The nine tips for growing flowers in eggshells become sharp tools to promote flowering and prevent pests.

Eggshell is a very cheap and valuable thing, but most flower lovers only know that it can be used as fertilizer and supplement calcium, but it also has other great functions, you know?

Common sense:

Eggshells contain more than 95% of minerals, mainly calcium carbonate (83-85%) and protein (15-17%), which change with age. Eggshells also contain some magnesium, potassium, iron and phosphorus, as well as trace amounts of manganese. There are many things that can be done.

1. Composting

Those discarded eggshells in life can be washed, dried and broken (as thin as possible). Put them in the composting box after talking. They are great composting materials that can increase the calcium in the soil. Just be careful not to mix with alkaline soil.

2. Stop annoying little reptiles

But they can be dried and broken, and then placed in places infested by snails and slugs. Eggshells can drive away snails and slugs. The principle is that they don't like the zigzag shape of eggshell pineapples, and fragments are the most useful. (it works for most other small mollusks.)

3. Small container for raising seedlings

Eggshell is also a very good nursery pot, very mini, of course, it needs to be carefully made into a container, and the bottom should be perforated to drain water. It is difficult for seedlings to survive without holes.

When the seedlings are big enough, you can transplant them (grow 3-4 true leaves), transplant them into the soil with eggshells, or peel them off.

4. Benefits to tomatoes

When growing tomatoes, you can add a small amount of crushed eggshells (sun-dried) to the bottom, which will provide tomatoes with large amounts of minerals and trace elements, which have a slow but very effective effect on tomatoes.

Contribute to the healthy growth of tomatoes, increase the disease resistance of plants, many flower friends raise tomato buds rot because of calcium deficiency!

5. Natural fertilizer

The eggshell can also be used as a mineral fertilizer. First, wash the eggshell, dry it, break it, and grind it into pieces as much as possible, so that the effect will be better, mainly for ornamental plants. (it is almost broken as pictured above). Sprinkle it directly into the soil, and it will soon have an effect!

Which plants are effective for eggshell fertilizer? Mainly: olives, oleander, zucchini and tomatoes.

6. Benefits to chives

Eggshell operators are also highly recommended for the maintenance of chives. According to the above method, put chopped eggshells into the roots of chives, and they will gradually decompose to provide calcium to chives.

7. The decorative effect of eggshell

Flower friends never thought of using sun-dried broken eggshells as plant decoration. They can not only keep slugs and snails away, but also make very good decorative fragments.

From a distance, it looks like it is covered with pebbles, and it is also suitable for potted plants. (pay attention to washing the eggshell and drying it for three days before using it.)

8. Mini potted plants

Eggshell can also be turned into a very artistic container, can also be used for some small succulent plants, such as rainbow jade, eight thousand generations, Guanyinlian, Cuihuazhang, Ji Qiuli and so on.

9. The art of eggshell

Eggshells can also be turned into works of art, of course, you need to have great painting and craftsmanship, these lovely "colored eggs" will be the best decoration and gifts.