EXCLUSIVE LIMITED TIME SALE ON THE NEW ELEVATED RAISED BED!!! teamgrow.us/collections/elevated-garden-beds TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 00:10 Preparing the Food Scraps 00:53 Burying the Food Scraps 01:25 Transplanting the Plants on the Food Scraps 02:07 17 Days after Transplanting 02:53 24 Days after Transplanting 03:25 42 Days after Transplanting 04:20 52 Days after Transplanting 04:40 80 Days after Transplanting 04:59 96 Days after Transplanting 05:43 The First Harvest 07:02 Weighing the Harvest 07:30 104 Days after Transplanting 09:01 The Second Harvest 09:57 165 Days after Transplanting 10:25 The Third Harvest 11:07 Digging up the Food Scraps at the End of the Season 13:38 Was it Worth it to Bury the Food Scraps 15:06 Final Thoughts Grab a Raised Bed and Support Team Grow 😁🐕❤
I just stumbled upon your channel I watched the video you grew potatoes in cardboard boxes. I've always been growing curious and now I want to try. I live in South East Texas close to a coastal region with loads of humidity and heat what's the best thing for a beginner in that area to grow?
I am so glad you are advocating this. Those of us in drier climates may have trouble composting, so diced food scraps may be more practical than above ground composting and combating evaporation in the large compost piles.
I put food scraps in my raised bed all season. Just put them in between the plants on either end… The avocado trees on one end are huge, and the tomato plant on the other end is huge and super productive, even now into November!
Yeah I agree and I think if I had to choose a season I would think putting food scraps in the fall would be even better. This way the food scrap is composted by spring and not robbing nutrients during the decay process while a plant is trying to actively grow.
James, this video was fantastic. When you watch a short video it can be hard to appreciate the months of planning and testing you did for this experiment. This was so well done and I was also surprised that absolutely nothing was left. You must have great soil health. Great job! If I could grow a fraction of the tomatoes you grow, I would be in heaven.
Kitchen scraps become soil in a matter of months after you bury them. I layered a large flower pot with yard waste, soil, kitchen scraps, and soil 3 times until it was 3/4 full, then filled it with potting soil. Planted a tomato plant and when it got too big, transplanted it elsewhere. Dug all the way to the bottom of the pot and there was nothing but soil.
I wish I had my own place with enough land/materials to do what you do, but until then I’m just enjoying learning and living vicariously through your work. I really enjoy tomatoes too.❤
Watching your video in Hong Kong. I'm thinking of planting tomatoes in the charity farm. Your video is very inspiring. I'll bury some scrape before I transplant them. Thanks a lot.
Thank you for doing this. I’m in zone 6B and I have planted food scraps out in my garden plot for the next growing season. You have just confirmed what I thought would happen and I can’t wait to go out there even during the winter when the snow is on the ground and is not frozen yet to continue to bury vegetable and fruit scraps out in my garden plot. My plot is covered with leaves and straw, and so the ground is still very soft. I am so excited thank you so much. I did subscribe.😊
Awesome to know that s raps can be added directly. My brother closes his garden in No ember by leaving a trench in each row. He then drops food scraps and covers a small area at a time thru the winter. 🥕
Awesome experiment! I’ll have to try this next season! Those elevated garden beds looks awesome! Thanks to you and Tuck for continuing to help us grow more! 🌱❤️
I unintentionally did what you suggest and planted some tomatoes over a food scrap hole about three months after I had buried the scraps, and other tomatoes farther along the row that didn’t have a food scraps hole. The tomatoes with food scraps under them were definitely sweeter.
I usually have food scraps that I’ve saved in my freezer that I put on top of my beds before I heavily mulch them to put them to sleep for the winter. There is not a space that I can dig in and not find worms.
I used to bury my kitchen scraps in a trench down the center in town but moved to the countryside and as soon as I put something in, a coyote or something comes at night and digs it up. I find a dug hole and half chewed up old potatoes and eggshells strewed about. 😂 And canine footprints. I was only planting potatoes, onions and garlic out there because of deer as it was.
Deer or raccoons dig through my compost pile to eat scraps, so I put them to work. I bury the scraps in an area that needs turned. The deer or raccoons dig up and turn a lot more of my compost looking for the fresh scraps, so they help me out. Occasionally I have a liquid like old coffee or spoiled mild or juice to add to my pile. I spread that out over an area needing turned, and sometimes they'll loosen my pile while searching for the food they can't find.
