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Ahh, a lovely bit of breakfast!
Well, I told you those hens would come useful!
And not just to fill my stomach!
A lot of you would throw these shells away...
It makes a good fertiliser.
Believe it or not, these left overs are great as well!
It's no good putting the remains of the coffee straight onto your plants...
It's important for you to let it dry out first.
You can dry it out by putting it in an oven, or leave it in the greenhouse!
It'll be nice and dry, and ready to use!
Coffee can be extremely useful in the garden.
It contains nitrogen and phosphoric acid.
The type of plants which benefit from these two are bilberries or roses...
...Avocado trees....And evergreen trees.
Well, there you have it.
I wonder if those hens have given me some more eggs today?!
Egg shells have more than 90% of calcium carbonate...
1% of nitrogen...
And 0.5% of phosphoric acid...
It makes the perfect fertiliser...
Whilst growing, plants take a large amount of calcium from the soil.
So, it's important to keep supplying calcium.
Recycling egg shells are a great way of doing this.
After you've collected enough shells...
...Crush them into small pieces once they've fully dried out.
You can use something similar to this...
To get it to work well, you need to mash them up as finely as possible.
Similar to powder!
And here's another tip for you...
...If you've got slugs eating your plants...
...Crush the shells up and scatter them around your vegetable patch!
They can't stand these small sharp pieces, and will avoid going over them!
You can spread the egg shells around any of your plants.
Or around your vegetables...
Next time you have egg for breakfast, don't forget to keep the shells!
A cheap way to make a great fertiliser!