What Happens When You Bury Kitchen Scraps in the Garden?

This video shows what happens when you bury kitchen scraps or waste like bones and meat such as fish in the vegetable garden.
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[@lyantes829]

Thank you for all the awesome videos! You are a treasure of knowledge. I have found putting coffee grounds on top of the fish or meat scraps keeps the smell down and certain pets can't stand coffee! Keep up all the great work!

[@casualdiamond1]

Hi! I’m a new subscriber in California. Just bought a home with a nice size yard in full sun. What size property do you have, and do you recommend some shade trees for my veggie garden?

[@gillianduggan6549]

Thanks that's very interesting..what about teabags..😊 would you bury them..and if so with or without the actual bag.. 🙏🙏

[@WarmFuzzyVibes]

@@casualdiamond1 Only if you plan to grow crops that need some shade. Far more need full sun. If I didn't have trees and I longed for one or two, I would opt for fruit trees of some kind. But I would not plant where they would shade out sun-loving crops or flowers! I cannot stress enough how important getting adequate sunlight is for many plants. I have too many trees and I am always searching for sun in my yard. So do not be in a hurry to plant trees. Once they get big, you may rethink the whole idea of a tree right there like I did! Granted, 95% of my trees were on the lot when the house was purchased in 89, and by now they are 60 to 80 foot cedar elm giants.

[@lawangilbert7587]

Thank you. Your video is very useful for newbie like me.😀

[@municho3936]

Do I have a garden? No. Am I still watching this? Yes.

[@23Abhishek]

Do i know you? No. Did i like ur comment? Yes.

[@user-fh7zp3zv9z]

Municho you don’t have a garden that’s peak

[@mynigga7861]

Do I Uh I Cant Think Of Anything

[@elpatron9972]

Read that in Dwight’s Voice

[@ctsvblk]

Am I Jewish? No. Do I pretend to be sometimes? Yes.

[@LARKXHIN]

I like how we went from kitchen scraps to dead birds in 30 seconds

[@supermills03]

I just now realize how weird it is for me to be watching a video of a guy burying his garbage, showing me bugs and dead birds.

[@kamela1958]

i felt a bit horrified about that bird! 🙀

[@alexisgill1155]

@@kamela1958 Its the circle of life *Disney music* It better the bird go to growing food.

[@junenaya2736]

From kitchen scraps To chicken scraps

[@mangoyacho]

@@junenaya2736 LoL!

[@katiep6752]

As a child my dad taught us to plant fish heads under his veggies…. He loved fishing. All our fish heads and guts were hand caught by him and us so it was free fertilizer for the garden and a great fish fry for the family. Nothing was wasted. We always had the best garden and at 59 I’m still practicing his method. It still works

[@loganblakemusic]

glad to hear they haven’t patched it yet

[@catherinesyme901]

Excellent!

[@wemuk5170]

How long will buried kitchen scraps fully decomposed, I wonder? Actually, I’m confused why they take so long in the compost bin? Will decomposition through burying with soil be much faster? What about rodents? Will this attract mice?

[@user-fu5qr5em8v]

@@wemuk5170 It does not attract mice and yes decomposition through burying with soil is much faster. Bugs in the soil help the process of decomposition. How quickly kitchen scraps decomposes depends on what it is. Vegetables and fruits decompose quickly (2 to 6 months), and an example of something difficult to decompose is an olive pit ( it takes more than a year).

[@wemuk5170]

@@user-fu5qr5em8v Oh dear, 2 months? I’m a new gardener & will be planting on the kitchen scraps buried in my raised bed just 6 weeks ago. 😅

[@Hybzy]

One thing I've learnt about composting as well, is that I get better results by having two separate compost piles. Separating them into vegetables and fruits. Fruits generally have a lower pH level, so they will feed plants which require a more acidic soil. Using fruits to fertilise fruits, and vegetables to fertilise vegetables means that you are giving the soil the nutrients more required by the crop type. Egg shells are a great way to increase soil pH too, by introducing calcium into the soil.

[@loopmantra8314]

Egg shells take forever to break down, that's a common misconception tbh. Eventually they do, but it's like years. Best way to add calcium readily available and water soluble comes from KNF/JADAM method, by mixing egg shells and vinegar to make calcium acetate. I'm only saying this because it's great for composting (Bokashi method) too, much much faster than method shown here

[@goodcitizen2372]

Me: "I'm going to bed early tonight." 3am: What happens when you bury kitchen scraps in the garden?

[@lehmans3fsu]

☝🏽count me in right now! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@katherines8489]

216am right now 😭😂

[@surijosuperbaby]

kkk

[@surijosuperbaby]

kkk

[@victorugalde5235]

1:28am

[@kimjones7391]

The old gal who lived next door was always digging holes and dumping stuff in the hole. She had the most amazing gardens. Once a big deer died in her yard at the age of 87 she dragged the big buck to the big Hooke she dug. After watching that I was always nice to her 😊

[@icouldjustscream]

She sounds like my mother. Except she would have skinned it first.

[@SoundMindMusicStudio]

Wow! I’ve never heard of a dear getting that old!

[@flordelcampo7516]

@@SoundMindMusicStudio Lol

[@georgcorfu]

The lady was 87

[@paulp4452]

Are you sure there wernt a few hitchhikers buried in her garden?

