Bury An Egg In Your Garden Soil and What Happens A Few Days Later Will Surprise You 

My mom crushes the shells and mixes it with the soil before planting. Today is her 76th birthday and she has NO idea i am taking her to a nursery as a surprise and letting her pick what she wants and my brother and i are paying for it :)

Even doing this for years. My grandparents taught me a lot of old natural ways. Beautiful garden.

I have been doing this for years......works wonders! Now I have chickens and love using every part of the egg! Thank you for sharing this all-natural, healthy way to simply and cheaply fed our plants. The way we were created to live in a symbiosis of a sort.

I use my food processor to break down my eggshells and banana peels, then add them to my compost and mix it into my soil for each type of veggie and strawberries that I grow. It's works... thank you... for making what's old news, so relevant again🤗❣

I have been using whole eggs as well as shells for decades and still swear by it. You can also use banana peels, apple skins, egg shells and chicken manure and mix it all up to make a super fertilizer that is not only practically free, but also by fr the best mixture for all gardens to help produce the largest fruits and vegetables you'll ever see grow naturally! I had peaches the size of softballs and were the sweetest peaches I've ever had in my life. Trust me, go to any farm and ask for chicken manure and they will give you a bucket and point where you can shovel it in for free since you're doing them a favor. The shells, peels, and skins you al have in your fridge I'm sure since we all eat fruits and eat eggs.

I love this idea. Planting the seeds in the empty eggshells is a great project to share with the grandkids too!!

When I was little, and adoringly followed him around, I wondered why, when my dad dug the hole to plant a garden bed, he would throw in egg shells, empty cans, ashes, and left over chicken and meat bones. As I grew, and saw trophies from fairs and other competitions, for vegetables and flower growing excellence, I became aware of why he went to so much trouble as a gardener. He also used to graft one species of rose plant onto another, to produce new strains, and the most unique colours and patterns, which also gained him adulation. His green thumb has thankfully been passed to me.

this is vital information for first-time home gardeners!

Whenever I boil eggs in a pan, I save the water to use on my indoor plants. Boosts the plants beautifully. Just as good as shop bought plant food.

Oh, gee, this is such grat advice...thank You..I've always added my egg shells to my compost but never thought of just lanting directly into the...will try it for sure.

As a long time gardener with huge success this is true. I save my eggshells all year. I take a small handful about 2- 3 tablespoons put down in hole put young plant & enjoy the results. Especially no blossom rot. And beautiful flowers.

You can also put egg shells in compost along with coffee grounds and other plant kitchen scraps. No meat products. Composting is to me the best way to get rid of yard waste and kitchen waste that in smaller amounts is nearly effortless once your system is set up. Works great for potting and planting any plants. Paper egg cartons and drink trays from fast food places are great for compost as well. They are made from pressed and dried paper pulp. When they get wet enough they will return to paper pulp and will disappear in compost fast.

I did this. I was very pleased with myself and looking forward to the wonderful blooms I would have on my plants. The dogs enjoyed it too. They dug up all the eggs and ate them.

Egg shell does work in my garden. My mom taught me to save the egg shells and use it for later in the garden. Just crumble the egg shell and mix it in with the soil 😇

Before watching this......i grew up with my Mother always putting eggs shells in water and letting it sit, and then feed her house plants with it.

Very useful info. I'm going to do it in my garden this year. Thank you

Wow! What a concept -- planting seeds in 1/2 shells to germinate and then plant the whole 1/2 egg shell with it when It's big enough. Its easy to tap a hole in each end of the raw egg and blow out the yolk and whites for breakfast! I'm starting this project tomorrow!

Thank you so very much...... I started out as a complete amateur about 8/9 years ago and I've finally got my footing thanks to this type of available information.

My grandmother used egg-shell water to water her plants. They were vibrant, healthy and beautiful plants. The water had a strong smell but the results of growth to her plants made it well worth it....Thank you...

Bake eggshells at 250 for 30 minutes. Crush into a powder. Mix 1 tbsp eggshell and 1 tbsp vinegar in 1 gallon water. Let it sit 1 hour before using. The vinegar makes the calcium water soluble. 🙃 no need to wait on decomposing.

I crush egg shells & mix them with other table scraps that are compost friendly. I then dig a hole in the pile & bury the scraps.Spring time I roll over the pile, & put ie on the garden & then plant. I also put compost around the new plants. The compost feeds the plant, blocks sun from the weed seeds, & hold moisture for the plants, from due, rain & watering so less water is needed because the sun can't dry the soil out. Don't put these in your garden; Red meat Grease & oils Lots of citrus scraps Branched & twigs Weeds Good for composte; Coffee grounds Lawn scraps Egg shells Chicken manure Chicken scraps Peelings from veggies Fish entrails head included Wood ashes sprinkled on This is a sure way to make your plants thrive! 👍😁

My husband always saved the egg sshells in a jar to water his African Violets and grew the most beautiful leaves and flowers.

