You'll NEVER Throw Away Kitchen Scraps Again After Watching This!

[@TheMillennialGardener]

If you found this video helpful, please "Like" and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience: 0:00 Intro To The Composting Experiment 2:01 Kitchen Scraps VS Coffee Grounds 2:47 Digging And Burying The Kitchen Scraps 4:47 The Importance Of Moisture 7:04 Progress 20 Days Later 8:04 Checking The Kitchen Scraps 9:15 Checking The Coffee Grounds 11:02 My Composting Conclusions 13:06 Adventures With Dale

[@suzannesart]

Are the coffee grounds from organic coffee? Conventionally grown coffee is one of the most heavily sprayed crops. Look up the documentary "Circle of Poison". I'm guessing the chemicals in non-organic coffee could affect microbes and larger critters.

[@smode983]

Since I am terrible at composting and chronically late getting the garden started every year, I have wondered how two different ideas would work for getting rapid nutrients. 1. Blending scraps and water in a juicer or blender to make it fully liquid. Then watering plants with that or pouring that into the lawn clippings/leaves pile to save breakdown time. 2. Drying kitchen scraps or freeze drying scraps to powder and using that powder as an additive to the water or putting the powder into the yard waste pile.

[@MetaView7]

Please do the video again ! This is a good experiment !

[@illzwillzwatuz963]

Very smart

[@katrynlord6516]

I also taught my students how to make worm bins decades ago. We recycle scraps from the lunch area and taught the kids which scraps were appropriate to throw in for the worm bin. My students studied about the worms and learned some things about nutrition that they probably shouldn't be eating because they would take them home each weekend and watch over them. One student fed them sweets and popcorn and in one weekend we saw that the worms were very unhealthy and some died and they were incredibly skinny. It was a great lesson to teach the kids about nutrition as well!

[@susanjordan2130]

I throw my kitchen scraps into each raised bed all thru the winter, on top of the leaf and grass clippings put down at the end of growing season. They get snowed on and decompose mostly before spring planting. Then I rarely need fertilizer in the spring for my new plants.

[@stevecrabtree7654]

Im withya bud.If you could contain those elements in like a kiddie pool i use 55 gallon drums those worms break it down to a microbe level that the plants really love.

[@fiftyyearflood580]

That's a great idea!

[@sandrabrown6860]

I tried this and I gained Rats 🐀 Lots and Lots of RATS 🐀 🐁 🐭 🐀 😔 I've spent 8 months TRYING to eradicate them from my backyard and garden area. It has been awful trying to get rid of the rats ☹

[@samislam6842]

This is exactly what I do. Its effortless.

[@theresahouck3516]

@@sandrabrown6860 that's exactly what i am afraid of. No kitchen scraps for me.

[@patanddalejacobi7994]

Great video on the use of kitchen scraps! However, my wife does this "one better"! She puts all our kitchen scraps into an old blender with plenty of water and blends thoroughly. Then she digs a shallow trench around a plant and pours the slurry around the plant and lightly covers the trench. Voila! Instant compost!! Disappears in a couple of days. The worms think they've died & gone to heaven!!

[@cristenmcc4326]

What kind of blender?!

[@darinwright2901]

@@cristenmcc4326I make “smoothies” for my plants by using an old kitchen blender which I only use for gardening. If you don’t have a second blender consider purchasing a used one from a goodwill store.

[@marthareyes4024]

I use to homeschool my daughter years ago. This video is a great teaching tool for homeschoolers to watch (as well as adults). Thanks for all you do.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

You’re welcome! I’m so happy to hear this is helpful for kids! It worries me sometimes when I look at viewership stats and see 75% of viewers of my channel are over 40, because it worries me that young people don’t want to garden. Hearing things like this makes me so happy! We need more kids knowing where food really comes from 😊 Thank you for doing that!!

[@AM-es4mp]

Rhododendronds luv some coff grounds. Hygrangas luv crushed EGG SHELLS PUT IN SNALKER CONTAIBER - USE HAVEY GLASS TI SQISH SHELLS KIDS LIKE TO CRUSH ;)

[@TheeJoieDeVivreGarden]

I began doing this this year, and fell in love! It’s so easy, eliminates food waste, and makes your garden beautiful! Great growing!

[@sengadelgado5354]

I have buried my kitchen scraps directly into the veggie beds and believe the veggies have significantly benefited from doing so… so simple and less hassle than compost bins! 💪🤗👍

[@mercedesbenzs600bash]

Yeah a compost bin won't work for my medium size yard,here in New Jersey I have to many raccoons,possums,cats and skunks that will definitely get into it so I just keep a small container for my kitchen scraps and then add them to my 5 gallon buckets when I'm ready to plant...

[@kodiak1984]

I usually take my kitchen scraps and cut the down as small as possible. This time of year where its very hot to warm, the kitchen scraps will break down even quicker than the 20 days shown in the video. What I do with my containers is I have a layer of kitchen scraps as well as coffee grounds and make sure there is a good layer of soil and/or compost on top of it, at least 4-6 inches. I'd wait 2-3 weeks then plant (whatever) into that container, either a transplant or sow direct from seed. By the time the roots are big and strong enough to get into the food scrap section, all the matter should be fully broken down and the plant can get all the nutrients it needs. In a way, it skips the need to give the plants a fertiliser boost midway through its growth. Great video, I've always been curious to see what happens and never get the chance to get there in time

[@justinemcmillan2779]

I wondered if insinkeraters that pulverise food scraps could direct them into a bin rather than put them into the sewer system. They would break down in the soil quickly because they were so finely chewed up.

