Topic: Save the water from boiling eggs

[GRACELAND]

1. Save the water from boiling eggs. It is filled with minerals and excellent for your plants.

2. Throw your broken egg shells into a large container and fill with water. Let sit for a week, then discard the egg shells and use the water to feed your plants.

[elvis2003]

REALLY?
does the water stink?

[GRACELAND]

 ;D

[tim]

............" If you are doing an experiment, it should be more effective to add crushed
ggshells to the potting soil rather than using eggshell water".................

[Jeannine]

Put the lot in the blender when fresh and you can use both XX Jeannine

[GRACELAND]

 Jonathan Wraith is next week
 :D

good idea

[cambourne7]

yep my nan always told me to use boiled egg water for watering house plants :)

[dtw]

I just put my eggshells in the compost, it saves farting about.  ;D

[cornykev]

I leave my egg shells on a rad or in the Sun  8) now, crush them into a container and use as a slug repellent.    ;D ;D ;D

[Ninnyscrops.]

Always wash my eggshells and then microwave them for a minute or put them in the oven after baking then crushed in the pestel and mortar and saved to put around slug/snail attractive plants. I never knew about saving the water, another great tip  :)

Ninny

[lincsyokel2]

Water used to boil eggs would have trace elements in it, including calcium.

Calcium is used to cure mineral deficiency. Tomato Blossom End Rot, for example, is caused by calcium deficiency. Seaweed feed also contains a lot of calcium and sodium (chemically interchangeable from a plants point of view).

[cambourne7]

... along the same lines i remember someone telling me that water from the tumble dryer was good for acid loving plants?