Bury Kitchen Scraps Directly in Garden and This Happens
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- Bury Kitchen Scraps Directly in Garden to make compost right in your garden. This is the most straight forward and easiest way to make compost. Make sure your kitchen scraps include banana peel, produce cuttings, as well as some paper towel or dry material to provide carbon . Also make sure your garden has earth worms. If you do not have earth worms, buy some red wigglers online. Do not plant anything until the organic matter decomposes. Keep the area moist to provide perfect conditions for earth worms. You will surely create worm casting right in your garden.
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I feel like it's becoming more and more important for us to all learn these things and get more on the path of being self sustaining
I totally agree, you can get to the point where you barely need to buy anything, you use the seeds from prior crops, make your own compost and collect it from neighbours as well, you can even collect rainwater for watering and make compost tea for extra fertilizer. There is something so empowering and gratifying about making something that feeds you and your family from what other people just throw away and knowing that you are giving to the planet more than you are taking from it.
Yes lots of gm foods, and chemicals on food we eat.
@@chelseaclerke3582 what is compost tea? How do you make it?
Amen to that sister!! 👍👍
Lol u and every girl.
I’ve been doing this in my garden for years. The soil there is unbelievable. I think you could plant a toothpick and it would grow.
Same here. I planted a nail and now have a crowbar, works a treat.
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Just a SILLY QUESTION,,,ARE YOU SELLING THE,,, TOOTH PIC'S. HE HE ONLY A JOKE X
944. Ha ha good one
@@e210dall3 🤣🤣🤣nice one
You are the man of patience. I get mad when I grow stuff because I check on them 20 times a day.
Huadong Feng 😂 exactly how I am. I try to watch them grow every couple of hours as if they made a fruit already 😆
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@@13glitchez Me too!😂😂😂
You won’t if you plant too much
@@chaixiyao Yep, I started planting basil this year for making pesto, at the beginning, I was watching them 20 times a day. and they just won't grow, they now grow like weed in my yard...
I live in New England. We have a short growing season compare to warm weather climites. I have a small compost bin which we put all our veg. scraps. At the end of the season before the ground freezes, I dig trenches in the garden and bury most of the mulch and then tarp the top of my garden .In the spring when it is time to plant I pull the tarp off for a week and remix the soil, then plant. I have done this for 2 years now and it seems to really help my garden .I did not know about the napkins and will start to compost that too. Also I'm going to try doing some of my scraps into the garden and follow your directions. Thanks!
I've been doing this for years, and find it more effective than using a compost heap or bin. I also scatter my garden waste directly on the ground (under or behind tall plants so the garden doesn't look a mess), including woody stems and branches that won't rot quickly, but provide living space for bugs. I always put banana skins directly around the stems of plants, especially roses (after a few hours they are black and you dont see them). My garden is heavily planted but lush, and I don't use artificial fertiliser or any form of insecticide.
how about rat.. dont the come to mess
My neighbor threw all her kitchen scraps in a open pile in her tomatoe garden, ncluding chicken bones. Within a few days Rats came over to her kitchen scrap buffet. She had the balls to call the city rodent control on me, telling the city rodent inspector that rats were living in my garage. Welp, the rat patrol came out to my home and wanted to inspect the outer perimeters of my garage, and found no visible indication of pest infestation. But I pointed out my neighbors rat buffet, and he almost had a stroke. He stormed over to her front door, got her to come out and accompany him to behind her garage where her tomato garden was located.
As I was standing at the fence that separated her property and mine when Mr. Rat patrol told her to immediately clean up her kitchen garbage in his presence, or he was going to give her a $250 dollar ticket. She asked about her complaint about my garage harboring rats - and he told her that my garage has no rodent problem but her yard has. He informed her that SHE was the problem that attracted rat's in her backyard. She was really pissed at him for not giving me a ticket, but threatened to give her one instead. So people living in the city, please keep an eye on your kitchen scraps used as composting material.
