My homemade fertilizer is totally free as it’s made from trash – it will make your soil so much healthier
A GARDEN expert has shared his recipe for success in the garden, and it’s totally free.
His homemade fertilizer was made entirely from trash and had the promise of creating remarkably healthy soil.
Garden Share (@gardenshare) should know what he is talking about when it comes to all things green-fingered.
He has over 36,000 followers and another 572,000 likes on his TikTok where he shares his “top sustainable tips.”
But his gardening tips are not just for the experts – he makes them accessible to the most inept in the garden department.
In this post, he produced his method for making a rich feed for garden soil and it used the most unlikely of ingredients that, ordinarily would end up in the trash can.
“Homemade eggshell calcium fertilizer [for] nutrient soil,” said the garden expert.
“Don’t throw eggshells,” he instructed. Instead, lay them out and dry them in the sun.
Once thoroughly dried, he then smashed them up roughly and then tipped the eggshell mix into a blender to crush them into even finer particles creating a powder.
That, said our garden pro, was it. He sprinkled the powder onto the soil, and mixed it evenly, for “eggshell calcium fertilizer. The nutritious soil is ready. [Give] it a try,” he urged his followers.
There was a huge response to his simple garden hack, with over 563,000 likes and nearly a thousand comments.
Commenters were a mix of the newly converted and the already established.
“I save all my eggshells from winter so I can do this for my garden. Glad others know to do this,” said one viewer.
“Oh yes, my grandma always told me to do this if I wanted my plants to grow nicely,” said another.
“I do this for my garden and potted plants. The root systems are so healthy,” this fan advocated.
Newbies were convinced to give it a go. “Going to try this when me and my twin daughters plant things,” promised one mom.
The final commenter also vowed to try it: “Definitely doing this when I start my garden this summer,” she said.