[@compiticny1445]

Kodiak1984, we do the same with our pots as well as adding wood chips to the bottom of the pots and then add the kitchen scraps/coffee grounds. At the end of the growing season the pots are added to the compost piles to be screened and used next season.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I specifically didn't want to break these things down into small pieces. I want to see how fast they break down in larger chunks. If you start requiring people to dry their kitchen scraps in the oven, finely chop them, etc., they won't do it. It's too much effort. We want to keep things as simple as possible to encourage people to do it. Clearly, it isn't necessary to break these scraps down into small pieces or process them in any way. Even in 2-3 weeks, they're mostly obliterated, and that's great, because it's so easy anyone can do it.

[@nghocktin3613]

Zee

[@mercedesbenzs600bash]

I started my 5 gallon container garden 6/10/23 I have roughly a 3 gallon container for my kitchen scraps,should I throw the scraps in the container first and then add my soil or is it best to incorporate them into the soil and then put into my containers or does it really matter???

[@pamelamercado6902]

I find it so funny that people think everything gardening is new or different when I was a child everybody I knew took their kitchen scrap dug a hole and through them in There was no trash companies and there was no dumps to take your trash Years ago people found out by doing that it was a great place to plant your garden. I think it's great that you put a video out giving people the knowledge so that they can have better gardens experience

[@Thi-Nguyen]

One thing I’ve found helpful with the egg shells is to let them dry out a bit so that there’s no moisture. Then I put them into a food blender (that I’ve dedicated specifically to my garden use). I blend them until they’re medium to small pieces and then add to the compost. OR I dry them a bit longer and then grind them into a fine powder. I use that as a calcium additive to my soil directly for those that require a bit more calcium. Hope this tip helps! I’ve gained so many from you - it’s nice being able to share one back!

[@mercedesbenzs600bash]

Will the blender grind them to a fine powder???

[@proudboxermom3104]

@@mercedesbenzs600bash I've heard that a coffee grinder works better for eggshells

[@proudboxermom3104]

@@mercedesbenzs600bash I've heard that a coffee grinder works better for eggshells

[@mercedesbenzs600bash]

​@@proudboxermom3104 Thank you...

[@bluejay3945]

A man after my own heart. I’ve been doing this method for years and here’s my take aways: 1. Coffee grounds also are an excellent carbon source which is typically lacking in soils. Always use coffee grounds but just add them into the kitchen scraps. 2. Plan your crops dothatyou leave a trench between rows and do your drop and bury method . 3. Make sure you remove the plastic ID label from fruit peels. The labels never break down. 4. Do not add stone fruit seeds like apricot pits, peach pits , or mango seeds. They never go away. This method preserves all the sugars, enzymes, carbohydrates etc from kitchen waste and I’m so tired of compost piles and all the elitist methods of composting. I also include leftover pet food, spoiled milk, meat without bones, fish skins, etc. I’ve been organic for 40 + years and after spending tons of money to raise a $100 tomato I finally settled on this method and I’ll never look back Also consider burying any blighted fruit like a tomato right next to the plant. The ultimate way to recycle nutrients taken up by the tomato plant

[@misspandesal]

This wisdom is more valuable than gold!

[@lonestarskywatcher6279]

Where I live, the animals would just come along and dig it up. Even when I plant seeds, they smell them below ground. I had my raised beds redone to include hardware cloth a while ago b/c moles or something were burrowing from beneath and literally sucking all my veges underground. So now something is harvesting from above ground.

[@KenCanif]

@@lonestarskywatcher6279 I'm in the same boat my friend I thought it was the mice or the squarils but when all my scraps weren't touched but all my big seeds & Onion sets,garlic & me flower bulbs were dug up but not eaten so got a lend of friends spy camera for monitoring our hedgehog families under attack when got the pics it was a load of the local cats 8 of them as mostly doggy people these parts but i knew there was 2 or 3 but 8 so they were pooping in my Veg patch & flower patch & as they covered it over that's why my bulbs were lying all over the place but not eaten(Which was good but has anyone any hacks or things I could use to let the cats know go poop in your own garden please???????)Leave my garden patch alone without any harm although they got 1 of the young Wood Pigeon babies as fence runs under the trees they nest in which wasn't nice any help be great fully appreciated.Love&Peace from Belfast,Co,Antrim🍀💚😥😤😣

[@mariahale9120]

@@KenCanif what worries me is the amount of ants I already get with the cow manure that mixed in with my soil. If I put food scraps I'm definitely going to get more ants!

