Dear Sir, hello. I am most likely your oldest viewer. I am 101 yrs old. I have been gardening a long time. And you do not talk to much!!!! I like that you explain clearly. So don't listen to the disrespect. People today have no attention span at all. But I am going to try the eggs. Kelley my visiting nurse will help me. I have a big garden every year and I share with my neighbors. Kelley helps me. It keeps me alive. I live to get out into my vegy and flower garden as I always have. I am careful and it brings me so much joy. Thank you so much for your recipe, I am going to try it. I will let you know. Ann👵

Thank you for the wonderful and helpful information. Hope you don't mind that I have typed up the information you shared in the video and am sharing below. I do this so that I can refer it back later. Hope this help other fellow gardeners too. Turn calcium carbonate to calcium acetate for bioavailability for plants. Bake eggshells in over at 250 degree for 2 hours. Using coffee grinder to turn crushed eggshells into very fine powder. To create calcium liquid fertilizer solution - The ratio of calcium powder vs vinegar is 1:10. In a large container, add 1 oz. eggshell powder then pour in 10 oz vinegar. Cover the top of container (to prevent fruit flies to get in) and allow it to breath while the chemical reaction will dissolve the calcium. It takes 7-10 days for the eggshell vinegar to complete. The final solution will look like milk (milky color.) Dilute 1 oz. calcium solution into one gallon of water for foliage spray and for direct ground watering for root system. For nightshade family plants (e.g., tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, etc.), do foliage spray every 2 weeks when the flowers have forms. And continue the foliage spray for the entire fruiting season. This will help grow healthy tomatoes and prevent blossom end rot. Also, can create the solution in 5 gallon bucket to drench the compost bin or the worm compost. It will help Note that the solution lasts for 2-3 months. Therefore, only make the amount for what you are going to use in the week. Must shake well before using.

My grandmother used to put ground egg shells into her food. Little lady never suffered from osteoporosis. Guess it works for humans too. Yes, she dried them first and then ground them to a fine powder... 😆

I think I just watched the best gardening tip vid that I've ever seen before! Excellent instructions. Very clear, concise, and extremely informative. I'm definitely doing this in preparation for next year's garden 👍👍

I have a suggestion. To ensure that you don't have an acidic solution when the process is finished, just make sure the limiting reactant is the vinegar, and the excess reactant is the eggshell. You can just add more egg shells than you need, that way all of the vinegar gets used up, and all you end up wasting is the extra eggshell you added. Extra eggshell is better than extra vinegar when it is completed. To ensure this is the case, just use some pH paper on the finished product and see if it is neutral or slightly alkaline. Thanks for the great video. I'm going to try this in my garden this season.

I eat a lot of eggs, I have been using the egg shells in my gardens for many years! I put the egg shell/s in the oven when I am cooking a meal, I then grind them down, then add them onto the soil around my gardens. But I will try this method you have shown us! I have heard of vinegar being used in gardens - But I never took the chance - Now I will! Many thanks for your blog!

short version, grind your very dry egg shells in a processor that will turn them into powder. Mix 1 - 10 ration with vinegar, egg shell powder being one. Let foam all over the place for 7 to 10 days. Bang! you have calcium acetate that is very uptake iv... to the plants. you're welcome.

I use the banana peel tea I make to help my plants absorb the vitamins from my eggshells... And I used Vitamin D milk to change the PH in my soil for white mold on my cucumber plants..

Great video, The vinegar will dissolve the egg shell even if you don’t grind them. The only thing that would be left as solid is the membrane. Remove the membranes and you have ths solution he showed. Breaking the shell into powder makes the reaction happen faster. If you don’t fully pulverize it, you might not have a foamy mess form. It just takes longer to dissolve.

Thank you for making a video that even though people say could be said in half the time, a thorough explanation is far more desired, than a quick "getter done" attitude to those of us that enjoy the journey, i enjoy the calm way this was shown and tid bits that added to the process of making this video, it gives people a thought process and helps people to slow down and actually understand, as it is, can't make everybody happy, but enjoying the journey is way better...

Your right about the shells taking years to compost, I use almond milk, 10 water to 1 milk mixture on my tomatoes once a month to stop blossom end rot......cheers and happy gardening everyone.

I gosh. I’ve been using eggshells for YEARS and never knew this! A million thanks! Explains why I got blossom end rot for the first time last year. I stuck my tomatoes in a new bed. They’d probably been protected before, because I threw eggshells in every year so eventually some of them broke down each year.

