Eggshell - your indispensable assistant in the country

Eggshells easy to turn waste into a useful tool for increasing and improving the quality of the crop in the country.

Only need to collect it properly, to prepare for use. There are a few secrets.

Eggshell contains amino acids, trace elements - potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, sulfur, phosphorus.

To save them, and with good use of the product in the country, it is prepared in a certain way:

• After removing the contents of the raw egg shells spread in a large box or food container so as to ensure its ventilation.
• A box set in a warm place, to its contents thoroughly dried up. Otherwise, due to a thin white film remaining on the inside shell deteriorate.
• After 3-5 days it is ground and packaged in paper containers. Plastic bags are not suitable for this purpose because they can provoke rotting shell.
• Store fertilizers in a dry, well-ventilated place.

Note: without an accurate idea of ​​the purposes for which the shells will be used, no need to once and all of them grind to a powder. This is not always correct.

Experienced gardeners use eggshells for various tasks.

Thus, in the fight against moles are good medium size shells with sharp edges. They scare the animals. Not like those pieces and slugs, if they are laid out in the rising of heads of cabbage.

As drainage layer coarsely battered shells are laid on the bottom landing of containers for seedlings.

However, in most cases it is used in cottages egg powder. This was prepared by grinding the shell into a grinder, a mortar or a coffee grinder.

Scope egg flour wide:

● producing liquid fertilizer. To this resulting powder is poured into a glass container, pour water and tightly capped. Then removed for 7-10 days in a dark place.

The finished fertilizer is diluted in the proportion 1: 3 and used for watering plants summer.

● Dry Fertilizer applied at ground digging. In one portion was added 01.02 m2 handful egg flour.

● Normalization of soil pH. In this case, the crushed shell is not only fertilizer, but also soil deoxidizer. The effect is achieved due to the high content of calcium in it.

● The means to control the Colorado beetle. Potatoes dusted enough egg powder, to see the lifeless insect on the surface of the earth in a few days.

● Improve the soil structure. Egg flour coarse makes the land loose, more breathable. This prevents the stagnation of water near plant roots, stimulating their active growth.

● Mulching beds, tree trunks wells. If the shell was not much to choose mulching planting the neediest.

It is important to understand that for the fertilizer plant in the garden greatest value are the shells of raw eggs.

After the heat treatment the collected waste fit only for the control of pests and mulch.