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Welcome Thomas,
What kind of shells do you collect?
Beth DeHaas
upwind from you in Whitefield, Maine
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From: Thomas Clenche <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, January 21, 2000 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] shells as fetilizers?
>Hi world;
>
>soils here in Newfoundland are very acidic and many people use crushed
>shells to reduce the acid levels in their gardens. Also, in rural
>Newfoundland, some people used to crush clam shells into powder and give it
>to their hens to increase the strength of the egg shells. I don't know if
>it worked, but why not??
>
>Thomas Clenche
>Petley, Random Island, Newfoundland.
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>ps. My first time on the list.
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>>From: NORA BRYAN <[log in to unmask]>
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>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: shells as fetilizers?
>>Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:59:04 -0700
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>>Ezequiel
>>I think your grandmother was basically correct. Many soils are deficient
>>in lime (calcium), in other words they are too acidic. I cannot remember
>>what the plant uses the lime for or whether it is needed to allow other
>>nutrients to be utilized. I would think that it would be better to crush
>>the shells rather than leave them whole, but perhaps whole shells leach
>>their calcium quickly enough in soil.
>>Where I live, the opposite is true, we have too much lime in the soil and
>>this prevents iron from being available to the plants, so serious
gardeners
>>here look for ways to make the soil more acidic. So adding shells here
>>would not help the plants.
>>
>>Nora
>>Calgary, Alberta
>>CANADA
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