[@Brykk]

Ive found that having 4 separate zones works for me. I have 2 raised beds in each zone and i bury scraps in 1 zone (or 2 beds) for one full season, while planting the other 3. It gives a full year for the scraps to break down and let the soil recover. My grandparents and parents have been using this method for well over 100 years and have never had a year that we havent been able to supply what we need. We almost always have had enough canned at the end of the year that we have been able to help out neighbors, friends, and family.

[@clairepalmer840]

What a great strategy!

[@matrixdecoded4226]

May become an essential food source given how things are going at the moment. Good time to encourage others to get growing with all the talk or shortages and price rises.

[@nancys.5968]

Great idea! I have to use raised beds where I live but I do have enough space to utilize this method.

[@jcnz9861]

So, zone 1 is nothing but kitchen scraps and soil, and you're adding new scraps every few days? Do you ever run out of space for scraps - or do they break down quickly? And does this system mean that you only have one zone with new soil every four years? Hope these questions make sense...

[@YukamsGaming]

@@jcnz9861 you should look into crop rotation, it’s a very old knowledge where you plant 3 different crops over 3 year in one spot (one year per crop I believe) and leave it be for one full year to recover (ofter this is a year in which you give nutrients to the soil) for a final 4 year cycle. Maybe this is what the person commenting was referring to, as you can essentially grow all your different needed crops every year and never run out of good soil

[@larrykeyes4979]

Never buried a fish in my gardens, but here is a short story that lends credence to that idea. Mom and dad often fished, and after dad returned from a solo fishing trip one weekend he had several cat fish, a bass or two, and some carp. Carp are nearl impossible to clean, but he kept the carp to help out a neighbor who had a stunted tree among those planted in along his property line - one poor ole tree looking sad compared to the others. Dad buried a whole carp at the base of the little tree, about two feet deep, and by the next year the short tree had out grown the others. There was no fertilzer or any other addition to the soil. That's my report, some 60 years later.

[@nilsnyman6767]

When he abruptly said "my grandparents..." I expected him to finish with..."are buried right over here..." Lol

[@user-wb6mj2po2f]

😁😁😁

[@busog97641]

Hehehe

[@s.hussain747]

Lol😅

[@zakunick1]

It’s been 7 weeks and see how many potatoes we’ve got growing here.

[@dannycool59x49]

😂😂😂😂

[@SnoozeTheRecluse]

"And you might need a fair sized garden" **shows a whole acre of land**

[@ExileXCross]

Lowkey Flexing skill: MAXED OUT

[@nayyarrashid4661]

That's what I thought... He was talking about backyard garden which my father is very fond of but it's not even quarter of an acre...

[@taneabree]

DareDog101 lmao

[@47thChromosome]

Alastar Astra Na mate you look like you take it in the rear!

[@vailimaconnoisseur6538]

@@alabalamalamala Stop projecting

[@dimpsthealien333]

This is probably an odd comment and you won't probably read it, but thank you for this. We are having to move away from my family home. We have buried many pets in our yard over the years. This helps knowing that their bodies have definitely returned to the Earth and I don't have to feel so sad about leaving them. I'm sure that's a strange comment, but...

[@PapaJaja]

It's not strange I was thinking the exact same thing!

[@nancys.5968]

Love the idea of just letting things break down naturally. My father dug a pit in the ground and we put all our kitchen scraps in there (he covered it with a wood-framed screen to keep critters out). It yielded the best compost and he had a beautiful vegetable garden.

[@annmariegugliemino5009]

"You don't have to be self sufficient in everything. Just something." FINALLY.

[@smartman5626]

Hi

[@lindadavidson2237]

I tell my husband to be nice to me because the neighbors are totally used to seeing me dig big holes in the garden. So far it has worked!

[@lanajantz2240]

HahaHaha funny! Hehee!

[@AndreaEerlingen]

@@lanajantz2240 hahaha sooo good!

[@joshkentopp721]

Nigga what?

[@probablynotzeus936]

@@joshkentopp721 hi Patrick

[@luzclapham161]

Hahahahaha

[@theaussiebackflipboy]

I used to call my compost heap my "inadvertent potato garden" because I always got a decent harvest of potatoes from it when I deposited my weekly vegetable peelings in it.

[@ComboBreakeR7]

Here in Sweden every household has a bin for food waste which is collected and transported to a biogas plant where it's converted to biogas fuel and fertilizer.

[@gabrielfriedel4754]

Who else thinks it's beautiful how nature can just take care of everything?

[@royt7562]

I. It's part of nature's natural recycling.

[@ahope4u2]

God is awesome!

[@Tomhankerus]

Orrrrrrrrrrrrr.............. nature is a cannibalistic monster that creates life only to destroy itself in order to satisfy its insatiable hunger for consciousness

[@DefenderOfTheLarder]

It's almost like someone designed it like that. :)

[@lloydpopp13]

@@DefenderOfTheLarder it is

[@franciscobessa7808]

From Venezuela, I burry kitchen trash all the time in my small garden all the time and this year 2021 I have pulled out and bagged over 200 fruit trees to be planted in schools around my home town

[@MrChinchilla_hn]

Feliz iniciativa amigo, un paso adelante en la reforestación que en muchas escuelas solo es palabras. Saludos desde Honduras.

[@realtalk6195]

Keep up the great work!

