I Buried 10 Kitchen Scraps in the Garden and This Happened

What happens when you bury common kitchen scraps like banana peels, orange peels, onion peels, Eggs, milk, peanut shells, leafy greens, and other left over items from the kitchen? While some of these kitchen scraps may help to provide organic matter and nutrients but others might be detrimental to your plants. In this video, I bury 10 common kitchen scraps and dig them up after 2 months to show what happens when you bury kitchen scraps
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[@DaisyCreekFarms]

Who agrees and disagrees with burying kitchen scraps in the garden? What do you agree with and what not?

[@c-dub2789]

Totally agree. I've been doing it for years

[@roottrackerzbyyaira]

I agree 💯

[@SweetChicagoGator]

The egg shells are fine, but the whole eggs are just rotten especially with the milk. Too stinky and rodents and other animals will appear !

[@candystayinaturalalexander5869]

Lilly is so smart 😊

[@carlamcdaniel6651]

I take all of my food scraps even egg shells and grind them in a food chopper. It grinds everything really really good and into extremely small pieces, mix it in some gardening soil, each week do the same thing, this will compost the food scraps much faster, sometimes with in 2 to 3 weeks. Put the egg shells separate from the other compost scraps, blend them by their selfs to almost like a powder substance and save it for calcium for your tomatoes.

[@jons5898]

We have skunks and raccoons around so when I bury kitchen scraps I mix coffee grounds in the soil above the scraps so they can’t smell them. So far so good !

[@Katgirl2024]

Good idea!!! Thanks.

[@luukv3119]

That may work for badgers too I'm guessing (I live in Europe), I'll give it a try. Have you ever experimented by burying some scraps with and others without coffee grounds? Just curious if you can notice a clear difference.

[@thegreatest3651]

@@luukv3119 they will still get it, do you think theyre stupid?

[@c-dub2789]

Ive been using kitchen scraps such as above for years. It breaks down (decomposes) and provide nutrients to the soil. I wouldn't advise meat or milk because it's processed with God only knows what. Unless you have farm raised animals. It's the best jump start for your seeds/seedlings. I wish you happy healthy gardening!

[@helengren9349]

Bananas as well...lot of pesticider & chemicals...

[@ChandrasekaranSrinivasan]

I made compost from all dead plants & weeds from our farm plot with kitchen scrap for last 2 years and we got wonderful compost with tons of earth worms which we just spread to the farm last week. Best compost than we buy!

[@DaisyCreekFarms]

That's Awesome!

[@UllricLex]

Some people say you can burn eggshells and even bones together with some wood to ash and this ash will be really good for the plants.

[@rosewildbill6368]

Try fish leftovers in the soil ... and I started to put chicken wire on the top of the soil to discourage animal's digging ... it did work

[@MalinaliTrejo]

I've heard people say to bake eggshells to dry them out, then grind into a fine powder, then disolve 1 tbsp of the eggshell powder with vinegar to make the calcium bio-available to plants, then dilute in water and water your plants.

[@NeoKailthas]

If I need to do all that I can just buy organic fertilizer you know

[@jlseagull2.060]

I bake and/or grind eggshells in the winter. In the summer I just let them bake under the sun and heat. That is it. I won’t do any more afterwards. Too much work.

[@tmontero8492]

Very interesting comparison! As I am pushing 70, an active compost bin has become more and more difficult to manage -- so I've resorted to composting in place. This method has been SO much easier on my poor, arthritic body! I've been burying kitchen scraps for years and my soil has greatly improved. However, along with the scraps I include some shredded brown paper bags or paper from my shredder, and dried yard waste i.e. leaves, twigs, straw, plant clippings and weeds. I've also buried expired or stale food items from my pantry like bread, crackers, pasta, etc. But prior to burying anything, I deep water the hole I've dug then water well after to aid in the breakdown. Thank you, Jag.

[@lindawiserbrown9908]

Too much work! 😮😅

[@iwanttobelieve5970]

I do that to all my garden beds right off my porch especially during the winter.

[@avawilliams4227]

Ive been doing this for years. Kitchen scraps are great nourishment for my soil.

[@RoSario-vb8ge]

I love it so much, when Lily is so attentive and nods her head❤

[@froginprogress8510]

I dehydrate some stuff before it goes into the ground. I took a piece of quarter-inch mesh and twisted it into a tube, then stuck it into the ground a few inches to do a keyhole garden experiment. Compost goes into the tube and it breaks down and seeps out through the mesh.

