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18 Comments
we feed all our garden and kitchen waste to our worm beds and some to chickens.
I can remember my grandfather saying that the garden was years of work. And the hogs were his first choice in kitchen scraps then transferring to a garden. His chickens, hogs, and cows clean up is a big part of gardening as well. Thumbs up đź‘Ť for your posting this.
Reason I'm not a fan of burying kitchen scraps:
Imagine a forest or prairie. The leaves (even tree trunks!) and old stems begin decay process on surface in the presence of OXYGEN.
Burying material, especially a lot of soggy coffee grounds and bananas just creates perfect environment for nasty anaerobic decay (putrification).
However, you might get away with very thin thin layer of shallowly buried material.
Second, buried masses of kitchen scraps are a huge attraction for FIRE ANTS ,especially in spring swarming season.
Nope. Not gonna prep some nicely tilled ground and a scrap feast for a new fire ant colony.
Might could do it after midsummer, never before.
I like using an old sausage grinder to process the kitchen scraps then add them to our compost pile.
What is a good way to integrate the chicken bedding? Same dig a hole and add it by the bed?
Thanks for the myth-busting video and clarification… so many shorts, reels, and ticktok videos give such wrong info…
We mentor several young folks, and older folks that are just starting their first garden journey, and they are always asking or using those very wrong…
Appreciate you and blessings ❤
So I should dry out my lemons and grind them down before adding to berry bushes?? Great video thanks
One of your videos I saw you have plastic bottles around your plants why couldn’t find any thing on it
Eric, thanks so much for the tip on the lemon peel. I’ll start adding it to our blueberry soil.
We put our dry egg shells into our coffee grinder.
We put all kitchen scraps into our compost bin.
Btw, I finally got our Freeze Dryer yesterday.
Be Blessed my Brother !
Before your weeds bloom, toss them into your compost bin.
How about soaking the items you talked about in water for about 2 weeks making a composting tea? I have some barrels that collect rain water. I have some old plastic buckets that I drilled holes in to hold banana peels, rhubarb leaves, trimmings from tomato plants, comfrey leaves, … . I submerge them in the water barrels. Then I use that water like fertilizer.
nice video
Thanks!
i am one that puts egg shells, banana peels and coffee grounds in my garden…..by way of my compost pile. dont do it for the minerals that you mention but rather for the worms{banana} the organic content{coffee grounds} and just because i think its better my compost pile{ground up with a spice mill egg shells] than into my garbage can. many of us dont have homesteads but we do have gardens and not all actions have a single benefit. a single banana peel can jump start a tired compost pile…..
Thank you
My scraps go to chickens, rabbits, compost, in that order. Also poop scoop dogs, rabbits, and chicken coops for compost and garden. I also catch my compost drainage to pour back on it when dry retaining more nutrients throughout the decompisition.
I need your help, from your experience. I have 3 or 4 Peach trees oozing some type of gel from the trunk and some branches. Do you know what that might be? And how to treat/fix it. Or should I take them out? Thanks in advance…… Jeff
My lemon peels go into making my lemonade. It takes lemonade to another level. I dry my egg shells in the oven with just the oven light on. I’m surprised at how much heat one little build makes in an insulated box like an oven. As always, great video. I try to watch all of yours.