hey guys, thanks again for watching, be sure to let us know in the comments any gardening/ composting tips you have found helpful. Here is a link to a PDF I found covering some points and giving some additional info on the Dig and Drop method bit.ly/DigAndDropPDF
I started doing this 2 years ago and my soil looks amazing .. I don't use any fertilizers to grow my greens (cilantro, parsley,celery,mint,verbena and chard ) and all of them grow wonderfull
Gonna try this. Our council has stopped food waste collections with the COVID19 pandemic. I've already got a compost bin for veggie scraps but used the council bin for other food waste. Dont wanna throw this in with the normal rubbish so this is a great alternative.
I put last summer a banana that was aready going bad. A few weeks later in same spot it was gone, the pells were dark and nothing remained. The smell of the soil was so earthy!
I literally laughed out loud at the “no cat poo, dog poo or human poo. You don’t want any of that in there” 😂😂 can’t believe you have to say that, but.. people
I came across your video in search for composting idea and to be honest, your video is the most simplistic and realistic video I have ever seen. The rest are just so complicated that it scares me to even start doing it. Thank you for sharing this insightful video. Can you also share if "dig & drop" can be applied on winter/cold months? What do you do or any recommendations?
Thanks very much, Gigi, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Yes I'm sure you can do it any time of year. I'm sure it will change how fast it is broken down by the microbes and worms but I would not worry or overthink it. Just dig a hole, if it contains any meats then make it 30cm deep so not to attract rats and cover it over and forget about it.
That's how i Fertilized my garden when i first started gardening, then i moves on to compost piles. Now I'm vermicomposting. Also to control rodents etc, it's recommended to bury the scraps 2ft deep.
Freeze them first then cover with cardboard before u cover over with dirt or freeze in a little cardboard box. Makes whole process easier, neater and faster!
thanks for the video ! Is watering the soil where you bury the scraps necessary for the process ? Or can you just bury and not have to water / keep the ground moist ?
Yeah why not, if you give the land a month or two to break it down. If you Bokashi the scraps first, they will break down very fast and it will be great for the soil.
We live in a rural area, and we’re worried about attracting predators. Instead of burying scraps whole, I’ve been putting them in a blender, and dumping the “soup” in the garden. Will that be ass effective as burying whole scraps?
People that used to grown their own food for centuries before this modern era , you can bet they did bury the scraps if they didn't feed them to animals. Unfortunately now we live in a world filled with waste .
They surely didn't, they used everything. It would have gone first to make the next day's meal 😅 if not that to the livestock eg, chickens/ pigs etc, if not them then the compost bin. All finding its way back to the soil as manure or compost... brilliant. Just how it was intended. The modern world is so out of touch.
What's your view on bokashi, mate? To be honest, I'm not sold on it. Don't see the benefit of fermenting food waste first and then burying it, when you can just bury it directly like this. The waste breaks down just the same. Plus the ongoing expense of buying the bokashi bran. Maybe I'm missing something but it just seems like an unnecessary process.
I think you've hit the nail on the head and its just another fad. Its the first Ive heard of it. I think if you have a composty bin avalible then that would be my 2nd choice for kitchen scraps. 1st choice would be to put them in a wormery to make humus and 3rd Burry them. I just got my Calafornia worms and need to get a worm bin built this next few days, the idea will be to feed them all our kitchen scraps and garden trimmings will go to the compost bin. Cant wait to get on it. Thanks Rough for you comment! I kinda waffled on a bit their, lol.
You’re right. However, Bokashi is quite useful for apartment dwellers. I’ve done Bokashi with free buckets and inoculate rice bran but would never buy the expensive Bokashi bucket things. It’s an extra step( several, actually) and I much prefer to do trench composting or to put the veggie scraps in a slow compost pile.
you dont actually need bran, you can put your kitchen scrap in LAB liquid in closed container, drain the liquid before you bury them and use it as starter for your next batch
one question i have been collecting food scraps in a plastic bin which is kind of air tight. Today i opened and saw, white mould or white fungus , some parts are even black mold. can i bury them in trench composting. Will it be harmful to the soil.
😂😂 sorry for laughing, at least they had full bellys! Did you dig it deep enough down? I normally dig down 25-30 cm and we have rats here and our cats, mongoose but they never dig it up.
I had same issue years ago.....my dad suggested freezing it first in a box and burying it deeper. Worked great!!! Everything in my yard and garden looks fab!
also if you cover the scraps with coffe ground and garden lime at the top it dramtically helps with the odor. you know how coffe obsorbs odor? Same idea here
yes, I would imagine they would! I see ants digging around the scraps I've dug in especially when it has meat. I'll be making a great organic ant killer in the next video, works very well.