[@KenCanif]

@@mariahale9120 I've Ants to but they're only small brown Ants we have a red species which spit sulfuric acid at you but that's mostly at coastal regions these brown Ants are pretty friendly as they kept snails,slugs under control for me & a few beetle species that hunt both slugs & Ants + it's Springtime here now so Frogs&Toads are out & about doing their thang so I don't have to worry about pest control but I always leave extra Veg etc for Snails & Slugs or a few extra Marigolds etc also good for putting the cabbage white fly or carrot fly of the scents & my ever faithful Nasturtium 'Empress of India' if they make it thru my defences they lay eggs on those flowers which ladybirds etc munch on so Ants all good but I take it in America you have some big nasty fire Ants etc hope you find something as there's always a way have you tried Herbs as Rosemary,Lavender,Mint,Eucalyptus etc Ants spiders don't like them scents over here we would have herbs like those near house or garden where you don't want to exterminate💚😜😉👍

[@terrisouthernplainsprepper5927]

On another KZbin channel Robbie and Gary Gardening Easy. She took a $1 plastic pitcher, put small, worm size, holes all over it, top, bottom, sides. Buried them 3/4 in garden beds and put food scraps in. Just like you did.

[@part-timeprep5932]

My luck I'd come out and find a mouse had chewed into the pitcher 🤣 I wanna try it, though!

[@craighalle7892]

I mix it all together and the red wigglers love it. Back in the day I used to raise night crawlers to take me fishing and they loved coffee grounds and grew big and tough in them. A couple points. The worm waste is even better for the garden nourishment so the more worms the better. Certain things do not break down well, like avocado shells, peanut shells, egg shells, and sticks so you might want to keep them out or give them their own centennial bin. Also tomato and other seeds can sprout and grow whether you want them or not. I had several hundred seedlings in my compost bin. I didn't know what they were so I didn't want to plant them. You also need to keep your bin moist to keep the worms there and happy and productive. I love hearing from you even though I live further north so my game plan may be a little different. Keep growing on with your life.

[@AcornHillHomestead]

I haven’t tossed food scraps for years. My tenant and I shared a compost bin and after less than a year the black gold that came out of that bin was amazing!!! Many gardeners put the food scraps directly into their beds during growing season and that works too.

[@mercedesbenzs600bash]

So it really comes out as BLACK GOLD huh,that's great but it's just so smelly I don't think I'll go that route with all the raccoons,possums and skunks we have here in New Jersey but what I can do is incorporate them into my soil then put them into my containers or should I put the kitchen scraps in first and then add my soil,is there a difference??? Oh yeah can I throw the whole rotten banana in or just the peels???

[@wendyperez8714]

I agree. Our compost bin has sat out there for 13 years and I don't think it's ever been filled. All we ever throw in there are plantain peels and leaves. Scooping kitchen scraps right into our raised beds has been magical. We do it every night which then forces me to get up close to my plants and inspect them. In the dead of winter, we just drop everything on top of the bed and by spring, it's turned into a nice mush. Glad to see your generation take such an interest in farming and gardening.

[@JJackson-u5w]

Why don't u include plantain peels?

[@rchuso]

Composted winter kitchen scraps next to a rectangular plot 6' x 12' between the pine trees where nothing would grow. Threw the scraps across the middle, and roto-tilled back and forth in the 12' direction to spread it. Planted vegetables in 12' rows. The onoins were the most impressive: perfect bell-curve from the ends (where nothing grew and had no compost) to fully developed with seed-pods in the middle. Composting works.

[@shima1418]

I wrap my scraps and cuttings in newspaper as I cook. Then I dig a hole in the garden near a loved plant and bury it!!! Everybody happy!

[@HWKier]

For three years I have been collecting my kitchen scraps on my counter in a 3-gallon pail with a sealed lid to prevent odors. Then once a week I bury them in a one cubic foot hole in my raised beds along with some of last year's fallen leaves. I bury them 6 inches deep so that the squirrels don't find them. I keep a chart so that I don't select the same square foot over in the same year. One disadvantage of my system is that the coffee grounds seem to drive away earthworms. Occasionally a mango, avocado, or papaya seedling sprouts from my compost, and I keep them as decorative annuals, although I know that they never survive the winter.

[@mml5794]

Another idea is to grind up your kitchen scraps so it's a kitchen scrap "slushy" then put it in the ground. They do this in worm farms and I don't see why it wouldn't work in the garden as well. :)

[@NancySteinVeganChef]

Just a note a lot of people may not know that you can go to Starbucks and they will give you there coffee grounds free!

[@pinkcashmere1908]

Thank you ❤❤❤❤

[@2feathers911]

What an excellent idea. Thank you.

[@nancyseery2213]

Hey, I do throw out my kitchen scraps------I throw them in my garden! I have two compost piles going now and three large stainless steel buckets with "swamp water". Something to use in about two weeks and the two piles for next spring. Keep growing!

[@RedNicole22]

I’ve been burying my kitchen scraps for the last three years. So convenient, and easy.

[@reneenewfrock5743]

I put my kitchen scraps through the blender before tossing them in the compost pile. They get broken down so fast! My son calls my compost Mom's Gold. It's the most beautiful thing to plant in! I also put shredded paper and bunny poop in my compost bale. Our chickens love the worms we grow in it.

[@DeadeyeJoe37]

I add my kitchen scraps while growing. I keep a thicker layer of mulch on my garden beds and just pull back that mulch, add the kitchen scraps as a mulch, and then bury it with the original mulch. Works great

[@crystals14acregarden61]

I use a similar system. I'm actually in the process of taking down my compost bins. I use pipes with holes in them. They don't take up huge areas in the garden. I can stuff them full, and top it with shredded paper or leaves, grass clipping, anything to cover the food and keep the flies away. You can get covers for the pipes if you want but they're a hassle. The pipes empty out pretty quickly. Especially when it's warm.

