Egshell Flowerpots

[Debwestbury]

Young gardeners can use eggshells as pots to start seeds and coffee-stirrer tags to foretell what will pop up where. Plant seeds according to package instructions, and nestle planters in an egg carton on a sunny windowsill, where they can be watered easily. The first leaves to sprout will be the cotyledons or seed leaves, which supply nutrients to the young plant until the first true leaves (resembling those of the parent plant) appear. When plants have grown to about 3 inches and have at least two sets of true leaves, they are ready to be transplanted to the garden. (Remove them from the eggshells first.) My suggestion is to crack the rest of the shell into the hole for the calcuim of the shell...

Read more at Marthastewart.com: Eggshell Flowerpots - Martha Stewart Crafts

Eggshell Flowerpots - Martha Stewart Crafts

[ajrsmom]

Love this project!!

[jokir]

This is something I did in first grade-61 years ago. It must have been going on for some time before that from the way the teacher talked. Every year after that all of the younger kids saved the family egg shells and cardboard containers. We needed lots because we broke them filling them, dropping them, etc.