Eggs..buried for tomatoes?
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Have any ofya ever fertilized your tomatoes by burying an egg at the base of each o e?
I saw it on tv..they said the calcium is supposed to leach out and deter blossom end rot.
I have alot of eggs so thought I'd try it.
Was just wondering if any of you had ever tried it and did it seem to.work?
Supposedly the rotting yolk and all acts as a fertilizer.
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Re: Eggs..buried for tomatoes?
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Wife tried it, shells from fresh eggs she fried; skunks etc dug up every one.
So, she started using just shells from hard boiled eggs, works fine, no more digging
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Lol. No eggplants here.
I have wondered about fish also wv222. Thank you for that info.
My garden is completely fenced .with welded wire fence..so skunks shouldn't be a problem.
Im.gonna give it a try I think because I have had problems with blossum.end. rot.
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As a joke I dug up 1 of my mother in laws freshly planted tomato plants. I put a fish in the hole and refilled . That plant grew way bigger than the others. I'll try the egg shells just
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It sounds a little risky. You may end up growing chickens, which will probably eat any viable tomatoes.
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My FIL did. He only used hard boiled egg shells though. Said the fresh eggs drew in to many critters. He also used fish heads if he had them.
I tried TUMS with calcium a couple times. Crushed them up in a blender, worked ok. Putting 1 or 2 in the hole whole seemed to do better than crushed.
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Lord don't say that. The last thing I needs more chickens.
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Crushed egg shells you hillbilly I am a hillbilly and pretty happy about it too.lol I've heard of shells but supposedly a whole gg is better cause thw yolk an stuff rots and feeds the plant. I better Plat em.pretty deep or the stink from close to 100 tomato.plants might make a person keel over. Jerrys a wuss..he said I could handle the egg plantin.lol
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I've used crushed egg shells, in the hole for my tomatoes and peppers. Never a whole egg This is what I do when I plant. Or fertilizer with calcium in it.
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My wife uses egg shells. Every egg we use for months - she saves the shells, washes them, crushes them and then puts them in the bottom of the hole when planting. She swears by it.
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Lol. No eggplants here.
I have wondered about fish also wv222. Thank you for that info.
My garden is completely fenced .with welded wire fence..so skunks shouldn't be a problem.
Im.gonna give it a try I think because I have had problems with blossum.end. rot.
your problem is a calcium deficiency in the soil.Very easy to fix, put Lime on the soil where your tomatoes are to go.If you want to use eggs, go for it.Lime is cheap, and easy. Ive had this problem. Not any more!
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