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Thank you for all the awesome videos! You are a treasure of knowledge. I have found putting coffee grounds on top of the fish or meat scraps keeps the smell down and certain pets can't stand coffee! Keep up all the great work!
Hi! I’m a new subscriber in California. Just bought a home with a nice size yard in full sun. What size property do you have, and do you recommend some shade trees for my veggie garden?
@@casualdiamond1 Only if you plan to grow crops that need some shade. Far more need full sun. If I didn't have trees and I longed for one or two, I would opt for fruit trees of some kind. But I would not plant where they would shade out sun-loving crops or flowers! I cannot stress enough how important getting adequate sunlight is for many plants. I have too many trees and I am always searching for sun in my yard. So do not be in a hurry to plant trees. Once they get big, you may rethink the whole idea of a tree right there like I did! Granted, 95% of my trees were on the lot when the house was purchased in 89, and by now they are 60 to 80 foot cedar elm giants.
As a child my dad taught us to plant fish heads under his veggies…. He loved fishing. All our fish heads and guts were hand caught by him and us so it was free fertilizer for the garden and a great fish fry for the family. Nothing was wasted. We always had the best garden and at 59 I’m still practicing his method. It still works
How long will buried kitchen scraps fully decomposed, I wonder? Actually, I’m confused why they take so long in the compost bin? Will decomposition through burying with soil be much faster? What about rodents? Will this attract mice?
@@wemuk5170 It does not attract mice and yes decomposition through burying with soil is much faster. Bugs in the soil help the process of decomposition. How quickly kitchen scraps decomposes depends on what it is. Vegetables and fruits decompose quickly (2 to 6 months), and an example of something difficult to decompose is an olive pit ( it takes more than a year).
@@ЖелязкоДалев Sorry, I wasn’t clear. Burying with soil doesn’t attract mice of course since these scraps can’t be smelt then. What I meant was: placing them inside the compost bin will attract mice, right?
The old gal who lived next door was always digging holes and dumping stuff in the hole. She had the most amazing gardens. Once a big deer died in her yard at the age of 87 she dragged the big buck to the big Hooke she dug. After watching that I was always nice to her 😊
He sure is. There's another nice bloke out there too, Charles Dowding. If you're into gardening, or even if you're not, check him out for his soothing videos.
One thing I've learnt about composting as well, is that I get better results by having two separate compost piles. Separating them into vegetables and fruits. Fruits generally have a lower pH level, so they will feed plants which require a more acidic soil. Using fruits to fertilise fruits, and vegetables to fertilise vegetables means that you are giving the soil the nutrients more required by the crop type. Egg shells are a great way to increase soil pH too, by introducing calcium into the soil.
Egg shells take forever to break down, that's a common misconception tbh. Eventually they do, but it's like years. Best way to add calcium readily available and water soluble comes from KNF/JADAM method, by mixing egg shells and vinegar to make calcium acetate. I'm only saying this because it's great for composting (Bokashi method) too, much much faster than method shown here
I love the opening motto: 'you dont have to be self sufficient in everything, just be self sufficient in something'. I think it will help encourage a lot of people, myself included. And that garden of yours is amazing! 👏👏👏
This is what I've been doing. Just doing more home gardening/farming as best as I can. Hopefully in a few years I can get a tractor and make use of all my land.
Probably Animal welfare freaks finding a way to be offended by the sight of the dead animals. Too many pussies in the world, probably some people who buy factory farmed produce also but somehow manage to see this as wrong. There really are some fucking idiots in the world.
@@Chris-xl6pd probably. Honestly what else are you going to do with a dead animal? I find dead birds all the time in my forest. If my cat has not ate the thing yet, then I will put him to good use in the garden. Not wasting anything
Ive found that having 4 separate zones works for me. I have 2 raised beds in each zone and i bury scraps in 1 zone (or 2 beds) for one full season, while planting the other 3. It gives a full year for the scraps to break down and let the soil recover. My grandparents and parents have been using this method for well over 100 years and have never had a year that we havent been able to supply what we need. We almost always have had enough canned at the end of the year that we have been able to help out neighbors, friends, and family.
May become an essential food source given how things are going at the moment. Good time to encourage others to get growing with all the talk or shortages and price rises.
So, zone 1 is nothing but kitchen scraps and soil, and you're adding new scraps every few days? Do you ever run out of space for scraps - or do they break down quickly? And does this system mean that you only have one zone with new soil every four years? Hope these questions make sense...
@@jcnz9861 you should look into crop rotation, it’s a very old knowledge where you plant 3 different crops over 3 year in one spot (one year per crop I believe) and leave it be for one full year to recover (ofter this is a year in which you give nutrients to the soil) for a final 4 year cycle. Maybe this is what the person commenting was referring to, as you can essentially grow all your different needed crops every year and never run out of good soil
From Venezuela, I burry kitchen trash all the time in my small garden all the time and this year 2021 I have pulled out and bagged over 200 fruit trees to be planted in schools around my home town
Love the idea of just letting things break down naturally. My father dug a pit in the ground and we put all our kitchen scraps in there (he covered it with a wood-framed screen to keep critters out). It yielded the best compost and he had a beautiful vegetable garden.
Orrrrrrrrrrrrr.............. nature is a cannibalistic monster that creates life only to destroy itself in order to satisfy its insatiable hunger for consciousness
I so appreciate your kindness to your chickens by adding the corrugated tubing to the edge of the cut buckets so it wouldn’t scratch their necks. You are a sweetie 😄👍🌼
Pamela Spooner yeah wouldnt wanna bruise the neck, needs to be nice and supple when ya grab it and reef its head off...? Also you axe doesnt need to be as sharp too i spose ;)
Very helpful! This is my second year gardening, I’m in a wheelchair and never thought I’d be able to have a garden because I can’t exactly wheel myself around in a crop field or harvest anything from a tree. But raised beds have made it possible for me to grow a few types of veggies, and I have bought some of those cloth ”buckets” to grow potatoes in, hopefully they’ll turn out to be a good wheelchair-friendly gardening option also 😊
I dont know the terrain around your garden if it is surrounded by dirt on the ground it is above or cement but you should buy some worms and put them in tomake a farm under your plantation. 🙃
only thing to know about the potato bags is make sure to have something for the stalks to rest against or they will grow and then snap . we usually get between 30-50 potato's per bag. and they last alot longer then store bought
Well done to you... I hope gardening and cultivating brings you joy. Set yourself goals and try and grow a ripe strawberry or potato.... It does taste better when you grow it yourself.
I put chopped up banana peels in my ferns that are in pots, one was doing very poorly, within weeks it had doubled in size. I was amazed, I never throw banana peels away 😉 Thanks Mark, for your wonderful videos.