[@juliemarr65]

I do crush and powderize the eggshells

[@katrina6627]

Just found your channel love it & plan to watch them all from the beginning

[@monkeyfootracing645]

We.always put fish heads in with the corn kernel. I was told this was originally the indigenous method in the Americas. Works well. Lots of extra nitrogen I think is what it adds.

[@harpladyshomestead5278]

We burry fish waste, deeply, under our fruit trees. We had the best oranges this year!

[@kimberlycoolidge4477]

When I use eggs in omelets or baking and I have the uncooked shell... I throw the ahells in a bowl and leave it until I need them, at that point I use a glass bowl ND metal spoon to crush the egg shell to a fine powder and I add a little to every bed at the beginning of spring and again in the fall before compost and then cover with black plastic tarps until spring.... in the NW so it rains A LOT in Washington state, so I cover my dirt to not wash away the nutrients it got, and it can decompose the plant that sat in the bed over the summer giving me fruit or vegetables. Thank for your videos!!!❤

[@terrireis2093]

Thanks for the helpful video on kitchen scraps. I use some directly into the raised beds and some in compost piles.

[@guadalupequilpa3975]

Thank you Jag for the information

[@smuggafree]

I like your experiments because they help me learn more about what is best for my plants. thanks

[@jackstone4291]

Great simple quick informative video. Lovely. What an awesome dog too!!

[@DeadeyeJoe37]

For egg shells, baking is for killing bacteria, but I don't think it's needed since it's being buried. To make it plant available faster, you'll want to blend it with some vinegar. The blending makes it break down faster Chemical reaction with the vinegar brings the calcium to a more bio available form

[@davidmicalizio824]

Always interesting!

[@c.powell2765]

Great video. Thank you for sharing your information.

[@KBlue728]

this was a very cool experiment to see. tfs

[@velcroman98]

I bury all of the birds, squirrels, and other stuff my cat kills - in the garden, and I can never find any sign of them in the fall when I tear the garden out.

[@sarahrussie2317]

This was informative. Thanks!

[@lillili77]

Ive been doing this for years. This plus woodchips has created such beautiful healthy soil

[@TheCuratorofThrift]

As someone about 30 minutes south of you, here is what I do - Coffee grounds - dry them for about 24 hrs, then put them in a container. The filters I use are non-bleached, so when they are dry, I run them through my paper shredder Tea - I dry the bags for about 24 hrs, dump the grounds in with the coffee. Egg shells - I dry them out for 2 to 3 days. Crush them and then use mortar and pestle to grind them up. Then put them in with the coffee & tea grounds When the container is full, I sprinkle it into the raised beds, potted plants, and anywhere else I've got plants. All household food scraps go into a raised bed that sits next to my house. The 1st 2 years nothing produced well, except for a lot of worm compost. So, we removed all of the worm compost and soil and missed it into our 3 main raised beds. Now it is just for composting. About once ever 2 to 3 weeks I put clean shredded paper, and/or clean shredded cardboard to cover up the food scraps. As an e-commerce seller, I cut up a lot of cardboard to get the right sized box for large items, so I shredded the remnants rather than throwing them into my trash recycling bin. I could keep going, but I don't want to overdue it here.😬 I'll jump intot the comment for your raised beds.

[@esthersdaughterlong8149]

Thank you Jag for showing us what bot to put directly in our gardens.

[@feleciabrown9199]

Good information, Thanks❤

[@joelkoren3241]

Excellent findings & analysis brother ! God bless you.

[@kimp2678]

I use kitchen scraps and other compost materials in my compost bin only. And I turn my compost daily to keep it heated up. I manage to have usable compost in a little under 2 months. 😊

[@chrisgale5634]

Lily is great!

[@mootoochunasamy389]

Thanks for your time to provide such valuable information

[@dianaromero7611]

It was helpful to know what types of things you prefer. I remember you did bread you did paper and for some reason those things really stood out. So I will continue to experiment. I love your videos. Thank you.

[@lilaclilly198]

Thank you for doing this experiment. It has really clarified a lot of myths about composting. I am still fairly new to growing my own veg and fruit , it’s a great help to me🙏🏼👍🏻🤗

[@WineJones]

I appreciate you doin the test right on the video all in one 👍😎

[@mariefortune]

Thanks Brother I will TRY IT ON MY SOIL.

[@dianaromero7611]

Thank you that was excellent, I have been wanting to experiment with placing food waste in the garden. I saw a video you did some years ago and I followed it and everything was gone and I had lots of earthworms. But I didn’t keep doing it. This was inspiring so I will be in the garden today.