[@part-timeprep5932]

That sounds so cool!

[@nikkireigns]

Hmmm I wonder if I could do this with tree tubes I have laying around?

[@crystals14acregarden61]

What is a tree tube?

[@nikkireigns]

Recycled milk cartons made into 6' tall tubes for tree protection

[@crystals14acregarden61]

Cool

[@valoriegriego5212]

I've done the compost in place buckets...pretty cool to see how quickly the food scraps are composted. Cool experiment!😃 There are so many ways we can compost without making the big traditional composting system...especially if you have a small space garden. I love seeing Dale do his zoomies. 😄

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I'm going to come up with a new way to compost shortly. I have enough experiment up my sleeve. I have the ultimate Dale-zoomie video coming up, soon, too 😅

[@valoriegriego5212]

@@TheMillennialGardener 🙂

[@MeganHollar-qx9sx]

I'm confused. Are we adding the scraps directly to our raised beds? Or is the purpose to attract the worms and bugs thru the container with holes and then scatter them into our garden beds??

[@MeganHollar-qx9sx]

Oh, also, will worms and bugs make it up to a raised bed??

[@valoriegriego5212]

@MeganHollar-qx9sx Yes. I get worm castings from the yard and add them to containers and raised beds. The casting have eggs in them.

[@theorangevestarmy4255]

I love it, great video, extremely useful information! Have gone back in time and watched your first videos in your new home, truly amazing how you transformed your backyard into a beautiful world. God's first commandment to Adam & Eve, "I've given you the garden of Eden, you are to dress and keep it". What a beautiful thing that is, may you rest under your own "vine & fig tree, and eat of the fruits therein".

[@bonzibonnie]

I threw away some of my kitchen scraps and they started to grow... My celery started coming up, until Pepi (my dog) decided to eat it! Love the Dale!!!!❤

[@roserizzo3094]

I set up some totes for mini composting! Love your pooch!

[@melindaroth5796]

DALE IS SO HAPPY AND ACTIVE. HIS MOMMY MUST HAVE CAME HOME. YAY

[@TheMillennialGardener]

It was just us, unfortunately. He’s definitely a Momma’s Boy. He’s got a good life of home cooked meals and a big yard to do zoomies in. He’s got it made 😂

[@fiftyyearflood580]

Really excellent video. Thanks so much for your dedication and willingness to share your knowledge and curiosity about gardening and soil biology.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Thank you! I'm glad it was helpful. It's fun to run these types of experiments over several weeks. You never know what you're going to get, so it's always a surprise.

[@LollysGarden]

Great Video! I have been so frustrated throwing away all our scraps, we only eat plants so we have a lot of scraps. This video just made me so happy to see how quickly things decompose. Definitely going to start making our own compost. Thank you so much for your hard work creating this content.

[@part-timeprep5932]

David the Good has a book called Compost Everything, you might enjoy it!

[@mariap.894]

@@part-timeprep5932 I love him!!! He is very simple a d easy to follow😁💕🪴

[@mercedesbenzs600bash]

You only eat plants,that's it???

[@mercedesbenzs600bash]

​@@part-timeprep5932He said to compost meat but I thought meat was bad because they'll attract maggots,have you heard that???

[@thenextbondvillainklaussch3266]

Just a quick tip to anyone wondering. With Kitchen scraps , always put some soil in with them, the soil actually helps break down the Scraps even if its a enclosed system with no worms like a tumble composter , the difference just a few hands fulls of soil (or compost from the ground) makes in breaking it down is massive. 4:36 Thats why layering (like he does here) is better than just dumping it and not adding soil. I compost my Dogs waste , and if its not layered well , it turns in to a clump of Dog Waste , doesnt break down. But layer it (and some water) and its gone.

[@Livingsamsara]

It only took me 3 years to learn that. Now I keep a shovel at my compost pile. Thank you for the instruction.

[@thenextbondvillainklaussch3266]

@@Livingsamsara You're welcome. it does make a massive difference, the amount of micro organisims just in Dirt is mind boggling , just amazing. I buried a dead bird , then saw one of my dogs had dug around there , so i went to dig it deeper ...... it was gone! lol.... was only a month or two. The other important thing is water , if it can get steamy and hot , it just breaks down so quick. I once emptied my compost bin that i didn't water , and in the middle was a clump of petrified Dog poo , that was like stone , it dried and then never broke down (id say that's how we have fossilized Dinosaur droppings. So Ive never made that mistake again always use water , even waste water (not soapy water, it kills the digging critters like ants , and grubs and crickets) and keep the lid on and even if its in a sealed unit and its like a soup consistency, it breaks stuff down better than no water, or being dry. I'm actually currently doing experiments in 4 ltr Ice cream containers with lids and one tiny breather hole, all with different compost material , with different water amounts, and so far Ive found kitchen waste with 1/10 soil and heaps of water grows a mold that seems to break it up quicker , also i have one with broken down sticks with leaf mold (its like a spider web like fungus) with again lost of water makes the mold just explode, and breaks the wood down real quick, and then that cultrured mold put in with my large compost pile should just go crazy. On last thing if you want to make your own fertilizer , grab some grass clippings or weeds put it in a bucket (with a lid is better because of the smell) and fill it with water , leave it a week , and the water will go a deep green as all the Nitrogen and minerals a leeching out of the plant , and use like a cup of that to a watering can like 1/20 (green water to fresh water) and use it on your plants , ive found its just as good as those commercial seaweed plant boosters you can buy. Ive tryed both types on 3 plants , the 2 i used the seaweed booster on and the grass clipping soup both were much bigger. Also as you use the Grass soup water , add water to it , and another hand full of grass or weeds , and it will just go indefinably. I had one for 5 years! It was Just Grass clippings , and if i found a soft leaf thistle id pull it and chuck it in and the odd Dandelion (they are full of nutrients).