[@adamcastelsay]

Great project!!!! That’s really cool of you

[@rockwellthegreat7118]

This is incredible! Thank you for paying it forward!! I too have had a bunch of avocado trees and onions, herbs, mystery plants too lol

[@Cocoagoddess_]

You’re the best!!!!!!!!! Thank you for being a provider to others, especially the children 🥰

[@wendyhannan2454]

I put chopped up banana peels in my ferns that are in pots, one was doing very poorly, within weeks it had doubled in size. I was amazed, I never throw banana peels away 😉 Thanks Mark, for your wonderful videos.

[@helentc]

I started doing this a few years back when my Dad told me, it was what his Father did with Kitchen scraps. Saves all the trouble of turning a compost, and dragging it to the garden bed when you want to use it. Just put it right in where you plant. I mix some dried leaves in with my compost when I bury it, I think it helps the break down process, the leaves break the wet scraps up a bit and allow more oxygen perhaps. This is definitely my preferred method.

[@bclanton6368]

I want to do this but I have a question. I have a compost bin, an old side by side refrig laid down, that works great but like you said; I have to take my scarps to it, turn it and then use a shovel to shovel it out into a wagon to take it to my garden. Putting it directly in my garden areas would be a lot easier. Does it not attract ants or other critters? If so, what can be done to prevent that

[@pistolcrystal2]

This guy would make an incredible grandfather. He's fun and yet calming

[@lindachen5179]

Uncle, cousin, friend, neighbor, gardener, person, teacher, gardener. Ha. Yes. He's great.

[@heatseeker_]

Agreed!!

[@sambo314]

Hes my dad..lets make it happen

[@rhettmelton]

Sam Perez zing

[@Production791]

Linda Chen Absolutely and you'd never go hungry 😄

[@blotchilim1980]

I love the opening motto: 'you dont have to be self sufficient in everything, just be self sufficient in something'. I think it will help encourage a lot of people, myself included. And that garden of yours is amazing! 👏👏👏

[@jaderatliff179]

So true too! Can always trade knowledge with people that way as well 😄

[@davidphetteplace4769]

This is what I've been doing. Just doing more home gardening/farming as best as I can. Hopefully in a few years I can get a tractor and make use of all my land.

[@TheOccultOutsider]

'your basically growing your plants on top of a worm farm, and I think thats cool" yes dude, it is super cool you're amazing! the world benefits from you.

[@racheljean6394]

Love aussie dudes who are so passionate about simple things like gardening, fishing, camping, etc. Bless them.

[@germanpenn]

It's nice to have a hobby to let off the stress of fighting spiders and poisonous animals everyday to get to work

[@pooperplayz]

Thanks for the compliment mate

[@clittle1559]

I always wanted to go to Australia until I heard about there gun laws .. America's next anyway

[@lauragonz34]

Rachel Jean burying corpses.....👀👀

[@derdummeasi]

Why would these things be "simple"

[@Eucis93]

Very helpful! This is my second year gardening, I’m in a wheelchair and never thought I’d be able to have a garden because I can’t exactly wheel myself around in a crop field or harvest anything from a tree. But raised beds have made it possible for me to grow a few types of veggies, and I have bought some of those cloth ”buckets” to grow potatoes in, hopefully they’ll turn out to be a good wheelchair-friendly gardening option also 😊

[@LoganTheGeeRaff]

Wow that is very inspiring . I hope it works out for you and you find solace in gardening .

[@1John5-13-Lisa]

God Bless you

[@GordaoSemFuturo]

I dont know the terrain around your garden if it is surrounded by dirt on the ground it is above or cement but you should buy some worms and put them in tomake a farm under your plantation. 🙃

[@sikkerthensatan]

only thing to know about the potato bags is make sure to have something for the stalks to rest against or they will grow and then snap . we usually get between 30-50 potato's per bag. and they last alot longer then store bought

[@kevinwilson455]

Well done to you... I hope gardening and cultivating brings you joy. Set yourself goals and try and grow a ripe strawberry or potato.... It does taste better when you grow it yourself.

[@mommyseastar5776]

Nature doesn’t let things go to waste. This is awesome! I’m just starting my urban food garden. Thanks for this!

[@valeriejean6507]

I started direct composting about a year ago. The soil is amazing now.

[@matrixdecoded4226]

I just started direct composting but maybe I am too heavy handed. I have some old garbage bins with the bottom rusted out so I bury them up to the lid and then fill them with kitchen scraps and a the occasional layer of grass clippings. When they are 6-9 inches from full I pull the bin out and overfill with soil. The soil is pretty bad, red clay.

[@Douken]

Pigeon passed away. Rest in Onions 🙏🏽

[@TheCaterpickle]

lmao 😂

[@jja1483]

Douken Mmmm onion rings😏

[@justsomeguywithoutamustach3608]

Lok

[@JA-ug7wq]

Rest in peas.

[@lyisgarcia1634]

Lol

[@juanparra1487]

After several years of watching videos on KZbin, I can say with total confidence that hands down this is the nicest dude in social media ever.

[@aishwariyasweety2433]

Aussies tend to seem that way

[@openmind5973]

He sure is. There's another nice bloke out there too, Charles Dowding. If you're into gardening, or even if you're not, check him out for his soothing videos.

[@marinousmonk8605]

Check out the Crafsman if you want another nice man

[@tracymonroe6001]

This guy and Hampton from Hybrid Calisthenics are the most genuine, lovely people on KZbin.

[@stillatin]

he had me at G'Day

[@bernadettematera-stacey1982]

I'm amazed at the quality of your soil! We've been living in WA for 26 years, on sand. Raised beds seem the best way to go here.