We had a red tide here in Southern CA last year. Lots of fish died so I went to collect as many carcasses as I could to put into my garden. I can tell you that I have never been able to grow tomatoes very well. Last year I had tomato plants that grew over 8 feet high!
Never buried a fish in my gardens, but here is a short story that lends credence to that idea. Mom and dad often fished, and after dad returned from a solo fishing trip one weekend he had several cat fish, a bass or two, and some carp. Carp are nearl impossible to clean, but he kept the carp to help out a neighbor who had a stunted tree among those planted in along his property line - one poor ole tree looking sad compared to the others. Dad buried a whole carp at the base of the little tree, about two feet deep, and by the next year the short tree had out grown the others. There was no fertilzer or any other addition to the soil. That's my report, some 60 years later.
Fishheads provide many micro nutrients as well as macros, but most importantly calcium from the bones and the magnesium from the fatty fish head. Tomatoes need calcium + magnesium to really thrive which isnt usually abundant in soil we grow in. So it makes sense why it worked, nowadays we just have straight cal+mag feed for plants so we dont have to bury fish heads.
Carp are nothing more than giant Goldfish. The main restaurant in Gila Bend ("Heely" - phoneitcally - as my uncle used to call it) used to have a little pond by the front walkway, filled with some large Goldfish, and one or two black siblings - carp. Pretty sure I was told they live a long time. I saw them in GB from about 1959 until 1971ish...do not recall when the restaurant was razed and rebuilt.
Welcome to the gardening community 😉 you should look I to cannabis growing I have a few of my plants on my channel not asking for a sub but if you wanna see some pretty plants have a look 😆
People seem to think that a new viewer first time on UA-cam should see NO video recommendations at all I guess..... 'they've never watched that type before', is NOT a concern of the algorithm.
@@freighttrain7143 Well, what about people like me, who've used UA-cam for years and built up a consistent history, where this is on the front page of the recommended and I almost exclusively watch *insert* *video* *type* *here* (video game related content for me)? At least this is a recent video, less than a year old, that's probably gotten an influx of views (looking at his video list). In fact, it blew his second most viewed video out of the water by more than double the views in 1/12 the time. This is clearly an algorithm problem that's recommending this video to EVERYONE because of all the activity. My only guess to this out of left field video for me would be UA-cam thinking it's related to the Cities: Skylines stuff I've been watching recently. Which then compounds the algorithm problem because now I've watched it.
I have been “planting” my kitchen scraps at the base of my plants for years. Read about it in an old gardening book. Little by little my soil has become fantastic.
My back yard has a depression where a tree must have been removed. It's a pain to mow! But I have a bagger, and decided to start dumping the clippings there. I'll be adding vegi/bone waste too. This spring my son and DiL promised to come out and help me build a raised garden in it! Yay!
Yes. I’m amazed how many kitchen scraps go into my compost bin. It frees up my garbage bin, and makes fabulous compost for my small garden. I love it, and my garden loves it too.❤
This is one of those rare moments that I'm actually thankful of the UA-cam Recommendation Algorithm. Being raised by parents with Agriculture backgrounds, this channel makes me nostalgic!
This is probably an odd comment and you won't probably read it, but thank you for this. We are having to move away from my family home. We have buried many pets in our yard over the years. This helps knowing that their bodies have definitely returned to the Earth and I don't have to feel so sad about leaving them. I'm sure that's a strange comment, but...
Ive turned my backyard into a garden, literally. I add to it constantly. Its a no brainer once you get started. The health benefits are great, never starve either.
In our local paper some guy wrote that he was leaving our village because it didn't have any laws against putting vegetable gardens in your yard. Seriously, there literally was nothing to do last year under Covid lockdown and he's complaining because people chose to garden??!!
I moved in a year ago and was trying to decide what to do with the south side of the yard along the house. It has pebble cover and rather poor-looking soil. After see this, however, I think I might have some ideas!
'your basically growing your plants on top of a worm farm, and I think thats cool" yes dude, it is super cool you're amazing! the world benefits from you.
It's so nice, because his enthusiasm is so honest and real, that even when he makes a '' bad joke '' like the ''where are my glasses'', cause he's so nice, you just smile and enjoy the ''bad'' joke :P
I have always done as My Grandmother did , she used Coffee Grounds in the Garden and she had amazing Flowers. Eggs shells we dry out in the Sun a bit and then bury those as well ..and Banana Peels . We also huge long Worms everywhere you look in the Garden . You are so correct in advising people to bury their scraps . GREAT VIDEO . THANKS for sharing !
I've been doing the same for years myself. I add tea bags as well. Also, I've been burying all my fish scraps after cleaning them. Any road kill in front of my house gets picked up and thrown into the mix. I use all the worms from the garden to catch my fish. It's a win-win for me! God Bless!
Thanks to your videos I'm now burying kitchen scraps, my soil and earthworms love it♥️. I plant a few things such as potatoes, tomatoes and strawberries.
When my cat died after 19 years I burried her in my garden, till my surprise a real big plant with cute yellow flowers, and some other flowery plants started growing there. I think it is my cat her last showing of love to me.
I'm 50 years old, growing up, everyone had some type of garden including my family. This guy's bringing the trend back. It makes me very happy. Personally I'm so afraid of supermarkets
I planted my vegetables scraps down the middle of my 4 x 16 raised beds. I had vegetables growing!! I got 4 tomato plants, 3 patches of red potatoes, cabbages, etc. LOL. I transplanted what I could and turned over the rest. I would recommend getting a container, putting holes in the bottom and sides, burying it 80% in the raised beds, and placing the compost in that so when it liquifies, it will leach out into the dirt.
My father was from Barbados & he always buried fish heads,bones,eggshells around his tomato plants. They were so good he had a regular route in an upscale neighborhood. Our indigenous people would live fish heads & bones around trees in the forest as an offering. Great for the trees!
I started doing this a few years back when my Dad told me, it was what his Father did with Kitchen scraps. Saves all the trouble of turning a compost, and dragging it to the garden bed when you want to use it. Just put it right in where you plant. I mix some dried leaves in with my compost when I bury it, I think it helps the break down process, the leaves break the wet scraps up a bit and allow more oxygen perhaps. This is definitely my preferred method.