Hey Chris, Yes we have rats here in the country. They are a problem getting in the shed. They have not dug up or disturbed the burried kitchen scraps though which shows that digging them deeply works. I use rat traps to kill them or shoot with a air rifle. I have a video on trapping rats if you interested
is it fine to bury raw meats (chicken, pork) left over cooked food and vegetables all together??? been having a hard time disposing our food waste? im in a city 😭
Could I bury a few pounds of some old smelly beef burger about a foot deep? Directly into a new garden spot? I've got winter ahead of me in Michigan yet.
What about oxygen in this process? I heard it takes a lot of oxygen, so you shouldn't put a plant on top of the scraps. The roots would not be able to absorb enough oxygen. Is this right?
@@GreenthumbsGarden It sounds like you were born in Poland, then moved to Ireland when you were 5... then moved again to Alabama when you were 8, then moved to live with the Inuits in Alaska when you were 12... then finally moved to Yorkshire.
hey guys, thanks again for watching, be sure to let us know in the comments any gardening/ composting tips you have found helpful. Here is a link to a PDF I found covering some points and giving some additional info on the Dig and Drop method
bit.ly/DigAndDropPDF
I started doing this 2 years ago and my soil looks amazing .. I don't use any fertilizers to grow my greens (cilantro, parsley,celery,mint,verbena and chard ) and all of them grow wonderfull
Thanks for sharing, thats awsome!!
Very simple process! Gonna try soon!!
Thank you! ☺️
Gonna try this. Our council has stopped food waste collections with the COVID19 pandemic. I've already got a compost bin for veggie scraps but used the council bin for other food waste. Dont wanna throw this in with the normal rubbish so this is a great alternative.
great suggestion!
I put last summer a banana that was aready going bad. A few weeks later in same spot it was gone, the pells were dark and nothing remained. The smell of the soil was so earthy!
I literally laughed out loud at the “no cat poo, dog poo or human poo. You don’t want any of that in there” 😂😂 can’t believe you have to say that, but.. people
😂😂😂😂 you never know.
I burry my poo, you should too. Works miracles, saves water. Gone in 6 mo. As long as you're not on antibiotics or have tapeworm you should be fine.
Yay! Thank you for this great idea, will do this for sure, and the worm castings will be great
I came across your video in search for composting idea and to be honest, your video is the most simplistic and realistic video I have ever seen. The rest are just so complicated that it scares me to even start doing it. Thank you for sharing this insightful video. Can you also share if "dig & drop" can be applied on winter/cold months? What do you do or any recommendations?
Thanks very much, Gigi, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Yes I'm sure you can do it any time of year. I'm sure it will change how fast it is broken down by the microbes and worms but I would not worry or overthink it. Just dig a hole, if it contains any meats then make it 30cm deep so not to attract rats and cover it over and forget about it.
@@GreenthumbsGarden Thank you so much for responding back! I've subscribed to your channel so I can easily get updated. Have a great day ahead.
Perfectly done !!!
That's how i Fertilized my garden when i first started gardening, then i moves on to compost piles. Now I'm vermicomposting. Also to control rodents etc, it's recommended to bury the scraps 2ft deep.
I love the idea of vermicomposting, and have a few nice ideas to apply it in the future. Keep up the great work!
@@GreenthumbsGarden i wish you all the best with the vermicomposting.
Freeze them first then cover with cardboard before u cover over with dirt or freeze in a little cardboard box. Makes whole process easier, neater and faster!
Good site! I'm glad to have found you!
Nothing left to be seen(salmon)..... Somewhere a Racoon is laughing!
🤣😂🤣 or a rat
thanks for the video ! Is watering the soil where you bury the scraps necessary for the process ? Or can you just bury and not have to water / keep the ground moist ?
fresh soil!
You may add urine to that soil bed to speed up the composting process plus urine is excellent organic fertiliser.
great idea Ming!
should you do it just once a year or more times on top of it ? also can you do both horse manure in fall combined with kitchen scraps? thanks
Yeah why not, if you give the land a month or two to break it down. If you Bokashi the scraps first, they will break down very fast and it will be great for the soil.
We live in a rural area, and we’re worried about attracting predators. Instead of burying scraps whole, I’ve been putting them in a blender, and dumping the “soup” in the garden. Will that be ass effective as burying whole scraps?
Okay and wait 2 month for it and dowe have time and room to do that fing
Hi
Thanks for the video
When I bury my scraps I always get ants in the bed
How do you avoid that?
hmm difficult with ants, I normally don't worry too much as they braking it down and I don't plant in the area that im using to dig and drop.
Thanks for the video! Can i add the compost to my trees if it contains some worms? Im worried if i do that the worms would eat the tree roots.??
worms are our best friend! yes sure you can, they promote healthy soil.
I think he meant maggots. It should be okay, cos maggots eat rotten stuffs not living things. Well the regular ones at least.
Does this work in a raised bed garden?
Yes sure it will! Just remember you can not plant on top for a couple of months why it is decomposing but you could to the side of it.