@@rickprusak9326 It's the chicken bones not the uncooked plant latter usually. Things that are cooked with milk or other fats attract rodents. Just boiled veg without anything added not so much. Any meat is bad because of rodent and other pest attraction. It works but you don't want to try it in a populated area or anything near your own home or gardens period. Even to compost.
Rats don't like healthy things. You put a strawberry out in the garden and they leave it alone. You put a peanut butter on bread and they will come. They do not eat vegetable and fruit scraps. They most certainly will eat meat scraps as they need the high-calorie and proteins @@rickprusak9326
I noticed u used a plastic bag to gather ur kitchen scraps and then mentioned u need carbon such as paper towels in ur scraps; what I do is save paper bags from things like suger or flour and use those bags to put scraps in and I toss the whole thing in my compost area, works great!
Great idea, i don't use paper bag because sometime i have tomatoes and other scraps with juices and the paper bag get wet and tears from the bottom. I recycle plastic.
Daisy Creek Farms Yeah I have that issue too but there always seems to be some scrap paper that needs recycling so I put that on the bottom of the bag first, either layered or scrunched up....it works great kinda 3 birds with one stone....I was GIDDY when I thought of it 😁
That's great! will try it!! :)
I keep a covered 1 gal. ice cream pail in the kitchen to add all manor of scraps to & when full (or getting rather ripe) will take it out to the garden for burial. Rinse & repeat.
Cin Mor I also do the same thing
Nice to have someone actually show this process In Detail for people just starting out
Exactly! Most videos scared the heck outta me lol
We started this last year and include shredded paper as well. Great garden this year. I used to hate junk mail. Now I love it and want more.
I love gardening but may I ask what does shredded paper do? How does that help?
@@marthaz1183 Its made out of cellulose, which is natural fiber, containing ~40% carbon. When it decomposes, its filling soild with carbon, and that balances out the nitrogen coming from green leaves and trimmings.
what about the ink printed on the junk mail???? is that beneficial to the plants and is that safe to consume in ur body?????
@@terrelloverton1701 They say that the shiny magazine papers are bad ones, because of the plastic layer covering them, but the paint is so thin, it will not cause a problem.
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my grandparents did this for decades, they had a fabulous garden, and fed friends and family from it
Excellent video! No added information that's not pertinent to the topic (we don't need to know the history of fertilizers like some others like to blah-blah-blah about), no time wasted on showing the viewer unnecessary steps (like cutting up food scraps) and straightforward easy to understand content. Nice presentation, nice looking and nice voice! A+
I have been doing this for 8 years, and have thousands and thousands of worms all over the garden. My place is a robin paradise! In areas around established fruit trees, don't dig down too much, as it will disturb the roots. Just keep feeding your worms by burying a few bananas and/or baked potatoes. I put old sprouted potatoes in microwave first, and then cool & bury. Don't bury raw potatoes, as you will become potato farmer. I learned this the hard way. I learn everything the hard way!
Very good info
I have several volunteer potato plants this year. 😊
ok this is the way to do a video. I'm always surprised on how many videos are on youtube that never show the progress of an idea or even the end results.
I tried this method last year and the result was amazing, so I will continue doing so.
You can throw onion, celery, carrot scraps in a freezer bag to add to slow cooker bone broth.
If I put scraps in the garden, I put it in the center, cut it up with the sharp shovel and water it in after lightly covering with soil. I get a lot of free starts from sprouting avocado, squash, cucumber, tomato seeds, etc.
Thank you Jag for your videos. It really does help with my gardening. I have been using empty 5 litre plastic water bottles which I cut in half and started collecting my kitchen scraps in the bottom half and broken up recyclable cardboard egg containers and layered it with kitchen scraps, compost and water. I pierced holes in the bottom and sides and use the top as a cover to keep the flies away. It stays at my kitchen back door so its easy to fill everyday as I have so many kitchen scraps and has been working well. I will eventually take it to my garden to further compost.
I run my scraps through the blender with a little water plus add used coffee grounds before I place them in my garden that way it breaks down stalky material and it composts faster.
I remember reading once not to put any bleached paper into your compost, just unbleached paper?.??
@@sharonkriese863 Yes Ive heard that also. White paper is a no for me. Only brown. And news paper since they used some type of vegetable oil for the ink I read.