I want to do this but I have a question. I have a compost bin, an old side by side refrig laid down, that works great but like you said; I have to take my scarps to it, turn it and then use a shovel to shovel it out into a wagon to take it to my garden. Putting it directly in my garden areas would be a lot easier. Does it not attract ants or other critters? If so, what can be done to prevent that
Mark I must say dude you are awesome ! My dad used to bury kitchen scraps , so did his dad ! Our neighbors thought we were crazy . He’s gone now last year was the first year I planted without him , he passed sadly . Unsure if i could manage I tried ! My harvest was bountiful !! I buried my kitchen scraps as well as whole eggs and fish bones . Most of the meat bones I keep for bone broth or soup . Occasionally feral cats get birds so I bury those too as young children play ball constantly near here . Oddly enough those same neighbors loved my stewed tomatoes and homemade jellies ! Special spaghetti sauce and stuffed cabbages . Thank you for your wonderful tips , shared many of your posts and following !!! Your teaching many 👩🏻🌾 God Bless ! Rose
Great video thank you! My dad was a great gardener and I remember he used this method very successfully in the 1950's- probably through to the late 1900's. My method varies as I chop most kitchen scraps into small pieces to make them "more worm friendly". I trench some & also add some to our "ground top" compost heap. The latter = grass clippings with some brown matter, a little chopped paper and the kitchen scraps. Adding Dry leaves & small branches when mixture seems too wet I turn the heap at least 3-4 times a week with a small pitch fork and it takes only a matter of weeks to produce worm filled compost to add to the garden beds. I use the 3 compost bin method. ("Heaps" in my case). The Trench method : Being chopped up and layered with small amount of soil, the scraps in the trenches are quickly processed by the worms and the result has been much improved clay base garden beds in a very short time. I took some measures last week to improve a very sorry looking rose and lavender bed - I mixed a small amount of blood & bone with a 1 bag of store bought compost, & 1 of top soil and forked it in. The ground and the plants have mproved already, no doubt helped by a little sunshine! (The land has been excessively wet through Winter until now with only a few fine days here in the north of New Zealand as Spring transitions towards Summer) A lovely "summerish" day today tho! Blessings of good health & happy gardening everyone from JDK's wife - "the garden keeper".
Thank you so much. i"m super lazy gardener , so I was using this method for couple years now.. My hubby hated it. He was thinking that this attracts animals to our garden...... I show him your video and because you are professional I can continue with my project. You make me happy. Because we recycle everything and I can again "recycle my kitchen scrubs "
Of course it will attract animals. Badgers, foxes, cats and rodents will dig up rotting meat in no time. Better to put vegetable waste in a compost bin and put that in the soil with manure. If your soil isn't that good you will need to add topsoil and remove stones as well.
I just started direct composting but maybe I am too heavy handed. I have some old garbage bins with the bottom rusted out so I bury them up to the lid and then fill them with kitchen scraps and a the occasional layer of grass clippings. When they are 6-9 inches from full I pull the bin out and overfill with soil. The soil is pretty bad, red clay.
I'm turning 20 this 4th of February and I've learned this way from my father 15 years ago. I thought he's just lazy throwing scraps haha but when I started gardening I understand na! Such a nice video😊😊
Thanks, Mark. It's good to see that you also just bury your food scraps in the garden. It works well for me too. I've been doing it for a number of years now, but I find I run out of garden beds to bury in. Last year when I buried some dried corn scraps they actually sprouted and I ended up with quite a few corn seedlings which I then carefully removed from the husk and replanted. They did grow corn on them too.,
I got 18 & 33 gallon totes with lids & large garbage bins a neighbor threw out continued burying kitchen scraps , native soil , weeds, leaves both brown & yellow & green , & junk mail , & newspapers run thru a paper shredder ( layer all like a lasagna) & threw in a few earthworms, sprinkle water once a week , cover & got great soil after a few months - this is after I ran out of garden space to dig holes - bore some holes in these bins & totes to let out excess water & used compost created to dress veggies in the garden & also planted more veggies directly into these bins & totes😊
I know it’s super morbid (seriously 👀) but I’ve always wanted to be buried without a coffin and then have a tree planted over me. It’s the ciiiiircle of liiiiife.
I think there are some places you can get away with that. Eco-burials or something. There are also memorial gardens where your ashes can be scattered among the roses and hydrangeas.
It's how it's done in much of Indonesia and I'm sure elsewhere. Somewhere between 50cm to 1 metre down and aerobic decomposition occurs recycling the body. At a depth of 6' there's more anaerobic decomposition that produces toxins.
I just started doing this. I was hauling my scraps to a bin, then hauling the bin to a compost heap, then mixing the composted heaps into my garden bins and one day I got smart, or lazy, or both and just started tossing my scraps directly into the garden beds. I have worms galore, the chickens still scratch there to aerate it and it became a thriving eco system that sustains plants. Lazy, easy
Marcy's Eco Village Life: I too think burying scraps directly is a good idea. It was mentioned that you have to do this sparingly to not overwhelm the soil biome. I often throw my banana peels under a low growing shrub I have at home.. it breaks down in days.
I live in Arizona, and my soil is very sandy. I’ve had trouble growing because of the lack of nutrients. I have decided that I was going to have to use a raised bed and after seeing your results and how you are composting into the direct soil I’m realizing that that is going to be the best way to go. I really enjoy your videos and even though I live on a different continent and in a different climate, I’m sure I’m going to have fabulous results.
I went fishing yesterday and near the boat ramp there were about 7 large rotting snapper fish frames that some lazy angler had filleted and thrown on the beach - makes me angry that people waste like this and how they couldn't even be bothered throwing them back in the ocean let alone used in the garden, which is what you and I would have done... Thanks! :)
I've composted on top using some things as mulch. Corn husks make great mulch, and so do lettuce leaves. I don't use cabbage though because it can smell.
Here in BC we get fresh halibut, it is in season now. At $ 23.00 a pound we do not bury the fish. The cheapest fish is $ 5.00 a pound, Tilapia from Vietnam. Farmed in the slews😛
If you are lucky enough in your lifetime to buy yourself a piece of land, you must realize that, not all lands have a fertile soil. This way, may take time, but it’s the most natural and organic way to make any soil receptacle to any fruits or veggies plants or trees. ..Great stuff 👍
I came out of the army in 1971, bought some timbered land and built my small farm on it. While clearing a large garden space I noticed that the soil was red clay gumbo and would bake in the summer. After plowing barn manure into it all these years it is now dark loam. In thinking about what you wrote I wondered how deep the loam was so I went out to see how far the loam goes down and it was a measured 14 inches before I got into the red clay.
Some soil is shit and compost won’t do much to help. Not to mention, plants feed at the grass roots level and there is virtually no benefit to working compost into deep soil, as plants don’t need deep roots to find nutrients; in nature composting only happens on the surface and close beneath - which is why a granular fertilizer works by spreading in on the surface. Not to mention anaerobic composting takes quite a bit longer than aerobic composting. If your soil structure is poor, deep compost may help improve it, but it’s not an effective way of adding nutrients to soil.
Brendons Forehead i suppose. But might as well compost it on the ground and get a nice fluffy humus. I would expect it to take a full year to compost anaerobic and you likely attract animals who will dig it up anyway.
I did something similar, aiding in my neighbor's growth.... I took a huge poop in his birdbath, and man....he grew a huge temper *wtf* is his problem. I'm tired of being used.
