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Ok so many of you may already do this but hey, I only just found out about it

Went to the Ideal home show this year and one of the displays was selling a very expensive blender but he had a good tip at the end of his demo

Any peelings, scraps, tea/teabags, coffe grounds, egg shells, etc,etc that you have left over can be put in the blender with water and poured over the garden.

Dont know how good this will be but its a lot better than chucking it away and can be used straight away instead of having to wait for it to compost

I know a good compost cant be beaten but its just another way to recycle stuff

Will be giving it a go this year

Martin

PS I refused to pay £375.00 (cheap show deal!!!!) for a bl**dy blender no matter how good it is but the ideas were ok

I don't know that I'd get the blender out specially to do this, but if it's already out, it might be worthwhile trying it someday, especially on the eggshells, as they never seem to compost for me properly.

Interesting idea!
Must admit that my first thought was was most of my peelings from the lottie are covered in soil ( washed but still gritty) and that might perhaps damage the plastic of the blender???
Just a thought!

I once watched, facinated, a blind man on his allotment planting brassicas. He filled the planting hole with a mix of peat and pearlite to help guard against clubroot and then put in crushed egg shells he had put through a blender then planted the cabbage. Trough blending the shells he said it helped release the calcium they contain better and that way of planting had always worked for him. His brassicas were always free of club root although a lot of his alloment neighbours had it on their plots. He thought that it was probably because the roots were not in direct contact with the soil and only absorbing the moisture from it. I am new to veg growing and I think it's a tip I will bear in mind.

Now this idea has gone into my top tips book that I am creating lol.......what a fab idea.

I still would not like to blend everything as my wormies would leave home and go and play in someone else compo heap!