[@calindafleishman]

I dry my eggshells and grind them in my spice grinder and sprinkle on the garden 🙂 Thank you for this fascinating experiment! The banana peels and avocado shells were very surprising.

[@nancygonzalez6788]

Thank you!

[@JENNIFERLE2012]

No way! Did I just see Lily nodding her head when you asked her "No more digging. Understand?" 😃 🥰 I used to have a labrador retriever named Lily. She was so smart. I had to surrender her because my daughter was severely allergic to dog danders and kept getting hospitalized. I missed my Lily 😢

[@DaisyCreekFarms]

Lily is very smart! So sad to hear you had to give up your dog.

[@carmenpittman8842]

​@@DaisyCreekFarms That was too funny! She was nodding her head like she understood exactly what she was told ❤

[@donincognito9365]

Awesome video idea. Thank you! What is the nutritional difference between goat and chicken manure?

[@robyndudley9684]

I started adding food scraps to my soil based on a video you posted a couple years ago. It does wonders to draw in worms and create tons of compost and castings in place.

[@DaisyCreekFarms]

Awesome!

[@grisespino5342]

Lily is a beauty. Very interesting. Im glad avocado 🥑 peels are ok. Got plenty of those 😀

[@DallasLaxton]

Very interesting.

[@juliemarr65]

Wonderful videos you have. Every time I have kitchen scraps and coffee grounds I throw them where I plant a garden and the biodegrade in the ground, the nutrients are great. Thank you for this, I didn't think of peanut shells or raw eggs.

[@MissPeachCobbler]

😊 thanks 👍🏾 Jag 🎉 and not trying to embarrass you, but I love when you say 😂 "A lot of" ty🙌🏾ty

[@DaisyCreekFarms]

A lot of :)

[@angelaanderson5360]

I agree. That was a quick way to embellish my sandy soil. Now I feed the worms my scraps and use their castings as a top dressing.

[@joeyhardin1288]

Very good! I would never use any type of animal products in my garden, any type, any form any process. Not even fish emulsion or bone meal. Thank you

[@6140970]

I always save my egg shells and crush them, thinking that it was good for the garden. I thought that they composted fully. Thanks for the info on them. No more saving them I can see unless they can go in a composter. I also have heard that I shouldn't use citrus and onion scraps as well. But you said there was other ways to use them. Can you do a video on that in the future please?

[@sagasthya]

Fantastic experiment, Mr Singh! I learn a lot from your videos and doing my gardening in this spring.

[@DaisyCreekFarms]

Glad you like the videos!

[@hairrum]

DILUTED UNINE ,, YOUR PLANTS WILL SHOW THEIR LOVE FOR YOU ❤

[@jamjar5716]

I looked up unine to see what it was. Nothing came up except a boy band! So I'm guessing it was a typo and that you meant urine. Can you plant directly into the soil after adding diluted urine?

[@michaelgusovsky]

great info! i agree with your original assessment about the avocado peels, they take a long time to break down. i don't know what happened to yours this time, maybe daisy dug them up while you weren't looking?

[@TheLegend-gj6bw]

Love this video. Do more

[@DaisyCreekFarms]

Will Do!

[@carmenortiz5294]

I grind the egg shells in an old blender because they are very beneficial to plants, worms can consume it that way. "According to the American Egg Board, the shell of the egg is composed of calcium carbonate (about 94%) with small amounts of magnesium carbonate, calcium phosphate and other organic matter, including protein." By the way I grow worms indoors and they have no kind of bad smell. I do not use anything animal asides from the ground shells.

[@muhamadthemotorcityfarmer6016]

Smart contents as usual

[@JohnnyZBeatZ]

Can you plant summer squash next to cucumbers

[@PappaMike-vc1qv]

Vermicomposting with red worms is a 365 day alternative. The resulting worm castings are great as a soil additive or potting ingredient. In my opinion it is a much better and easier way to compost.

[@MW-us3sv]

I don't mean to be rude but I don't agree with your statement that your method is ''easier''. There's nothing ''easier'' than just burying scraps really.

[@PappaMike-vc1qv]

Much easier than trying to dig frozen ground though feet of snow. Much easier not having to battle rats if you bury or store kitchen scraps outdoors. Been there, Done that. @@MW-us3sv

[@Randyb4ut]

Thanks for sharing 👍. New subscriber to your channel.

