Don’t throw away your eggshells or your coffee grounds! They provide essential nutrients to the soil that can naturally help your garden and vegetables grow. Placing crushed, dry eggshells at the bottom of your plant pots will generate a great source of calcium. Calcium is essential for cell growth in all plants.  In addition, placing eggshells in a circle around the base of the plant will help keep pests away. The shells feel sharp against slug and cutworm’s bodies which deters them from eating your plants.

Using your coffee grounds provides nitrogen, calcium and potassium to the soil which will help keep your garden and plants healthy and help prevent rotting.

Olive & Myrtle hopes your garden flourishes! Happy gardening!

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