My daughters just got finished coloring Easter Eggs for our family. Maybe you will eat an Easter Egg or two this weekend.
After you eat those traditional Easter eggs, make sure you don't throw away the egg shells.
There are several uses in the garden for eggshells. Added directly to the garden, crushed eggshells add extra calcium to the soil. Tomatoes especially love added calcium and are less likely to suffer from blossom end rot.
You can also put a layer of crushed shells around garden plants to prevent snails and slugs from eating those plants. Slugs and snails have to crawl to the plant and are unable to cross the jagged shell pieces. An egg shell barrier also deters cutworm from attacking new seedlings. Of course to surround all of your plants with egg shells, you need a whole lot of them. But when else are you able to get a lot of egg shells than at Easter time!
The only thing that some people worry about with colored eggs is putting the dye into your organic garden. I don't think this is a big problem because most dye like the Paas dye is food grade and non-toxic. I rinsed some of the dye off of today's shells with water.
If the color still bothers you, put the crushed eggshells in your compost bin or pile so the shells can further break down.
Here are my first Easter crushed egg shells. They kind of remind me of Fruity Pebbles!
I hope you enjoy all of those Easter Eggs and have a great time with family and church today and tomorrow.
Happy Easter to everyone!
- Marc
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