See what happens when?????????

From time to time I see on you tube
"See what happens when you plant an egg in your plant pot?"

apart from the obvious smell as it goes off can anyone enlighten me????????

 

Found and egg yesterday amongst the deep litter that was removed from our hen run several weeks ago, and goodness knows how long it was buried there before we shovelled it all into bags before replacing with fresh stuff.

Absolutely no smell though, but no doubt there would have been a stink only if we broke the shell.

 

Sulphur....well-known fungicide??

 

Next time I've an egg outta date I will try it !

 

I would no more consider this than one of the other suggestions online, like burying dead fish under tomato plants

 

I get out of date eggs, but I still eat them, they are ok for a long time after the date on the box.

I'm not sure why people would bury an egg, I mean what are they expecting?

 

Timely thread... I buried an egg today!

It's the first day of Ostara, the start of Spring for the British Isles and Ostara being the season in the traditional calendar. I buried an egg for good luck, because I'm a bit mad, and I had one going off. So why not.

But I suspect it's one of those things where it's a combination of old wisdom (probably something in the egg that supposedly provides nutrients?) and Pagan woo-woo stuff (which I am a bit partial to).

 

That's interesting! I'd only heard of Ostara in relation to the strawberry variety of that name! One of my 3 must-have varieties.

 

Ostara is a season, but she's also the Goddess of Spring & Dawn. Obviously "Easter" is derived from Ostara.