Winter Tips For Your Summer Garden

As it is now officially winter, it is obviously a good time to start thinking about your vegetable garden for next summer.

Okay…not really…but sorta.

During the winter months, every time we crack an egg at our house we rinse the shell and place it into a container. By the end of the winter, if you eat eggs like we do, you’ll have plenty of shells.

Then in the spring, we bring out all of the shells and grind them down in our food processor and turn them over into the topsoil in our garden.

This adds calcium which helps to grow plants like tomatoes and peppers. And if you want to sprinkle some more egg shells around the base of the plants, it will keep away slugs and cutworms away as they don’t like the sharp edges of the ground up shells.