Just Bury Food Scraps Under Your Plants and This Happens

[@jamesprigioni]

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 😁🐕❤

[@myurbangarden7695]

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.

[@robertaj3767]

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!

[@tiger1554]

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 was the food scrap is composted by spring and not robbing nutrients during the decay process while a plant is trying to actively grow.

[@JeanHudson2022]

A coffee grinder works really well to crush egg shells and you can find them in thrift stores for a few bucks.

[@carolschedler3832]

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. 🥕

[@KellyPontow]

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.

[@jamesprigioni]

Brilliant Idea!

[@angelamuhammad2982]

Same❤ learned from my mom went back to the basics stop buying fertilizers so unnecessary

[@bballanalytics1552]

Experiment Idea #9: relationship between Watering Frequency and Vegetable Yield

[@Grow_with_Michael]

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! 🌱❤️

[@4gz252]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤!!! Great experiment. Love seeing Tuck in the garden...

[@deadoralive26]

❤❤❤❤ for Tuck, the Boss, and his assistant, James

[@jamesprigioni]

Haha! Let's Gooo!! King Tuck 👑🐕

[@gardenofseeden]

Look at that video quality!

[@drde63]

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❤

[@karenromando4939]

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.

[@heathereagleson1098]

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.❤

[@joycemiller7908]

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.

[@judyhamblin9366]

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.

[@joycemiller7908]

@@judyhamblin9366 lol, I like the way you think!

[@Smokey35400]

Love this idea!

[@jamesprigioni]

Let's Gooo!!!

[@bballanalytics1552]

Experiment Idea #8: Effect of Different Types of Irrigation (Drip vs. Sprinkler) on Vegetable Growth

[@ryangardner9683]

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.

[@angelamuhammad2982]

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.

[@BritoWorx]

I love nature so much it’s perfect.

[@bg7491]

Tuck was hoping that you were digging up carrots! 😄 ❤❤❤❤ for Tuck!

[@JimmyHat-k4t]

Tuckabone really helped out there 😊

[@dancemonkey118]

I love this kind of comparisons! 🫶

[@bballanalytics1552]

Experiment Idea #12: Effect of Deep vs. Shallow Planting

[@heathereagleson1098]

What a great idea!

[@bballanalytics1552]

Experiment Idea #5: Effect of Intercropping on Vegetable Yield (Test how planting two or more vegetable species together affects overall yield)

[@emoc1902]

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.

[@bballanalytics1552]

Experiment Idea #13: are there any benefits to Crop Rotation? that's all i got, excited to see what you come up with!

[@jamesprigioni]

Loving all the ideas. Me and Tuck will definitely be doing some of these next year! 👍😁🐕

[@scottmcley5111]

Early in the Spring here, i go catfishing. I usually catch lots of roughfish (carp and freshwater drum), and planted them under my tomatoes. Everything grew great. (All tomatoes) All i can say is its a lot more fun going fishing than going to buy bone and blood meal at the store!

[@ChooksART4kids]

What a fantastic video! Such good content and very well done with the experiment

[@AlphaSierra50]

can you make a persimmon vid I'm looking to get one

[@NelsonGreen-eu9up]

I have to try this. Thank you for expirementing

[@krisnace]

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

[@coldhandjacinth9069]

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.

[@onchh3623]

King Tuck! He's hopeful of getting some carrots. 👌

[@bballanalytics1552]

Experiment Idea #7: Raised Beds vs. Traditional Ground Planting

[@Yourbestiebella123]

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[@jamesprigioni]

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[@Yourbestiebella123]

Thanks!

[@bballanalytics1552]

Experiment Idea #11: Effect of Plant Spacing on Vegetable Growth. like imagine planting in 4 cabbages that are 6 inches apart versus 2 cabbages that are 12 inches apart. what i wonder is if the total yield from the 12 inches apart (2 cabbages) is greater than the total yield from the 6 inches apart (4 cabbages) etc.

[@Strider181]

There are loads of vids on that if you search. Basically the closer you plant crops the more fertility and feeding you need.

[@heathereagleson1098]

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?🤔

[@tttarms1970]

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

[@bballanalytics1552]

Experiment Idea #10: Effect of Organic vs. Synthetic Fertilizers on Vegetable Growth

[@bballanalytics1552]

Experiment Idea #6: Effect of Temperature on Germination Rates

[@lailarafiq123]

*Is the taste of the tomatoes* "better" of the plant with the food scraps under ?

[@jamesprigioni]

There wasn’t a noticeable difference in flavor to be honest 😁

[@bballanalytics1552]

Experiment Idea #2: Effect of Different Water Quality on Vegetable Growth

[@jamesprigioni]

Brilliant! 💡

[@Treycotwright]

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[@JS-px3et]

I had been told to talk to my plants ... well, you said good stuff to the one plant, but you praised the other plant. The one without anything under it became discouraged. BTW, I have some prime, ocean front property for sale in Arizona. 😂

[@christopherd.winnan8701]

James, did you and Tuck know that many of the magnificent trees at Kew Gardens were planted directly on top of dead draft horses which expired on the nearby London streets in the Victorian era.

[@bballanalytics1552]

Experiment Idea #3: Effect of Nitrogen Levels on Leaf Growth in Vegetables

[@jamesprigioni]

Great ideas!!! 👍❤️

[@bballanalytics1552]

Experiment Idea #1: Planting Depth versus Germination Success

[@SherrickDuncan]

Jake would you say that thos method is better / easier / more effective or Paul Gautschis method of chickens and screening?

[@kodiak1984]

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

[@caroldragon7545]

I think the sardines were probably the major influence. Native Americans used to bury fish under their crops.

[@bballanalytics1552]

Experiment Idea #4: Effect of Container Size on Vegetable Growth

[@bballanalytics1552]

at this very moment, Epic Gardening is testing whether the introduction of mustard seed plants can fix soil that causes root knot nematode. supposedly it does.

[@bballanalytics1552]

experiment requires that your tomato plants have issues with root knot nematode, which i have not heard from you

[@Zzz5]

Please let us know the taste difference

[@lindaseel9986]

Excellent experiment! Tuck science approved. 🌞☺️💘💝😊❤️🤗♥️🌝🇺🇸🧡💛

[@ollyeccles]

Did this this year but unfortunately a badger dug up everything

[@gdaymates431]

What about scobe from kombucha. Is that good too?

[@rasserfrasser]

Is the food scraps thing just for tomato plants? For some reason all tests/examples of this that I've seen online involve tomato plants. I just planted garlic last week and don't imagine it would've had the same effect.

[@bassmaster3145]

Please bury candy corn next and see what it grows

[@Innerdiamond]

Sure, great way to bring in the rats..how perfect!😂 i have a vegtrug! They are great!❤

[@anitahernandez1207]

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[@debbieh1959]

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[@macrosense]

The edible acres people seems to feed a lot of scraps to his chickens. I don’t know how the chickens eat all of it

[@lisaprice996]

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[@IAmSherry12]

is that considered "lasagne gardening"?

[@hbgriss]

Where’s the weed planted? 😉

[@shelm-b8p]

No sardines or any meat or fish in my area. Otherwise I will have a bear visiting me. Otherwise everything goes into the beds.

[@sciencesaves]

Don’t do this. Just buy a plant-specific fertilizer or start a compost pile/bin

[@ckchan9180]

Eye of newt, tail of rat, hair of dog… sounds like witchcraft! It works well but unfortunately for me I found that it attracted the rats.

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[@spark967]

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