[@lavonnetraylor8403]

Have read not to use dog or cat waste in crops for human consumption because of disease transmission between carnivores. Where do you get your info about safety to use?

[@thenextbondvillainklaussch3266]

@@lavonnetraylor8403 I dont use it for crops , that pile is only to break down my Dogs waste and its layered with grass and dirt , so the worms turn it into Dirt. But the reason i dont use it on crops is , the Dog waste makes it too acidic and most plants dont like it , so it just spread on the lawn were the Dogs dig holes , or if i dig up some flowering plants i might dig up some of the chunks of clay under it replace that space with the Dog poo Bin compost , and then put some normal soil or some normal compost over the top. But no i have no idea if its a health issue , but i do know the acidity isnt good for plants. The bin is mostly just to feed worms in my lawn and to get rid of Dog waste.

[@AcornHillHomestead]

@@thenextbondvillainklaussch3266 wow thanks for that info. In the days we are faced with this is such valuable info. Besides why put money in elite pockets especially given all they are doing to us now.

[@Farmerbettyboop2]

We have some vermicomposting bins that we setup in each raised bed. It was our first try and not tended well so our composting worms died. Now that we are juicing and have lots of pulp, I’m going to try this. Thanks for this video

[@alandrathreefeathers9191]

You have changed my life! I only eat plants so I have lots of material. Since I have a small space, I plan to cut my scraps into smaller pieces in hopes of speeding up the process and have prepared a bowl to bury tomorrow. Thank you so much; I have learned many helpful tips from you. I'm from Charlotte, but live in Kansas City, MO. Sure miss the beaches and mountains!

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I'm happy the video was helpful! You definitely don't need to spend too much time chopping things up. They break down rapidly!

[@beautifulfretboard2299]

I'm a KC garden gal 💃

[@amberjay5361]

This is an excellent video! You would be a great teacher in the agriculture department! Thank you for doing this!

[@TheMillennialGardener]

You’re welcome! I’m glad you found the video helpful.

[@12svaner]

You can also use water from washing clothes and Baking powder you can also grow beans early and use for compost into the soil

[@hectorrodriguez2686]

Many years ago, I was having trouble with compost being super slow. Then I started putting kitchen scraps into it, and like magic, it visibly accelerated the composting, and soon, the whole pile was gone. And yes, coffee once brewed works terrific. For moisture, I make holes in the compost and put water on those. What he is showing here works easily, well,just like he says.

[@mslwinters]

Thank you, i will start adding my kitchen scraps to the garden. I had no idea they would break down so fast.

[@catbee1452]

Paper provides much needed carbon to the soil and facilitates the breakdown of your food scrapes. I usually use one sheet of paper towel, torn into small pieces and added to my load of food scrapes before I bury. I also add a couple light layers of garden soil. I've found that my food scrapes are fully decomposed in 2-4 weeks.

[@kcmthedesigner]

I save my kitchen scraps and make them into a compost tea that my garden veggies love. Also soft-bodied insects hate coffee grounds because the texture is similar to bits of glass. I use coffee grounds to rid ants and termites in my garden.

[@kathyandlucy5341]

Thanks!

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Thanks so much for your support and generosity! I appreciate it ❤

[@elizabethwilson9983]

Great video, I’ve just started saving all my scraps and plan to try making my own compost & fertiliser. Thank you 😊

[@JamalHossain]

I normally soak my kitchen scrapes in a bucket of water. Fermenting it to make fertilizer liquid. In addition after using the fertiliser I throw the kitchen scrapes in the compost bin. I noticed that after draining the nutrition from the scrape, the scrape breaks down faster in the compost bin.

[@HajiraFatima-t3t]

Plz tell me the complete process how to ferment and compost it

[@Maggie-eq4cd]

Hi thanks for the information, very interesting and informative. Very good idea.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@juneshannon8074]

I love to watch this type of experiment as iI can put into action the “winner” without spending time and energy. Thanks for uploading. A big thank you for going the extra mile and adding time stamps too.

[@katrynlord6516]

I don't throw any kitchen scraps away. They can be used to make stock, as well as using them like you were talking about. I also have a worm bin in my house that is very effective and much easier to access with my kitchen scraps especially in the winter. Also if you don't have enough kitchen scraps that you feel like it's worth bringing outside you can also freeze them in a baggie and your freezer and just keep adding to the baggie to either use them in the garden or use them to make vegetable stock. Thank you for all your videos they are very helpful and very good reminders. 😊💕

[@katiem9644]

This was really interesting. Sure makes it easier than piling up a compost pile and having to turn it. I will now just bury kitchen scraps; what a great idea. I would have enjoyed seeing you add a 3rd pot, and that would have been using an animal manure such as horse or cow manure. I might do that myself.