My grandmother taught me this. I used to eat fruit and just put the scraps in the garden along with coffee ground, egg shells, and veggie peels. The tomatoes 🍅 were delicious! Never had to use miracle gro.
Elder wisdom!
@Jessyca Joy am
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I do just the same , it works.
I'm so glad to see someone else doing this! I have been doing this for 11 yrs. I go round robin along my flower beds.
Do you do this to containers that have plants in them already with no earthworms?
@@lesliearellano958 I don't do it to my containers as they are too small. But when I moved here, I would stop at the local bait store (I live near a big fishing lake) and buy a box of worms and scatter them about. In a new house, the soil was essentially "dead', now, every time I put a spade into the ground, I almost always pull out at least one worm!
I also do worm castings but most of my excess food scraps gets blended using a big mouth juicer and feed it to my worms This is a good vid sir along with good advice. Those worms that come up to eat the food scraps are not regular earthworms but are in fact composting worms and are usually called red wigglers. I planted a late tomato this season and trenched the roots and added blended food scraps along with a mostly blended fish remains in the root area. No critters have dug it up thankfully. Plant is looking very good.
I was just wondering about blending the kitchen scraps! thanx
You are one person who makes sense. People making fake claims need to be censored.
I live in zone 9b, central Florida. I compost directly in all my raised beds. I garden 365 days a year.
wow! that's amazing!
9b. Me too!!
Wow awesome!!!!
Do you allow the scraps to fully compost or do you plant before the process is complete?
where are you? I am in Island Grove, Alachua County.
Yep i have three scrap bins in my garden. I get amazing compost every year. Its great as no kitchen waste at all. 🥒🍅🥕
Michael Hayward can you put egg shells?
Egg shells and coffee grounds are great for composting
@@richellek.2303 (egg shells: I find it's best to dry them out fully and then you can easily break them up into much smaller pieces (e.g. scrunch them up in a paper bag).
Richelle Krancher of course but if ambitious dry and break them up. Smaller is better
@@mikewellwood1412 or in a blender
I compost directly on top of soil and never ever water garden and my tomatoes were over 6 feet summer of 2018 Back to Eden works!
Bro thanks man in damn LOCKDOWN I am planting very well with your videos got many plants of tomato corriender kadipatta carrot onion pudina now going to plant potatoes and ladyfingers vegetables waiting for my vegies to come. Thanks and keep it up with all good deeds 🙏🍇🍈🍉🍊🍋🍌🍍🥭🍏🍐🍑🍒🍓🥝🍅🥥🥑🥔🥕🍆🌽🌶🥒🥬🥦🧄🧅🍄🏆
I literally did not know you could compost paper towels. Game changer!
worms will eat them, but the castings the leave won't be as rich as if they only ate and processed organic stuff.
why wouldnt you think so? paper is organic
I thought the bleaching of the paper towels would be bad for the compost.
The Carnager - From what I understand it is. But since it's being eaten by the worms, it'll be reduced to nothing and still come out in the castings, only it won't be as rich. I've seen comparisons done on youtube where they show the castings from worms that had nothing but natural stuff and against worms that had paper and the castings were much lighter in color than the castings with natural stuff.
@@henryettoit897 No nutrients, bleach, sizing, maybe chemical inks - fun stuff like that unless you buy health food store kind.
I love this type of composting, you can turn a unused garden bed into a worm farm until ready to plant, I cover my garden bed tho with a few sheets of tin to stop my pet dogs from getting into them and digging it all up. The worms take care of it and at the same time they multiply ...= more worms And castings so much better I believe than plastic drums . great video .
Add coffee grounds to accelerate fungus growth and breakdown...it's awesome!
Give me more info
Whoa, so that's why the grounds get a white fungus! Thanks, I was throwing many away before
@@danieloconnor732 I've learned so much in a week from RUclips, and it's not even gardening season yet and I'm making my own compost
Just be careful around animals/pets as the grounds are poisonous to dogs and who knows what other animals.
