[EASY] Homemade organic fertilizers: coffee 🤎 and eggs 🥚

A good title, isn't it? How are you community! Happy Wednesday 🌻 here I bring you a recipe for a homemade fertilizer.

I tell you, my dad has been days of days on how to take advantage of the coffee grounds or coffee waste, and has been researching and has found very interesting properties, of course, he has an idea for so many years in agriculture that he had with my grandfather, that sometimes "threw the used coffee to the bushes" but did not remember because it was good.

The same thing happened with eggshell, I at least used it for Hyaluronic Acid 😂😂 but well he insisted on preparing some.

So I spend a whole month collecting the eggs and coffee grounds and prepare a fertilizer. We already used it two months ago to rescue a plant so he made it again and now we do bring it as an item. We also have some pests and need to devote a little more time to the mini-garden.

Eggshells are 96% calcium carbonate, it is the easiest and cheapest way to make calcium for plants at home. Calcium for plants is one of the richest minerals to improve their development, eggshells help crops by preventing rotting, contributing to the creation of roots and the formation of new leaves. In roses, it favors flowering. Eggshell controls soil acidity as many plants need a specific type of soil for their growth. Eggshell provides more calcium and other beneficial minerals such as magnesium, potassium and phosphorus to your plants.

In order to obtain better results in the short term, it is recommended to apply the ground or crushed eggshells (the finer they are crushed, the sooner the fertilizer will be released), wash the eggshells beforehand (in order to avoid bad odors later), then let them dry in the shade to prevent them from losing the nitrogen they contain. When the egg shells are dry place them in a bag and crush them with the help of a mortar or a stone until a very fine powder is left (they can be crushed in a blender) and reserve it in a container with a lid until you use it.

Surround the Stem, Trunk of the plant with the crushed husk, you can remove a little the ground and make that part of husks remains half buried, but it is not necessary to bury them totally.

These Coffee grounds contain a lot of minerals and nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium and magnesium that nourish the soil of your plants. Coffee grounds act as a natural pesticide, due to its acidity and strong smell, it is usually a great repellent against ants, snails and slugs.

It is advisable to let them dry previously so they do not lose their properties due to the humidity to obtain all the benefits of the coffee grounds. When storing the residues, whether we do it in a plastic bag or in a glass container or similar, it is essential that they are dry, otherwise the humidity can cause them to rot, especially if we take a long time to use them.

Important: The important thing is to make an even mixture of coffee grounds and earth, and to apply superficially. It must be taken into account that the excess of coffee can acidify the soil. It is advisable in case of applying the coffee grounds directly (without mixing) on the surface of the soil (do not bury, it can cause damage to the plant) do not use a thick layer of coffee grounds because they could be compacted and create a solid crust that would not allow air or water to enter the roots for the plant to live, the ideal is to use a thin layer of ground coffee. It is advisable to apply once a month, superficially in a thin layer (do not bury), when we see that it has disappeared from the surface of the soil, apply again a thin layer (taking care not to overdo it with the coffee grounds, to avoid acidification of the soil).

Coffee grounds is a very slow release fertilizer, so its effects are usually seen after 3 months, to obtain good results you should add the well ground eggshells for a long period of time (as their degradation is very slow), the water from the irrigations will facilitate the release of the components of the shells into the soil. It is estimated that the plant absorbs the nutrients from the eggshells and coffee grounds in 3 to 6 months.