Eggshell: excellent fertilizer for indoor plants. subtleties of application

To grow a beautiful plant, followed by the need to constantly take care of: to find a suitable place for it, watered, loosen the ground, wipe the leaves with a damp cloth.

One of the main roles for rapid growth and abundant flowering plays dressing.

At home, it can be made from a variety of components, including, from an egg shell.

How to prepare

Before using eggshells as fertilizer, it is necessary to prepare properly.

To this end, it is removed from the film, well-washed protein residues. Shells washed well dried in a warm place.

After about 4 days it is completely dry, and its ground in a coffee grinder, a mortar or a rolling pin.

If the shell is not used immediately, it is stored in a paper bag or a glass container with a lid.

How to use

Shell as a dressing can be used in several ways:

Water the plants with a solution, present on the shell

To do this, 1 cup pounded shells filled with 1 liter of warm water and insist 2 weeks in a cool place.

The solution is periodically stirred. After 2 weeks of the infusion is filtered, and the flowers are watered no more than 1 time per month.

There is another way, a more rapid: in 1 liter of hot water dissolved 2st. powder spoon. Fluid infused 5 days.

As drainage

Eggshell crumbles manually major factions. When landing on the bottom of the pot plant transplanting it is laid a layer of 2cm.

By adding powder of the shell directly to the soil

For this purpose, the pot is removed from the upper part of the soil which is mixed in a separate vessel with 1st. spoon grated in the shell powder. Then pour the mixture back into the container.

When planting, you can also add the substance directly into the soil.

Crushed shells in it decomposes rapidly, enriching nutrients.

For seedlings

With this method of growing seedlings from the tip of the shell is removed, then there poured a light soil, planted the seed. At the bottom you need to make some holes for water drainage.

Grown seedlings thus will be more robust and hardy.

Planted in a pot seedling grown up better with the shell, and its need to knead lightly to give freedom to the roots.

It is important to know that the shell reduces the acidity of the soil, so it can not fertilize the plants, love acidic soil: azalea, violet, camellias, hydrangeas, ferns.