[@janellemargot4376]

Checkout lasagna gardening if you haven't already. Might be a new thing to try 👍🏼

[@TomTom-df9ph]

I love how nothing goes to waste with you..... I do it on a smaller scale and I know his satisfying and rewarding it is. .. I love the way you think.

[@TYOjoe]

What is it with informative Australian guys explaining stuff while hunched over or kneeling down?

[@chickenpermissiontheshaved75]

You forgot the "Crikey!"

[@hofico6]

TYOjoe They just want to get closer to whatever’s DOWN UNDER them...

[@andrewashkettle]

Learned from the Asian and Russian immigrants. ;-)

[@TYOjoe]

but you have to be explaining things when you do

[@HyouVizer]

@@TonyQuackston LOL truth

[@pelissey]

We had a red tide here in Southern CA last year. Lots of fish died so I went to collect as many carcasses as I could to put into my garden. I can tell you that I have never been able to grow tomatoes very well. Last year I had tomato plants that grew over 8 feet high!

[@TheCelestialnav]

WOW, Way To Go !

[@arthuurwong49]

Great idea & recycling too!😊

[@sintijainnature]

I've been composting for a while now, but it never occurred to me that I can simply burry things directly into the garden! I have to try this! Thank you! :)

[@angelsandocean2853]

I blend banana skin in blender... add extra water and hello green garden!

[@lisamt2573]

@@angelsandocean2853 Do you tip the liquid around your plants?

[@gitasamra8977]

Yes summertime I bury vegetable peels straight in the corner of my garden, if it is too hot it turns in to nice soil in 15 days. By then I have another full bucket of kitchen waste (no meat or milk prod) ready. I dig the same corner and take out old soil and dump new vegetables and fruit peels in it.watermelon peels I cut in to small pieces. I don’t water it because vegetable peels have so much moist in them. Try it will work.

[@Loosybaboosy]

@Mark - what's bad about beetle grubs please?

[@handl3_me]

Thanks to your videos I'm now burying kitchen scraps, my soil and earthworms love it♥️. I plant a few things such as potatoes, tomatoes and strawberries.

[@pamelaspooner8335]

I so appreciate your kindness to your chickens by adding the corrugated tubing to the edge of the cut buckets so it wouldn’t scratch their necks. You are a sweetie 😄👍🌼

[@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi]

Pamela Spooner yeah wouldnt wanna bruise the neck, needs to be nice and supple when ya grab it and reef its head off...? Also you axe doesnt need to be as sharp too i spose ;)

[@castlacat]

Who honestly would take the time to give this guy a thumbs down....he should be on tv....he doesn't rehearse this stuff he lives it...

[@loveoes2]

i agree it was very helpful and a great insight to what to expect within 4 weeks.

[@NewLife-zy3ob]

I was thinking the same, goes go show how many miserable souls there are in the world

[@BLane-xr1ic]

I absolutely agree. He feels like family.... and I'm Black lol Descent guy.

[@Chris-xl6pd]

Probably Animal welfare freaks finding a way to be offended by the sight of the dead animals. Too many pussies in the world, probably some people who buy factory farmed produce also but somehow manage to see this as wrong. There really are some fucking idiots in the world.

[@learningchannel3850]

@@Chris-xl6pd probably. Honestly what else are you going to do with a dead animal? I find dead birds all the time in my forest. If my cat has not ate the thing yet, then I will put him to good use in the garden. Not wasting anything

[@ThePathOfEudaimonia]

Came for the garden, stayed for the amazing accent, subscribed for all the good advice about growing food!

[@eagle17nz]

Giddy Mate from NZ. That is exactly what I have been doing in our small city garden. I had no worms when I arrive at this place. I dig a trench down 40-50cm and put some rougher garden clipping down first if I have it, then a thin layer of soil. I repeat with another thin layer of kitchen scraps or lawn clipping and top that off with some more soil and do it again. I aim for 3 layers of green waste. I make a soil and food waste CLUB SANDWICH with the last layer of scraps being at least 100mm down. If you do this CLUB SANDWICH method (at least 1 mth prior) for tomatoes (and such like) that you plant deep into that sandwich mix, you will need some more friends/family and/or recipes to keep up with all the tomatoes that will be coming your way! Great Videos. I learn so much!

[@user-pw4ee3lr8s]

4:58 he was so proud with himself after saying that joke 😂

[@ArtMorera]

That subtle grin at the end haha

[@Tony-112]

Dad joke level 3000

[@Follow_Jesus]

lil peep yea yea

[@xxfrutixx]

Like the video just for that joke 😂

[@mileswilliams4807]

I'm dead

[@Elvyne963]

It's so nice, because his enthusiasm is so honest and real, that even when he makes a '' bad joke '' like the ''where are my glasses'', cause he's so nice, you just smile and enjoy the ''bad'' joke :P

[@ninodrhr]

it's called a "dad joke"

[@LuigiCotocea]

Decomposed soil smells so beautiful!

[@steveanschutz2370]

I’ve used this method for a long time now to build vege beds. I get heaps of food scraps from the local fruit and veg shop. Anything that the chooks won’t eat I lay down in rows with a sprinkle of cow manure and cover with a good layer of mulch. I keep layering until I get the right height and mix in a bit of soil. It usually takes a few months for the beds to be ready, but it’s far easier than making compost and turning it. It also means I don’t have to cart barrow loads of compost everywhere. It does take time to breakdown but at least I’m not busting my gut anymore.👍

[@944gemma]

I have been “planting” my kitchen scraps at the base of my plants for years. Read about it in an old gardening book. Little by little my soil has become fantastic.