[@msavina9129]

I cracked egg open yesterday and it had what looked like a thin piece of cloth inside, i suppose the farm grabbed the egg a lil late. I put it in a bowl n wondered if i should put it in the compost. Glad u made this video. I'll take it in the woods where i put meat scraps or other old prepared food gone bad. I don't put food in my trash. Btw Ive seen videos where fish heads were buried under tomato plants vs not, and the plants that had fish head at roots did remarkably better. Too bad Im not a big fish eater.

[@shalometyson9862]

You could powder the eggshell and use. Additionally, you could transform the eggshell powder to calcium acetate (it's quite a process). Overall, I love what you have shared

[@wendyray6120]

I also add kitchen scraps to my garden by burying them in between the planted rows. I use baked and boiled egg shells that I have ground to a fine dust in the blender. I don't use milk products, eggs, or any type of meat scraps or cooked items that have a lot of oil/fats on them. So far no complaints and the worms seem to be happy.

[@PappaMike-vc1qv]

Unfortunately, we have a problem with rodents that dig up some food scraps. Mostly any dairy or eggs are a problem and if buried deep enough vegetable scraps are fine.

[@harpladyshomestead5278]

I bake my eggshells then grind them in my blender. The powdered eggshells work well! Everything else goes in the wormbin! From veggie waste to rich compost in two weeks!

[@trotter2099]

If you add bokashi to the scraps that you add to the garden that will help speed up decomposition of the organic matter. Also you could pour a little bit of natural yoghurt onto the scraps and the lactobascillius will help with decomposition and will help to mask the smell of decomposition making it less likely that rodents and other pests will attack your garden.

[@LongBranchAlice]

Thx. for this info. I found the worms will NOT eat carrots or supermarket veggies.

[@DaisyCreekFarms]

Supermarket veggies are prayed with pesticides, that's why

[@susanriggs8896]

What about grinding the eggshells into smaller particles with a coffee grinder or other grinder?

[@jlseagull2.060]

It works. This is what I do when I have time. Otherwise, I just need to be patient😂

[@T_157-40]

Add it all together to create Frankenstein soil. Scary!

[@DaisyCreekFarms]

Haha

[@patricianichols9514]

Powdering eggshells helps to release the nutrients.

[@chrisgale5634]

I don't add orange or clementine peel to the compost heap, as they take too long to decompose and not liked by the earthworms.

[@lovelight9164]

Do you think pineapple scraps would be good?

[@chrisgale5634]

@lovelight9164 not sure, I tend to avoid citrus fruits

[@pristineperistome5696]

@@lovelight9164 I think everything is yes about it unless way to much is used at once because it can slow decomposition . Its acidity impact can be moderated by chopping and mixing with other material.

[@gregorypesce9004]

thanks for the video ! Is keeping the ground moist where you bury the scraps necessary for the decomposition process ? Or can you just bury and not have to water ?

[@DaisyCreekFarms]

Keeping ground moist helps in decomposing faster, just do not waterlog the soil

[@rositanatural1336]

Yo también huso cascaras de huevo seguido de usarlo las cascaras las paso por agua y entonces las pongo en un lugar a secar cuando tengo un buen monton las rompo en el mortero o también se puede con una botella como si fuera un rodillo y ya despues cuando esta polvo se puede repartir en la tierra eso es calcio para las plantas

[@PrincessSaraAndVedanshi]

I collect all vegetable and greens scrap along with rice, lentils watched water for day and burry them next day … I don’t add any fertilizer to plants .. so far so good ..

[@flamingousa9119]

My neighbor uses kitchen scraps too.

[@rosawright2915]

New subs

[@RC-yb5dp]

I found this video very useful. Will the bananas and leafy greens create an anaerobic situation around the plants if planted around them? I agree with the composting idea. My garden buddy and I blended our kitchen scrapes and planted it around some dwarf butterfly bushes, and they all died. I often wondered if that was due to an anaerobic situation, robbing the plants of oxygen. There was not any milk or meat products used. There may have been eggshells blended in. We also wondered if the dwarf butterfly bushes were not a good product. We do not see too many of them around anymore.

[@DaisyCreekFarms]

It depends on howe much you use, if you use a lot of kitchen scraps in a small area, even vegetable scraps can go anerobic. Use little around your plant and not directly under the root zone.

[@marthathompson2012]

I noticed you decomposed the scraps in an empty bed (not with an active crop). I’ve heard that it depletes the soil during the decomposition process, so that it’s actually worse for a while after you bury something. Thoughts on that?