Love the end-to-end video, James! I realize they are months in the making, but it's great to see footage from the start of the project all the way through the end with this kind of continuity.
A while back I noticed that the trees near my compost pile were doing amazing so I moved away from a general compost pile to trench composting my kitchen scraps all over the garden and my plants are loving it. However, I don't use any rinds or stems which can take too long to break down or roots or seeds which may lead to inadvertent germination. Everything else still goes in the old composting location. The soil is getting super healthy everywhere and fingers crossed for bumper yields like with your tomatoes! 🤗
Thank you for the video. I enjoy watching and learning from you. You are referenced in other content creators' videos that grow food. I am a sponge and thoroughly enjoy and take away what i can do and who i can interact with for producing food.❤
Hay James, I did that also last year,but did it in the winter and when spring came i planted my transplants and I too had an amazing harvest on 8 cherry tomatoes and regular tomatoes. I learned this from mind Gardner, you 2 have great methods and I combined both of your ideas!😊❤ Awesome video! Brad. NJ
lol I definitely am going to try the snake beans I love his sense of humor, but he did get over to me. I guess there’s just some of us who enjoy some good humor when things are so tough in the world, but since he works for a rare seeds. I know he’s being serious about the benefits, thank you❤
This was FANTASTIC. You put into practice every "mith" we see around the internet. I was watching and at first I thought "why he would do thatz it doesn't work" BUT you really conducted the whole experiment 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 thank you so much
I can’t believe how nice the tomatoes came out , and you didn’t use any potting soil or mix that shows us that sand is good. That elevated bed would be ideal for me with a bad knee get down to plant and have to holler at the kids to help me get up😅. Hey tuck❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤fun stuff 😊
Good morning my friend. Thank you for sharing another amazing tip. Always learning something new from your channel. Have a great day. Enjoy your family and God bless everyone.🙏💕🌍
This was a super cool experiment! I’ve always heard not to put citrus in compost due to the acid. Apparently that is not an issue! More research for me to do.
Visually, you saw the benefit of burying food scraps by the height of the plant. But what i seem to notice is the yield was not as great as i was expecting it to be. What i think happened is the plant put all that extra nutrients into getting bigger, taller but NOT putting it into fruit production. It should have spent the energy and time into producing fruit. If you had kept both control and food scrap plants the same height, i think you would have had a much bigger return on fruit
Yay the planter reveal! Looks good. Please do a video on how you'd water in a grid-down situation? How would you replace the greenhouse plastic cover once it wears out if you couldn't buy more?
I like how you did this experiment. It would be even more interesting if you try doing this again, but have more than 2 plants. That way you can show it is repeatable and observe to see if it is consistent -- the same or different results.
I've done this....its a huge diffrence...I take all my eggshells in my food processor....turn it into dust.....always bury that underneath all my plants....no blossom and rot
Why did I feel bad for the one without food scraps lol, but seriously nice expirement. Don't garden myself but really enjoying your videos, might inspire me to grow something.
That size of tomato freezes So WELL whole... just yank the green stem off. Then, you pop a frozen tomato into your mouth for a delicious taste of summer produce anytime of year instead of reaching for something as hazardous to your health as Coca-cola. As the tomato de-frosts and softens in your mouth and then reaches a chewable stage, you'll realize you just had a delicious vitamin C supplement.
Can you introduce worms into raised garden beds? Thank you! I always learn so much from you. Have you planted the perennial ground cherry? I’m considering it…😊
One thing you forgot to mention was did you fertilize these tomato plants at all? I know you put food scraps under the first one but did you then continue to fertilize these plants and if so how often this is very important information that was left out
I’ve been doing this now. I have rats and it’s hard to get rid of them. Been trying to catch them in cages. What a headache now I’m building enclosures with steel and wood around my raised beds.
I have an “experiment idea”. What about the effects of growing tomatoes upside-down (remember the As Seen on TV “topsy-turveys” several years ago lol) vs. in the ground/raised bed?🤔
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:10 Preparing the Food Scraps
00:53 Burying the Food Scraps
01:25 Transplanting the Plants on the Food Scraps
02:07 17 Days after Transplanting
02:53 24 Days after Transplanting
03:25 42 Days after Transplanting
04:20 52 Days after Transplanting
04:40 80 Days after Transplanting
04:59 96 Days after Transplanting
05:43 The First Harvest
07:02 Weighing the Harvest
07:30 104 Days after Transplanting
09:01 The Second Harvest
09:57 165 Days after Transplanting
10:25 The Third Harvest
11:07 Digging up the Food Scraps at the End of the Season
13:38 Was it Worth it to Bury the Food Scraps
15:06 Final Thoughts
Grab a Raised Bed and Support Team Grow 😁🐕❤
I just stumbled upon your channel I watched the video you grew potatoes in cardboard boxes. I've always been growing curious and now I want to try. I live in South East Texas close to a coastal region with loads of humidity and heat what's the best thing for a beginner in that area to grow?