[@TheSweetSleep]

What about rats ? This is the big problem of kitchen scraps

[@abiodunokunuga5984]

How long do i plant kitchen scraps before planting crops please. Thank you.

[@ogxj6]

@@TheSweetSleep get a cat or two

[@jowlorenz9555]

@@ogxj6 you can even bury a cat or two !

[@sealyoness]

@@TheSweetSleep Not if they are dug down a few inches/however centimeters.

[@losangeleslakers1650]

Vegetarians " I dont like to eat dead animals." Plants - "hold my dead pigeon"

[@A__Love]

It's actually Vegetarians: "I don't like animals to have to suffer in torturous factory farms their whole lives and their children's lives and then have to die just to satisfy my taste buds"

[@losangeleslakers1650]

@@A__Love basically what I said.

[@mulacula9540]

@@A__Love bird was already death? And if they die where they land? In the air?

[@SaturnCrashing]

pigeon died naturally. had a free life, not in a fenced shit-filled farm succumbed to torture, you know..

[@A__Love]

@@losangeleslakers1650 You didn't say that. I know you're trying to be funny but your joke is wrong. You don't understand vegetarians, it's NOT just about eating dead animals it's about not eating animals by torturing them. Good jokes punch up and don't punch down.

[@pash9956]

Been doing this forever. Bypassing the compost bin and directly inviting the worms!

[@barbarafunk5118]

I have been trying this method for the past couple of years, this year i a burying scraps every three days or so it works fairly fast and ive had no problems so far. I was never very good at the large compost piles, or bins. I do have two to unload, just waiting for them to cure a little more. We have cold snowy winters, this year i may try all winter long. Its amazing how easy it is and i really try to keep extra out of the land fill. This has been really helpful i plan to take it to the next level and start using everywhere i can. I start with brown and green leaves and grass then add the veggie scraps and then some rough soil then a finer soil sometimes i finish with a few inches of compost. so far so good.

[@lingonberriesofwrath1836]

I had no idea Russell Crowe was into organic gardening. Good for him!

[@mussante]

Uncanny resemblance

[@Anehab100]

He's actually alot bigger and alot fatter now. So

[@classycassi20]

😂😂

[@SJ20Jo]

Hahaha

[@sorestedhebytheTumtumtree]

He switched careers. XD

[@markyfilarky]

I really love this guys character. He comes across as such a friendly honest person.

[@twenty_four24.]

Why dont you ask him out on a date.... Mark!

[@markyfilarky]

@@twenty_four24. Why don't I ask you on a date? Just because I like someone doesn't mean I am attracted to them.

[@FateOfTheElephant]

So true. Very unaffected personality.

[@exzobree9158]

@@markyfilarky oooooooh you got em!

[@melodyjohnson4850]

It's the accent

[@InferiSirius]

My area is changing the garbage/green waste bin rules, and requiring food scraps into the green bin only. My very first thought was "why would I give them my compost?" I haven't been very good about composting, but now that the city wants my scraps, I have been taking my home composting very seriously! lol

[@sweeniedickson8231]

Something to note: waiting for the kitchen scraps to break down BEFORE you plant your crops will bring heaps of nutrients to your plant, where as if you put the scraps in as you are planting, or in the bin or whatever you are planting in, the microbes in the soil may tend to focus more on breaking the scraps down as opposed to brining broken down nutrients to your plant. nothing too serious, as this method is very fast, but it is just something to note as it may slow down your crop growth a tad

[@robindavis2975]

I live in Arizona, and my soil is very sandy. I’ve had trouble growing because of the lack of nutrients. I have decided that I was going to have to use a raised bed and after seeing your results and how you are composting into the direct soil I’m realizing that that is going to be the best way to go. I really enjoy your videos and even though I live on a different continent and in a different climate, I’m sure I’m going to have fabulous results.

[@ericbudiono7451]

literally the first time ive watched gardening video on youtube. nice job youtube algorithm

[@Matti713]

Same

[@cannabisgrowsnpenguins9590]

Welcome to the gardening community 😉 you should look I to cannabis growing I have a few of my plants on my channel not asking for a sub but if you wanna see some pretty plants have a look 😆

[@freighttrain7143]

People seem to think that a new viewer first time on KZbin should see NO video recommendations at all I guess..... 'they've never watched that type before', is NOT a concern of the algorithm.

[@xXSNEAKYRAZORXx]

Yep

[@zecuse]

​@@freighttrain7143 Well, what about people like me, who've used KZbin for years and built up a consistent history, where this is on the front page of the recommended and I almost exclusively watch *insert* *video* *type* *here* (video game related content for me)? At least this is a recent video, less than a year old, that's probably gotten an influx of views (looking at his video list). In fact, it blew his second most viewed video out of the water by more than double the views in 1/12 the time. This is clearly an algorithm problem that's recommending this video to EVERYONE because of all the activity. My only guess to this out of left field video for me would be KZbin thinking it's related to the Cities: Skylines stuff I've been watching recently. Which then compounds the algorithm problem because now I've watched it.

[@MrAlwaysRight]

*Thumbnail:* Presents question. *Video:* Answers question. *Me:* Aaaaaaay, lit.

[@canismajor1186]

And he asks to like and sub at the end of the vid! I hate it when people ask for that at the start of their vids.

