Daily Frugal Tip: Use Empty Eggshells As Seed Starters
Check out this frugal and very nifty way to start seeds for your garden: Use empty eggshells and cartons as seed starters! What a cool idea!
Have you ever tried this before? Do you have any other frugal gardening tips for us?
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9 Comments
Kristi
Great idea! But before trying this, I should learn how to break the top of the shell only. I don’t know but I just can’t master that, weird I know. Anyway I have tried soda cans to grow some seeds.
eve
My mom and grandma would use egg shells to improve their gardens. They would keep egg shells in the water for a day or more and then water their spouts with that water. Water, I remember, had a nasty smell, but did work miracles!
Topaz Greenwood via Facebook
my broccoli is sprouting in their egg shells! i “planted” the seeds last week!
Gina DeKruyf Johnson via Facebook
Save on buying seeds. At the end of the season, let the herbs/veggies, whatever, go to seed. For herbs, just shake them where you want them to grow next year. For others, shake into an envelope, dry well, keep, plant and save!
Ruth Putnam James via Facebook
Cristin, I’ve done that……….works well at twice the price, OL
Cristin Murtaugh Harrington via Facebook
Save plastic cake domes from your grocer’s bakery & use them as mini “greenhouses” to keep the heat & moisture in.
Janet Shankles Barbieto via Facebook
Great idea! Then when you repot them, just crush them up for compost.
sammie
I have tried this and the plants don’t do well. It is not very practical. Are yougoing to wait until you have eaten enough eggs to get the shells? Just put the eggshells in the compost and re-use the cell packs for your seeds.
Stephanie Brewster via Facebook
I start my seeds like this too