My husband fishes a lot. I freeze the scraps from cleaning them all winter. Then, in the spring, I bury them under my tomatoes. Plants go crazy
I am so glad you are advocating this. Those of us in drier climates may have trouble composting, so diced food scraps may be more practical than above ground composting and combating evaporation in the large compost piles.
Use a tarp on your compost pile/bin. Look out! It may get too hot. I've seen compost ignite.
A coffee grinder works really well to crush egg shells and you can find them in thrift stores for a few bucks.
I think the sardines were probably the major influence. Native Americans used to bury fish under their crops.
Yeah, the sardines, not the food waste. He should have done it without the sardines.
I put food scraps in my raised bed all season. Just put them in between the plants on either end… The avocado trees on one end are huge, and the tomato plant on the other end is huge and super productive, even now into November!
Yeah I agree and I think if I had to choose a season I would think putting food scraps in the fall would be even better. This way the food scrap is composted by spring and not robbing nutrients during the decay process while a plant is trying to actively grow.
Don't you get skunks and other animals?
@ No, because the raised beds are 32 inches off the ground, and our yard is surrounded by a fence!
@@robertaj3767 ok, my containers are too low,
James, this video was fantastic. When you watch a short video it can be hard to appreciate the months of planning and testing you did for this experiment. This was so well done and I was also surprised that absolutely nothing was left. You must have great soil health. Great job! If I could grow a fraction of the tomatoes you grow, I would be in heaven.
❤❤❤❤ for Tuck, the Boss, and his assistant, James
Haha! Let's Gooo!! King Tuck 👑🐕
Kitchen scraps become soil in a matter of months after you bury them. I layered a large flower pot with yard waste, soil, kitchen scraps, and soil 3 times until it was 3/4 full, then filled it with potting soil. Planted a tomato plant and when it got too big, transplanted it elsewhere. Dug all the way to the bottom of the pot and there was nothing but soil.
I wish I had my own place with enough land/materials to do what you do, but until then I’m just enjoying learning and living vicariously through your work. I really enjoy tomatoes too.❤
Watching your video in Hong Kong. I'm thinking of planting tomatoes in the charity farm. Your video is very inspiring. I'll bury some scrape before I transplant them. Thanks a lot.
Thank you for doing this. I’m in zone 6B and I have planted food scraps out in my garden plot for the next growing season. You have just confirmed what I thought would happen and I can’t wait to go out there even during the winter when the snow is on the ground and is not frozen yet to continue to bury vegetable and fruit scraps out in my garden plot. My plot is covered with leaves and straw, and so the ground is still very soft. I am so excited thank you so much. I did subscribe.😊
Awesome to know that s raps can be added directly. My brother closes his garden in No ember by leaving a trench in each row. He then drops food scraps and covers a small area at a time thru the winter. 🥕
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤!!! Great experiment. Love seeing Tuck in the garden...
Awesome experiment! I’ll have to try this next season! Those elevated garden beds looks awesome! Thanks to you and Tuck for continuing to help us grow more! 🌱❤️
I would have like you to do a taste compare with the two tomatoes plants. To see if the one with scrapes taste sweeter or less...1❤
I unintentionally did what you suggest and planted some tomatoes over a food scrap hole about three months after I had buried the scraps, and other tomatoes farther along the row that didn’t have a food scraps hole. The tomatoes with food scraps under them were definitely sweeter.
Tuck was hoping that you were digging up carrots! 😄 ❤❤❤❤ for Tuck!
😅I really loved when you dug up the food scraps and their wasn't ahany! Love it!
I love these experiments! ❤❤❤ For the little boss, Tuck!
I usually have food scraps that I’ve saved in my freezer that I put on top of my beds before I heavily mulch them to put them to sleep for the winter. There is not a space that I can dig in and not find worms.
All winter long I throw my food scraps in raised beds then come spring I just bury in whatever the wild life doesn’t eat.
Brilliant Idea!
