2 Min. Tip: How We Use Eggshells in Our Garden (Eggshell Calcium)

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In today’s Two Minute Tip, I’ll show you how we use eggshells to improve soil fertility. Eggshells contain a number of minerals that are essential to plant growth, most notably calcium, which plays an important role in the strength and thickness of plant cell walls. Sufficient calcium in the soil also helps prevent blossom end rot, which I’ll discuss later. Sources: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11194049 One Yard Revolution is all about growing a lot of food on a little land using sustainable organic methods, while keeping costs and labor at a minimum. Emphasis is placed on improving soil quality with compost, mulch, and compost tea. No store-bought fertilizers, soil amendments, pesticides, compost activators, etc. are used. Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oneyardrevolution Channel Page: http://www.youtube.com/user/OneYardRevolution Two Minute Tip Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlefMeXXA5o&list=PLApXYvbprElzyOJ2W4nBfA_MtLJ0x0xXR&index=1&t=4s

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egg she'll powder

so micro wave and grind.

Thanks for posting this useful video I came across looking for tips on making water soluble calcium from eggshells for use in hydroponics tomatoes. I collected a large quantity of eggshells over time, and after washing, drying in an oven and finally pulverizing in a food processor I now have about ten pounds of dry, powdered eggshells. I am at a loss at this point as to in what ratio of the powdered eggshell and white vinegar to mix. More importantly, even if I mix the two in some ratio, how can one determine the concentration of calcium in the final product. Without knowing the concentration of calcium, how does one know how much of this solution to add to, say, 5 gallon of water for use in growing tomatoes. Can I use a ppm meter to determine calcium concentration, and what is the optimum ppm concentration of calcium to use. Would appreciate any insights on this from your experience. Thanks.

Awesome tips

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thank u so much for this tip..

What kind of tomato is that? i like it

Great tip, thank you. ? Can I just apply the grounded up powder of the Eggshells directly on the fruit tree or Tomato?

Thanks for your videos. They're great - thorough, complete and enjoyable/educating to watch.

brilliant video

one yard revolution the tomatoes you showed in this video which variety was it?

During the winter I save and breakdown egg shells for my compost But during the summer I tend to throw them and meat and seafood scraps(ie Bones, shells,) into a wood BarBQ and use the ashes in my compost. 1) It doesn't lure animals and 2) it keeps it out of the garbage. 3) And I'm assuming the ashes retains the calcium of the shells and bones? But I do not know if calcium is destroyed? Do you know? Thx

Thanks for the video.
A small doubt:
Is there anything wrong if we add powdered egg shells(containing salmonella) into the compost pile??
If so, Doesn't just boiling the shells kill them??

AMAZING, THANK YOU!.

great info - short and sweet - thanks much !

Do you need to boil the egg shells , to prevent salmonella ?

Correct me if I misunderstood this tip from another video----It states that if you don't have egg shells, "POWDERED MILK" also does what egg shells do!
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Thanks for the tip! I can't get over your soil! So fabulous!!! ~ Melanie Lynn