[@a_suslov]

We have composting program in Boston where residents can dump there kitchen scraps and it all goes to the farmers. I think it’s pretty cool!

[@braden8155]

Brilliant video. Finally somebody with a sense of humor and good information.New subscriber.

[@JaneDoe-sz9oy]

When my cat died after 19 years I burried her in my garden, till my surprise a real big plant with cute yellow flowers, and some other flowery plants started growing there. I think it is my cat her last showing of love to me.

[@rhoeasie]

That's beautiful

[@davedrewery6339]

Love this!!!

[@silent_stalker3687]

“Finally, after 10,000 years I’m finally free!” - some plant escaping Garfield

[@gfhdhsbdbwuiugdhe1254]

Jane Doe 🤟😔✊🐱

[@erlycuyler]

@Bert Clayton great book. Movie was good too.

[@annaosentoski2593]

Ive turned my backyard into a garden, literally. I add to it constantly. Its a no brainer once you get started. The health benefits are great, never starve either.

[@prussianette]

In our local paper some guy wrote that he was leaving our village because it didn't have any laws against putting vegetable gardens in your yard. Seriously, there literally was nothing to do last year under Covid lockdown and he's complaining because people chose to garden??!!

[@vanman6534]

@@prussianette Yeah, he'll probably move to the big city where he will complain about the high price of vegetables.

[@sealyoness]

I moved in a year ago and was trying to decide what to do with the south side of the yard along the house. It has pebble cover and rather poor-looking soil. After see this, however, I think I might have some ideas!

[@paranoiadevil]

What vegetables did you start with?

[@arthuurwong49]

⁠@@prussianettehe’s an idiot , good riddance 😊

[@mspearce01]

You are soo helpful with your detailed knowledge and tips with gardening but especially because it’s designed for Aussies, our climate and resources. Love your episodes and am learning a great deal, more than from anything else I’ve seen to date! Much appreciated ❤

[@claudiahansen4938]

For years I've been putting coffee grounds, eggshells, vegetable and fruit scraps into tapered conical pots outside. I put a layer of dirt on top, and keep adding until pot is full. Then I plant herbs on top. After three months, the soil underneath has turned into rich dark earth.

[@MGZetta]

Does it work the same with a dead body? Just asking for a friend.

[@talllala]

😂😂😂

[@makeyasaywat7516]

The FBI has entered the chat....

[@MGZetta]

@@makeyasaywat7516 Me left the chat...

[@ShadowKueken]

Cut and crunch it for a better effect , human skin is surprisingly resilient and it will take time for the earth to digest that

[@jeepgirl-ht2sy]

😂😂😂😂😂😂 omg to funny

[@mrcm9043]

"I'm digging with my hands, it would be more effective on camera if I hit something icky." Thank you for your service sir.

[@augustheat]

i never wear gloves when gardening...

[@newmom1171]

@@augustheat but you not burrying dead animals all over the place lol

[@cynthiadalessandro4509]

Always wondered about placing food scraps into the garden soil...... Interesting !

[@jemreandeau3583]

My Mom always buried her kitchen scraps, I do that too but also have a tumbler. Sometimes the deer dig up what I bury if I don’t put it deep enough and you can easily run out of space, hence the tumbler. As I harvest my veg will use that space to directly bury the scraps. This past winter I tried another method and it worked great. I kept a 5 gallon bucket out on the deck and dumped my waste into the buckets, had a brick on the lid to keep it from blowing away in the winter storms. I filled 3 buckets over the winter and in the spring I buried the waste behind the compost tumbler. It was quite stinky and broken down so I expect it will decompose quickly. Anyway, I’m having fun.

[@NanaBeth1]

My father was from Barbados & he always buried fish heads,bones,eggshells around his tomato plants. They were so good he had a regular route in an upscale neighborhood. Our indigenous people would live fish heads & bones around trees in the forest as an offering. Great for the trees!

[@janblackman6204]

Once I had a puppy that died and I buried it under our scrawny fig tree. The fig tree grew by leaps and bounds.

[@chickadee317]

Great for rats and mice too

[@melissasullivan1658]

I know it’s super morbid (seriously 👀) but I’ve always wanted to be buried without a coffin and then have a tree planted over me. It’s the ciiiiircle of liiiiife.

[@maryanneslater9675]

I think there are some places you can get away with that. Eco-burials or something. There are also memorial gardens where your ashes can be scattered among the roses and hydrangeas.

[@ifragpsn6431]

They got those tree pod coffins legal in Europe now I think. Basically do what you're saying. Google it.

[@James-mb3je]

It's how it's done in much of Indonesia and I'm sure elsewhere. Somewhere between 50cm to 1 metre down and aerobic decomposition occurs recycling the body. At a depth of 6' there's more anaerobic decomposition that produces toxins.

[@thenewguy6839]

That is exactly how John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) was buried.

[@amywalker7515]

It's a trend and probably not a bad idea. Imagine the billions of people buried who will never decompose just lying there for thousands of years.

[@jenniferreed2119]

I started doing this a few years ago and my garden soul has improved so much. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@matthewroberts785]

Your videos are so comfy dude. Thanks for making them.

[@jimmyispromo]

He just casually went into dead birds, chicken, fish heads... haha

[@kimberlymilton2779]

😂😂😂😂

[@rickysingh616]

@jimmy is Promo I know right, all in a day's work for him 👍

[@danielacolaizzo5989]

Thank you I really enjoyed your video... Are you Australian? I live a few miles from Rom and it's almost two yrs I started buying my kitchen scraps and I love doing it and see how things disappear after only a few weeks or at times a few days.

