I don’t know about anyone else but here with ten laying hens I get a lot of eggs!! What are we doing with the shells?!?
Having to bake and or cook anything my family of five eats in a day can have a girl using up a lot of eggs. I’ve been known to use two dozen in a day easy. Luckily I have good laying hens. With all those eggshells I had to find a new way to recycle them.
We definitely add some of them to the compost pile.
Last year I had an issue with slugs! 🐌 They were eating a lot of my flowers mostly, but I fought them in my gardens all year.
After some research I learned eggshell crumbs can detour slugs because they are tiny and sharp and slugs don’t like to slide across them!
Here’s what I have done. Through the winter I saved all my eggshells in a plastic bag in the freezer. These build up fast!! Once the bag is full they get baked!
Using a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper I spread out the shells.
Bake them at 375 degrees for about twenty minutes until they are crumbly.
After baking just transfer them to a food processor and grind them down into tiny bits.
Then just sprinkle them around your plants to both detour slugs and add nutrients to the soil!
I am so excited to have a possible answer for the slugs!! Picking them off one by one is a lot of work!!
I will be back with more tips and tricks! I’d love to hear yours as well!!
Have a super fantastic ultra amazing day!!
Whole Living 