I am a city girl. I don't have a garden: I don't have a backyard: I have never wanted to have a garden: but I love your garden, your idea and your hands digging land. Now I wish I have a garden.
Geee, your comment sounds poetic!!! Now try cutting it in lines to polish, so you have de some verses to sum your first poem. Then, take other topics that can go in through. You'll be getting your first creative writing work, something like "City girl routines & her dream poems". Don't forget to recognize my encouraging. Greetings from Honduras.
Greetings from the Mississippi gulf coast. When I was a child in the 70's, my old granny use to always bury fish heads in her garden. I always thought that was crazy. I guess old granny was smarter than I gave her credit for. We use to call whatever vegetables we were eating fish head tomatoes or fish head okra. Just found your channel and subbed. I love what you're doing mate. Cheers!
i have seen my mom do this throughout my childhood. you won my heart with this video. subscribed right away. i am so much looking forward to having an organic garden of my own. now will watch more of your videos for more inspiration.
Excellent job Mark! Here in the US we have too much food waste, and its sometimes overwhelming to my compost pile without constantly adding wood chips. Ill try adding swaths into the garden beds as well to spread the load!
You are soo helpful with your detailed knowledge and tips with gardening but especially because it’s designed for Aussies, our climate and resources. Love your episodes and am learning a great deal, more than from anything else I’ve seen to date! Much appreciated ❤
If you have a blender you can run the veggies through it. Take them down to a chunky salsa consistency before putting in garden. They will break down even faster.
My mother threw some tomatoes pulp, seed and skin in her composter and after a while spread the compost around her shrubs. Now she has tomatoes growing everywhere.
Giddy Mate from NZ. That is exactly what I have been doing in our small city garden. I had no worms when I arrive at this place. I dig a trench down 40-50cm and put some rougher garden clipping down first if I have it, then a thin layer of soil. I repeat with another thin layer of kitchen scraps or lawn clipping and top that off with some more soil and do it again. I aim for 3 layers of green waste. I make a soil and food waste CLUB SANDWICH with the last layer of scraps being at least 100mm down. If you do this CLUB SANDWICH method (at least 1 mth prior) for tomatoes (and such like) that you plant deep into that sandwich mix, you will need some more friends/family and/or recipes to keep up with all the tomatoes that will be coming your way! Great Videos. I learn so much!
Here in Sweden every household has a bin for food waste which is collected and transported to a biogas plant where it's converted to biogas fuel and fertilizer.
Years ago ( 8 ) I threw a peach pit into a compost pile and actually got a peach tree that produces great peaches ... how lucky is that ?? Sadly .. I had a huge crop last year and I see no blooms this year. I had over 400 Peaches ... I'm not kidding Some were 2" wide and others were 3-4 inches. I'm applying fruit tree fertilizer so next year hopefully I get a good crop. Best of all ... It naturally did not grow upright and tall .. It grew out so no part of the tree is higher than 9 feet. People do this to fruit trees to make harvest easier and mine naturally did that. I'm going to graft them and see if the same thing happens. I may have a cool new heirloom peach tree. I'm excited to see what happens.
@@HandlingItAll If you grow a tree from a fruit seed you will likley not get a tree that produces good fruit ... if any at all. Futit trees are heterozygous.
yes I cant attest to the fish and tomato thing. I had a disease go through the fish pond . It killed 4 of my larger fish. I buried them in the garden and planted tomato's on top of them. The effect was tremendous. Crazy big plants, lots of fruit.
It's an old habit of planting trees on the buried remains of larger animals like cows or horses. One of my donkeys died a few years ago and after burying her I planted an apple tree on her grave. Initially the tree didn't seem to thrive but after several years it took off and is now far larger than the surrounding trees. Future donkeys will enjoy apples feed by their ancestor.
@@idonthaveaname6000 if you have any understanding at all about microbiology then you would know there are no consequences of eating from plants grown above diseased animals
Interesting how you have covered this concept. This is exactly what I’ve been doing rather than a compost area as I was impatient and through previous experience I have found that it takes a long time for scraps to break down. I have bought four raised beds and have positioned one in the front of my garden as I have limited space. I layered it with newspaper, cardboard, soil, scraps, and repeated the process. I was too impatient to wait for anything to happen before I have planted some flouring plants that are looking very happy. Thanks for this video as I now know I’m on the right track and will continue with setting up the next bed.
Love these videos. My family transformed our backyard from wild overgrowth last year - now we're turning all the beds into gardens. These are giving us so many great ideas - so thank you for your work and sharing your expertise!
I wish you were my neighbor. You have such a great personality and make me smile. I love your videos and have learned a lot. I'm on my way to watching all your videos. Thanks👍😁
I live in an urban area and when I put the scraps into my garden, I noticed a rat and other critters visiting more often and tearing up my garden. So now I blend my scraps into a chunky smoothie. It works! The worms are still happy.
I love your enthusiasm. I learned a lot from just this one video. My son and I have started a very large garden this year and we have had wonderful results. We're looking for videos just like this one, so that we can learn more. Thank you so much! Subscribed!!! : )
I’ll add a small colony of worms from my bins too if that garden is particularly new. Great video, there is something so addictive about watching healthy soil being dug up and combed.
Yes, I do this very thing in the fall when my garden is all finished. As I pull out the plants we put the kitchen scraps in the dirt. I've definitely seen a difference in my garden.
I’ve used this method for a long time now to build vege beds. I get heaps of food scraps from the local fruit and veg shop. Anything that the chooks won’t eat I lay down in rows with a sprinkle of cow manure and cover with a good layer of mulch. I keep layering until I get the right height and mix in a bit of soil. It usually takes a few months for the beds to be ready, but it’s far easier than making compost and turning it. It also means I don’t have to cart barrow loads of compost everywhere. It does take time to breakdown but at least I’m not busting my gut anymore.👍
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Thank you for all the awesome videos! You are a treasure of knowledge. I have found putting coffee grounds on top of the fish or meat scraps keeps the smell down and certain pets can't stand coffee! Keep up all the great work!
Hi! I’m a new subscriber in California. Just bought a home with a nice size yard in full sun. What size property do you have, and do you recommend some shade trees for my veggie garden?
Thanks that's very interesting..what about teabags..😊 would you bury them..and if so with or without the actual bag.. 🙏🙏
@@casualdiamond1 Only if you plan to grow crops that need some shade. Far more need full sun. If I didn't have trees and I longed for one or two, I would opt for fruit trees of some kind. But I would not plant where they would shade out sun-loving crops or flowers! I cannot stress enough how important getting adequate sunlight is for many plants. I have too many trees and I am always searching for sun in my yard. So do not be in a hurry to plant trees. Once they get big, you may rethink the whole idea of a tree right there like I did! Granted, 95% of my trees were on the lot when the house was purchased in 89, and by now they are 60 to 80 foot cedar elm giants.
