How to Use Eggshells in the Country: 3 Best Options

09.05.2024 09:24

If you like organic farming, which is based on the use of natural ingredients and limited use of industrial preparations, then you should pay attention to eggshells.

This natural remedy can be used in a variety of ways.

As a result, you will be able to significantly increase the yield of cultivated plants, found out the scientist-agronomist and landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication "BelNovosti".

What are the 3 methods that can be evaluated?

Get rid of a dangerous enemy - the mole cricket

There is no need to explain what damage the mole cricket can cause to plantings. This insect is one of the most harmful and dangerous.

However, you can defeat the enemy with a simple method. Take the shell and smear it with vegetable oil with a pleasant aroma. The mole cricket will not resist.

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But this "dinner" will be the insect's last.

Slugs

If you want your crops to be protected from slugs, you need to lay out a 15-centimeter diameter "lifebuoy" next to each seedling.

The shell should be crushed to medium size.

Top dressing

It is worth collecting the shells in advance, washing them and drying them. Then grind them with a coffee grinder to a powder state and use them for feeding.

You can also chop it into larger pieces: in this case, such fertilizer should be added to the soil.

Previously, we talked about what you can feed herbs with so that they grow lush and aromatic .

Author: Marina Michalap Internet resource editor
 
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh Expert / Belnovosti

Content
  1. What are the 3 methods that can be evaluated?
  2. Get rid of a dangerous enemy - the mole cricket
  3. Slugs
  4. Top dressing