What are your secrets for growing the best tomatoes?? There’s an old garden legend that recommends planting a whole egg along with your tomatoes and other vegetables.
Here is the myth in an eggshell:
Before you plant tomatoes, dig an extra deep planting hole, drop a whole egg into the bottom and cover it with soil. Some sites say to leave it intact; others, to crack it open. You choose!
Then plant your tomato plant as usual and it will produce more and better fruit, plus be more resistant to disease. One variant says you need to place more than one egg per plant: up to 9 or so.
This seems very logical. After all, eggs contain nutrients of all sorts (phosphorus, calcium, potassium, sodium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, selenium, and zinc, among others) and when the yolk and white rot, they’ll release them so you plant will be able to take advantage of them. Plus, eggshells are very rich in calcium, as they are 98.4% calcium carbonate. It all sounds perfect! What could be wrong?