A few years back, maybe as long as 7 or 8 years ago, I put a lot of raw egg shells in my present day perennial garden. I saw no hint of them a year later. Lately, I've been having excellent success with most vegetables in that same place. I don't move the soil because I sowed asparagus seeds a few years ago but I do plant annuals such as tomatoes with the asparagus. Thanks a lot for the tip. Knowing it means I can repeat the success I've had in the big annual garden that I keep.

FYI: That’s not a coffee grinder. You may use it to grind coffee. It’s actually a small food processor

Try a hand held coffee grinder. I think that the 1st one you used was just a small food processor. You can shake a hand held coffee grinder as it grinds.

The blade attachment you used is the the blender attachment for smoothies. Use the grinder attachment. There are two flat blades both close to the bottom. The grinder attachment is made for grinding coffee and other things you want to grind. I've tried both attachments, and the grinder attachment works so much better.

Thank you so much I am using it 1 tablespoons distilled vinegar to 1 tablespoons eggshell and use one gallon water to 1 teaspoon of solution and my tomatoes got sweet and lasted all season producing the sweetness of my tomatoes so spectacular but I never try spray it or use 1:10 solution wait 7 days I use it normally after 24hrs so thank so much for new information I know it worked for me in the past I am sure it will work even better.

will add to make hydroponic nutrient. Haven't done the vinegar yet was surprised at 10 : 1 so I have heaps of ground egg shell. One thing beware the egg shell dust. It is so fine it can end up in your lungs.

Winter research gives way to successful Summer gardening. Keep growing!!

Than you Zen Garden Oasis for sharing this video, Our ancient fore- fathers tell our people to harvest fresh water shells in various seasons on rotation basis & not to over harvest as they seem to understand that it helps the algae's to grow & to feed the fish & also it allows the fish to lay its eggs & the fish multiplies in numbers. Thank you again & Greetings from Kambaramba villages, Sepik River, Papua New Guinea!

To make sure you haven’t left any large chunks of eggshells in put the powder through a flour sifter or sieve. Any pieces too large to pass you can throw back in the blender.

I’ve been saving all my egg shells and now I know how to use them! Thank you!

I have always used my food dryer on very low heat for a minimum of 12 hours to dry my egg shells.

Science shows that the whole carbonate to acetate conversion process takes about 48 hrs. Moreover, you may want to add some Epsom salts with your calcium to the plants. Mg in the salts is needed to invite the reactions within the plant tissue, and help the calcium get absorbed into the cell walls faster and more efficiently.

So glad to see this video. Over the years I have seen so many KZfaq gardeners perpetuating the idea of throwing a whole egg or crushed shells into the planting hole; has been hilarious. I have been commenting to them your very info that it takes many years for the shells to break down to a form where the roots are able to absorb the calcium. There is some science to gardening but most folks watch a popular channel and they believe their idol instead of doing actual research. Same thing with just crushing shells and throwing them around your plants to deter slugs. Does not work. Aside from the salmonella factor, I have watched as slugs slowly traverse the egg shell field to feast on lettuce plants. Keep your videos coming!

My chickens convert eggshells into a very usable form of fertilizer! It must be diluted also! Seriously though, thankyou for this useful video.🥚👍

I did mine in a coffee grinder and it worked great.

This is very helpful information about eggshells 🤩 Thanks for sharing!

I ground my clean, dry eggshells into a powder. I add them to my orchid’s as well.

When my kids were little and they'd have a small partial cup of leftover milk from breakfast, I'd pour that on my tomatoes and they acted like they got a calcium boost. But for my egg shells, I bake them, crush them, mix with red pepper flakes and seed and feed back to my chickens for extra calcium.

I am a bottle digger, and have come across reminents of egg shells in dumps over 100 years old. Thank you for the tutorial.

Mortar and pestle might be more work, but you should be able to get a good powder from it.

This is great information. I have been throwing eggshells directly into my vegetable garden. I will now start grinding them. Thank you for this educational video.

Thank you. I've never gardened before, but I'm trying for the first time and found your videos on KZfaq and by far you're the most thorough so I'm going to try. Thanks again.

I love kitchen scraps, and dry leaves that you collect in falls, ….it makes the best fertilizer.🥰❤

Vinegar is a weak acid. It's salt (acetate) will lower pH. Calcium is basic so the total is neutral till your plants start eating the Ca. An acid soil is left. When you do it, do it with the strong acid nitric acid. Result will be Ca and nitrate! (Yep, the firtilising nitrate) But maybe better, add the eggshellpowder together with woodash. Woodash will release Ca as well. It takes longer to be freed but that means it works longer.

Your bonsai trees are beautiful.

When heating egg shells, add a small másin jar and lid in oven. After grunding empty into hot madon jar place lid it will seal.

