We save our egg shells . . everyone does, right? 🙂
I dump them in a container and leave them in the garage til I get enough that it’s worth while to bake them, and then when the oven is going to be on for something else, I’ll bake the egg shells. I wait til whatever is in the is done, then remove it, bump the temp up to 400 degrees and bake the egg shells for about 15 minutes to kill the salmonella.
Then I will crush the egg shells, put them into jars and sprinkle them into the garden soil, especially around tomatoes, squash and other calcium loving plants. Last time I counted, I had 8 quarts or crushed egg shells and will probably get at least another quart or two counting the ones I baked last night and the ones I’ll bake between now and time to plant the garden.
vivoaks says
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of baking egg shells. It makes sense to use them for gardening, I guess, but I’ve never done it. As it turns out, it probably wouldn’t have made a lot of difference for us. We live in the woods, so there’s not a lot of sun through all the trees, and everything I DID plant was eaten down to the stems by our friends the deer. I suppose I could have made them more healthy for the deer, but that would not really be my intention… 🙂
judy.blog@gmail.com says
That’s why we put up fences before going to the effort to garden. I can’t remember the last time we lived where we didn’t have a deer problem. When we lived in MO the first time, we were in town but on the edge of a green space. We didn’t want to put up a permanent fence so we used PVC pipe and plastic landscape fencing. Cheap, unsightly but it kept the deer out.
Sandie says
Thanks for a great idea!
Susan says
I know about using them on the flowers, but I haven’t ever baked them. I’m more likely to put them down the garbage disposal to sharpen that.