Clever eggshell tips for growing flowers: once you learn them, you'll never worry about failing with your plants again
Eggs are nutritious and a very common food in daily life, and usually the eggshells are just thrown away, but for those of us who love growing flowers, throwing eggshells away is a bit of a shame. Eggshells are extremely useful for growing flowers: besides being used as fertilizer to supplement calcium, they have many other uses.
95% of the minerals in eggshells are mainly calcium carbonate and protein, and they also contain certain trace elements such as magnesium, potassium and phosphorus, so they can provide fairly ample nutrients for flowers and plants.
1. Mini eggshell planters
Eggshells can serve as containers for growing plants, used to grow small succulents such as Sedum rubrotinctum (jelly bean plant), Sempervivum tectorum (hens and chicks), Graptopetalum mendozae and other succulents. Generally, poke some small holes in the bottom of the eggshell with a needle, then put in nutrient soil, transplant the succulent into it, and then place it on a sunny windowsill.
2. Making fertilizer
Boil discarded eggshells in clean water to remove the egg white residue left in the shells, let them dry and then crush them, the finer the better, and then you can mix them into the potting soil to grow flowers, or simply spread them on the surface of the potting soil. This can increase the calcium in the soil; just be careful not to mix them with alkaline soil.
3. Keeping away small crawling insects
Sometimes snails and slugs appear in flower pots. We only need to put some crushed eggshells where they appear, and these mollusks will not crawl into the flower pot. This method works fairly well against most mollusks.
4. Seed-starting containers
Eggshells also make fairly good seed-starting containers. Poke some small holes in the bottom of the eggshell to serve as drainage holes, then you can add nutrient soil and sow the seeds. Eggshells also need to be scalded with hot water before use. Once the seedlings grow three or four leaves, they can be transplanted directly into potting soil; you can transplant them into the soil together with the eggshell.