Thank you. Your video is very useful for newbie like me.😀
As a child my dad taught us to plant fish heads under his veggies…. He loved fishing. All our fish heads and guts were hand caught by him and us so it was free fertilizer for the garden and a great fish fry for the family. Nothing was wasted. We always had the best garden and at 59 I’m still practicing his method. It still works
Excellent!
How long will buried kitchen scraps fully decomposed, I wonder? Actually, I’m confused why they take so long in the compost bin? Will decomposition through burying with soil be much faster? What about rodents? Will this attract mice?
@@wemuk5170 It does not attract mice and yes decomposition through burying with soil is much faster. Bugs in the soil help the process of decomposition. How quickly kitchen scraps decomposes depends on what it is. Vegetables and fruits decompose quickly (2 to 6 months), and an example of something difficult to decompose is an olive pit ( it takes more than a year).
@@ЖелязкоДалев Oh dear, 2 months? I’m a new gardener & will be planting on the kitchen scraps buried in my raised bed just 6 weeks ago. 😅
@@ЖелязкоДалев Sorry, I wasn’t clear. Burying with soil doesn’t attract mice of course since these scraps can’t be smelt then. What I meant was: placing them inside the compost bin will attract mice, right?
The old gal who lived next door was always digging holes and dumping stuff in the hole. She had the most amazing gardens. Once a big deer died in her yard at the age of 87 she dragged the big buck to the big Hooke she dug. After watching that I was always nice to her 😊
She sounds like my mother. Except she would have skinned it first.
Wow! I’ve never heard of a dear getting that old!
@@SoundMindMusicStudio Lol
The lady was 87
Are you sure there wernt a few hitchhikers buried in her garden?
After several years of watching videos on UA-cam, I can say with total confidence that hands down this is the nicest dude in social media ever.
Aussies tend to seem that way
He sure is. There's another nice bloke out there too, Charles Dowding. If you're into gardening, or even if you're not, check him out for his soothing videos.
Check out the Crafsman if you want another nice man
This guy and Hampton from Hybrid Calisthenics are the most genuine, lovely people on UA-cam.
he had me at G'Day
One thing I've learnt about composting as well, is that I get better results by having two separate compost piles. Separating them into vegetables and fruits. Fruits generally have a lower pH level, so they will feed plants which require a more acidic soil. Using fruits to fertilise fruits, and vegetables to fertilise vegetables means that you are giving the soil the nutrients more required by the crop type. Egg shells are a great way to increase soil pH too, by introducing calcium into the soil.
Egg shells take forever to break down, that's a common misconception tbh. Eventually they do, but it's like years. Best way to add calcium readily available and water soluble comes from KNF/JADAM method, by mixing egg shells and vinegar to make calcium acetate.
I'm only saying this because it's great for composting (Bokashi method) too, much much faster than method shown here
I tell my husband to be nice to me because the neighbors are totally used to seeing me dig big holes in the garden. So far it has worked!
HahaHaha funny! Hehee!
@@lanajantz2240 hahaha sooo good!
@@joshkentopp721 hi Patrick
Hahahahaha
ouch lol lol lol
I love the opening motto: 'you dont have to be self sufficient in everything, just be self sufficient in something'. I think it will help encourage a lot of people, myself included.
And that garden of yours is amazing! 👏👏👏
So true too! Can always trade knowledge with people that way as well 😄
This is what I've been doing. Just doing more home gardening/farming as best as I can. Hopefully in a few years I can get a tractor and make use of all my land.
Who honestly would take the time to give this guy a thumbs down....he should be on tv....he doesn't rehearse this stuff he lives it...
i agree it was very helpful and a great insight to what to expect within 4 weeks.
I was thinking the same, goes go show how many miserable souls there are in the world
I absolutely agree. He feels like family.... and I'm Black lol Descent guy.
Probably Animal welfare freaks finding a way to be offended by the sight of the dead animals. Too many pussies in the world, probably some people who buy factory farmed produce also but somehow manage to see this as wrong.
There really are some fucking idiots in the world.
@@Chris-xl6pd probably. Honestly what else are you going to do with a dead animal? I find dead birds all the time in my forest. If my cat has not ate the thing yet, then I will put him to good use in the garden. Not wasting anything
Ive found that having 4 separate zones works for me. I have 2 raised beds in each zone and i bury scraps in 1 zone (or 2 beds) for one full season, while planting the other 3. It gives a full year for the scraps to break down and let the soil recover. My grandparents and parents have been using this method for well over 100 years and have never had a year that we havent been able to supply what we need. We almost always have had enough canned at the end of the year that we have been able to help out neighbors, friends, and family.
What a great strategy!
May become an essential food source given how things are going at the moment. Good time to encourage others to get growing with all the talk or shortages and price rises.
Great idea! I have to use raised beds where I live but I do have enough space to utilize this method.
So, zone 1 is nothing but kitchen scraps and soil, and you're adding new scraps every few days? Do you ever run out of space for scraps - or do they break down quickly? And does this system mean that you only have one zone with new soil every four years? Hope these questions make sense...
@@jcnz9861 you should look into crop rotation, it’s a very old knowledge where you plant 3 different crops over 3 year in one spot (one year per crop I believe) and leave it be for one full year to recover (ofter this is a year in which you give nutrients to the soil) for a final 4 year cycle. Maybe this is what the person commenting was referring to, as you can essentially grow all your different needed crops every year and never run out of good soil
This guy would make an incredible grandfather. He's fun and yet calming
Uncle, cousin, friend, neighbor, gardener, person, teacher, gardener. Ha. Yes. He's great.
Agreed!!
Hes my dad..lets make it happen
Sam Perez zing
Linda Chen Absolutely and you'd never go hungry 😄
Love aussie dudes who are so passionate about simple things like gardening, fishing, camping, etc. Bless them.
It's nice to have a hobby to let off the stress of fighting spiders and poisonous animals everyday to get to work
Thanks for the compliment mate
I always wanted to go to Australia until I heard about there gun laws .. America's next anyway
Rachel Jean burying corpses.....👀👀
Why would these things be "simple"
From Venezuela, I burry kitchen trash all the time in my small garden all the time and this year 2021 I have pulled out and bagged over 200 fruit trees to be planted in schools around my home town
Feliz iniciativa amigo, un paso adelante en la reforestación que en muchas escuelas solo es palabras. Saludos desde Honduras.
Keep up the great work!
Great project!!!! That’s really cool of you
This is incredible! Thank you for paying it forward!! I too have had a bunch of avocado trees and onions, herbs, mystery plants too lol
You’re the best!!!!!!!!! Thank you for being a provider to others, especially the children 🥰
Love the idea of just letting things break down naturally. My father dug a pit in the ground and we put all our kitchen scraps in there (he covered it with a wood-framed screen to keep critters out). It yielded the best compost and he had a beautiful vegetable garden.
