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Fertilize Garden Beds for Calcium

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How to use old egg shells for better gardens and back yard chickens!

What happens here

Sprinkle the crushed eggshells directly into your garden beds, especially in areas where you plan to plant calcium-loving vegetables like tomatoes. The video specifically mentions using them for tomatoes to help prevent blossom end rot. After sprinkling, chickens, if present, may naturally scratch the eggshells into the soil, further integrating the calcium. Alternatively, you can lightly rake or till them into the topsoil.

Goal: Sprinkle crushed eggshells directly into garden beds to enrich the soil with calcium, which can prevent common plant problems like blossom end rot.

Tools and materials

  • Hands
  • Crushed Eggshells N/A

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little handfuls, and the chickens will peck all that up and eat it all up. Now, where I'm going to plant my tomatoes and stuff for next year, this will help with blossom and rot. I'll just sprinkle this into my garden beds and then the chickens will come back in and they'll scratch it into the garden bed. So, give her a little sprinkle, sprinkle, sprinkle.

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