Daniel O'Connor u
I get so excited when I start to plant and my shovel finds worms right off. My needs are simple.
Put the scraps through a food processor or blender before adding to the soil. It speeds up the process.
Or you could eat it and then just throw your shit on the garden🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🐒🐒🙋🙋
Kunta Kinte....Google "night soil".
Has anyone ever tried this process?
along with some water in the food processor.
...and, I've been taking time to hand chop everything to about half an inch. Hmmm, pulsing in the food processor instead....
Love that paper towels are included here! I always compost them. I kind of feel that composting of paper towels is better than re-use of cloth napkins, as it saves water. I compost any item I feel we can and try to purchase compostable items exclusively
No idea if the water and energy used in production far outweighs any water saved to be honest.
The production and transport of paper towels makes them the worse choice over cloth as those can be used for pretty much ever
Thank you for sharing! May our Heavenly Father bless you and your family.🙏
Thank you for explaining the paper towels.
I do this in a pot on my deck and don’t have worms and I have papaya plants growing in there. Today I also found a frog loving life in that pot.
Was trimming my papaya plant today and was so focused on the new leaflettes growing that I almost missed the baby frog chillin under a leaf, hiding from the sun. Too cute
The first time I had papaya fresh in a smoothie...o got an immediate allergic reaction and could drink more than a few sips... Since then I've begun having discomfort from certain melons and bananas, I was fine with B4...it's so strange to me, I've never had any problems with anything really before that day...I wanted to add a superfood to my diet ,now im down some faves... At least I still have all my citrusy fruits..
I was wondering who was making holes in the soil of one of my pots. I watched one day as a toad made it's way up the stairs and buried itself in the soil. I guess that's one way to oxygenate the roots.
Thanks for really clarifying at the end. Really helpful and educational, I feel like nothing can stop me now
Ive done this for a few years now and my garden soil has went from a normal brown to looking essentially black it’s so full of nutrients everything I grow in it thrives like crazy compared to the other garden section I haven’t done this at yield is far more with using scraps as fertilizer. We bury scraps or toss em on top all winter long and they just turn to soil .
Hey, after composting, u grow the plants directly on top of that area or u share the compost with other areas? Thanks a lot
@@emmynguyen1693 i just grow directly ontop of the area i composted my scraps in. its full of worms by the time spring comes like alot of worms which is awesome means its full of worm poop which is exactly what the plants crave. we stop "scrap composting" where we are gonna grow about 5-6 weeks to ensure its all broken down by the natural life in soil. went from hard clay soil to rich dark black fluffy well draining but keeps moist soil for the cost of what i would throw in the garbage! chemical free nutrient rich soil! doesnt get better.
@@emmynguyen1693 also make sure to look up what you can and cant compost meats are a nono just incase you arent familiar with composting
Thank you very much for sharing. I started to do composting last year. My kitchen craps include all vegetable and fruits peels ( as long as they are not cooked with ingredients) and egg shells. I don’t put tissues though, maybe I should. In winter it’s inconvenient to bury with soil but I should make up later this month when temperatures gets higher. It’s fun to ‘ see ‘worms happily working with our garbage and turn them into nutrition for plants. Thanks worms too. Composting is so green, thinking how much it will save the industry garbage process....
Is ok to bury cooked foods also?
Great video. If you chop-up kitchen scraps the process will work faster. I also add egg shells and coffee grounds for nitrogen. I do not add oils of any kind. I learned this having a vermiculture (worms), which produced the most perfect odorless black soil, but in limited quantity.
I do this for all of mine, every year the plants I put there get better and better so I’m all for it
Luis Morgan how to avoid insects and pests from entering inside the kitchen scraps and inside the buried scraps?
Thanks for sharing! I’ve been doing this method since last month. Will take note of your suggestions not to plant while decomposition still going on. Happy gardening
Hey, that was great information. Been burying all our kitchen waste in our raised garden and stopped about a month ago to be ready for the season. Thanks for the tip on water as it has been dry here. We do have a lot of small worms and large nightcrawlers so they are working. Thank You for posting this video!