[@BonnieBlue2A]

@who or roses

[@johnjacobjingleheimer-schm8283]

Mark needs to have his own show on Netflix now!

[@arthuredens]

"I buried a dead rooster and it made delicious strawberries" Auzzies are so gritty and charming

[@user-ts2ny8jg9d]

Circle of life mate

[@particularlytrue]

🤣🤣🤣🤣i was stunned

[@nuke]

Just came across these videos for the first time and I have to say this is really good production quality. Great commentary. Great job 👏

[@superbmediacontentcreator]

I absolutely adored your line "because it was practical!" Absolutely great!

[@cryzz0n]

I'm 50 years old, growing up, everyone had some type of garden including my family. This guy's bringing the trend back. It makes me very happy. Personally I'm so afraid of supermarkets

[@yesterdayschunda1760]

Just about every Australian has a garden

[@wendyhannan2454]

Well with the price of fruit and vegetables it’s a good idea to grow your own. Nothing tastes better than fresh fruit and veggies from your own garden.

[@ryanlevin1912]

You ain’t 50

[@gnarbeljo8980]

You grew up in the 50s, so how are you 50yo? I'm born '68 and that makes me 54 😂

[@purenrg4life]

That cheeky grin after your “somethings fishy” dad joke.. I already love your channel

[@Keithphysics]

Great video thank you! My dad was a great gardener and I remember he used this method very successfully in the 1950's- probably through to the late 1900's. My method varies as I chop most kitchen scraps into small pieces to make them "more worm friendly". I trench some & also add some to our "ground top" compost heap. The latter = grass clippings with some brown matter, a little chopped paper and the kitchen scraps. Adding Dry leaves & small branches when mixture seems too wet I turn the heap at least 3-4 times a week with a small pitch fork and it takes only a matter of weeks to produce worm filled compost to add to the garden beds. I use the 3 compost bin method. ("Heaps" in my case). The Trench method : Being chopped up and layered with small amount of soil, the scraps in the trenches are quickly processed by the worms and the result has been much improved clay base garden beds in a very short time. I took some measures last week to improve a very sorry looking rose and lavender bed - I mixed a small amount of blood & bone with a 1 bag of store bought compost, & 1 of top soil and forked it in. The ground and the plants have mproved already, no doubt helped by a little sunshine! (The land has been excessively wet through Winter until now with only a few fine days here in the north of New Zealand as Spring transitions towards Summer) A lovely "summerish" day today tho! Blessings of good health & happy gardening everyone from JDK's wife - "the garden keeper".

[@kiwigirl9274]

it's interesting how fascinating composting can be. Your burying kitchen scraps reminds me of my grandfather's garden sixty years ago - nothing new under the sun!

[@ryancaballero2173]

...Unsure how I got here..Even more unsure why I stayed for the whole thing. Great video though.

[@Dylann8245]

Great video. Unsure why I watched it.

[@FussyPickles]

It began with an Australian video on truck driver's dash cams. The rabbit hole goes deep.

[@joebudden2232]

Same

[@Kitesune]

Same

[@organicthug5220]

Same. I’m finding myself walking around talking with an accent, and an insatiable urge to garden. Quite contagious.

[@oreseur513]

This is one of those rare moments that I'm actually thankful of the KZbin Recommendation Algorithm. Being raised by parents with Agriculture backgrounds, this channel makes me nostalgic!

[@Tony-112]

Me too , love watching this

[@DUNDOM5]

you are peasant

[@oreseur513]

@@DUNDOM5 You are uneducated.

[@TonyisToking]

I feel the same way about BDSM videos.

[@tommygirl1794]

Can't relate

[@slomo1716]

Mark YOUR channel is one of the BEST GARDENING CHANNELS on the internet! Brilliant gardening information!!!!!

[@sashacat53]

Interesting how you have covered this concept. This is exactly what I’ve been doing rather than a compost area as I was impatient and through previous experience I have found that it takes a long time for scraps to break down. I have bought four raised beds and have positioned one in the front of my garden as I have limited space. I layered it with newspaper, cardboard, soil, scraps, and repeated the process. I was too impatient to wait for anything to happen before I have planted some flouring plants that are looking very happy. Thanks for this video as I now know I’m on the right track and will continue with setting up the next bed.

[@lovelyy-babyy]

The first 35 seconds and i already like this dude

[@cappyjones]

I thought it was just me! 😜

[@simpesfaip]

one more such vid and ure in bed with him

[@MrPink2024]

*He talks funny.* 😕

[@Infection3d]

Same here, even when playing the video at 1.5x

[@kjordan2001]

He had me at G’day

[@mygardenacademia266]

I've been composting for about 3 years now. It's always amazing to see how much kitchen scrap goes back in the soil.

[@sealyoness]

My back yard has a depression where a tree must have been removed. It's a pain to mow! But I have a bagger, and decided to start dumping the clippings there. I'll be adding vegi/bone waste too. This spring my son and DiL promised to come out and help me build a raised garden in it! Yay!

[@ramencurry6672]

Egg shells commonly go to the garden. Same with carrot peels, potato peels, etc…

[@jss.2020]

yer amazin

[@wendyhannan2454]

Yes. I’m amazed how many kitchen scraps go into my compost bin. It frees up my garbage bin, and makes fabulous compost for my small garden. I love it, and my garden loves it too.❤

[@stevensharpe3182]

Saw this video few years ago watching again and built my first raised garden this week keep the great videos up!!

