Egg-Lime plant growth promoter

Ingredients

• 2 lime
• 1 egg
• 50 gm - Jaggery (You can get this from any Indian grocery store)            

NOTE:  You can also use molasses if you can’t get Jaggery

 

Preparation:

Take juice from 2 large lime in a container. Now place one egg in the lime juice (do not break it and make sure the egg is fully immersed in the lime juice. If it’s not, change the size of the container or increase the egg- lime(EL) portion. For example use two egg in 4 juiced limes.  close the lid. Leave this mixture for a day so that the egg shell get dissolved in the lime juice. Next day mix 25gm jaggery in 200ml water. Now add this to the egg- lime emulsion. Set it aside in a dark place for 10 days. Make sure you release all the gas from the container time to time.  By this time the egg shell will be dissolved in the lime and will become rubbery and swollen. Now thoroughly mix this egg in the lime. Add another 25 gm of Jaggery solution and mix it well. Keep this aside for another 10 days. on the 20th day the formulation is ready to use.

To spray on the plants add 10ml (1 tablespoon) EL in 1 litre water and spray on the leaves either early morning or late evening. If its new seedlings dilute it in 2 litter of water.

You can keep the concentrate emulsion upto  six months.

Leaves Mould

How to make Leaves Mould

Collect leaves by running your mower over the dried leaves.. Make sure you remove all the small branches if any in the ground before you start to mowe. Otherwise it will damage the mower blade. There are two advantages using the mower for collecting the dried leaves. It will quicken the composting process and other is the leaves gets compacted so that we can accommodate more leaves in the compost bin.

If you do not have a compost bin, you can also store it in a garbage bag. Please make sure to make some holes for aeration. Spray some water into the bag.. Don’t make it too soggy..   Leave it in a shady location.. Check the humidity once a while and add water if required..  After 6 months to 1 year your Leaves mould is ready.

To make the composting even faster I repeat mowing the partly composted leaf mould every month by emptying all the garbage bag in one corner. Then mowe on top of the partly composted leafs again so that it will be compacted and shredded further down. It also aerate the leaf mould. Now you can reduce the total size by almost half.

Happy gardening..