Who else thinks it's beautiful how nature can just take care of everything?
I. It's part of nature's natural recycling.
God is awesome!
Orrrrrrrrrrrrr.............. nature is a cannibalistic monster that creates life only to destroy itself in order to satisfy its insatiable hunger for consciousness
It's almost like someone designed it like that. :)
@@DefenderOfTheLarder it is
I so appreciate your kindness to your chickens by adding the corrugated tubing to the edge of the cut buckets so it wouldn’t scratch their necks. You are a sweetie 😄👍🌼
Pamela Spooner yeah wouldnt wanna bruise the neck, needs to be nice and supple when ya grab it and reef its head off...? Also you axe doesnt need to be as sharp too i spose ;)
Very helpful! This is my second year gardening, I’m in a wheelchair and never thought I’d be able to have a garden because I can’t exactly wheel myself around in a crop field or harvest anything from a tree. But raised beds have made it possible for me to grow a few types of veggies, and I have bought some of those cloth ”buckets” to grow potatoes in, hopefully they’ll turn out to be a good wheelchair-friendly gardening option also 😊
Wow that is very inspiring . I hope it works out for you and you find solace in gardening .
God Bless you
I dont know the terrain around your garden if it is surrounded by dirt on the ground it is above or cement but you should buy some worms and put them in tomake a farm under your plantation. 🙃
only thing to know about the potato bags is make sure to have something for the stalks to rest against or they will grow and then snap . we usually get between 30-50 potato's per bag. and they last alot longer then store bought
Well done to you... I hope gardening and cultivating brings you joy. Set yourself goals and try and grow a ripe strawberry or potato....
It does taste better when you grow it yourself.
I put chopped up banana peels in my ferns that are in pots, one was doing very poorly, within weeks it had doubled in size. I was amazed, I never throw banana peels away 😉
Thanks Mark, for your wonderful videos.
I really love this guys character. He comes across as such a friendly honest person.
Why dont you ask him out on a date.... Mark!
@@twenty_four24. Why don't I ask you on a date? Just because I like someone doesn't mean I am attracted to them.
So true. Very unaffected personality.
@@markyfilarky oooooooh you got em!
It's the accent
Do I have a garden? No.
Am I still watching this? Yes.
Do i know you? No.
Did i like ur comment? Yes.
Municho you don’t have a garden that’s peak
Do I
Uh I Cant Think Of Anything
Read that in Dwight’s Voice
Am I Jewish? No.
Do I pretend to be sometimes? Yes.
We had a red tide here in Southern CA last year. Lots of fish died so I went to collect as many carcasses as I could to put into my garden. I can tell you that I have never been able to grow tomatoes very well. Last year I had tomato plants that grew over 8 feet high!
WOW, Way To Go !
Great idea & recycling too!😊
Never buried a fish in my gardens, but here is a short story that lends credence to that idea.
Mom and dad often fished, and after dad returned from a solo fishing trip one weekend he had several cat fish, a bass or two, and some carp. Carp are nearl impossible to clean, but he kept the carp to help out a neighbor who had a stunted tree among those planted in along his property line - one poor ole tree looking sad compared to the others. Dad buried a whole carp at the base of the little tree, about two feet deep, and by the next year the short tree had out grown the others. There was no fertilzer or any other addition to the soil.
That's my report, some 60 years later.
Fishheads provide many micro nutrients as well as macros, but most importantly calcium from the bones and the magnesium from the fatty fish head. Tomatoes need calcium + magnesium to really thrive which isnt usually abundant in soil we grow in. So it makes sense why it worked, nowadays we just have straight cal+mag feed for plants so we dont have to bury fish heads.
I love this! There are a lot of invasive carp in the reservoirs in my area…. Now maybe I need to go fishing to get my “fertilizer” for my garden!
Carp are nothing more than giant Goldfish. The main restaurant in Gila Bend ("Heely" - phoneitcally - as my uncle used to call it) used to have a little pond by the front walkway, filled with some large Goldfish, and one or two black siblings - carp. Pretty sure I was told they live a long time.
I saw them in GB from about 1959 until 1971ish...do not recall when the restaurant was razed and rebuilt.
literally the first time ive watched gardening video on youtube. nice job youtube algorithm
Same
Welcome to the gardening community 😉 you should look I to cannabis growing I have a few of my plants on my channel not asking for a sub but if you wanna see some pretty plants have a look 😆
People seem to think that a new viewer first time on UA-cam should see NO video recommendations at all I guess..... 'they've never watched that type before', is NOT a concern of the algorithm.
Yep
@@freighttrain7143 Well, what about people like me, who've used UA-cam for years and built up a consistent history, where this is on the front page of the recommended and I almost exclusively watch *insert* *video* *type* *here* (video game related content for me)? At least this is a recent video, less than a year old, that's probably gotten an influx of views (looking at his video list). In fact, it blew his second most viewed video out of the water by more than double the views in 1/12 the time. This is clearly an algorithm problem that's recommending this video to EVERYONE because of all the activity.
My only guess to this out of left field video for me would be UA-cam thinking it's related to the Cities: Skylines stuff I've been watching recently. Which then compounds the algorithm problem because now I've watched it.
I have been “planting” my kitchen scraps at the base of my plants for years. Read about it in an old gardening book. Little by little my soil has become fantastic.
What about rats ? This is the big problem of kitchen scraps
How long do i plant kitchen scraps before planting crops please. Thank you.
@@TheSweetSleep get a cat or two
@@ogxj6 you can even bury a cat or two !
@@TheSweetSleep Not if they are dug down a few inches/however centimeters.
"You don't have to be self sufficient in everything. Just something." FINALLY.
Hi
I love how nothing goes to waste with you..... I do it on a smaller scale and I know his satisfying and rewarding it is. .. I love the way you think.
I've been composting for about 3 years now. It's always amazing to see how much kitchen scrap goes back in the soil.
My back yard has a depression where a tree must have been removed. It's a pain to mow! But I have a bagger, and decided to start dumping the clippings there. I'll be adding vegi/bone waste too. This spring my son and DiL promised to come out and help me build a raised garden in it! Yay!
Egg shells commonly go to the garden. Same with carrot peels, potato peels, etc…
yer amazin
Yes. I’m amazed how many kitchen scraps go into my compost bin. It frees up my garbage bin, and makes fabulous compost for my small garden. I love it, and my garden loves it too.❤
What is it with informative Australian guys explaining stuff while hunched over or kneeling down?
You forgot the "Crikey!"
TYOjoe They just want to get closer to whatever’s DOWN UNDER them...
Learned from the Asian and Russian immigrants. ;-)
but you have to be explaining things when you do
@@TonyQuackston LOL truth
This is one of those rare moments that I'm actually thankful of the UA-cam Recommendation Algorithm.
