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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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.
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!
my broccoli is sprouting in their egg shells! i "planted" the seeds last week!
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!
Cristin, I've done that..........works well at twice the price, OL
Save plastic cake domes from your grocer's bakery & use them as mini "greenhouses" to keep the heat & moisture in.
Great idea! Then when you repot them, just crush them up for compost.
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.
I start my seeds like this too