If you have laying hens, you have eggs. If you have eggs, you have egg shells. If you have egg shells, you can have healthy, delicious tomatoes.
So, this is your friendly reminder to save your shells, dry them up, crush them and add them to your soil when you transplant your tomatoes.
You'll thank yourself for it later, I promise.
xoxo,
M
I saved mine (from the grocery store, sadly) all winter and added them to all my garden. I have the best garden I have ever had.
ReplyDeleteI had heard that if you are seed saving, beans need calcium for strong seeds, and I figured that if tomatoes need calcium, so do eggplants and peppers, so I just sowed the eggs throughout and tilled them relatively deeply.
I don't know that it was just the eggshells that made the garden good this year. Maybe the compost is finally working. Maybe the Lord has just blessed me, but this was the first year I have sown eggshells throughout, so it does seem to help.
We've been using tons more eggs since we've been making raw food for the Panache Cats, so I make sure to give the shells a quick rinse and crush them up and put then in the compost bin. This year I finally had enough "finished" compost to put a nice thick layer on my spring/summer plot(s), and the plants are looking better than ever before. I think you're on to something! The only "sad" is that funds have been too scarce to get my tomato program started :( However, the silver lining is that I have a couple beautiful Green Zebra volunteers that popped out of the compost, plus a couple others :)
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