Although you can bury kitchen scraps and other organic matter in your garden to feed the worms, you should never bury these things in your garden because they will either repel earthworms, change the pH or composition of your soil, or introduce harmful chemicals in your soil. So never bury the following in your garden!
0:00 Intro
0:05 7 Things You Can Bury In Your Garden
0:17 Citrus Peels
2:12 Onion and Garlic Peels
2:25 Peanut Shells
3:19 Woodchips
4:11 Wood Ash
4:30 Carboard with Ink Glue and Labels
5:01 Truth ABout Using Cardboard in Garden
5:09 Dairy and Meat
6:03 Cooked Vegetables
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yup!
Very Helpful and informative 🤗🤗🤗Thank you.!
Thanks again.
Good tips.. question, if you have a saw mill and produce saw dust; can you add moderate amounts of
Saw dust into a compost bin to later add to garden? How
Long does it take to break down?
Would lemongrass leaves do the same or are they okay? I just laid some on top of my garden. I can remove them if they are not beneficial.
So is it not a good idea to use them in your compost bin also since you want the worms in there too?
lol with the exception of meat/dairy.. i've buried all the rest in my raised bed without realising.. d'oh..
How about fish?
I am part of a community garden. There are a number of older Korean gardeners. Some of them have buried full cuts of raw meat in their garden. Not sure what the thinking is behind that
Garden Myth: You Shouldn’t Put Citrus Peels in the Compost
BY LARRY HODGSON
This is an old myth dating back at least to when I started seriously composting 40 some odd years ago.
We were told at the time you shouldn’t put citrus peels or indeed any part of a citrus fruit (orange, lemon, lime, tangerine, mandarine, etc.) in the compost bin because the peel contained “natural chemicals” that would repress earthworms or microbes. Or were too acid and that would have the same result. Or that citrus parts take too long to decompose. Or that the resulting compost would be too acid. Or that citrus are chemically treated for better conservation and that will “poison” the compost. Or … there were plenty of other reasons given.
That information still continues to circulate today……
Thanks to their excellent properties, peanut shells can be used as mulch and fertilizer. They are carbon-rich and benefit your potting soil by feeding the microorganisms. They do not decompose quickly and are a great choice for mulching…
Wood Chip Mulch Myths – Garden Myths:
Wood chips are not a problem provided you are not growing seedlings. If Some Mulch is Good, More is Better. Use 2-3 inches of wood chips. This is enough to stop weeds and still allow water to reach the soil. There is no evidence that more is better. How often do you have to add it? If you start seeing bare spots or more weeds it is time to add more.
Thank you this all makes sense 😮
Can I bury coffee and tea grounds? They are supposed to be nitrogen, aren’t they? I had been thinking of putting a third of kitchen scraps cum tea/coffee grounds in a new raised bed, a third of soil and a third of compost.
Then again I have just read that half of wood chip & half of compost is good. But then why is it that are you against burying woodchips when experienced growers put at least 1/3 wood chips at the base of their beds? Isn’t that burying? Can you help explain, please? Thanks. 🙏
Not always… Oranges can be fine
youtu.be/Is000-YK9r4
Mushrooms and other creatures can break down things to and animal make poop which act like fertizller.
I never put kitchen scraps in my garden Or paper products!
I do add garlic and I do not have problems with earth worms!
I do not use wood chips although the bagged dirt has wood pieces in it!
Thanks for the tips what about fish frame's in your garden.
Can I grow frozen blue berries to start blue berry plants?
Great to hear someone finally said to be careful about the paper or cardboard with inks and glue on them. You can find many channels using not suitable materials, even some with million of subscribes (Aussie one).
I don't mean any offence, but it seems the reasoning for the majority of these items are either lacking or have a bias toward only having worms in your garden rather than increasing soil life for a holistic decomposition process.
For instance:
1. Citrus Peels – Its smell will effectively keep pests at bay in your garden. Cut small, add to garden and soil life will handle business.
2. Onion and garlic peels – Rich in K, Ca which are great for plants. Plant directly by reducing size or dry out, blend then plant.
3. Peanut shells – Excellent source of NPK. Use blender or mulcher to reduce size in order to assist in decomposition.
4. Wood chips – If added to soil it "may" retard plant's N uptake if buried to close, so you "may"need to add extra N in the event.
5. Wood ash – Seems legit.
6. Cardboard with plastic – Legit.
7. Dairy, eggs and meat – If no vermin/wildlife issue exists then it's fine as these break down into excellent sources of NPK.
8. Cooked veggies – Oils and salts will be taken care of by soil life before it can become an issue.
Once I watched some video about turning places into green forests, and there was an example of a person who collected the orange peels from a factory that produces juice and regularly dumped in place with little to no vegetation. At some point the experiment ended for some reason, but after years they checked on the place they use to dumb the oranges and the whole place is a dense forest! Maybe worms won't like it, but the soil quality and the ability to boost vegetation back is a good benefit for using them at least in some applications away from the garden.
