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Can you suggest for me some creative ways I can use eggshells at home if I have access to a lot of them?
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Of course, I can help you with that. Here are some creative ways in which you can use eggshells at home:
1. Use the eggshells to start a small indoor seedling garden. You can use an eggshell as a growing container indoors, planting in the seedling, waiting for it to germinate and grow, and then transplanting it to an outdoor garden. It will save you on planting container costs and will be a source of calcium for the plant.
2. Garden mulch. Crush the eggshells and then carry them straight out into the garden to mulch. On decomposition, they'll aerate the soil and provide essential calcium to the soil.
3. Feed the eggshells to your chicken. Calcium-deficient chickens resort to eating their eggs to get the nutrients they need. To avoid this, crush up the eggshells that you have, bake them at 275 degrees, crush them even further, then feed them to the chickens.
4. Use them to deter pests. You can also use crushed eggshells as protectors against slugs and snails. Just put them around the base of the plants to deter the pests from devouring your lovely greens.
5. Add them to the compost. Improve the quality of your compost by adding egg shells. They are a great source of calcium and will make it so good for your garden.
6. Wild bird food. Crush, bake, and then crush the eggshells again and feed them to the wild birds. Sprinkle them in the feed mix of the wild birds, or just put them on the ground for them to find.