You have used this method for many many years with my eggshells and by shared it with other people and it seems to work just fine

Wow! This is great! Not only are you recycling "garbage" and putting it to good use but it is also great for the environment. It occurred to me that this would also make a good and simple science project for school. Kudos

Smartest investment ever! Suggest the reflective mylar, if not available I have used emergency survival blanket (it does tear), forget the handles and hinges require drilling in glass (easier to glue grooved/trough rubber hinges and pull handle). My Milwaukee-Burns has a rubber tab-like pull handle. Happy for your Solar Oven project!

Greath DIY fertilizer but, you mention vinegar with 2 to 3 on the pH scale. It would be more practical to know the percentage you use. Household vinegar is never sold by pH scale but percentage, 5%, 7% and even 10% as cleaning vinegar. I have found that vinegar of 5% as around 2,4 on the pH scale. Also did you ever think of calculating the total ppm of calcium in your applied solution and the actual pH of it?

I whirl our egg shells in the blender then dry them in the AZ sun. When dry, I blend again. I use this powder in my compost pile and/or directly on my plants. They love it!

Thank you. I bake egg shells to crush up and add to my chicken feed. I'll do this now as well. Awesome video and thanks for explaining the why's.

I always ground them up in my little blender and added the powder to the planting hole when I planted my tomato plants with coffee grounds. Never had blossom rot on my tomatoes with this method.

Thank you so much-- now i know what i am doing wrong with eggs

Thank you for this! You do not talk too much! I haven't used my blender to grind my shells but I do find my coffee grinder does grind it fine. Now I'm going to try my ninja!

Wow! Where have you been all my life?! You were in my suggested videos! 🙏

Thank you thank you thank you!!!! My dad mentioned this but he forgot how grandpa did it.

What an informative and clear video! Thank you so much for sharing.

Thanks for the info. I have taken plenty of notes and will be making my powder in the next couple of days and acetate in three or four months time.

Thankyou for the clear instructions. Much appreciated.

$40 spice grinder does an incredible job on egg shells!

Thank you, I will surely give this a try. God bless you and your family.

How have I missed your channel? Very clear, accurate, and precise information.. new sun here! 🇺🇸👍🏻

first time listener and never knew all these very important topic for gardening. Thanks

Thanks for sharing your experience

Thanks for the recipe. I have been putting egg shells directly in the ground. That will change now.

This was an amazing video! And very informative but easy to take in! I cant wait to try this. Thank you for sharing!!

I have been intending to use egg shells this year for my tomatoes, and other fruiting veggies but was under the impression that just puting crushed egg shells around the base of the plant would do. Now I know better. Thank you for this information!

Thank you. Very nice video production. In the southwest desert region (where I live) the soils are high in calcium-not enough rain to leach out primary and micronutrients. Midwest and east of the Mississippi, the high rainfall country, soil pH lower and your method is very helpful. Compost is the best soil ammendment, thank you again.

Thank you! Wish I’d used egg shells and vinegar to make my 4th grade volcano!

This is great use of the shells. i mix in 1-2 oz of seaweed concentrate to spray on plants for even more healthy plants and the neem oil helps with sticking to plants and bugs too. when i have a lot of egg shells i make a big batch in 5 gallon bucket and just use it all over the garden and water the garden beds.

I'm so glad that I found your page

Thankyou i wil like add it in my veggie garden ..❤🎉

love your bonsai trees

Been growing tomatoes indoors this winter. Flowering season is constant. I ALWAYS have tomatoes! 😁

Thank you so much for these videos. They are very informative and I appreciate you trying different things with your trial and error and giving us the knowledge and experiences that you've learned. These are perfect❤

Great informational video. I have been grinding up my egg shells for years. I Air dry them on a cake cooling rack that can also double as an air drier. I also use a food processor with the metal blade to grind egg shells into a fine powder and I store the powder in a plastic container. My friend told me about doing the vinegar/egg shell solution but it is her husband who does it and she did not know the ratio or recipie or dilution for spraying and drenching the soil. Thank you for this information as I have grown lots of tomatoes and peppers and have had occasional end rot. Now, if you could give me a viable solution to tomato horn worm! Yuck! Never had this problem in the city, but now in rural MO, I keep a weather eye cause they completely destroy a tomato plant in a couple of days! Thanks again!

Your explanation makes more sense

Thank you for a very informative video. May I add a rider rider to this - it is about the birds. In the past (65 - 70 years ago) my dad used to breed canaries, and he would add finely crushed egg shells to add to the bird feed to help in their egg production. I recall him telling me that it was because the caged birds did not have the freedom to obtain all the nutrients needed for reproduction from the wild. I was fascinated to learn that wild birds were chemical processors in their egg laying. O have no idea how he measured the quantities, but your video brought back many happy Childhood hours finger training young birds. Happy days of so long ago! Thank you!