Being raised by parents with Agriculture backgrounds, this channel makes me nostalgic!
Me too , love watching this
you are peasant
@@DUNDOM5 You are uneducated.
I feel the same way about BDSM videos.
Can't relate
This is probably an odd comment and you won't probably read it, but thank you for this. We are having to move away from my family home. We have buried many pets in our yard over the years. This helps knowing that their bodies have definitely returned to the Earth and I don't have to feel so sad about leaving them. I'm sure that's a strange comment, but...
It's not strange I was thinking the exact same thing!
Ive turned my backyard into a garden, literally. I add to it constantly. Its a no brainer once you get started. The health benefits are great, never starve either.
In our local paper some guy wrote that he was leaving our village because it didn't have any laws against putting vegetable gardens in your yard. Seriously, there literally was nothing to do last year under Covid lockdown and he's complaining because people chose to garden??!!
@@prussianette Yeah, he'll probably move to the big city where he will complain about the high price of vegetables.
I moved in a year ago and was trying to decide what to do with the south side of the yard along the house. It has pebble cover and rather poor-looking soil. After see this, however, I think I might have some ideas!
What vegetables did you start with?
@@prussianettehe’s an idiot , good riddance 😊
I had no idea Russell Crowe was into organic gardening. Good for him!
Uncanny resemblance
He's actually alot bigger and alot fatter now. So
😂😂
Hahaha
He switched careers. XD
This would be great to show in a biology class...you do a great job of showing the importance of an ecosystem and the cycle of nature...
'your basically growing your plants on top of a worm farm, and I think thats cool" yes dude, it is super cool you're amazing! the world benefits from you.
It's so nice, because his enthusiasm is so honest and real, that even when he makes a '' bad joke '' like the ''where are my glasses'', cause he's so nice, you just smile and enjoy the ''bad'' joke :P
it's called a "dad joke"
Does it work the same with a dead body? Just asking for a friend.
😂😂😂
The FBI has entered the chat....
@@makeyasaywat7516 Me left the chat...
Cut and crunch it for a better effect , human skin is surprisingly resilient and it will take time for the earth to digest that
😂😂😂😂😂😂 omg to funny
Pigeon passed away.
Rest in Onions 🙏🏽
lmao 😂
Douken Mmmm onion rings😏
Lok
Rest in peas.
Lol
We have composting program in Boston where residents can dump there kitchen scraps and it all goes to the farmers. I think it’s pretty cool!
Way cool!
I like how we went from kitchen scraps to dead birds in 30 seconds
I just now realize how weird it is for me to be watching a video of a guy burying his garbage, showing me bugs and dead birds.
i felt a bit horrified about that bird! 🙀
@@kamela1958 Its the circle of life *Disney music* It better the bird go to growing food.
From kitchen scraps
To chicken scraps
@@junenaya2736 LoL!
When he abruptly said "my grandparents..." I expected him to finish with..."are buried right over here..." Lol
😁😁😁
Hehehe
Lol😅
It’s been 7 weeks and see how many potatoes we’ve got growing here.
😂😂😂😂
I have always done as My Grandmother did , she used Coffee Grounds in the Garden and she had amazing Flowers.
Eggs shells we dry out in the Sun a bit and then bury those as well ..and Banana Peels . We also huge long Worms everywhere you look in the Garden .
You are so correct in advising people to bury their scraps . GREAT VIDEO . THANKS for sharing !
I've been doing the same for years myself. I add tea bags as well. Also, I've been burying all my fish scraps after cleaning them. Any road kill in front of my house gets picked up and thrown into the mix. I use all the worms from the garden to catch my fish. It's a win-win for me! God Bless!
Crunched up egg shells are good for keeping away snails and slugs as well if you sprinkle it around plants you want them to stay away from
@@luianderson7360 Thanks for the tip
Thanks to your videos I'm now burying kitchen scraps, my soil and earthworms love it♥️. I plant a few things such as potatoes, tomatoes and strawberries.
When my cat died after 19 years I burried her in my garden, till my surprise a real big plant with cute yellow flowers, and some other flowery plants started growing there. I think it is my cat her last showing of love to me.
That's beautiful
Love this!!!
“Finally, after 10,000 years I’m finally free!”
- some plant escaping Garfield
Jane Doe 🤟😔✊🐱
@Bert Clayton great book. Movie was good too.
I'm 50 years old, growing up, everyone had some type of garden including my family. This guy's bringing the trend back. It makes me very happy. Personally I'm so afraid of supermarkets
I planted my vegetables scraps down the middle of my 4 x 16 raised beds. I had vegetables growing!! I got 4 tomato plants, 3 patches of red potatoes, cabbages, etc. LOL. I transplanted what I could and turned over the rest. I would recommend getting a container, putting holes in the bottom and sides, burying it 80% in the raised beds, and placing the compost in that so when it liquifies, it will leach out into the dirt.
My father was from Barbados & he always buried fish heads,bones,eggshells around his tomato plants. They were so good he had a regular route in an upscale neighborhood. Our indigenous people would live fish heads & bones around trees in the forest as an offering. Great for the trees!
Once I had a puppy that died and I buried it under our scrawny fig tree. The fig tree grew by leaps and bounds.
Great for rats and mice too
Your garden/ homestead is amazing! Nice to see people being self sufficient. Wish I could be.
I've been doing this for years now. It's amazing. Composts SOOO fast.
I noticed he just put the scraps in one place to the side. Wouldn’t it be better to place them all around?
@@nobodymove7340 you move the trench around the garden. I don't 'trench' I just dig a hole.
I started doing this a few years back when my Dad told me, it was what his Father did with Kitchen scraps. Saves all the trouble of turning a compost, and dragging it to the garden bed when you want to use it. Just put it right in where you plant. I mix some dried leaves in with my compost when I bury it, I think it helps the break down process, the leaves break the wet scraps up a bit and allow more oxygen perhaps. This is definitely my preferred method.
I want to do this but I have a question.
I have a compost bin, an old side by side refrig laid down, that works great but like you said; I have to take my scarps to it, turn it and then use a shovel to shovel it out into a wagon to take it to my garden.
Putting it directly in my garden areas would be a lot easier.
Does it not attract ants or other critters? If so, what can be done to prevent that
...Unsure how I got here..Even more unsure why I stayed for the whole thing. Great video though.
Great video. Unsure why I watched it.
It began with an Australian video on truck driver's dash cams. The rabbit hole goes deep.
Same
Same
Same. I’m finding myself walking around talking with an accent, and an insatiable urge to garden. Quite contagious.
