We buried food scraps under our plants in the spring and now it’s time to see how the plants grew and what happened to the food scraps under the plants at the end of the season.
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TimeStamps
00:00 Intro
00:10 Preparing the Food Scraps
00:53 Burying the Food Scraps
01:25 Transplanting the Plants on the Food Scraps
02:07 17 Days after Transplanting
02:53 24 Days after Transplanting
03:25 42 Days after Transplanting
04:20 52 Days after Transplanting
04:40 80 Days after Transplanting
04:59 96 Days after Transplanting
05:43 The First Harvest
07:02 Weighing the Harvest
07:30 104 Days after Transplanting
09:01 The Second Harvest
09:57 165 Days after Transplanting
10:25 The Third Harvest
11:07 Digging up the Food Scraps at the End of the Season
13:38 Was it Worth it to Bury the Food Scraps
15:06 Final Thoughts
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:10 Preparing the Food Scraps
00:53 Burying the Food Scraps
01:25 Transplanting the Plants on the Food Scraps
02:07 17 Days after Transplanting
02:53 24 Days after Transplanting
03:25 42 Days after Transplanting
04:20 52 Days after Transplanting
04:40 80 Days after Transplanting
04:59 96 Days after Transplanting
05:43 The First Harvest
07:02 Weighing the Harvest
07:30 104 Days after Transplanting
09:01 The Second Harvest
09:57 165 Days after Transplanting
10:25 The Third Harvest
11:07 Digging up the Food Scraps at the End of the Season
13:38 Was it Worth it to Bury the Food Scraps
15:06 Final Thoughts
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Experiment Idea #11: Effect of Plant Spacing on Vegetable Growth. like imagine planting in 4 cabbages that are 6 inches apart versus 2 cabbages that are 12 inches apart. what i wonder is if the total yield from the 12 inches apart (2 cabbages) is greater than the total yield from the 6 inches apart (4 cabbages) etc.
A coffee grinder works really well to crush egg shells and you can find them in thrift stores for a few bucks.
Experiment Idea #12: Effect of Deep vs. Shallow Planting
Early in the Spring here, i go catfishing. I usually catch lots of roughfish (carp and freshwater drum), and planted them under my tomatoes.
Everything grew great. (All tomatoes)
All i can say is its a lot more fun going fishing than going to buy bone and blood meal at the store!
Experiment Idea #13: are there any benefits to Crop Rotation? that's all i got, excited to see what you come up with!
Did this this year but unfortunately a badger dug up everything
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Excellent experiment! Tuck science approved. 🌞☺️💘💝😊❤️🤗♥️🌝🇺🇸🧡💛
I've done this….its a huge diffrence…I take all my eggshells in my food processor….turn it into dust…..always bury that underneath all my plants….no blossom and rot
Visually, you saw the benefit of burying food scraps by the height of the plant. But what i seem to notice is the yield was not as great as i was expecting it to be. What i think happened is the plant put all that extra nutrients into getting bigger, taller but NOT putting it into fruit production. It should have spent the energy and time into producing fruit. If you had kept both control and food scrap plants the same height, i think you would have had a much bigger return on fruit
Sure, great way to bring in the rats..how perfect!😂 i have a vegtrug! They are great!❤
Is the food scraps thing just for tomato plants? For some reason all tests/examples of this that I've seen online involve tomato plants. I just planted garlic last week and don't imagine it would've had the same effect.
Yes. Food scraps. Great ideas. I do the same. Even with tomatoes that are scraps. I find out I get volunteers to pop up tgis year.
James, did you and Tuck know that many of the magnificent trees at Kew Gardens were planted directly on top of dead draft horses which expired on the nearby London streets in the Victorian era.
is that considered "lasagne gardening"?
I am so glad you are advocating this. Those of us in drier climates may have trouble composting, so diced food scraps may be more practical than above ground composting and combating evaporation in the large compost piles.
Jake would you say that thos method is better / easier / more effective or Paul Gautschis method of chickens and screening?
The edible acres people seems to feed a lot of scraps to his chickens. I don’t know how the chickens eat all of it
I think the sardines were probably the major influence. Native Americans used to bury fish under their crops.
I wish I had my own place with enough land/materials to do what you do, but until then I’m just enjoying learning and living vicariously through your work. I really enjoy tomatoes too.❤
Don’t do this. Just buy a plant-specific fertilizer or start a compost pile/bin
I have an “experiment idea”. What about the effects of growing tomatoes upside-down (remember the As Seen on TV “topsy-turveys” several years ago lol) vs. in the ground/raised bed?🤔
What a fantastic video! Such good content and very well done with the experiment
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I like how you did this experiment. It would be even more interesting if you try doing this again, but have more than 2 plants. That way you can show it is repeatable and observe to see if it is consistent — the same or different results.
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I would have like you to do a taste compare with the two tomatoes plants. To see if the one with scrapes taste sweeter or less…1❤
No sardines or any meat or fish in my area. Otherwise I will have a bear visiting me.
Otherwise everything goes into the beds.
Rats! No thank you
Tuck was hoping that you were digging up carrots! 😄 ❤❤❤❤ for Tuck!
Eye of newt, tail of rat, hair of dog… sounds like witchcraft! It works well but unfortunately for me I found that it attracted the rats.
I have to try this. Thank you for expirementing
King Tuck! He's hopeful of getting some carrots. 👌
What about scobe from kombucha. Is that good too?
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I love nature so much it’s perfect.
Please bury candy corn next and see what it grows
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