I dug a compost hole in my back yard last year and it worked out great. This year I got pumpkins from the soil I used from that hole...a lot of pumpkins.
Burrowing vermin will love this if they are in the area. I didn't have any vermin for years and then one year they found my compost even though it was well-turned. I had to give up sheet mulching and open composting and broke down and bought a few closed compost tumblers.
Our neighbor's heap brought the bears.
I quit doing it after my garden was overrun with hordes of small black ant colonies.
We do this for 10 years. Very useful for the soil
Lovely post. I'm new at this and LOVE this idea. I live alone so I don't have a lot of "stuff" for a compost pile. But this looks like the ideal way for me. Thanks so much.
I love this video - thank you! We just moved and I'm starting a garden. I'm excited to use all our scraps this way!
Me too, I have never been so excited about garbage! 🤣🤣🤣 Have fun and best of luck, this does work, I was just too lazy to do it before...
I believe in this method, it’s very effective but I bury mine a little deeper. I bury it as deep as I can, really, and put a stake or a marker where I buried last so I know where the next digging should take place. Ideally I would do this late summer and fall until cold weather comes. As early as I need it in spring it will be ready to plant.
I can't garden like I used to, as I'm 71 and not able to walk or do what I used to. I use 5 gal buckets on my porch. I've begun experimenting with a separate bucket that I have kitchen waste and soil in. Not sure it will work, but it might. If it doesn't ... back to the drawing board. Thank you for your video Jag!
Thank you, informative. I have a compost pile for my kitchen scraps; I save cardboard boxes for bottom lining the garden, but never thought of adding paper towels or brown paper bags maybe even toilet paper & paper towel tubes to my compost...what a great recycling tip!
Depending on where you live, wild animals will come during the night and dig up your scraps. We had a 400 -500 lb. Black Bear dig up ours so the next day we buried it deeper, and he came back that night and dig till he retrieved it. Unfortunately we can not do it this way. We keep our scraps and browns in a compost bin, locked inside an outdoor shed for now. But if we could, this is the way we wanted to make compost... directly into the garden. So anyone who can, go for it.
Susan, he warned about disease though if you plant there too early , did he mean disease for consumer of plants, the humans, or for the plants themselves? I have no problem at all here, but would you recommend layer..sand then food scrap , then another layer of sand etc... in that case it will be big heap!! because if every day I make a layer of the scrap.. or I just dig and add more in the same layer of the day before scrap.. in that case when to stop to allow the last scrap to be composted.. I always have that doubt! thanks Susan
Let that poor boy eat your scraps 😭😂
@@AlexxWretched yeah! That's what i thought! 😂
You may wish to suggest to your followers to mark off the area where you buried scraps with four plastic rulers or to cut out the middle of a cardboard box and leave the rectangular edge of the box over the dirt, (weighted down with a rock, or put rocks down as a border, or twist tie some sticks together to show where you planted. That way, you can leave it and not think about it again, but when you go to plant, you’ll see the rectangular reminder & can check below to make sure it’s all compost now.
I chuck scraps on my garden all the time. Saves bin space, feeds wild life and does the soil good
Same here 😁🇬🇧
I appreciate you for this information 👍🏾
Did this for years with kitchen and garden waste. Dig a huge deep hole and in the Fall fill it with leaves and dead yard waste (avoid composting invasive species of plants or they will take over). Water the leaves to add moisture. Start adding kitchen compostables. If you can through out the winter occasionally stir or flip the decomposing matter. The heat from decomp will prevent the rotting material from fully freezing even in cold areas. In the spring rototill the plot....instant black earth
👍. This is an easy way to compost.
Thank you so very much for your info since I moved into my home just last month was wondering if could start this month of the cold season here
This is what I do! Mt garden dirt is BLACK! I grew 10 feet tomato plants. Honestly, that was bad. 5 plants took over that corner.....POINT IS! This was very helpful to good black soil.
