Eggshells

[binley100]

Just wondering what does everyone use there eggshells for. Mine I crush and sprinkle round plants in a vain attempt to keep off the slugs. Could they be crushed fine and used instead of vermiculite when sowing? or used in the bottom of small pots as drainage ? Hmmmm

[Flummery]

Don't forget there are lots of hen-keepers here who will all say, we bake them in the oven, crush them and give them back to our girls in their food.

Prior to hen-wrangling days I just crushed them for the compost. People spend good money on lime - this is free!

[reetnproper]

I crush them and put them in the composter AND use some for slug deterrants.

[binley100]

I never knew you could feed them back . Gosh live and learn

[Bren In Pots]

I do same as reetproper.

[Nicos]

I too bake , grind to a powder ,and mix in the chook feed. Every one!!

Before I had chooks mine too went into the compost.

[Scottishnewbie]

yup, i bake mine for 15 minutes then fling them in the food processor and blitz them and then give them back to the girls. I do so love this recycling malarkey!

[Madasafish]

I put some in my compost for tomatoes.. Adds calcium to the soil - or summat..

[nerobot]

I just cut them up small, and place them in the compost. I used to place them around plants to try and keep off slugs, but never notices any difference so I don't do that any more. They don't brake down because I don't grind them, but anything that helps brake up my VERY clay soil is a good thing.

Steven

[stella]

I just give them to the chickens as they are, no baking, they gobble them up.

[Florence Fennel]

I don't have too many as I don't keep chickens (I wish I did), so they go in the compost.

[Sanjo]

Crushed in a piece of kitchen roll so that they are quite small then the whole lot, tissue as well, goes in the compost. I used to just throw them in as they were but they don't compost down so when I added the compost to the garden I was forever having to stop and break them up. This way - done and dusted in one fell swoop.

[Nes]

At this time of year, I dry them out in the grill (turned off) above the oven (turned on!), save them up and put some crushed into planting holes of brassicas, which like the extra lime

Otherwise, they just get chucked onto the compost heap

[DaveJ]

Adding eggshells to the soil provides calcium which is especially useful around tomatoes as it can help prevent blossom end rot. I have also heard of another use of eggshells although I have no idea if it works - dissolve an eggshell in a small jar of apple cider vinegar for 2 days and the resultant mixture is used to treat minor skin irritations.

[Liza]

Put in an egg cup, draw a smiley face on , fill with damp cotton wool and sow cress. Eggs with green hair, my kids love it.