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- From: nottke <nottke1@earthlink.net>
- To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Ground Egg Shells
- Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 16:05:06 -0400
>I'm thinking of saving eggshells to spread on the garden for the
>calcium. Any dangers I should be aware of? Does it attract critters?
I just toss eggshells on the compost pile - I have never noticed 4 footed
varmints bothering them. In Spring/Summer, the birds eat them, sometimes
larger birds haul pieces up into the trees to pick at them.
A few years ago I buried several test samples in plastic mesh bags to see
what would happen after a few months in our acid red clay soil. I buried
them about 6 inches deep in a mulched flower bed that has evergreens and
had not been amended with lime. Between June & September, when I
remembered to dig them up, the eggshells had disappeared completely, as had
a bird skeleton I had found in the woods. A cooked pork rib bone appeared
more porous than when buried, and was now hollow and clean. A raw bone
from a T-bone steak was about half gone and stark white.
I am amazed that paleontologists ever find an old bone that has been buried!
Jim Nottke
Pfafftown, NC
Hardiness Zone 7A
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[NAFEX] Ground Egg Shells,
Thomas Olenio, 01/04/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] Ground Egg Shells,
Steve N. Dulaney, 01/04/2003
- Re: [NAFEX] Ground Egg Shells, Thomas Olenio, 01/04/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] Ground Egg Shells,
Ginda Kaplan Fisher, 01/04/2003
- Re: [NAFEX] Ground Egg Shells, nottke, 01/04/2003
- Re: [NAFEX] Ground Egg Shells, Lucky Pittman, 01/06/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] Ground Egg Shells,
John Barbowski, 01/04/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] Ground Egg Shells,
Thomas Olenio, 01/04/2003
- Re: [NAFEX] Ground Egg Shells, road's end farm, 01/04/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] Ground Egg Shells,
Thomas Olenio, 01/04/2003
- Re: [NAFEX] Ground Egg Shells, Rodney Eveland, 01/05/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] Ground Egg Shells,
Steve N. Dulaney, 01/04/2003
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