Great idea! Thanks for sharing!!
but if you dig a deep hole it is hard work.. which I am welling to do .. but smaller because I need only a big garbage can full of compost every year .. or 2 third of that.. but to turn it how if it is deep? every time you add little scrap you have to cover it with sand or only leaves? how you turn it once in awhile.. I have very mlid winter 10 degree, 50f for 2 months .. but do I have to turn it once in a while and if so how if it is a meter deep
I love when I stumble onto garden porn
Helps get thru the winter
Worms... unsung heroes
I do throw them in my compost area! The red wifglers love the feast! I throw them in the garden and a very bad planting area right now to build soil! I learned my lesson thanks to people like you!
A couple of times/ places I have been able to use about a 3'x3' area in which to do frequent veggie pitting in the same area. Effectively, i was able to create an in-the-ground worm bin and worm nursery. When I do this, I periodically dig a hole elsewhere and dump a shovels worth of worm ladden soil from the concentrated veggie pit area into the hole. Then I take the dirt dug to make the hole and put it in the concentrated, veggie pitting area. Or, every so often I add some fresh soil from around the yard on top of my concentrated veggie pitting area.
Legumes do not require compost to be applied before planting. The excess nitrogen burns the nodules on the roots of peas and beans that fix nitrogen from the air into the soil. Use crop rotation and follow heavy feeders with legumes to fix atmospheric nitrogen into the soil to replace some lost to the previous crop. Plus this will allow you to use less nitrogen based fertilizer. This is sustainable and limits inputs, so you can make your raw materials go farther. Nitrogen has a cycle, just like water. Use these to your garden's benefit. Earthworms are part of it, they are our friends! Thanks. Hope this prepares you for loads of beans looking forward.
Keep a leg ziplock bag in your freezer, add fruit/veggie peels, egg shells, coffee grounds etc to it. When full empty it into compost or in garden
I started my compost bin April 6, 2020. I try and turn it every weekend. I recently realized that there are no earthworms in my compost...is that a bad thing?
I do that for making broth for soups. Now winter soup days are over, I think I’ll thaw them out, run them through my food processor and try this. I’m at least 4 weeks away from planting. I’ll be interested in seeing how much will decompose before our last frost date.
Damn that's smart! Thank you ! No more smelly kitchen 😂
Thank you for the lovely clip and easy to follow information on your channel. No long boring bits to confuse a person. So happy I found this channel. 😀😀🌱
leaves are about the same thing as paper but with no bleaching and all. the direct burial is a good method. it works for me when i do it. You might be surprised how not tough something like a pomegranate hull is when it meets mr tandem disk.
Thank you! Very helpful. People, you need to dig down to cover the scraps so animals don't smell it and dig it up. Blending up scraps and throwing over your garden beds (as someone recommends below) creates bacterial infections in the roots and stems of your plants. You need to bury the scraps in order for the insects and soil to process the scraps properly.
My mom used to do this all the time & I used to think she was crazy but everytime she tried planting something it would grow. Neighbors would always complement our front lawn/garden. Once she randomly threw papaya seeds & they actually grew! Super tall & beautiful & made delicious juicy papayas 😋
Trench composting. When I lived in Louisiana it tried it for my potato rows. It worked great 👍 . Make sure to plant 5-8 weeks after green waste compost is put into the ground.
You have the gift of teaching. Clear, intuitive, I like it.
Fabulous, also great to feel and be in touch with mother earth. Thank you for sharing.
I put my kitchen scraps and brown paper, such as empty toilet paper and paper towel rolls, into a covered ice cream pail under the sink and when full, empty it out into the compost pile. I've just completed building a large raised bed in the garden and I'll now bury the scraps into that with the intention of increasing the fertility of the bed for planting next year.
We have a compost here in Maine (USA) that is about 5x4 feet. I have added compost worms twice over the last 10-years. I compost everything, excluding meats and cheese. All coffee and tea grounds go in, but I do not compost paper products--which get recycled separately here. My compost makes amazing fertilizer which I use throughout our garden.
Great method for adding amazing nutrients to your garden! The worms in the video are actually composting worms, most likely red wigglers. And not actually earthworms. Red wigglers are composters whereas earthworms eat dirt/soil. All that amazing "black gold" is from the red wiggler composting worms. Well done!
