In gardening, all natural solutions are good to try out to help your plants grow healthily. Very often, these techniques improve the soil quality which brings essential nutrients to the plant. Therefore natural fertilisers can be used in your plants to help your plants grow quickly. One unusual fertiliser that you can use in your garden is an entire raw egg that can be “planted” in the ground. This is really handy as you can also use eggs that are past the sell by date for this technique. There is nothing better than making beautiful things grow out of something that would otherwise go to waste. Read on to discover how to carry out this simple technique and all the reasons why use should be “planting eggs” in your garden!
Why should you bury an egg in the garden?
While buried in the ground an egg acts as a natural fertiliser that slowly diffuses nutrients. In contrast to what you might believe when you make compost and see the egg shell disintegrate with difficulty over the course of several months, an egg disintegrates very well inside the ground. However you can make a slight crack in the shell with your knife to help this process. Slowly but surely the egg will start to decompose and release essential nutrients for your plants.
This natural fertiliser is excellent for cottage garden vegetables and tomatoes. In fact everything in eggs that is good for humans is also good for vegetation. An egg yolk is a gold mine of nutrients and calcium from the egg shell is a brilliant natural fertiliser for anything that grows. Therefore plants have everything they need to grow quickly by developing good healthy roots. What is more it helps prevent plants from developing illnesses. With a little patience you can start to see lovely plants beginning to grow in a good, strong and healthy condition.
What to do?
It is easy! To begin with you should choose the position of your fertilising egg depending on what, when and where your garden needs it most and what you would like to grow. For examples is it going to be positioned in bright or shaded part of your garden, balcony, terrace or vegetable patch? You should also choose your ground carefully so that your future plant can grow well. When you have made your decisions you can now get to work “planting” your egg into your garden!
Fill up your pot with a few centimetres of earth . Next place your raw egg complete with its shell on top of the soil. (You can also cut notches along the skin of an organic banana and place it beside it especially when growing tomatoes.) You then cover the egg with soil and then you can add the seeds that you’d like to germinate. In order to do this you can use a pointed object and then make holes in the ground and slide the seeds into the notches in the earth. All you need to do now is to water your pot regularly and leave the egg to make your garden beautiful! In general this technique is used for pot plants but you can still adapt this technique for flower borders or in your vegetable patch by digging a little. Rest assured that the egg does not give off a smell when it starts to decompose as the hydrogen sulphar is absorbed by the ground.
Other uses for eggs in the garden:
- First of all, an egg shell broken in two can be a great pot for seedlings. This natural pot has a lovely effect and can help weaker seedlings to grow better.
- Wash your egg shells and then break into big pieces and scatter around your plants, the egg shells can act as a barrier to snails and slugs.
- You can also dry out and reduce the shells into a powder to mix into the soil. The soil can then be nourished with the calcium in the egg shells and can correct the pH level of soil that is not acidic enough.
- You can also use the cooking water when you make a boiled egg to water your plants. Like potato and pasta cooking water this can help to fertilise plants.
- An egg box can also be recycled in many ways, in particular as a support to germinate seeds.
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