In Florida you can find eggs buried all over the place, however I find that unless you can outrun a croc don't try and see if the shell are decomposing. Good way to lose an arm mate.

Ok thank God and thank you for that information God bless I will pass that down to my little baby girl as she love to plant God bless

I was hoping for a egg plant.

Oh my God thank you 4 th information I will try it soon 😇👍

Absolutely love all these natural ideas 👍 ...I am new to Veg gardening so love these organic ideas 💡 ... wish me luck 🙏😊

I bake the shell then crush it an sprinkle it around the plant really works thanks great video

My sister used to take a clean laundry bottles to make an egg fertilizer. Clean the bottle, fill it with water and add eggshells to the bottle. Let it sit for a few days. Water your plants grow.

Whole eggshells take many years to break down, if at all. Even crushed shells take years to break down enough to a form where the nutrients can be absorbed by the roots of a plant. Whole or crushed eggshells do not leach any significant amount of calcium into the soil. The best use for them is to rinse them, dry thoroughly, crush them then add to a spice or coffee grinder and pulverize them to a powder. Then add to your compost pile or spread in the garden as another amendment to help NEXT YEAR'S growth. Much better and easier to apply bagged organic fertilizer for current year's garden.

I always save eggshells for the garden. But never occurred to me that raw eggs and egg shell tea at all. Thank you for the new tricks

Wow. These could be super helpful and definitely educational for someone who doesnt garden alot. Or is new to gardening.

If you are goibg to sprinkle on top of soil, please rinse well & dry in the microwave or dry in a sunny window. This is because birds will eat the shell pieces as they require grit & calcium for their digestion. Thank you

never started seeds in the egg shell, must try! seems like an interesting idea, THANK YOU!

Very useful garden tips.

Thanks a lot and God bless you 🙏

I buried an egg once and a few weeks later I had an egg plant growing in my garden. Now I have free eggs every year.

LIGHT BULB!!! yall Easter is around the corner...Oh wow!!! Loving this aha moment. I knew this about eggs and farming, except for the boiling part and all, so simple. I never put the two together, God is good, I so used to over think and make things so much harder on myself. Lol. good Friday, Pentecost, the passover or what is it for the Jewish. Not really sure on all the different culture and religion fasting that takes place. I am pentecostal born and raised.. I love to take interest in in different religion, guess i always knew there is only One..One love, one life, one way,, one salvation, one choice and many chances. Easter being one more action of How God Loves us. He gives and gives..Eggs, seeds, creation is all we ever needed..God is all we need 🐣. THANK YOU LORD 😊 🙏 😘 ☺ 💞 I love how all this works too, such a wonderment of life. Well one of many beautiful creations, all things natural make good harvest, all things of God. Shoot, we came from the dirt, and breath of God and life began.. Just treat the seeds and plants as loving. And as natural as you expect it to bring in your work, therefore bringing nourishment back to you and your family..and back around again. God's lessons, we must learn these things. Wax on wax off. 😂🤣💯🙏🙌💞😍 Of God's works and plan, we blossom and become abundant. ♥ faith hope..prayer water and light. Believe he can, will, and does provide and you will prevail. Teach a man to fish, teach a man to reap what he sows. Aha. Eggs are chickens babies our food and nutrition to the soil and our bodies..from dirt the chicken eats..back to the dirt God provides for the chicken.

I did this but I broke the egg up and buried it in my lemon and orange plants and I mean it works wonderful it worked great the leaves are bright green the plant has grown so much in one year I'm Amazed

Thoroughly enjoyed this information.

Blimey ! Simply fascinating ! Before I watched this I thought chickens came from burying eggs in the backyard ! Guess the "yokes on me" ! CHEERS !! :-)

Amazing! 😍😍😍

Yes if l boil eggs l always make sure to save the water and feed it to my house plants

Wow - great info!!! Thank you

My mom put egg shells on her garden and all always had a beautiful garden, she also Used tea bags and used coffee grounds

Will definitely try this

My mum has been doing this for over 70 years. She has a very lush green garden and mine looks like Mars a landscape.

This is an Awesome Video & very understanding 😃💯⭐⭐⭐⭐💯 All 10's

I tried this several years ago. I never could get chickens to grow.

Love love love this very informative video! Thank you!!!!

I throw coffee grounds on my plants each morning. Inexpensive and my plants love it

Great research. Tnx

I always appreciate people coming up with innovative ways to grow chicken.

Thank you for this wonderfull information

Very helpful tips, I knew the benefits of eggshells, but I did not know the rest. Thank you!

Great info!! Thanks

Very informative thank you for sharing you knowledge with the people that wish to have a wonderful garden to lift spirits.

Thanks for sharing

My husband's aunt used this all the time--Love it and going to try with my sad repotted spider plants. Thank you.

Thanks for the information. I heard of using the shells and have tried it, but never the whole egg. I will try it.

Thank you for your valuable information.... I am making fertilizer with eggshells and teabags in Kerala. It's my business here.

