Are egg shells and coffee grounds good for my soil?

Why should you put egg shells in your garden?



Crushed egg shells add valuable nutrients to soil. Calcium is essential for cell growth in all plants. Calcium is especially important for fast growing plants because they quickly deplete the surrounding soil of calcium. Egg shells should be washed before you place them in a compose or into your garden.



Make sure you crush the egg shells before you add them to your garden. Egg shells that are not crushed will break down very slowly.







Ways you can use egg shells grounds in your garden:



Instead of throwing eggs shells away, put them in the bottom of plant pots instead of stones. Egg shells are much lighter than stones and they are a great source of of nutrition.

Place egg shells in a circle on top of the ground surface around tender plant stems such as peppers, tomatoes, broccoli, cabbage to deter slugs and cutworms.

Place egg shells in the soil near tomatoes. Calcium is very useful to tomatoes because the extra calcium will help prevent blossom end rot.







Egg shells provide calcium to your garden while coffee grounds provide a high content of nitrogen to your garden. Calcium and nitrogen supplements (egg shells and coffee grounds) will help keep your garden soil and plants healthy.





Coffee grounds contain several substances that promote healthy plant growth. They contain nitrogen, tannic acids and other nutrients. Acid-loving plants especially respond to coffee grounds and coffee. If you need a large supply of used coffee grounds, visit your local Starbucks coffee house. Most Starbucks outlets will give you their used coffee grounds for free.



The high content of nitrogen in coffee grounds is a very good mulch for fast-growing vegetables.



Coffee-ground mulch will help reduce the ravages of slugs and snails. Use your coffee grounds to mulch plants that slugs love to feast on, such as hostas, ligularias and lilies. Coffee-ground mulch will help promote healthy growth in daffodils and other spring bulbs as well.



Ways you can use Coffee coffee grounds in your garden:



Sprinkle used coffee grounds around plants before rain or watering, for a slow-release nitrogen.

Dry the coffee grounds and work into the soil around acid loving plants.

Some types of acid loving plants are:azaleas, blueberries, butterfly weed, camellias, cardinal flowers, cranberries, ferns, gardenias, heathers, heaths lupines, mountain laurels, oaks, pecans, rhododendrons, spruces, yews

Add used coffee grounds to compost piles to increase nitrogen balance. Coffee filters and tea bags break down rapidly during composting.

Dilute used coffee grounds with water for a gentle, fast-acting liquid fertilizer.

Mix used coffee grounds into soil for houseplants or new vegetable beds.

Are egg shells and coffee grounds good for my soil?
Egg shells and coffee grounds are best appplied to the soil after you have eaten the eggs, and finished your coffee.

I do it all the time.
Reply:Becareful. Coffee grounds are best for plants that like acidy soil.
Reply:Put them in your compost pile and then add the finished compost to your garden beds. Compost is great for soil.
Reply:Egg shells add calcium to the soil.

Coffee grounds make the soil more acid which is good for acid-loving plants. Coffee grounds also repell destructive slugs %26amp; snails.



Both make the soil less subject to compaction, which makes it a better environment for earthworms %26amp; for the organisms that keep a plant healthy. Their movement within the soil also help improve drainage, which keeps the plant roots from rotting.
Reply:i'm pretty sure that they're fine for gardens if they've been in compost heap for a while, but it also depends on the plants that you are growing. if i were you i would look on google or any other search site.