Don't Throw Away Eggshells - Add This One Thing to Make Your Own Flower Fertilizer, and Your Plants Will Grow Fast and Thrive
Many gardening friends ask Huahua: what fertilizer should I actually use for my plants at home so they grow stronger and stronger? Today Huahua is going to introduce a fertilizer that every household has - eggshells! So what exactly are the benefits of using eggshells for plants? Why not follow along with Huahua and take a look!
Add a Little Chicken Manure to Eggshells, and Your Plants Will Grow Like Crazy After Feeding!
If you want your plants at home to grow vigorously, you can try using eggshells with a bit of chicken manure. This is a wonderful, highly nourishing stuff - once your plants take it in, their growth takes off like crazy, shooting up several meters in 1 month!
How to Do It?
1. Collect the eggshells from your home, wash them clean with water, then put them in the sun to bake. Summer weather is hot, so basically it only takes 2-3 days to dry the eggshells completely.
2. Find a stick and crush the dried eggshells, or simply crush them into pieces with your hands.
3. Mix the crushed eggshells and chicken manure together.
4. When repotting your plants at home, you can mix the combined chicken manure and eggshells together with nutrient soil. If the plants are grown in the ground, just dig a hole away from the root system and bury the eggshells and chicken manure in it.
5. Chicken manure contains plenty of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, while eggshells are rich in calcium, and they also make the soil loose and airy. Plants like pothos, spider plant, and Chinese rose are all very suitable for getting nutrients from chicken manure plus eggshells.
Add a Little Vinegar to Eggshells, and the Leaves Will Be So Green They Drip Oil!
Every time someone asks Huahua in the comments why their plants keep getting yellow leaves, nine times out of ten it's because the soil is too alkaline! Why not try eggshells with a bit of vinegar - this problem can be solved right away!
How to Use It?
1. Wash the leftover eggshells from your home clean, collect them, and put them in a box for later use.
2. Prepare a clean bowl, put the crushed eggshells in the bowl, then add a little salt-free vinegar and stir it a bit. Soon you'll see lots of little bubbles appearing on the eggshells. This is because the eggshells react with the acetic acid to produce carbon dioxide. When no more bubbles appear, it's ready.
3. Take out the soaked eggshell residue, mix the remaining solution with clean water at a ratio of 1:100, and just water your plants with it directly.
4. The vinegar that soaked the eggshells not only contains some of the eggshells' nutrients, but is also weakly acidic. Especially for acid-loving flowers such as gardenia, jasmine, and Milan, it not only makes their leaves greener and greener, but also prevents yellow leaves!
Add a Little Fruit Peel to Eggshells, and Your Plants' Roots Will Burst the Pot After Feeding!
Summer temperatures are high, making it the perfect time to compost fertilizer at home. If you mix in a bit of eggshell when composting, it's even more perfect!
How to Do It?
1. Collect the leftover eggshells from your home. Since they'll be used for composting, there's no need to wash them!
2. Put the eggshells in the sun to dry, then crush them with your hands, or simply blend them into powder with a blender.
3. Prepare a clean plastic bucket and put chopped leftover fruit into it. There's lots of fruit in summer - things like watermelon rind and cantaloupe all work.
4. After putting the fruit into the plastic bucket, add the crushed eggshells, seal the container, and leave it in the sun to ferment. Fruit peel rots fairly quickly, so basically 20-30 days is enough for it to finish composting.
5. Mix the finished fruit peel and eggshell fertilizer directly with water at 1:100, and use it directly when watering your plants! Fruit peel is rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, plus the phosphorus and calcium in eggshells - once your plants at home take it in, their roots grow stronger and stronger, bursting the pot in no time!
Spread Eggshells on the Pot Surface, and Your Plants Will Grow Madly Out of Control After Feeding!
Many gardening friends say they really don't want to go through the hassle of repotting plants in the middle of summer, so what should they do? Why not just spread eggshells directly on the pot surface - the fertilizer effect is super powerful too!
How to Do It?
1. Collect all the eggshells left after eating at home. Summer easily attracts flies, so you can rinse them briefly with water to clean off the leftover egg liquid on the shells.
2. You can put the eggshells in a frying pan and stir-fry them briefly to make them even drier, then crush them directly with your hands or feet.
3. Sprinkle the crushed eggshells directly on the surface of the potting soil in a thin layer.
4. With a layer of eggshells spread on the pot surface, when you water, the eggshells' nutrients continuously seep into the potting soil along with the water, supplementing calcium and phosphorus for the plants and making them grow stronger; moreover, spreading eggshells on the pot surface can also keep little snails from crawling into the pot - killing two birds with one stone!
Bury Eggshells in the Pot, and It Will Bloom 100 Flowers Right Away!
If some gardening friends find mixing directly into the soil too troublesome, you can also crush the eggshells directly and use them - the fertilizer effect is just as great!
How to Do It?
1. Collect the leftover eggshells from your home and put them all in a box for later use.
2. Prepare a blender or high-speed blender, put all the eggshells in it, cover with the lid, turn on the switch, and grind the eggshells as fine as you can.
3. It basically only takes 3-5 minutes of spinning to grind all the eggshells into powder.
4. Store the eggshells in a dry container. When using them normally, you can poke a small hole near the edge of the pot away from the roots, scoop a little of the crushed eggshells with a small spoon, and bury it directly. Remember not to bury too much each time.
5. If the eggshells aren't washed, they contain residual nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, plus the calcium naturally present in the eggshells. Once your plants at home take it in, they'll naturally grow like crazy, with bigger and more abundant blooms!
Add a Little Soil to Eggshells for Cuttings, and They'll Root in 1 Week!
Many gardening friends find cuttings really annoying, because no matter how they do it, the cuttings just won't root - it's enough to drive you crazy! But today Huahua will teach you a little trick for rooting cuttings with eggshells, and it will solve the no-root problem right away!
How to Do It?
1. Collect the eggshells, wash them clean with water, then put them in the microwave and heat at 180° for 3-5 minutes. Remember to take them out and turn them over halfway through, then take them out and crush them into small pieces.
2. Prepare some nutrient soil, then mix the eggshells and nutrient soil together.
3. Place the succulent leaves you want to propagate on the soil containing eggshells, and they'll basically root in just 1 week. Compared with cuttings using nutrient soil + granules, the rooting speed is several times faster!
Nutrient soil + eggshell cuttings:
Nutrient soil + granule cuttings:
About the wonderful uses of eggshells,
Has everyone learned them all?
Such an easy-to-get, great fertilizer,
Everyone, don't miss out on it!
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