When placed around your plants, eggshells also deter slugs from cohabitating with your tomato plants because the slugs want to avoid the shells' sharp edges. Burying eggshells not only provides drainage, but the soil gets aerated as well. More Like This 1. Wash and Dry Eggshells Always wash ...
My mom has always used egg shells as fertilizer in several ways for her veggie gardens. When she boils eggs in water for soft or hard-boiled eggs, she saves the water to pour over house plants after it's cooled down. Then she crushes the egg shells, stores them in a covered plastic ...
quickly depleting soil nutrients. Heavy feeders also tend to require more fertilizer than lighter or moderate feeders and are more vulnerable to pests and diseases. Solanum or Nightshade family vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers and eggplants as well as Brassica vegetables like broccoli cauliflower k...
Vermicomposting is the practice of using worms to turn your organic waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer. Why use worms? Well, for one, because they're cool. Not only are they slimy and neat-looking, these amazing little organisms can eat up to half their body weight in food every day. ...
Doekhi, a 26-year-old participant, lived a ten-minute drive from the center. Chinese experts visited Doekhi's fields almost every day and provided tailored advice at all stages of cultivation, from nurturing seedlings to applying fertilizer. ...
If you’d prefer to use your fertilizer as a liquid, you need to make fertilizer tea to feed tomato plants. This process takes a little time, but it’s well worth the effort. Mix one pound of your tomato fertilizer for each gallon to gallon and a half of water in a large container...
Make a planting hole twice the width of the root ball and half again as deep. Moisten the hole before transplanting. Sprinkle a 5-10-5 or 5-10-10 organic fertilizer in the bottom of the hole and cover lightly with aged compost or planting mix. Then set the seedling in place. ...
I'll join the fray. I simply cook eggs in my dash egg cooker, it takes about 12-14 min. when done, leave on counter until room temp, write date on the shell using food safe marker, toss in the fridge, and they're ready to eat whenever. Never a stuck shell. No ice bath boiling...
Composting is an inexpensive way to make rich fertilizer out of yard waste and kitchen scraps. Os Tartarouchos/Getty Images Americans generate about 292 million tons (265.3 million metric tons) of trash, or municipal solid waste, each year [source: EPA]. About half of this trash (52 perce...
The worm wee is a super plant fertilizer. Pour the worm wee from the bottom box into a watering can or bucket and dilute 1 part worm juice to 20 parts water. It is too strong to use undiluted. If you wish, you can eventually increase the size of your worm farm by adding an additio...