[@juneshannon8074]

Ooooh yes, I would like to see an animal manure verses kitchen scraps. I’m 74, and having back trouble, so I’m not going to make compost that needs turning a second longer. Cheers from Australia

[@AM-es4mp]

BUY?😲 WHY? GO ASK UR NEIGHBORS OR USE UR OWN ?

[@katiem9644]

@@AM-es4mp I meant bury.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

My cold compost pile was a failure, because the grass we grow here are weeds with rhizomes. The centipede grass just overtakes the pile. Burying scraps has been far more effective. I don't have a manure source, so it didn't make sense to trial something like that. My goal was to test things that everyone has access to.

[@daisylee298]

Great lessons , thank you

[@juliewatson1068]

I live in the High Desert, and I've never seen worms here. I've started a compost bin in a 45 gallon plastic bin. I know it sounds weird, but I think ants have done my composting! It looks like they did the composting, and then left! I've got BEAUTIFUL, black, moist, great smelling compost! Of course it remains to be seen how the quality of the microbes is, but I'll let ya know!

[@mercedesbenzs600bash]

How well did that soil work???

[@juliewatson1068]

@mercedesbenzs600bash You remembered! Cool! Well, as I read that message I posted, I see that I misspelled "ant" and put "and" instead! Duh! Sorry about that! My compost and dirt are really, really great. However, the heat is proving to be too much here. My outdoor plants start off beautifully, but in the 115° we've been having, all the beautiful growth I've had has turned crispy. I've been watering thoroughly, in the evenings. No good. But my indoor plants are starting to make my house look like a jungle! :-)

[@mercedesbenzs600bash]

@juliewatson1068 Yeah that "and" I couldn't quite figure out what you meant,lol,thanks for the clarification,where did you find a 45 gallon container because I'm looking for something like that but rectangular,I feel it'll be easier to turn,115 degrees,WOW,hey just keep watering that's all you can really do,at least your indoor plants are doing well,now besides your kitchen scraps what other brown matter did you add to it to give you such great compost and when does the smell start to go away???

[@snugglebunny.jmosbrook]

Thanks for the information. I love experiments. Dale was so happy running and jumping. What a cute pup!!

[@TheMillennialGardener]

You’re welcome! Dale is a very happy boy, and we are happy to have him. He deserves all the love times 100.

[@veenaerinjeri7123]

I really like all the experiments you do. I love to see proof of some claims that i have heard all my life. I have been using kitchen scraps and coffee grounds in my garden but to see it in action was good.

[@mercedesbenzs600bash]

Those kitchen scraps really make a difference huh???

[@onedazinn998]

Adventures with Dale never fail to make me smile :)

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Dale is the best 🐕

[@mercedesbenzs600bash]

​@@TheMillennialGardenerWhat will keep gnats out of my containers???

[@lilyformosa2709]

Wow thank you. I live in England and our local council collects household leftover food stuff weekly… and then sold the compost back to us… what a business for them! They do not teach people how to save the earth, and just interested in getting everything for free and get more profit. I will save all my food waste in the future for my pot plants. 🙏

[@kateporemba2353]

I love your dog... Thank you for all the great info

[@tamilyn718]

I started doing this a few months ago too! I've used some old plant pots and put them in the beds in various places. I load it up and then put dirt on top of that. Underneath there are all kinds of worms and food stuff! I have to remember to put the coffee grounds in there. I'm composting all over the place now.

[@dlebreton7888]

I have a compost bin and love it. I cut up all vegetable waste and add that, along with coffee grounds, coffee filters, and I even paper I shred once in awhile. Never had visits from animals and there is almost no odor. When I empty it in Spring, I get one or two pails of soil gold.

[@mercedesbenzs600bash]

So the odor isn't really that bad???

[@cublau]

Great experiment! Now I know what I’m going to do. Thanks!

[@audreyhandy9273]

I absolutely love your videos. U r so informative!! Thank u for sharing your knowledge with us.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

You’re welcome! I’m happy to hear that, and I really appreciate you watching.

[@657449]

I put a 2 gal pail in some of my beds this year. It has been unbearable hot so I don’t know how well they worked. I will continue to fill them over the winter so that I can repeat your experiment with the cooler spring weather.

[@janethayes1908]

Just found your channel and subscribed immediately. I’m also in NC, 7b. We’ve been coming to your neck of the woods for over 40 years. However, the beaches that used to be “our hidden gems” have now been found and developed for the masses!! 😩 Thanks in advance for all the help I think I’ll find on your channel!!

[@TheMillennialGardener]

In another 20 years, there won't be a hidden gem beach left on the East Coast. Everyone's migrating south, so whatever land was left on the coast is going to be gone soon, unfortunately. Thanks for subscribing!

[@katieyungen1647]

This is one way we have composted scraps too. We also feed them to the chickens and let them make eggs from our scraps, and make compost for us! It's such a beautiful system!

[@TheMillennialGardener]

It really is. You're effectively returning plants back into the soil to grow more plants. It's the Circle of Life in action!

[@anhtruong3645]

Thank you for this great video,I put my kitchen’s scraps into the pale w no holes at my balcony during the winter.(I am in canada too much snow can not go down to garden) .It turn out frozen kitchen ‘ s scraps when I open it want to put into my garden.hopefully I will got some good compost next spring .

