I have a few large garden beds that I started last year. I haven’t dove into composting at home yet but really want to. In the meantime… my question is can I just toss fruit and veggie scraps into my existing garden beds that I will use this spring / summer? I always feel so guilty throwing it all in the trash. I cook a lot so I constantly have scraps. What can I do with them if I’m not ready to commit to making a full blow compost?
by Few-Ad-6689
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You’ll probably have to till some of it out in spring but it’s probably fine if critters aren’t an immediate concern
You can compost lazily
Soak with sugar to get poor mans strawberry syrup
I have been burying all my kitchen scraps this winter in my garden beds.
I eat them :3
Trench composting, i just did this to prep my beds. I dig a little trench, cover it and layed some new soil on top in my raised beds. I don’t have enough space to allow compost to accumulate and break down so I do this throughout the season. I have a small container in my kitchen for scraps and a bigger yard bin where I dump the scraps until I want to trench them. At the bottom of the bin are holes so the earth worms help.
Compost. Its what I’ve been doing.
If it is small amounts and you are not too worried about mice/rats and if you don’t practice no-dig, you can trench compost it straight in your beds. This means you dig a trench, dump scraps and cover them with soil and preferably some kind of lattice or grid to keep bigger animals from digging them out. I would avoid composting woodier stuff like avocado pits and corn cobs because they won’t break down for quite a while.
Composting can be as simple as throwing all your kitchen scraps and yard waste on to a pile.