Same❤ learned from my mom went back to the basics stop buying fertilizers so unnecessary
How do you keep rats/mice away from scraps pls
@ just don’t have rats and the few mice or voles we get are controlled by feral cats, hawks, eagles or anything else that eats them.
They wont bother them after they are buried it
@@VK-qo1gm
I have guava tree that is always giving. The fruit grows pretty big and sweet. Thanks for your tips!!
Experiment Idea #9: relationship between Watering Frequency and Vegetable Yield
I used to bury my kitchen scraps in a trench down the center in town but moved to the countryside and as soon as I put something in, a coyote or something comes at night and digs it up. I find a dug hole and half chewed up old potatoes and eggshells strewed about. 😂 And canine footprints.
I was only planting potatoes, onions and garlic out there because of deer as it was.
Deer or raccoons dig through my compost pile to eat scraps, so I put them to work. I bury the scraps in an area that needs turned. The deer or raccoons dig up and turn a lot more of my compost looking for the fresh scraps, so they help me out. Occasionally I have a liquid like old coffee or spoiled mild or juice to add to my pile. I spread that out over an area needing turned, and sometimes they'll loosen my pile while searching for the food they can't find.
@@judyhamblin9366 lol, I like the way you think!
Thanks James!!!
Robbie and Gary in California do this very successfully.
Love this idea!
Let's Gooo!!!
Love the end-to-end video, James! I realize they are months in the making, but it's great to see footage from the start of the project all the way through the end with this kind of continuity.
Great experiment,it took a lot of time, your patience has been rewarded.
A while back I noticed that the trees near my compost pile were doing amazing so I moved away from a general compost pile to trench composting my kitchen scraps all over the garden and my plants are loving it. However, I don't use any rinds or stems which can take too long to break down or roots or seeds which may lead to inadvertent germination. Everything else still goes in the old composting location. The soil is getting super healthy everywhere and fingers crossed for bumper yields like with your tomatoes! 🤗
Thank you for the video. I enjoy watching and learning from you. You are referenced in other content creators' videos that grow food. I am a sponge and thoroughly enjoy and take away what i can do and who i can interact with for producing food.❤
Hay James,
I did that also last year,but did it in the winter and when spring came i planted my transplants and I too had an amazing harvest on 8 cherry tomatoes and regular tomatoes.
I learned this from mind Gardner, you 2 have great methods and I combined both of your ideas!😊❤
Awesome video!
Brad.
NJ
lol I definitely am going to try the snake beans I love his sense of humor, but he did get over to me. I guess there’s just some of us who enjoy some good humor when things are so tough in the world, but since he works for a rare seeds. I know he’s being serious about the benefits, thank you❤
Look at that video quality!
I love nature so much it’s perfect.
This was FANTASTIC. You put into practice every "mith" we see around the internet. I was watching and at first I thought "why he would do thatz it doesn't work" BUT you really conducted the whole experiment 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 thank you so much
I love this kind of comparisons! 🫶
Amazing!! Thanks for this. I am surprised as well. Tuck 💜💜
I love watching your videos. They are so informative 😊
Yes. Food scraps. Great ideas. I do the same. Even with tomatoes that are scraps. I find out I get volunteers to pop up tgis year.
King Tuck! He's hopeful of getting some carrots. 👌
Very useful information. Thanks James &Tuck ❤❤❤
Impressive experiment...❤Always enjoyed your videos thanks for the tips on gardening..❤❤❤❤
Crazy cool! ❤❤❤❤❤ for Tuck!
What a fantastic video! Such good content and very well done with the experiment
What a great idea!! 🌿
Great video James! Simple, easy and effective!!! 💙💚💛🧡❤️💜Liz
I can’t believe how nice the tomatoes came out , and you didn’t use any potting soil or mix that shows us that sand is good. That elevated bed would be ideal for me with a bad knee get down to plant and have to holler at the kids to help me get up😅. Hey tuck❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤fun stuff 😊
Good morning my friend. Thank you for sharing another amazing tip. Always learning something new from your channel. Have a great day. Enjoy your family and God bless everyone.🙏💕🌍
Gosh James another crazy good idea, thank you!
This was a super cool experiment! I’ve always heard not to put citrus in compost due to the acid. Apparently that is not an issue! More research for me to do.
You can't put heavily sprayed citrus in, the poison - organic everything
This works great in raised beds too- add worms!
Tuckabone really helped out there 😊
Great Work! i love seeing experiments like this!