Egg shells contain a ton of Calcium and nutrients needed for garden plants. I keep them in a mason jar and shake to jar to break them ever so often. Then sprinkle them about a 1 foot circle around the root . It has always worked great for me. I'm not sure of the whole egg or if we meant the egg should be broken first. I probably do a test next spring with four or so plants to see the difference.

Great information sir

Thank you. I have learned so much from this video. I have already used crush egg shells in my garden to deter cats and other critters. You have educated us how to recycle and recreate the egg. Mahalo.

Learn very precious thing.

This method of sprinkling the egg shells around your plants, is also beneficial to keep crawling insects away from plants &seedlings, as it cuts their skin, and is sharp, so they don't like to slide across it! Happy gardening from Australia!!

Awesome! Thanks!

Learning never ends

Very y informative thank you so much.

So many great ideas for just about everything...love it, keep it up@

THANKS FOR THE INFORMATION

Thank you so much 😊

I'm going to start my pots with egg shell seedling. so simple.

I did not know that you could use eggs for fertilizer. This so knowledgeable so keep away for chemical. Thank you for this great video.

Thank you so much for information

Awesome! Thank you! I can't wait to try this in our spring planting!

Very nice for giving us ideas thank you 👍

So this is how you grow eggplant! Learn something new everyday.

Thank you

My sister told my mother to do this a couple years ago. At the end of the season, we were pulling up the tomato plants, and the egg came up (fully intact) with the plant. As we were discarding the waste, the egg broke. I wouldn't recommend being around a six month old egg that had been buried. The smell was horrendous and very strong. And we will never do it again. If you do it, is advise at least cracking the shell, if not breaking it completely open. We saw no degradation of the shell at all over that period in the ground, and no difference in the plants.

Thank you,very interesting for seed starter,in winter!!

I enjoyed learning about what eggs can do for us besides eating them. I plan to do the fertilizing and watering using shells.

Awesome video and info . Thank you so much 😊😊👍👍👍

Did this, put an egg in a pot with a plant and forgot about it, then repotted the plant and egg popped and splat, it stunk like stink bombs, very farty indeed. 😮😀🤣😂

nice gardening ideas in terms of fertilizers.

I use large containers for my tomatoes and always use egg shells ground into the soil for a great crop year after year.

great use of egg shells and eggs thank you

wonderful ideas!! thank you very much!!

Thank you for the good tips they are very helpful

I always bury egg shells or just throw them on top of the garden, and I wondered if they were really all that useful. Now I know. Thanks.

Like your Idea thanks

We raise free range chickens and always have extra eggs. These are always welcome gifts to friends. I have been using egg shells in my garden for years - most typically around the tomatoes as they are prone to calcium deficiency. My wife is very patient with me in saving these shells. To me, the finer the are crushed, the better the calcium will be released. One word of warning - do not put them in you nutrabullet or more expensive vitamix. I learned that the hard way. They are very abrasive and will permanently etch the container. It will continue to work. It will just make the carraff permanently foggy. We have a container on the counter that fills slowly with shells. It never develops a smell. As they dry, they crush much more easily. When it is full, I push the shells down with my hand leaving 3/4s or more of the container empty. When I can no longer crush it down, I empty in on the garden. There are so many organic nutrients you can get to supplement your garden for free. Starbuck will give you as many coffee grounds as you want - just ask at the counter - I have gotten garbage bags full of them - you will get some used filters as well - you can pick them out or let them decompose. Starbuck actually has information on the nutrient value of coffee grounds for you garden. As your neighbors labor to rake and bag there tree leaves - take advantage of this free gift and dump them on your fall garden bed - if they bag their grass clippings - even better - mix the two. Fall leaves alone will decompose and add a lot of nutrients to your soil - but you will need to add nitrogen source if brown leaves is all you have. In my particular gardening situation, I would be wary of burying an egg. We have a variety of critter - racoons, armadillos, foxes, etc that seem to be able to smell and dig for food even if buried deep in the soil. I have replanted several Indian "3 sisters gardens" after burying a fish a foot or more deep at the bottom of my planting hole. Organic fertilizers are the only thing I use - but you learn some funny lessons when you use them. For instance my dogs love Dr. Earth Fertilizer so much that they will eat the dirt after I have tilled it in. Lesson number 100 - keep dogs away from the garden for a couple week after tilling in Dr. Earth. Out of interest, I am going to try the entire egg - somewhere - and see what happens. We have plenty of extras.

Thank you so much for the information brother

Thank you! Many of these my grandmother used 70+ yrs ago! So cool to see she wasn't really crazy! LoL! Really though, thank you!

very good thanks

I always check the comment section before watching these “amazing “ videos.

Egg shells are the best. Been using them for my flowers and they are beautiful n healthy.. For the last three years.

That's great you're bringing back the old ways ❤that should have never been lost on purpose.

I love the idea, very informative

Thanks. I'm going to try this.