank you so much for these videos. They are very informative and I appreciate you trying different things with your trial and error and giving us the knowledge and experiences that you've learned. These are perfect❤
Happy gardening
Great idea!
Also Sun drying is good.
I put a little rice in mine to help absorb the moisture and then powder them in small lots using an old coffee grinder then store it in an old glass jar. When you mix, set the jar in the sink. Doesn't matter if it overflows.
❤ 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
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?
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.
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
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.
Very nice. I think it is really helpful.
Thank you! Wish I’d used egg shells and vinegar to make my 4th grade volcano!
Thank you so much I really really enjoyed watching you and learning how to use egg shells in a much better way. Please stay safe and well too xxxx Mags ❤❤❤❤
Been using powdered egg shells for some time but never tried this. Will try this season.
You said near the end in "order to extract the Phosphorus", I thought it was the Calcium that you were extracting from the eggs???
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.
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
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.
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.
love your bonsai trees
Thank you very much
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
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
I saw one guy blend egg shells in water and watered the plants with it.
$40 spice grinder does an incredible job on egg shells!
Great tip
There is a perpetual battle for egg shells in my household (the
Mrs grinds them coarsely and sprinkles them to deter snails). I guess laboratory grade calcium carbonate would be a reasonable substitute. It's pretty cheap too...
Wow! Where have you been all my life?! You were in my suggested videos! 🙏
Happy to help!
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.
I really enjoyed your presentation. Just subscribed and look forward to more wisdom
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I thought this was going to be easy but not, just going to buy it..thank you❤
Grinding egg shells in my plastic blender ruined it , I’d recommend stainless steel or glass.
A coffee grinder works best
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
Great video! I have a coffee tub full of clean, powdered egg shells ready for this process! (I usually just add the powdered shells directly to the plant hole; now I’m excited for a bit of chemistry this season!)
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I heard your instructions to spray every two weeks once the flowers form, but when do we stop spraying? when the fruit forms, or just before harvest?? Thank you for this great video, I cannot wait to try this in my garden in 2024. Blessings to you always - Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.!!
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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.
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First of all, your "coffee grinder" is a small food processor, which will never grind to a powder. If you were to put through a sieve, all the big pieces could be further processed if needed. If a burr coffee mill were used, it would be of even consistency tho i doubt if the mill would survive for long.
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!
Wow great video, thank you, yes had blossom tip rot/drying and falling off . Worm casting is so so good for tomatoe plants
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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.
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I understand that calcium in the soil is not a problem for most soil in the USA. Do a soil test and see for yourself. If your soil needs it, by all means, make some but spend a few dollars to find out before you play around with egg shells.
thank you for your helpful info.
3:15 wash,
6:05 dry,
8:20 cook eggshells @250 for 2 hours. (Helps release important minerals).
10:50 mix 1 part powder to 10 parts vinegar (by weight).
14:00 let soak for 7-10 days. Expect much expansion.
15:05 add 1 oz mix to 1 gallon water. Mist leaves or soak roots.
Use every 2 weeks during flowering (I think is what he said).
Don’t liquify more powder than you can use in 2 weeks.
Use on Tomatoes and cucumbers.