Eggshell as a fertilizer will help soil and plants

When it comes time to work properly in the suburban area, we are talking, including the introduction of fertilizers. Immediately, you can recognize only beginners to join the garden and garden craft and experienced "professors" in this matter. Beginners frantically leaf through the pages of the Internet and are bursting into specialized stores. Experienced only shrug their shoulders and condescendingly admonish them: "Why do you constantly buy something new? Better not throw away what you already have!".

In fact, the same egg shell reviews applied it as a fertilizer to gardeners and truck farmers are invariably laudatory. The material is really affordable, you can say, a regular for our trash cans. But what is the secret of its popularity and is it so good?

Frankly speaking, the egg shell as a fertilizer can not be compared with the usual nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, which have all the vital elements for plant nutrition. Almost completely (up to 95%) eggshells are calcium, more precisely, calcium carbonate; The remainder is magnesium carbonate, phosphates and organic substances.

But it is calcium that produces such a positive effect as soil deoxidation. If it is too acidic, its fertility decreases, the plants develop much worse and produce a poor harvest. In this case, the soil is usually neutralized with lime or chalk. It is argued that the egg shell as a fertilizer is valuable not only for its microelement component, but also for a different crystalline structure that facilitates its assimilation.

Gardeners and truck farmers not only introduce crushed shells into the soil, but also water them with a five-day infusion of seedlings. Great benefit is achieved if the ground eggshell is introduced into the soil together with mineral fertilizers. Most of them increase the acidity of the soil, and the egg shell powder neutralizes this effect.

However, the egg shell as a fertilizer still does not decompose as quickly as it is claimed by enthusiasts. When it is introduced, first, you need to know the measure, and secondly, you only need to put it under adult plants. But the garden and vegetable crops that lack micronutrients will respond favorably to such a top dressing.

In Soviet times, when even an ordinary pot for seedlings, which was in mass demand, turned into an object of scarcity, inventive people came up with the idea of growing seedlings in egg shells. The properly prepared shell was filled with earth, a seed was placed there and watered. At the present time, when eggs were sold in transparent plastic cassettes, they were also adapted for mini-greenhouses. Again, emphasis was placed on environmentally friendly, unlike plastic pots, material that excludes plant transplantation into the soil. Enough before the seedling in the eggshell goes to a permanent place, lightly squeeze the shell to crack, and the root system of the plant itself will complete the destruction.

Experienced gardener, however, immediately pointed out that such "pots" contain a minimum of soil, and therefore the plant will have to be watered more often. And the root system has nowhere to turn around. After landing in the ground, the plant will spend its energy on its development, and in fact they could be used for the above-ground part.

Is the eggshell suitable as a fertilizer? Rather yes than no. But none of the existing mineral or organic fertilizers, it can not be replaced.