[@RohijasVlog]

Hi Jack ji!!!! I am watching your videos each and every day to understand more about organic gardening. So i have one question regarding city compost. I got so many compost from my local city compost facility but i came to know from one friend that we should not use this compost in our vegetable garden. Now i got confused. Please guide me . Thanks in advance 😊

[@DaisyCreekFarms]

Why would he say not to use the compost. Compost is the main ingredient to make living soil rich in organic matter. Don't listen to these people, use compost! The entire no-till gardening community uses compost in every planting.

[@RohijasVlog]

@@DaisyCreekFarms he said no to city compost . Is it safe to use city compost?? I am a new gardener so i am not making compost.

[@DaisyCreekFarms]

Depends on how city compost is made, Lots of city compost contains pieces of plastic and glass, if that is the case, then no to city compost.

[@Sharon-kp7lc]

Thank you Jag, this is a very interesting experiment. But I've been wondering would earthworms want to eat the portion of plants beneath the soil level, such as root vegetables, plant roots and etc. Those are organic matters too, wouldn't the earthworms like those too??? If not, why?

[@DaisyCreekFarms]

Earthworms only eat fungus and mold growing on decaying matter, they do not eat not live plants or plant roots.

[@Sharon-kp7lc]

Got it, thank you very much!@@DaisyCreekFarms

[@lolazal1]

🎉

[@byondlight]

I was a worm once , always in a search for a meal. Feed your garden and bugs .

[@pamelamercado6902]

I put some egg shells in a hoe about 4 years ago and every once in awhile I'll check and see if they've disappeared. No they're still there. I have problems with ground squirrels moles prairie dogs and gophers I put onions into the ground around my plants it keeps them from eating the roots or tearing the plant up. Two years ago they ate the roots from 14 fruit and citrus trees

[@LEADERINFRONT]

I've been doing this all winter, but I've attracted quite a few mice who dig up the scraps each night. Or, it could be another nocturnal animal. Plenty of worms are busy breaking everything down.

[@Mr.C-yf8]

Egg shells and husks

[@jeanetteschulthe1andOnly]

All the items you put in the ground are what they do not recommend to put in a worm bin. I combined my bins vermi/compost. It seems to work...I started doing this because of all the specialty fertilizers such as orange citrus, avocado, calcium meal...so I thought it must become reusable at some point. Why not make my own?

[@kcsunshine6416]

I was very fearful as I watched you get closer and closer to checking the unbroken eggs. I once had a hen lay in a compost pile. It must have been at least 3 months before I turned the compost, because I had moved the chickens. And I hit those old eggs with the pitchfork...😱 the smell was awful.

[@DaisyCreekFarms]

The smell was awful on the broken egg and the cracked eggs buried and also the milk

[@laurawinslow631]

Great Video! I have to ask...Is the children's playhouse in the background, custom made? If not, what is the brand or where to find it?

[@DaisyCreekFarms]

It is this one amzn.to/3v4bH19

[@laurawinslow631]

Thank you so much!@@DaisyCreekFarms

[@user.A9]

Were the peanuts raw or cooked & salted?

[@DaisyCreekFarms]

Peanuts were baked (toasted) unsalted.

[@cathywhite1470]

I cleaned and pulverized my eggshells to a powder to add calcium to my soil instead of buying something. Too frigid here to try yet.

[@VDD-2766]

How about coffee grounds?

[@DaisyCreekFarms]

Coffee ground is great to add to your garden soil. you can add that directly.

[@jimsullivan668]

Did you try coffee grounds?

[@Mr.C-yf8]

I grind mine to a powder then everything that needs it has it instantly

[@diytwoincollege7079]

I was hoping that a new kitchen would grow.

[@hotvibes2320]

eggs meat and milk i wouldn't agree on using them but crushed egg shells is okay

[@ssri1675]

Hiw do you deal with Rat problem? They are chewing nice organic eggplants of mine

[@DaisyCreekFarms]

Traps

[@jlseagull2.060]

I stopped using milk in my garden years back simply because of my dogs too.

[@CherrieMcKenzie]

I always add my banana peels throughout my garden, the other stuff goes in the compost bucket...

[@DaisyCreekFarms]

Great strategy!

[@JimKat5646]

Egg shells can take years to break down. Needs to be grounded into a powder . Plants can’t absorb it that way .

[@kenshanbackyardgarden]

Wow! You're literally making smoothy in the soil.. 😂

[@DaisyCreekFarms]

Delicious Recipe! lol

[@MaineGalVal]

Toss the onion peels on the surface of your garden to confuse insect pests :)

[@DaisyCreekFarms]

Great Idea and dogs and rodents don't bother onion peels either.