[@redsquirrelftw]

That's actually pretty impressive, so simple yet effective. I wouldn't have thought it would decompose that well. But guess it makes sense, this would happen naturally in nature.

[@YT4Me57]

Oh my gosh, when he dug down looking for a pigeon carcass with his BARE HANDS!!!! 👀

[@Plectrudefy]

He's looking for our old pigeon mate, not any carcass!! But i was horrified haha

[@Oxim-fz3so]

he aint no bitch

[@dhgrazer]

so you would not qualify as a gardner then.

[@talhamikaaiyl5483]

Realize this tho, he's in Australia. A place where tarantula's hide in soil.

[@ih82r8]

I just did this yesterday. 😶 But I also don't live in Oz where every damn thing hiding behind a leaf is waiting to kill you.

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

I’m glad I found the right video because I got this giant bag of dead pigeons.

[@danceaway6463]

😂

[@CheAshBri]

lmao so many questions

[@AshleePhillipsisPhabulous]

🤣🤣🤣

[@user-xr3qx5rc9b]

Eewww

[@mattysok4049]

@Lory smith i think he was telling a joke mate

[@sarahturner288]

My Dad taught me to do this in the 1960s - every winter we'd dig a "bean trench" where the next year's courgettes and runner beans were going to go and put all our kitchen scraps in it. Then we'd fill it in in spring and go back to putting the scraps on the compost heap. As long as you dig the trench in a different place each year (until you run out of garden, by which time it's fine to go back to the first site again), it really helps the soil :)

[@chattycatty3336]

My grandma buries almost everything, potatoes, onions, fruit/ vegi peels, tomatoes, corn etc! We have a pile in the corner of our yard that we bury the waste in, and wood ash from the fireplace, this makes a super potent compost that we use a little bit of in our garden, and it makes everything grow beautifully

[@thevagabondsageinthewoods]

I just started doing this. I was hauling my scraps to a bin, then hauling the bin to a compost heap, then mixing the composted heaps into my garden bins and one day I got smart, or lazy, or both and just started tossing my scraps directly into the garden beds. I have worms galore, the chickens still scratch there to aerate it and it became a thriving eco system that sustains plants. Lazy, easy

[@alexaelliott2598]

Marcy's Eco Village Life: I too think burying scraps directly is a good idea. It was mentioned that you have to do this sparingly to not overwhelm the soil biome. I often throw my banana peels under a low growing shrub I have at home.. it breaks down in days.

[@thevagabondsageinthewoods]

AstroBetaSirius I never notice it...it breaks down so quickly out in the elements.

[@thatoldcomicsmell]

This would be great to show in a biology class...you do a great job of showing the importance of an ecosystem and the cycle of nature...

[@kimm6589]

This brought me back to being a kid. We would always have to bury our kitchen waste in the garden (I'm 39 now). Sadly I own a townhouse in the city currently and don't have much of a yard to work with. Can't wait to upgrade and have a big yard. :-)

[@josephokwute4830]

This is so apt, watching this 4 years after you posted. I like it

[@ramokhan7997]

Let’s be honest you didn’t search for this video but you loved it.

[@Louis.DeGuzman]

Let's be honest, these copy paste comments are getting so *fucking* repetitive.

[@mariasoto1837]

I searched for it.

[@LavishLion]

No I did😂

[@matthewjendrasiak5136]

I searched for it.

[@dmittleman9757]

Bold of you to assume I don’t have anything better to do than watch videos on composting.

[@momova2593]

When your pet dies... REST IN PEAS.

[@The-King-Is-Coming]

MOMOVA 😆

[@ZionismIsRacism]

That's so wrong on so many levels. 😂😂😂.

[@arielbrinson9410]

😂😂😂😭

[@gavin7023]

That’s hilarious 😂

[@cenahater5002]

We buried our dead dog 6 feet under and planted a locust tree on top. The tree is huge now

[@Inspectorgadget111]

You got my admiration mate, I have been a grower for decades and all that lives and dies is good for the cycle of life. Nematodes and grubby bugs all do us a favour breaking down stuff. No woke hear bro. We buried a loved family cat , with all honours. 21 yrs old and 3 yrs later we planted potatoes over her .. no kidding , the best crops ever ... We raise a spud to her every time we have a few. She would run about laughing I am sure . Good work S S M 👍🌹

[@Hawaiian80882]

So stoked I discovered your post....Mahala's bro!

[@dariend6368]

I'm 50 years old, growing up, everyone had some type of garden including my family. This guy's bringing the trend back. It makes me very happy. Personally I'm so afraid of supermarkets

[@bfbvouabeorbvoaervure963]

I actually put an apple core directly into the soil. Five years later and I have an apple tree!

[@akmalidham]

I ate some rambutan fruit in my yard but i was lazy to trow it in the trash so i trown them at my yard ,now im selling seedlings to my neighbors😁

[@sleepyzebra11]

apples dont work like that, but id say theyll be good enough to ferment!

[@luke_5187]

Mitchell Kuske brush your teeth

[@jakerinaldi8387]

@@luke_5187 take a shower

[@Thorn99855]

@@luke_5187 Floss your teeth! (I just wanted to join in)

[@debbiehanisch2099]

My dad was an avid fisherman and cleaned his fish with water to wash up. He kept the water and used it on mom's roses with beautifil results. Some inards were also burried close to the roots.