Start saving your eggshells!

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

As we’ve been kinda snowed in here in Fluffya, I’ve been baking up a storm. And after I empty my eggs of their food contents, I put the shells in a couple of ziploc bags I keep in the freezer. Whatever for? I am thinking about the care and feeding of my future tomato plants. Calcium is a mineral that helps to prevent blossom end rot, the black spot that can develop at the opposite pole to the tomato stem—which is the place where the flower once was attached. So, you take the shells of about a dozen eggs, crush them, and dump them in the hole/container and plant your tomato on top. The roots find the calcium, and as long as I’ve been doing this, I haven’t had a rot problem. If you grow a lot of plants, then that’s a lot of eggs. Better get started!