I really appreciate your teaching on how to make the calcium more bioavailable to my plants. I knew I needed to change how I was adding calcium, so when I came across your video it really helps. I will be trying this this year and see how it works out!

Very interesting video. Well done, so I subscribed. Question: I have a deck garden of tomatoes every year on the south side of my house. This year, I had a massive crop, huge plants, and I used some tomato fertilizer and bone meal when planting, which worked amazingly well. I had some blossom end rot on a couple of the plants. My sister, who is a knowledgeable gardener, had me buy some powdered Calcium Carbonate for next year. Can I use this to make the mix with the vinegar to turn it into Calcium Acetate? In the meantime, I will start saving my eggshells and try your method. I plan to wash the eggshells as I go, and save them to do a batch.

I’m glad that I listened and subscribed. Ive been grinding shells , but didn’t know about the vinegar chemistry. You bonsai people are patient and detailed. We could all take a lesson from you.

Thanks for sharing the important information in gardening. May God bless you.

You did an amazing job. Thanks for your time ❤️🙏

I really enjoyed your presentation. Just subscribed and look forward to more wisdom

Great idea!

❤ Thank you for the educational information on this. I've wanted to try this for a long time, but was too scared that i would kill my plant's! Now i have a lot more confidence to try this, especially with the way you explained everything. Thank you ❤❤❤ Vancouver Island, BC

Very informative, thanks for the vid.

Also Sun drying is good.

Very nice. I think it is really helpful.

Ty for sharing! U have confirmed exactly what I do. I use it in my compost and in my chicken feed and my chicken eggs shells are stronger. I also use my ninja grinder. Ty for your time and info! But I never knew about adding the second process.

Thank you for this amazing information! I will definitely do this!!!!

I have a dedicated old magic bullet blender for crushing the eggs into a powder. Eggshells will really scar up the plastic cups.

GREAT VIDEO!!!! This has my gears turning because not only do I compost EVERYTHING but I dehydrate and grind different things into powders that I mix into my soil and mix into a tea to feed my herbs and veggies. I have aloe powder, coffee grounds, onion peel powder, garlic peel powder and banana peel powder. So I'm wondering what if I were to mix them together and do the same 1:10 ratio of powder and vinegar? Do you think that would change the chemical process of breaking down the calcium? Should I do a 1:10 ratio of each powder individually then mix all the solutions after they're done? Or keep them separate until I mix them with water? What do you think?

Here in South Louisiana We are having a problem with snails eating on my Boc Choy leaves. I had a pint jar of toasted and crushed egg shells from my little hens that I had ground a bit in my old Nutra Bullet cup. I have used the egg shells around my strawberry plants also. I will try the next batch with the vinegar for my peppers and tomatoes. I will watch the video again and take notes. I do wish the notes were on a download sheet. Thank you. Subscribed and liked.

Great video! I have a coffee tub full of clean, powdered egg shells ready for this process! (I usually just add the powdered shells directly to the plant hole; now I’m excited for a bit of chemistry this season!)

I have been saving my egg shells for years. But never rinsed them. They are hand crushed now. Almost a gallon Ziploc bag of them. I'm assuming I might have more of a bacteria issue by not cleaning them first? Will be cleaning them from now on. But will try this with what I already have.

You said near the end in "order to extract the Phosphorus", I thought it was the Calcium that you were extracting from the eggs???

Thank you for this - Followed with much gratitude🇨🇦

I take all of my kitchen scraps and put them in an empty 20lb pourable kitty litter container that’s about half full with water. I’ll do this with our egg shells. Thank you!

A very enlightening tutorial, thanks for the advice, I will try it and send you feedback. Keep up the great work. There are coffee grinders that can grind to a talcum powder consistency, this may help.

I understand that calcium in the soil is not a problem for most soil in the USA. Do a soil test and see for yourself. If your soil needs it, by all means, make some but spend a few dollars to find out before you play around with egg shells.

Thank you so much I really really enjoyed watching you and learning how to use egg shells in a much better way. Please stay safe and well too xxxx Mags ❤❤❤❤

You forgot to mention that you should use rain water or 24 hours decholinated water, you were great and straight to the point.

I saw one guy blend egg shells in water and watered the plants with it.

Grinding egg shells in my plastic blender ruined it , I’d recommend stainless steel or glass.

Great video. Makes perfect sense and I make even ask folk to save eggshells for me so I can do a large batch for the whole garden. xx

Great info Thanks. Love it.