Nice video! This is similar to Bokashi Composting minus the fermentation process. The fermentation process keeps critters away.
Tirth Kapoor I do bokashi compost
Great stuff!! I'm gonna start doing this in my raised beds.
I use a two-gallon milk jug with a hole cut in the top around the spout for depositing kitchen scraps into.
My grandmother cut the top out of her gallon milk jug and used that for her scraps then she’d throw them into her garden and hoe them in. She always grew the most amazing garden and flowers.
I have been doing this for three years. I keep a 3 gallon pail with a tight lid in my kitchen. When it is full of scraps, I take it to one of my raised beds and dig a one cubic foot hole. I add dried leaves and the kitchen scraps. I compost at least 6 inches deep so that the local squirrels don't dig it up. I keep a chart on my computer so that I don't accidentally compost in a spot that I have recently used. I drink a lot of coffee, so a lot of coffee grounds end up in my compost. I'm told that earthworms, unfortunately, don't like coffee grounds, and sadly, it seems to be true. Every trace of the compost disappears amazingly fast, except the occasional mango seed. I enjoy the occasional mango, avocado, or papaya tree that sprouts from my compost voluntarily. Of course, these only last until the first winter freeze.
A self-taught gardener digs holes 6 inches - 1 foot deep depending on what he will plant in that hole. For the deeper holes, he layers vegetable scraps with soil and repeats until the dirt in the hole is ground level.
He then inserts a 2-3 foot stick, easily visible from many feet away, so he can see where the compost holes are: his garden yields plenty. His soil is a rich, dark brown/black color. He is retired and has the time to learn the ups and downs of gardening.
He doesn't blink. Just doesn't blink. So now I don't blink while watching and my eyes are drying up. Stop staring into my soul!
Coffee grounds too, esp. in citrus trees. They cant get enough.
Excellent video.. I also do this ..every three or four days I dig … I try to crush the waste with a stick so it’s easier to decompose
composting within the garden bed makes so much sense. Thank you.
Some old timer told me they used to do this especially where you want to plant pole beans in the future. Works well for them since they are heavy feeders.
Thank you !!❤finally some thing easy and clean!! Not mess! 👍
I bury the kitchen scrap in my garden yard and the results are amazing. My plans are blooming!
I never buried it in a bag.i just threw the scraps in the garden.did amazing job in helping the crops
I do this and have had healthy, tall sunflowers growing nearby without any upkeep for several years. The rest of the yard has trouble growing anything.
Lol I didn’t realize I had already watched this😂 I move my compost occasionally to help my whole yard. Should probably do it in a bin & use a tool to spread it around
The simplest and most effective way to make composting is to dig 2 or 3 small pits and throw kitchen waste and cover with soil or leaves or some cover. Within 2-3 weeks, composting will be done. We can use the compost pits in rotation, which gives enough time for composting.
Do we need to pour some liquid decomposer?
@@gudavida7154 Just keep the compost pile moist to help speed up the process. If the pile is set up outdoors, wet and add all the materials layer by layer in the pile first. Perhaps the rain water might work well later on but you still should check on the pile from time to time to ensure moisture exists in the pile. I did once make compost in a six inch square shaped flower pot successfully two years ago. Good luck.
I was given a worm factory 360 and it has been the coolest thing ever. I bought some night crawlers at Walmart and I’ve added too it when I dig and find them. It’s worth the investment; Stays indoors and if done right, has no smell
I also have been using the blender method for years. I ad vermiculite and a little chicken manure and love how fast the compost develops.
Dude, you're a wholesome kind of handsome. Keep up the good work. I like your straightforward narrative style.
This works great. I've done it for years in my raised beds.
If I may add some advice: to aid in this process, cut the scraps into smaller pieces; I used to use an old blender to assist with that.
Thank you Jag, it's been 1.5 years started container gardening, and iam still learning more good things on farming from experts like you. I started making kitchen compost in big black tubs. From India, Telangana. Without sweating in garden, farm, without hard work we can't grow anything is learned, pest control management is being very tough, by organic methods.
