Direct Composting Bury Kitchen Scraps Directly for Fast Soil Fertility

Lovely soil fertility, no mess no smell. Direct Composting is the simplest composting method for small gardens and works fast to improve your soil fertility.
Bury kitchen scraps directly in your garden borders or vegetable garden to make compost right in your garden soil. This is the most straight forward and easiest way to make compost. No turning, no heaps, no mess, and an instant solution to kitchen waste.
Direct composting works well for all peelings, tea bags, and coffee grounds, banana peel, apple cores, and a some paper, eg kitchen towel or egg boxes. Eggshells, hole onions, and citrus take a little longer, but no more than in a hot composting system. Avacodo pips and whole potatoes will tend to sprout, even when buried 12-14-inches below the surface. This method will directly feed worms and will increase the numbers in your garden soil
The best time to direct compost in the vegetable garden is after a row is harvested, in a flower border you can use this method in any free bit of soil, but avoid digging too close to established or growing plants and shrubs. Do not plant anything until the organic matter decomposes. The exception to this rule is potatoes which can be planted immediately above the Keep the area moist to provide perfect conditions for earthworms. You will surely create worm casting right in your garden.
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[@azgardener79]

This is what I do. I sold my composters and never looked back. Keeping it simple :)

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Its great and so easy

[@user-yp1bu8jm7n]

I use my compost bin in the winter, but spring and summer I bury my food scraps and garden waste in the rows between the plants

[@lorah2087]

Me too. Burry it and forget about it.

[@learningwithlola5578]

now this is my kind of composting- I ❤️ how I can do this without buying anything! Thanks.

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Its amazingly simple method we love it

[@jameswilmot4537]

Great way to get rid of kitchen scraps. I did this with all my hedge cuttings, dug a very wide hole and buried that lot in. Got a great workout.

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Thank you how long did the hedge clippings take to compost. I would be a little wary with hedge clippings as it could affect soil fertility adversely.

[@elegantlyknackeredstyle]

This is an excellent tip. I’ll be doing this on my allotment later on.

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

works a treat, especially at this time of year as you clear crops.

[@tracyheath6076]

I do this also and really makes a big difference with bringing in the earthworms !!! Except I don't go down quite that deep....maybe I should...lol

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

I try to get to the bottom of the top soil layer which is quite shallow in this vegetable garden, also ours is quite a full bucket size compost bin, so a good hole is needed each empty.

[@gardenhighlightsworm]

Great video, fantastic way to rejuvenate your soil.

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Thank you! its so easy and quick

[@arielbrinson8766]

I started doing this on clay soil and low and behold I have worms now 🎉🎉

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Congratulations that's great news you have improved your soil if you've got worms

[@gerhartleischner9806]

From Regina, Saskatchewan. Before the city began a city wide composting program this past year I simply buried our kitchen scraps & much of our spring soft yard waste into the garden box soil once thawed. Usually April sometime. Did the same thing in fall after garden is done & before soil freezes. For winter I took 6 or 8 5 gallon pails & layered them (50/50) with leaves from the fall harvest of fallen leaves & kitchen scraps collected in the house. Again In spring once everything thawed I buried about 1 pails worth in each garden box. I also have a wooden sided bin that I mix/bury excess compostable organic kitchen & yard waste that is available for use in other parts of the yard as well. Periodically I find yard scrap not decomposed when soil turned later in the season but never kitchen scraps. Otherwise no other issues except for periodic smell when turning the compost bin or when I dumped the winter pails into the garden but in either case once covered with soil the smell was gone. Now with the city composting program I’ll be doing away with my winter composting system.

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Thank you for letting us know

[@have-a-go-hal]

Great video - going to give this a go!

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Thank you

[@dagmarramgad5441]

This is the best way

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

It's certainly very fast

[@ThatGardener]

Brilliant this is great tip thavjs

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Glad it was helpful!

[@cjohnson4342]

My grandmother used to do this

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

It's really good with soft of wet kitchen compost bins, the worms really increase fast (followed by the moles!)

[@WalkTheAncientPaths]

I don’t like worms, but I love gardening. I currently have a veggie patio garden in pots. Been doing it for about 6 years. So far I have NOT seen any worms in the pots. I do dig the center of the pot and bury kitchen scraps. But I do not dig them up to see if they decomposed. I trust that they did.

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Thank you glad you enjoyed the video

[@alisonbarratt3772]

I hate worms and other yucky things too.i know they are there I leave them alone I know they are necessary .I love gardening but hate that bit.when I see them I walk away n come back later.

[@L_Martin]

Really helpful, thank you! I will be trying this out, I am just paranoid about rats as I only just evicted a family of them from my compost bin (9 babies and the mother 😱)

[@madeleinewinterdown3256]

walled garden!

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

On 2 sides? maybe not shown?

[@tasneembashir2733]

This is what I do. It breaks down in no time

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Its amazing how quickly it breaks down and the worms love it

[@tasneembashir2733]

@@gardenerscottageblakeney1316 believe it or not .. I don't have earthworms in my soil 😔 I'm building my soil from a poor sand into a garden soil but I'm yet to find any worms

[@thejasn6209]

How long does it take to breakdown(almost)?

