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All The Ways You Can Improve Your Home And Garden With Eggshells
By KATHRYN WALSH
Compost
Eggshells add nutrients to compost, but just be sure to break them into small pieces (ideally powder them with a coffee grinder), or they can take over a year to decompose.
Birds
Mother birds eat eggshells to feed to their chicks, so you can help wild birds boost their calcium by adding crushed eggshells into the birdseed you put out for them.
Spread rinsed eggshell pieces onto a cookie sheet and bake them for about 10 minutes at 250 degrees Fahrenheit to dry them, ensuring they don’t burn. Then, crush them into powder.
Mosaic
For a fun and budget-friendly art project, break eggshells into small pieces to make DIY mosaic tiles, then glue them into a design on paper, flower pots, or picture frames.
Either use plain white or brown eggshells to create your design on a base of a different color, or use Easter egg dye to tint the shells before breaking them into smaller pieces.
Plants
Your plants could be calcium-deficient if their young leaves get twisted or bushy-looking and brown or black spots appear. Use crushed eggshells to boost this vital nutrient.
Pulverize some eggshells and either sprinkle the powder directly into the soil or mix it with white vinegar and spray it directly onto your plants’ leaves to speed up absorption.
Planters
For a cute, short-term, minimalist centerpiece for a social occasion, create tiny eggshell planters for baby succulents, as demonstrated by TikToker @cookwithmanuela.
Carefully crack some eggs, wash and dry them, then add potting soil and tiny succulents into each. Lightly water the planters and display them stabilized in soil in a shallow dish.