[@S.Kay.Steffy]

I love your experiments and taking us along with you! I have a container on my kitchen counter where my scraps sit until I take them to my compost pile. I have to garden in containers so I’m not sure how that would work with the scraps. It’s delightful watching Dale at the end of each video…I look forward to his “adventures”😊

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I do the same, but they can’t sit on the counter for more than 2-3 days or I’ll get fruit flies. I am going to start an experiment where I drill holes in a trash can bottom and bury it as a composter. Maybe that will work for you?

[@S.Kay.Steffy]

@@TheMillennialGardener yes, that might work😊. Also, I take whatever scraps I have out each morning. If the compost pile doesn’t get them, the chicken do😊. Thank you

[@ritadouglas6909]

Sharon Steffy: have a look at Robbie and Gary on KZbin. Robbie grows an abundant of fruit and vegetables all in containers and she does what she calls compost in place and it works!

[@S.Kay.Steffy]

@@ritadouglas6909 Thanks 👍

[@debbiedogs1]

I just saw a video using Dollar store plastic pitchers with holes drilled in bottom and sides, put into a corner of a planting container so composting could be done right there! Seemed really helpful- the pitchers had lids to keep adding more scraps and to keep odor down.

[@moniquemutee7396]

Awesome!! Now this is doable!! Thanks so much !! Extremely helpful to this senior citizen!! I have used coffee grounds as a side dressing for my rose bush with great success but I like the method of incorporating them into the food scraps! Thanks for sharing!!

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I'm glad the video was helpful! It's a really easy process. Dig a trench, dump scraps, cover and let nature do the work. Easy!

[@dhaniaboodoo7042]

I’m in love with your dog 🐾🙏❤️

[@TheMillennialGardener]

So am I 😆 Dale is such a good boy. I don’t know what we did to deserve such an Angel.

[@anhtruong3645]

Thank you for this great video, I put my garden scrap into the pal with no hole last year at my balcony during the winter(.I live in Canada

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

Love anything that reduces waste :)

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Thanks for watching!

[@FigCzar]

Beautiful !All the things you can do when you have space!

[@annierothman4420]

I enjoyed your video on not wasting scraps. So, far I'm composting banana and potatoe skins, with grapefruit, oranges, tangerines skins.😊

[@mercedesbenzs600bash]

How about the whole rotten banana???

[@annierothman4420]

I cut the whole banana skin up in 4 to 5 pieces so that it compost quickly. That's my research.

[@mercedesbenzs600bash]

@annierothman4420 That sounds good...

[@SophyaAgain]

I'm a 2 year-old rookie gardener and I've been reading and watching all sort of stuffs. Lots and lots of garbage (gardening myths). I grow my veggies in pots because my small garden has no soil. It's cemented... I started laying some dead tree branches and Guiana chestnut's shells at the bottom of my pots. Then when I was cleaning up my pots for new crops I noticed that I had quite a lot earthworms living there. I guess they came from the park in front of my house, crossing the street and crawling over cemented garden and managed to get into my pots! Aren't they super super earthworms? I'm going to start composting my kitchen scraps in my pot with soil. The way I'm doing now is ... well not great.

[@itsasickness4939]

Coffee grounds are usually gone in less than a week in my worm bins, kitchen scraps take a little longer because they need to get funky before the worms can eat them. But this is a great topic, if you garden STOP THROWING ORGANIC MATTER INTO THE LANDFILL! Your garden will thank you for it. I compost everything except human waste, I even started doing Bokashi ( meat, fish, cheese, all table scraps, uneaten leftovers…) a few years ago and bury that under my bananas in the spring and the results are remarkable, I’ve never used it in my veggie garden but if I did I would let the bed rest for a while before planting. I think it’s too hot for seedlings.

[@Frank-fs5nv]

I bury the scraps but also keep some aside in a bucket and ferment them to make garden "tea". I dilute the liquid before feeding the plants.

[@scottlarkin4748]

Love your experiment. Great data

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Thank you!

[@looneygardener]

I have been trench compostingfor ages. So easy.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Beyond! It doesn't get much easier.

[@southpost1224]

Fascinating experiment! I think you are right about the timing in the coffee grounds. In my garden they disappear very quickly.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I wonder what it would’ve looked like 3-4 days in? I wish I would’ve checked sooner. The speed surprised me.

[@mubarrahskitchen]

You are such a Great explainer, watching almost all of your videos. Found your videos and they are really inspiring. I am trying to make my fist compost but it is really freezing here in Chicago at the moment and next thing is I don’t have much space in n my balcony but I will try my best to make from what ever compost . Can I freeze kitchen scraps? And for how long can I freeze them for? Until I can able to make next batch? Please reply thank you 😊

[@jillc9882]

I would like to have seen a 3rd container of a mix of the scraps and coffee grounds. Good info

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Coffee grounds were mixed in with the scraps. The scraps contained everything.

[@iwanttobelieve5970]

I put them in the oven on 175 to dehydrate and then I grind it up and add it to my soil. It helps keep critters away. Egg shells, food scraps and I do save all of my coffee grinds and mix them all together.

[@godisnotmocked1345]

How long do you keep them in the oven. I'm trying to find the easier way to do this for container gardening.