[@tasneembashir2733]

@@thejasn6209 I'd say soft skined like cucumbers, apples, etc might take 1-2 months before it disappears, without earthworms but might take sooner if you have them. While other things like cardboard, egg shells & onion peels seem to take longer so try to break them into smaller pieces to fasten it up.

[@WalkTheAncientPaths]

@@tasneembashir2733 I don’t like worms, but I love gardening. I currently have a veggie patio garden in pots. Been doing it for about 6 years. So far I have NOT seen any worms in the pots. I do dig the center of the pot and bury kitchen scraps. But I do not dig them up to see if they decomposed. I trust that they did.

[@erikandcamillewaage6924]

I want to try this with trenches in-between my rows of plants. I saw one video that warned that decomposing kitchen waste draws nitrogen out of the soil while it's breaking down. I need to ADD nitrogen to my soil, so should I do this type of composting far away from my current rows of plants instead of in-between?

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Great idea. We find the worms break it down so fast and the plants grow really well. If you're worried then do it further away from the plants as you suggest.

[@user-lz6dm5lk9y]

What about adding shellfish shells? I think I once read somewhere that things like shrimp shells are good to add. True? Does adding plain white paper towels or newspaper help?

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

That's a great idea . We don't eat a lot of shellfish

[@user-lz6dm5lk9y]

@@gardenerscottageblakeney1316 I do not eat a lot of shellfish anymore either, but growing up, we ate seafood 3-4 times a week at least. Once I moved away from home as an adult, I was stunned to find out that not every city/state was as blessed with abundant seafood the way we were in Louisiana. Consequently, seafood in my current home state for example is much more expensive than it would have been in Louisiana. Shrimp and crayfish are delicious. Try some! 😀

[@robertaswanson5633]

I live in Northern New Mexico; the soil is mostly dry clay. I've only seen about two worms in over ten years! Will this work here? Should I buy worms and put them in the soil?

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

I' m not sure sandy soil can be a challenge but this method will add more humus to the soil which can help in lots of ways. Dont worry of you have no worms the microbes will break down the compost. I would not buy worms they would probably just die if the soil is not worm friendly. Just improve the soil and hopefully the worms will appear, athough we had a very sandy garden in past and we also did not get worms.

[@robertaswanson5633]

@@gardenerscottageblakeney1316 Thank you for your information. My soil is actually very heavy clay, not sandy. It is adobe, which the early settlers here have used to make bricks for their houses. I will not buy worms as you suggested and keep adding my garden scraps to this soil and see what happens.

[@MotosAllotmentGarden]

I made a in ground compost bin, works great, check it out on my channel on how to make one

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

We love ground composting

[@Tholius]

Digging is hard work. Can i chuck kitchrn waste into a brown paper bag, chuck it into garden bed, then cover with a reasonable thickness of grass clippings, and let the worms enjoy ?

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

Great idea I don’t see why this would not work although may attract rats if too close to surface

[@joelschmierer3544]

digging is way easier if you hose down a single area for a couple minutes exactly where you will dig with a large shovel. i dig a hole like 4 feet by 3 feet by 2 feet deep in 1 hour, which should take over a week to fill up with kitchen scraps from the family. i figure watering is also not a waste as it means you wont inhale dust while digging and also feeds water to the ecosystem of bacteria that are always in dirt. but it may be friendlier on the back to only dig like 1 foot down, especially as i may not have enough food waste or time to fill up trenches that are 2 feet deep by the time i want to start planting in a year

[@Digiclub101]

How long do you leave the food in there for please ?

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

As long as it takes. if you bury it it composts pretty fast as the bateria in soil and the worms eat it . Depends on your soil and what you are putting in your compost bucket.

[@MetaView7]

How did it go? Have you dug it up to see the composting result?

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

It works really well . It goes to nothing . Feeds worms, microbes and improves soil . Only things that are slow to compost this way is egg shell and avocado pips and citrus fruits are slow . It’s a good thing to do in autumn and winter as by the time you plant next spring it’s all gone into soil

[@ennakavi2129]

This works only in warm months, isnt it?

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

It's more effective in warm months having said that are winters are very mild usuallly

[@ennakavi2129]

@@gardenerscottageblakeney1316 this is california?

[@yoriichi3347]

No need to add brown material?.

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

No we just bury it in the garden and the worms do the rest . It composts really fast

[@yoriichi3347]

@@gardenerscottageblakeney1316 can i do it in the bin only just adding garden soil and kitchen scrap?.

[@fulqwvr]

I use my coffee filters as the brown matter. The worms eat everything in less than 2 weeks.

[@Test-Tube-Baby-xo8xx]

What about rats? Will it attract them?

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

We bury it deep so they have never dug it up touch wood . We do see rats as we live on a farm with chickens but they tend to hand out around the chicken house

[@Test-Tube-Baby-xo8xx]

@@gardenerscottageblakeney1316 Thanks. I'll give it a go with a small amount and see what happens. I get rats in my garden and I don't want to give them reason to bring their mates.

[@SantisandKisin]

Why dont u water it, to speed up the process?

[@gardenerscottageblakeney1316]

That's a great idea