It’s Time to Get Those Seedlings Started
You can use egg shells instead of the pre-made pots, such as Jiffy Pots to help start your seedlings along. We like to use the whole egg. The egg shell for our seedling starts and the inside of the egg for a recipe.
Crack the eggs and save the yolks for a later recipe or……
Hard boil them, and then save the shell after you crack the hard-boiled eggs out.
After removing the yolk in the way you choose, the next step is to wash the shells and get them ready to place back inside the egg case.
As you are placing the shells inside, make sure that you place them as up-right as possible. If you get them crooked, your seedlings will sprout up from the dirt you place inside the shell crooked as well.
They should look something similar to this below as you are going along.
And they will look like this when you are finished placing them all inside.
Now they are ready for the dirt and the seedlings. Once you add the seeds and they start to sprout within a few weeks and are ready to be added to the soil in your garden, smash the shell around the dirt before adding it to the soil so the roots can take hold without having to break through the shell. Don’t smash or squeeze to hard though, just enough to break the shell. If you smash it up to hard you could damage the delicate roots of the seedlings, resulting in a plant that will die or won’t produce as well as it should.
TRY THIS RECIPE WITH YOUR LEFT OVER EGGS YOLK:
Easy Eggs
To help avoid the gray ring around the yolk, which is the sign of an overcooked egg, try this:
1. Place the eggs in a single layer in a saucepan and cover them with about 1-inch of cold water.
2. Bring the water to a boil, cover tightly, and remove from the heat; let stand for about 20 minutes.
3. Transfer eggs to a bowl of ice water and let stand until completely cooled.
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