[@mariap.894]

I would NOT use an oven...Florida is too hot already😓

[@rebeccazody1278]

Coffee grounds- I also use them to add texture to my soil and I use them for mulch. Great video

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Thank you! Coffee grounds are probably my favorite soil builder overall.

[@davidbloughsr8165]

Excellent use of using kitchen scraps or other thrown away food products !

[@ellenc.1685]

I love your channel and experiments be it plant comparisons, bug killer comparisons and in this case food scraps vs. coffee grounds. I've been making food scraps/coffee grounds smoothies and poring that into my garden containers and red worm bin. I just don't have enough scraps to go around all the time! Your garden is beautiful as is your entire yard.

[@juneshannon8074]

You will just have to eat more, lol.

[@S.Kay.Steffy]

What a great idea! I have to garden in containers and I’m going to start doing this 😊

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Thank you! I'm glad the videos are helpful. The yard is a work in progress. Next month will be my 4 year anniversary moving in, and I hope to put together a progress video!

[@leticiaworboys9927]

I love this idea!!! I will definitely be doing this. Tysm 💗

[@sylvia10101]

Thank you for sharing! 😊👍✌️

[@TheMillennialGardener]

You're very welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@Muffy.from-Oz]

I just picked up a large bag of coffee grounds I had sitting ready to put on a garden bed I am starting. A hole had been ripped in it underneath by a bush turkey. It was so full of worms it was almost half eaten inside. Maybe do your test again. The coffee grounds were very wet from being in the plastic bag for several months. Love your channel.Muffy from Oz (Australia).

[@defenderofdecency7218]

Excellent info and advice. Subscribed to your channel. Thanks.

[@loanalacy4701]

Really great experiment.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Thank you! I appreciate it!

[@AjArpopP52]

I got some good ideas from this video! Thank you! I will definitely be using my kitchen scraps all throughout the winter.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

You're welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful! You can use the kitchen scraps throughout the summer, too. They break down in mere days.

[@lpsports]

I have been burying my kitchen scraps in a 2’ deep hole in my yard for a couple of years. I usually layer it with leaves or paper. I have to bury it deep or the rats and raccoons will come and dig them up. I usually throw a couple of handfuls of bokashi when I add new scraps. Once in a while I dig out the composted scraps and refill the hole. My system is not on a set schedule, so I don’t know how quickly it breaks down. I may check on it sooner after seeing how quickly yours broke down!

[@AlvinMcManus]

Good ideas there. Besides the fact that most municipal trash collection entities are now required to reduce the amount of material going to the landfills and have instituted rules and in most cases laws that require you to not put ANY food waste in your regular trash, but rather divert it to the organic or composting bin. I'm starting a worm bin for just this reason and the only stuff my refuse removal company is going to get from me is the stuff that I can neither hot compost or use as worm food. Not wasting nothing.

[@FelonyVideos]

It is possible to use too high of a concentration of coffee grounds. Anything with residual oil can bring a living earth to a screeching halt. I know from experience, having accidentally killed many earthworms when I put out too many coffee grounds or greasy scraps. They need pre-processing, apparently.

[@tomdinwoodie1887]

Reminds me of a keyhole composting technique.

[@brittanyash8340]

Brilliant experiment.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Thank you!

[@audreygagnon4436]

Great information I'm looking forward to trying this with my scraps. Thanks

[@TheMillennialGardener]

You're welcome!

[@karenandriancontainergardening]

Interesting video. Thanks for sharing.

[@whitewolf3334]

Very cool. Thank you for the video and information.

[@joeyonelove4708]

You’re channel is so helpful thank you…. From Pennsylvania

[@amyhoang9140]

Make sure you cover the top tightly (it's ok to do so) so that the flies are not able to go inside though.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

I believe you need some ventilation. Letting fresh air in is important. I had no issues with flies. The scraps were pretty well covered in soil.

[@ej4753]

Thank you for this video, one more reason to not throw away my kitchen scraps!

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Absolutely! They’re worth their weight in gold to your garden.

[@nedcramdon1306]

I've always buried them in the garden then something would dig them up. I'll try this mixing with soil now.

[@bhiei]

great fun, I love using the trench method but I only use it in the fall winter season when I'm not growing as much, in the summer like now I am using my lomi kitchen composter daily which is great fun I put in all the left overs from the meals including meats combine clean cardboard and turn it on. It's like a box of cracker jacks in that I never know what it's going to look like. The next morning I have compost, I bury it in a non-gardening area of my property and feed the little soil creatures

[@TheMillennialGardener]

How does the Lomi work? KZbin is targeting me hard on ads for that product. They must know me pretty well 😂

[@bhiei]

@@TheMillennialGardener it’s pretty straight forward, there is a bucket inside the device, I take it out and fill it with scraps about 2/3way, then I put in a few chunks of cardboard which helps to make it more like saw dust when it’s done, add in one of there little pellets with about 2oz of water and that goes in there too, then I put the bucket back in, close the lid and turn it on. Thats about it, if I put it in before bed, it’s ready the next morning. Only problem I’ve had with it is the bucket has to be aligned correctly when it goes back in the device otherwise the lid won’t close.

[@lisasuewarren6204]

I love this video and I love that doggy Dale....

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Dale is such a good boy 🐕