In the fall I do not even bury the scraps. I place them around the plant and place leaf mulch on top. Works great!
Just found your channel and absolutely love your content. Informational and fun.
Visually, you saw the benefit of burying food scraps by the height of the plant. But what i seem to notice is the yield was not as great as i was expecting it to be. What i think happened is the plant put all that extra nutrients into getting bigger, taller but NOT putting it into fruit production. It should have spent the energy and time into producing fruit. If you had kept both control and food scrap plants the same height, i think you would have had a much bigger return on fruit
Thanks for sharing. Great information.
Experiment Idea #8: Effect of Different Types of Irrigation (Drip vs. Sprinkler) on Vegetable Growth
We need patience to wait for the results. I congratulate you. I am very happy to get to know you
Great Video!
It was an interesting experiment,,👍🇮🇳
Experiment Idea #13: are there any benefits to Crop Rotation? that's all i got, excited to see what you come up with!
Loving all the ideas. Me and Tuck will definitely be doing some of these next year! 👍😁🐕
Yay the planter reveal! Looks good. Please do a video on how you'd water in a grid-down situation? How would you replace the greenhouse plastic cover once it wears out if you couldn't buy more?
Skunks dig that stuff up here
Thank you
This is amazing thank you !!!
❤❤❤❤❤🐶❤❤❤❤❤ for Tuck!
I like how you did this experiment. It would be even more interesting if you try doing this again, but have more than 2 plants. That way you can show it is repeatable and observe to see if it is consistent -- the same or different results.
Very good
Very informative video 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
Fantastic!
I've done this....its a huge diffrence...I take all my eggshells in my food processor....turn it into dust.....always bury that underneath all my plants....no blossom and rot
Also in Jersey-- how are you and Tuck handling the drought? Best wishes!
Thanks for sharing
Useful information 👍
Experiment Idea #5: Effect of Intercropping on Vegetable Yield (Test how planting two or more vegetable species together affects overall yield)
I've buried scraps in my earth boxes before, when my composters were full. They magically "disappeared" too, leaving behind some great soil.
I have to try this. Thank you for expirementing
Why did I feel bad for the one without food scraps lol, but seriously nice expirement. Don't garden myself but really enjoying your videos, might inspire me to grow something.
Your man Tuck is trying to help with the tomato plant! 😂
I love your channel.💐
can you make a persimmon vid I'm looking to get one
You live in some really great climate. You still have summer clothes on in November. I live in Nebraska.
Love your energy, a great result.
Where are you growing to have toms outside in November ? ❤
Awesome video. Maybe for a future experiment you can try this in a container, might be easier to see what remains of the scraps.
Experiment Idea #12: Effect of Deep vs. Shallow Planting
What a great idea!
I just planted some apple seeds in the ground to grow my own apple variety
This would be good for tomatoes in containers!
That size of tomato freezes So WELL whole... just yank the green stem off. Then, you pop a frozen tomato into your mouth for a delicious taste of summer produce anytime of year instead of reaching for something as hazardous to your health as Coca-cola. As the tomato de-frosts and softens in your mouth and then reaches a chewable stage, you'll realize you just had a delicious vitamin C supplement.
Can you introduce worms into raised garden beds? Thank you! I always learn so much from you. Have you planted the perennial ground cherry? I’m considering it…😊
One thing you forgot to mention was did you fertilize these tomato plants at all? I know you put food scraps under the first one but did you then continue to fertilize these plants and if so how often this is very important information that was left out
Experiment Idea #6: Effect of Temperature on Germination Rates
both economical and effective. Can I use eggshells?
Experiment Idea #7: Raised Beds vs. Traditional Ground Planting
Interesting great experiment! 👍 How about comparing the taste of the tomatoes from these two plants?
I’ve been doing this now. I have rats and it’s hard to get rid of them. Been trying to catch them in cages. What a headache now I’m building enclosures with steel and wood around my raised beds.
Try mix of baking soda and cornmeal in a bucket - there’s a vid on YT
@@sibsterm2273yeah and then people still head scratch about baking soda being ok in cooking and cakes😢 it's poison and a waste product people (!!!)
Experiment Idea #4: Effect of Container Size on Vegetable Growth
I have an “experiment idea”. What about the effects of growing tomatoes upside-down (remember the As Seen on TV “topsy-turveys” several years ago lol) vs. in the ground/raised bed?🤔
Experiment Idea #10: Effect of Organic vs. Synthetic Fertilizers on Vegetable Growth