I tried this as it appears to be a sound solution. I discovered that anything that could grow, seeds in vegetables, potatoes, onions etc. love being placed in garden soil and respond as you would expect. The second problem is in southern Utah and Idaho, we rarely see worms even though we add them to the soil on occasion.
Could the lack of worms have something to do with the levels of acidity in the earth possibly caused by stuff like the make up of the ground underneath/ any below ground water tables that may be making the earth change its acidity/alkalinity ? Not a scientist, just have a little bit more than a passing interest in the world around us the older I get, especially how things that we may not consider can have an impact on the water we drink, food we eat based on what is absorbed at point of creation if that makes sense lol
@@friktionrc If we had triple the amount of rain over quite a ling period if time our soil in Idaho would become more acidic but it would take much longer to affect the caliche.
Your videos are always so interesting, love watching them!
I live in Arizona and have a garden in about 50% native soil and 50% amendments. The worms in the last couple years have completely vacated it and my plants suffer because of this. I started burying vegetable scraps in my garden no closer than a foot from any plant. Four weeks later and i have tons of worms, castings and the soil is just absolutely beautiful. I will never purchase store bought compost again or worm castings. Instead I will just bury shredded paper, coffee and tea grounds, veggie scraps and some fruit scraps and let mother nature provide me with much better soil that one can even purchase. I do however add gypsum once in a while to keep the soil just slightly alkaline because I grow a lot of tomatoes.
Thanks for the video and the information.
Thumbs up and God bless
Thank you! I was wondering where I could put a compost pile and now I know I can put it in a corner of my fenced garden which I'm not using. When it's decomposed thoroughly I'll mix it in with the soil around my vegetables and continue using the spot for more compost.
If this guy doesn’t blink I’m gonna lose it.
I think he is a reptile human
I saw him blink 10 times
1:37 he blinks ........ I don’t know what you’re talking about
😆 it’s a superpower
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"Scientists have shown that the average person blinks 15-20 times per minute. That's up to 1,200 times per hour and a whopping 28,800 times in a day-much more often than we need to keep our eyeballs lubricated."
Great video and tips bro!! I'm starting this practice it recently and different spots. And hey viewers!! He does blink regularly around 4:04 in video timeline.
Thank you for this. I'm just starting out as a vegies gardener but space is limited and I'm sick of the stench from kitchen scraps. I think I'll do this for 6 months and hopefully have a eat able garden within the year
I have been adding kitchen scrap to the pots in my terrace, i have observed that though you add once in a week to each pot they need more, some extra vermicompost has to be added.
I put my kitchen scraps along with some straw in my garden all winter long. Come spring, voila! beautiful soil. Works great.
So as I see you say I can start the composting even in the winter months, as I have just moved to my house and want to start gardening
@@thiiswhatshesays Yes absolutely. I do this every winter and have black compost to toss about my garden for the growing season.
my question when I have to stop throwing scrap to the compost.. so it is fully composted.. one month before using it.. or 2 months? because the last 2 or 3 scrap would be not composted yet when it is ready. thanks for the answer..
@@sutil5078 I did stop 2 months before planting. I live in the state of Georgia though, we have a very mild winter. You can check your soil to be sure if all scraps are composted.
@@jane_7777 Jean thanks I have added another barrel last week, to avoid this dilemma , here in Arabia our summer is so hot in about 6 weeks could approx.. now the great weather starting next month.. happy gardening.. I love the smell of the final product, very earthly very fresh, I only put leaves, and vegetable scrap or fruit peel eggs.. no carton or paper or napkin.. the smell sooo great till May.. cheers.
Do you think this method will work in the winter? Does low temperatures affect or stop the decomposition process?
I actually do this all the time, especially in the fall because i dnt always have stuff growing. I cover it up and let nature do the work. i do sometimes plant befor if is full decomposed and i havent had major issues.
... coffee grounds are a great addition to the compost heap as well as eggshells. Also you can crush them up into a sealable container of water like an empty bleach bottle or glass bottle and use this to water plants. Just be aware that it will smell at first so keep it sealed up until you use it then refill with more water and eggshells.