What Happens When You Bury Kitchen Scraps in the Garden?

Get a self-sufficiency mark and in this video I'll show you

what

happens

when

you

bury

kitchen

scraps

in the

garden

. We'll dig and find out

what

these remains look like after being buried for a while. Not only that, but we will also look at the pros and cons of

bury

ing other things, such as pigeons, chickens, fish heads, meat

scraps

, etc., let's get into details. Most of the time,

when

people mention

kitchen

and

garden

scraps, they think of compost piles. Compost containers. Cutting up glasses, worm farms or chickens and they're all fine, but many people don't realize the other eco-friendly way to recycle kitchen scraps and it might be the easiest method of all, depending on your situation, and it's simply bury.

I would take them directly to the garden, my grandparents would bury kitchen scraps in the garden just like I am doing now and it used to be something very popular thirty or forty years ago because it was practical, it saved space in the trash, but the most important thing was. a free way to help enrich garden beds for better crops, since back then almost every backyard had a vegetable garden. How does this process work? And honestly, haven't we moved on to better kitchen waste recycling methods second? Ask first, as I said before, there are other ways such as compost piles, worm farms, or Chuck's feeding, however, berry straight avoids them all as a shortcut or eliminates the middleman by turning your entire garden into a bedding area. recycling, while I consider the direct berry.

The method is a great way to recycle some things that you should keep in mind. You should bury the remains at least 20 to 40 centimeters so that there is enough soil on top to grow the next vegetables. You must be careful not to bury too much cooking. If you waste in just one garden bed, you will end up overwhelming that area or that entire bed and turning it into a compost pile and then the plants won't grow well at all because of the decaying matter and you need a good sized garden. Well, you might run out of space quickly, as kitchen scraps can take weeks to months to properly decompose and be eaten by worms, other small animals, or microbes.

Speaking of breaking down, let's go back to the first question: how well does this process work? Think of your garden as a huge worm farm and when you bury your kitchen scraps somewhere in your garden, you are feeding the worms. The worms not only eat and break down the remains into matter that can be absorbed by plants, but they also produce their own waste through worm excrement and weak worm juice or digestive fluid and these elements are excellent for providing the nutrients that your plants need to thrive. You're basically growing your plants on top of a worm farm and I think that's cool, the other thing. about the dig and bury method is that you can practically bury any remains, not only fruits and vegetables, but also meat and bones, if the conditions are right where you are and what I mean by this is that probably You don't want to be mean and bones in large quantities because it could start to smell bad or if you have a dog that likes to dig it could also become a real problem but in small quantities and if you have a space large enough to place some bones and meat scraps.

It won't hurt at all, however, trying to compost them the conventional way is not that easy and I personally don't recommend it. I have known gardeners who swear by fish heads and bones in the garden and find it particularly good for tomato plants. They say that if you bury a good-sized fish head about a foot deep and then place a seedling of Tomato on top, it will grow like the best tomatoes you can imagine. I have buried fish frames in our raised beds. before, but I can't say I've experienced or tested the direct effects of growth on tomato plants, maybe one day I'll test the theory to see if there's anything fishy.

I buried a dove in this garden here that I found in our backyard. I'm not sure how it came to be, but I buried it here about 18 months ago and since then I've grown a ton of onions in this very raised bed, so maybe it has something to do with it. Dig in and see if anything remains of our former pigeon companion. Okay, I was here. I think it was a foot deep. Oh, it's a nice big beetle larva. Check that I will give that to the chickens. Digging with my hands because I would be much more effective on camera if I grabbed a handful of something disgusting, you know, there's nothing there.

I could probably go all day and send another meal, yeah, almost two years later and I really wasn't expecting it. to find something, to be honest, the worms and microbes would have already eaten it completely and it has simply become the surrounding soil, there may be strange bones scattered somewhere, but you know, I'm not going to go digging the whole garden. I also buried some banana peels about five weeks ago right in this same bed after making some fantastic banana cake bread with our gorgeous bananas that we've had. I had a really good summer of nanos this year, so let's dig in and see how they disappeared.

Here they were, that's another one of those beetles that will go to the chickens. You know, I can't find them either, except banana peels. They are quite soft, so they were probably caught and eaten by worms and these types of larvae quite quickly. We may have better luck on this old wooden bed here. About a month ago exactly I buried some ears of corn at the base here and ears of corn. They're a little tougher and more fibrous, so I'm hoping we'll at least see something here after just four weeks, so we'll give that a try.

The story behind this corn is that it had an excess of old corn that had dehydrated a bit. since it hadn't been eaten and there wasn't much use for us to eat it, so I rehydrated it and fermented it at the same time in a little water for about a week to give it to our chickens as a natural probiotic, they loved it, but now I really want to see how this goes and from memory I think I also buried a full ear of corn that I forgot to give to the hands. I could see many worms.

There is already a piece of corn. Now I buried it much lower. this has been pushed up for some reason but yes it is very easy to break in your hand there is another piece but it is all hollow yes i found it look at the worms around it here is the cob can you seal these little red wiggles, I'm not sure if you can see the little red wiggles coming out of the sides and there's even some kind of worm in there, it's probably on top of the fruit or something like a worm, well that's a really good result.

I'm glad I was able to show it to them because I was worried about digging and finding nothing and I couldn't prove that at least look, I can see through it, like you can see through the middle, so first they eat the core and you can see . how easy it is to decompose a normal ear of corn, there is a small worm, it would not be so easy to decompose it, but they are shrinking and the yam microbes, worms and reptiles slowly eat them. We give you that kind of example because it shows that even after four weeks, it works pretty quickly in your garden bed, whereas you know you could be doing your compost pile or your tumbler and it can actually take a lot longer to break. down there are a lot of worms here, I'm just putting this all back, there are a lot of worms in this particular area of ​​the garden, but there are also a lot of worms throughout our garden, but they are particularly concentrated, of course, where you have extra food for them and they can see what I mean now by planting on top of this, there would be no problem for the roots of the plants coming down, that would not be impeded at all by the activity that

happens

below the surface and they sometimes grow quite normally.

I use kitchen scraps as extra fill when I'm creating a new raised garden bed and this gets the soil ecosystem off to a great start by encouraging worms and microbes, because remember the best and healthiest garden soil is alive and bustling with activity, and that's what happens. When you bury kitchen scraps in the garden I hope you enjoyed this video, if you did make sure to give it a big thumbs up and also subscribe if you haven't already. Thank you very much for watching, bye, for now, where do I put my glasses? Oh, friend Jackie, hey guys, I have a special feature, okay Grady, now there's enough for everyone.