When last we left our heros, on Sat, 23 Aug 2003 11:11:05 GMT,
"Compostman" scribbled:




"Pam Rudd" wrote in message
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In the spring I crush and spread my egg shells like bread crumbs
for the birds. Everything from the robins to the wrens get some.

That's better than putting them in compost. Egg shells are not organic and
don't breakdown very well.

shrug It all breaks down, maybe not on our schedule; but it all
breaks down. What the birds don't eat gets worked into the soil
or buried under mulch. It may not be available next year, but it
will be sometime.


I put them in the oven after it's been used to
dry them out, then when I have a lot of them, I pulverize them in a blender
and put them around plants that need a higher pH (my soil is a little acid),
such as asparagus, hostas, tomatoes. (Any plant that you'd add lime to the
soil.)

I dry mine in the oven, too. No sense in giving the cockroaches
'round here any encouragement. Damn Palmetto bugs will fly in
with the birds!

Pam



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