Oyster shells in compost?

Angela
Angela Posts: 42 ✭
edited September 2018 in Composting & Soil Fertility
Calcium source for chickens.  If you were by me, I'd happily take them off your hands.

 
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  • StacyLou
    StacyLou Posts: 89 ✭✭
    edited September 2018
    Great question! I just came across an interesting article on growingorganic.com discussing oyster shell use in the garden. A quote “<span style="caret-color: #373a3c; color: #373a3c; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: #f0f0f0;">Crushed shells also help to create habitat spaces for soil microbes in compost piles, which helps them to break down compost piles faster.”</span>

    Sounds like a great addition for your compost!
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  • StacyLou
    StacyLou Posts: 89 ✭✭
    edited September 2018
    Whoa - guess I won’t copy and paste next time. ;)

    Just ignore the gibberish between “quote” and “Crushed”.
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  • karen
    karen Posts: 80 ✭✭
    edited September 2018
    I have a large basket of shells and couldnt bear to toss them in my compost.  But, a friend gifts me with a one gallon pail of semi crushed eggshells on occasion.  I either powder them for cat food and as a soil amendment - especially mandrakes - or throw the entire bucket in one of two compost tea barrels.  My everyday eggshell of into my daily compost bucket and eventually into a lasagna bed.  BTW my coffee grounds go into my daily bucket but cold coffee - I always have some left and if not i add water to the grounds for a bit - goes into a jar that when full goes into one of the barrels.

     
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