Plants need nutrients to flourish and grow well. For this, a supply of fertilizer is recommended, in particular to fertilize the plants. Fertilizer can be chemical, but it can also be natural. Indeed, some ingredients that we have in our kitchen can be used as fertilizer. This is also the case with eggshells. Find out how to make your plants bloom with an infusion of eggshells.

Eggshells are rich in minerals and amino acids essential for plant growth. Therefore, they are useful in gardening. Instead of throwing them away, consider recycling them by using them as fertilizer for your houseplants or garden.

How To Make Plants Bloom With An Infusion Of Eggshells?

Need

• 10 eggshells
• 5 liters of water

Pour the 5 litres of water into a saucepan over medium heat and add the shells. Leave to infuse and remove the saucepan from the heat after boiling.

Let the mixture sit for 24 hours. Then, filter your brew and keep it fresh, in a bottle. This will serve as irrigation water, which will not only provide your plants with the hydration they need, but also the essential nutrients for their growth. Keep in mind that this liquid fertilizer can be stored for up to three months.

What are other uses of eggshells for plants?

To enrich the compost: In addition to serving as fertilizer, eggshells can also enrich the compost. Roughly shred them into chunks and add them to your compost. Thus, the calcium, phosphorus and phosphate they contain will break down and nourish your plants. And that’s not all. Eggshells are also effective at balancing the pH of the compost and making it less acidic. In fact, the calcium they contain helps neutralize the acidity of certain residues that make up compost.

To protect plants from pests: Garden plants can be targeted by snails and slugs. To repel them, crush eggshells and scatter them around plants to form a barrier against these gastropods.

To prevent disease: Adding eggshells to the soil will do a lot of good for the tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants in your garden. In fact, calcium helps prevent rot in these vegetable plants. Eggshells are also useful for protecting peaches and almonds from leaf curl. This cryptogamic disease causes deformation of the leaves of infected fruit trees. Remember that a cryptogamic disease is a disease of plants caused by a fungus. To fight leaf curl, simply place eggshells in nets and hang them on the fruit tree, as soon as it blooms. Please note that the shells used should not be boiled.

What other natural fertilisers to make plants flower?

• Banana peel

Rich in vitamins and minerals, banana peel can be used as fertilizer for your houseplants, as well as for plants in the garden or orchard. To make a liquid fertilizer, put 2 or 3 banana peels in a jar of water. Be sure to close the jar tightly and let your preparation sit for a week. Then remove the peels and use this banana water to water your plants.

Keep in mind that banana peels are also used to enrich compost. In fact, when they break down, they release phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, iron, and nitrogen. These nutrients promote the flowering of plants, stimulate their root system and increase their resistance to diseases.

• Coffee Beans

Inexpensive and easy to handle, coffee grounds are an effective fertilizer for acidic plants, which appreciate acidity, such as tomatoes, blueberries or roses. To do this, pour two cups of ground coffee into a bucket of water and leave to infuse for 24 hours. All you have to do is water your plants with this liquid fertilizer.

You can also sprinkle some coffee grounds around your plants or mix it with potting soil.

• Cooking water

Cooking water for vegetables, pasta and rice is very effective for watering plants, but also for feeding them and providing them with the vitamins and minerals necessary for their growth. After cooking these foods, save the water and wait for it to cool down to use.

Thanks to ingredients that are easily found in the kitchen, such as eggshells, you can fertilize your plants so that they flower and develop healthily.