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Hi Jag thank you very much for the information to you and your family Happy holidays bye.
My grandma used to put egg shells in her potted house plants.
A citrus grower told me years ago to put your citrus peels on the ground under the trees and it feeds them.
Happy Festivus everyone!! I'll get the pole out of the crawl space.
And again, very helpful. Thank you
I hardly ever bury anything in my garden, everything goes on my compost heap, including onion peels, garlic and citrus, never had a problem. What I do bury is eggshells for my tomatoes.
I must honestly say that some of the things you say are nonsense:
"Never bury woodash", well as you indicate yourself, it all depends what pH you want your soil to be. It is kinda like "Never plant potatoes…..unless you want potatoes"
"Never bury cooked vegetables" nothing wrong with burying those, it is about salt and oil, not about vegetables, cooked vegetables do not by definition contain oil and salt.
Thank you Jag good gardening 🌾
I do a lot of composting! A few times Ive buried and loved results. But it’s usually just easier to throw in compost pile. In my kitchen, i use bokashi to break down mostly fruits and veg but occasionally add in cooked fish like shrimp shells and fish heads. I’m going to start vermicomposting so I was interested in your comments about citrus and alliums (which I have a ton of). I’m not sure my husband will have patience to segment his kitchen scraps! What do worms like? I’m in Hawai‘i and also have heard that papaya seeds make worms infertile so those go in the garbage. Thank you for a great channel…you are one of my favorites!
Well, I was very surprised how many worms I saw wriggling in the earth – shallow in the ground – especially near wood and pieces of wood. Also in the forest, where it is littered with pieces of wood, large and small. Shallow digging, and it teems with them if you look carefully.
I have shallow raised beds with old wood in them, then some kitchen waste, fresh and not so fresh, and on top of that a layer at least 15 cm deep, best is 20 cm for plants with more roots.
Some have (riper) horse manure, some don't. And my experience is that plants grow better there, than just anywhere in the garden.
Besides, I had fresh kitchen waste hidden in a hole right under my young tomato plants, with some epsom salt. Someone who had studied about tomatoes and plants came by and was amazed, how healthy the tomato plants looked with me! At his place, they were dying every year because of tomato blight! Just from seeds of organic tomatoes from the farmer!
So don't let anyone tell you that you have to go out and buy expensive compost: they are lies, lest you start composting yourself from free waste, or that you have to wait weeks to months first before you can do anything at all on your raised bed. Compost industry makes a lot of money from all these myths. Freemasons know this and make gold money from it. That is why I always say, research things for yourself too, thoroughly, whether it is completely true, and you will discover the truth. Best not in Go*og*le of course, but other search engines.
And too many citrus peels (not made smaller) at once, of course, is not preferable, or too many onion peels, close to a plant or its roots. Anything too much is not good for the plant.
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Most of these things are no big deal. Quantity matters, though. Certainly if there's some organic material that's doubtful, it should go in the compost rather than being buried directly in the garden. I do scraps containing small amounts of meat and plenty of soured milk pretty frequently, but they go in a compost tumbler where they're not accessible to critters. Bears? Lol.
So I put citrus, onion, and garlic peels, and also wood ash, into my two-bucket compost system (think of it like one of those tumblers only it's me stirring it with a stick, lol). There are no worms in my compost buckets. I'm an apartment dweller so I container garden. It's ok since it's composted down and not me just sticking a peel in a pot, right? And since worms aren't in the pots either, of course?
Ok. No nut shells as they take long to decompose.
No garlic, onion or citrus peels as they repel the beneficial earthworms.
Got it Jag, thx ! 🤠
Burying fish heads is an old tradition that I believe in
Thank you Jag for all your gardening tips. I really do enjoy watching your videos even though I’m not much of a gardener. 😅
I eat a lot of citrus fruits and use to take all my food scraps to the local compost site. When the pandemic hit, the city stopped composting so I started burying the scraps in my backyard. Because what little I know about carbon-nitrogen, I also mixed the scraps with old leaves. To my surprise the soil actually looks great and there are a lot of worms despite the amount of citrus peels. Now I have to admit, it’s not much of a garden in that it’s just old perennials and weeds growing but they don’t seem to have suffered either.
Can you do a video on the gizmos that are being advertised to turn food scraps in to compost in a matter of hours? There are a few on the market, but one in particular was really being pushed. Thanks & Happy New Year! 🥳
Wonderful information! Thank you & Merry Christmas 🥰✝
What happened if my compost only have kitchen scrap and coffee grounds? That is without brown materials
Hi Jag, thank you for sharing your knowledge. Enjoy learning from you. Would you introduce earthworms into container beds? I have raised wicking beds in my greenhouse and considered adding some earthworms to help with the soil quality. What’s your thoughts?
Thank you.
How to decompose meat and egg properly? It seems to be a big waste just to throw them away.
I also learn so much watching your videos. Thanks!