People that used to grown their own food for centuries before this modern era , you can bet they did bury the scraps if they didn't feed them to animals. Unfortunately now we live in a world filled with waste .
They surely didn't, they used everything. It would have gone first to make the next day's meal 😅 if not that to the livestock eg, chickens/ pigs etc, if not them then the compost bin. All finding its way back to the soil as manure or compost... brilliant. Just how it was intended. The modern world is so out of touch.
What's your view on bokashi, mate? To be honest, I'm not sold on it. Don't see the benefit of fermenting food waste first and then burying it, when you can just bury it directly like this. The waste breaks down just the same. Plus the ongoing expense of buying the bokashi bran. Maybe I'm missing something but it just seems like an unnecessary process.
I think you've hit the nail on the head and its just another fad. Its the first Ive heard of it. I think if you have a composty bin avalible then that would be my 2nd choice for kitchen scraps. 1st choice would be to put them in a wormery to make humus and 3rd Burry them. I just got my Calafornia worms and need to get a worm bin built this next few days, the idea will be to feed them all our kitchen scraps and garden trimmings will go to the compost bin. Cant wait to get on it. Thanks Rough for you comment! I kinda waffled on a bit their, lol.
You’re right. However, Bokashi is quite useful for apartment dwellers. I’ve done Bokashi with free buckets and inoculate rice bran but would never buy the expensive Bokashi bucket things. It’s an extra step( several, actually) and I much prefer to do trench composting or to put the veggie scraps in a slow compost pile.
you dont actually need bran, you can put your kitchen scrap in LAB liquid in closed container, drain the liquid before you bury them and use it as starter for your next batch
one question i have been collecting food scraps in a plastic bin which is kind of air tight. Today i opened and saw, white mould or white fungus , some parts are even black mold. can i bury them in trench composting. Will it be harmful to the soil.
Yes bury it will be fine
I tried this and before I knew it I had every cat, skunk, bear, raccoon, possum, and fox within ten miles in my yard :( It twas a critter buffet!
😂😂 sorry for laughing, at least they had full bellys! Did you dig it deep enough down? I normally dig down 25-30 cm and we have rats here and our cats, mongoose but they never dig it up.
I had same issue years ago.....my dad suggested freezing it first in a box and burying it deeper. Worked great!!! Everything in my yard and garden looks fab!
also if you cover the scraps with coffe ground and garden lime at the top it dramtically helps with the odor. you know how coffe obsorbs odor? Same idea here
I heard that citrus and hot pepper scraps should not be thrown into mix. Is this true?
Im not sure, but i would not think so. I can not see it been a problem.
@@GreenthumbsGarden might hurt the worms b. Hole when coming out????😜
I put them both in with no problem. Whatever the worms don't eat, the soil microbes will.
Would this attract lots of flies?
Someone's been eating a lot of gambas 🍤
I hate ants and termites in my yard ! Do you think kitchen scraps would attract more of them!
yes, I would imagine they would! I see ants digging around the scraps I've dug in especially when it has meat. I'll be making a great organic ant killer in the next video, works very well.
Don't you get rat and pest problem? How do you mitigate them?
Hey Chris, Yes we have rats here in the country. They are a problem getting in the shed. They have not dug up or disturbed the burried kitchen scraps though which shows that digging them deeply works. I use rat traps to kill them or shoot with a air rifle. I have a video on trapping rats if you interested
is it fine to bury raw meats (chicken, pork) left over cooked food and vegetables all together??? been having a hard time disposing our food waste? im in a city 😭
yes but dig them deeper, 30-40cm so as not to attract rats
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Could I bury a few pounds of some old smelly beef burger about a foot deep? Directly into a new garden spot? I've got winter ahead of me in Michigan yet.
yes should be perfectly fine. check this PDF link with some useful information
bit.ly/DigAndDropPDF
If I give you my address can you post me some soil?
What about oxygen in this process? I heard it takes a lot of oxygen, so you shouldn't put a plant on top of the scraps. The roots would not be able to absorb enough oxygen. Is this right?
That's right, don't do this where you plan to plant on top immediately. The scraps get oxegen as its not so deep.
@@GreenthumbsGarden thanks for the quick reply!
We have raccoons where I live, they might dig it all up.
Yes they might! Unless you dig deep about 30cm. Let us all know how you get on, if they will sniff it out even after digging it deeply.
And cover with coffee grounds or a layer of shredded leaves. To hide the smell.
Samfing instead of something 🤣🤣🤣
Burefool spooongie soil 🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣😂
What kind of accent do you have?
Yorkshire :-)
@@GreenthumbsGarden It sounds like you were born in Poland, then moved to Ireland when you were 5... then moved again to Alabama when you were 8, then moved to live with the Inuits in Alaska when you were 12... then finally moved to Yorkshire.