An interesting note about eggshells

Eggshells are a good source of calcium for plants. Commonly people recommend things like “12 crushed eggshells for a tomato plant”. Problem is, storing eggshells in their original shape takes quite a bit of space. On the other hand, they are kinda hard to count once they have been crushed… Enter the realisation of a long held dream:

My shiny new kitchen scale

Yes, that is a kitchen scale. Not the pretiest, but by a long shot not the ugliest scale I saw on the day, it weighed in at a fairly affordable R 130 from Game. The only question is why it took me so long to buy one. I guess after hinting that I want a kitchen scale before several successive birthdays and christmasses I should have gotten the message.

But more importantly, said scale loaded with 4 large eggshells (yes I did remember to zero with the bowl on) indicates that each shell weighs about 5.5g. So there you have it, if ever you need to add 12 eggshells to your tomato plant, you can just weigh out 66g of crushed eggshell.

The weight of eggshells

Comments

  1. nimfie
    August 18th, 2010 at 02:59PM

    How big were the eggs you used to get to 66g? Medium/Large or X-large?
    ;)

    I've been hinting at an electronic scale for years, and I am still waiting. Maybe i should just go out and buy one myself!

  2. Neilen Marais
    September 1st, 2010 at 04:43PM

    Those would be Large

  3. nimfie
    September 1st, 2010 at 04:52PM

    guess what
    my bf bought me electronic scales and then a day later we got another one in the post from his parents!!!

  4. Neilen
    September 1st, 2010 at 11:52PM

    I guess it never rains, it pours :)

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