The first 35 seconds and i already like this dude
I thought it was just me! 😜
one more such vid and ure in bed with him
*He talks funny.* 😕
Same here, even when playing the video at 1.5x
He had me at G’day
Mark I must say dude you are awesome ! My dad used to bury kitchen scraps , so did his dad ! Our neighbors thought we were crazy . He’s gone now last year was the first year I planted without him , he passed sadly . Unsure if i could manage I tried ! My harvest was bountiful !! I buried my kitchen scraps as well as whole eggs and fish bones . Most of the meat bones I keep for bone broth or soup . Occasionally feral cats get birds so I bury those too as young children play ball constantly near here . Oddly enough those same neighbors loved my stewed tomatoes and homemade jellies ! Special spaghetti sauce and stuffed cabbages . Thank you for your wonderful tips , shared many of your posts and following !!! Your teaching many 👩🏻🌾 God Bless ! Rose
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Great video thank you! My dad was a great gardener and I remember he used this method very successfully in the 1950's- probably through to the late 1900's. My method varies as I chop most kitchen scraps into small pieces to make them "more worm friendly". I trench some & also add some to our "ground top" compost heap. The latter = grass clippings with some brown matter, a little chopped paper and the kitchen scraps. Adding Dry leaves & small branches when mixture seems too wet I turn the heap at least 3-4 times a week with a small pitch fork and it takes only a matter of weeks to produce worm filled compost to add to the garden beds. I use the 3 compost bin method. ("Heaps" in my case). The Trench method : Being chopped up and layered with small amount of soil, the scraps in the trenches are quickly processed by the worms and the result has been much improved clay base garden beds in a very short time. I took some measures last week to improve a very sorry looking rose and lavender bed - I mixed a small amount of blood & bone with a 1 bag of store bought compost, & 1 of top soil and forked it in. The ground and the plants have mproved already, no doubt helped by a little sunshine! (The land has been excessively wet through Winter until now with only a few fine days here in the north of New Zealand as Spring transitions towards Summer) A lovely "summerish" day today tho! Blessings of good health & happy gardening everyone from JDK's wife - "the garden keeper".
Thank you so much. i"m super lazy gardener , so I was using this method for couple years now.. My hubby hated it. He was thinking that this attracts animals to our garden...... I show him your video and because you are professional I can continue with my project. You make me happy. Because we recycle everything and I can again "recycle my kitchen scrubs "
Of course it will attract animals. Badgers, foxes, cats and rodents will dig up rotting meat in no time. Better to put vegetable waste in a compost bin and put that in the soil with manure. If your soil isn't that good you will need to add topsoil and remove stones as well.
This man should lead the world in eco sustainably
Antonio Maravilla - If the world leaders weren’t spiritually corrupted, yah; a lot of things would be different.
🙏
What he's doing here is perfect... He shares this video :))
Yes!
Asians been doing this forever.
Me: "I'm going to bed early tonight."
3am: What happens when you bury kitchen scraps in the garden?
☝🏽count me in right now!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
216am right now 😭😂
kkk
kkk
1:28am
I started direct composting about a year ago. The soil is amazing now.
I just started direct composting but maybe I am too heavy handed. I have some old garbage bins with the bottom rusted out so I bury them up to the lid and then fill them with kitchen scraps and a the occasional layer of grass clippings. When they are 6-9 inches from full I pull the bin out and overfill with soil. The soil is pretty bad, red clay.
I'm turning 20 this 4th of February and I've learned this way from my father 15 years ago. I thought he's just lazy throwing scraps haha but when I started gardening I understand na! Such a nice video😊😊
Happy Belated Birthday!!
Oh hello birthday twin! 😁
Thanks, Mark. It's good to see that you also just bury your food scraps in the garden. It works well for me too. I've been doing it for a number of years now, but I find I run out of garden beds to bury in. Last year when I buried some dried corn scraps they actually sprouted and I ended up with quite a few corn seedlings which I then carefully removed from the husk and replanted. They did grow corn on them too.,
Only bury my watermelon rinds..worms LOVE water melon rinds...and dogs and cats do not.
I got 18 & 33 gallon totes with lids & large garbage bins a neighbor threw out continued burying kitchen scraps , native soil , weeds, leaves both brown & yellow & green , & junk mail , & newspapers run thru a paper shredder ( layer all like a lasagna) & threw in a few earthworms, sprinkle water once a week , cover & got great soil after a few months - this is after I ran out of garden space to dig holes - bore some holes in these bins & totes to let out excess water & used compost created to dress veggies in the garden & also planted more veggies directly into these bins & totes😊
I know it’s super morbid (seriously 👀) but I’ve always wanted to be buried without a coffin and then have a tree planted over me. It’s the ciiiiircle of liiiiife.
I think there are some places you can get away with that. Eco-burials or something. There are also memorial gardens where your ashes can be scattered among the roses and hydrangeas.
They got those tree pod coffins legal in Europe now I think. Basically do what you're saying. Google it.
It's how it's done in much of Indonesia and I'm sure elsewhere. Somewhere between 50cm to 1 metre down and aerobic decomposition occurs recycling the body. At a depth of 6' there's more anaerobic decomposition that produces toxins.
That is exactly how John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) was buried.
It's a trend and probably not a bad idea. Imagine the billions of people buried who will never decompose just lying there for thousands of years.
I'm amazed at the quality of your soil! We've been living in WA for 26 years, on sand. Raised beds seem the best way to go here.
Checkout lasagna gardening if you haven't already. Might be a new thing to try 👍🏼
Composting in Australia takes a few minutes by the looks of it. Don't bury your feet in the ground.
Hehe
Hihi
This is how my dad was teaching me how to made a compos soil, thanks for sharing sir, greeting from Indonesia!
SetiawanAP same. My dads dead now from drinking
Kristin Rzeszut I don’t care
Ay Live Long N Prosper Mate
I just started doing this. I was hauling my scraps to a bin, then hauling the bin to a compost heap, then mixing the composted heaps into my garden bins and one day I got smart, or lazy, or both and just started tossing my scraps directly into the garden beds. I have worms galore, the chickens still scratch there to aerate it and it became a thriving eco system that sustains plants. Lazy, easy
Marcy's Eco Village Life: I too think burying scraps directly is a good idea. It was mentioned that you have to do this sparingly to not overwhelm the soil biome. I often throw my banana peels under a low growing shrub I have at home.. it breaks down in days.
AstroBetaSirius I never notice it...it breaks down so quickly out in the elements.
I live in Arizona, and my soil is very sandy. I’ve had trouble growing because of the lack of nutrients. I have decided that I was going to have to use a raised bed and after seeing your results and how you are composting into the direct soil I’m realizing that that is going to be the best way to go. I really enjoy your videos and even though I live on a different continent and in a different climate, I’m sure I’m going to have fabulous results.
That cheeky grin after your “somethings fishy” dad joke.. I already love your channel
I'm an avid angler and have been burying fish guts in my gardens for years with great results. Thanks for another great video!
I went fishing yesterday and near the boat ramp there were about 7 large rotting snapper fish frames that some lazy angler had filleted and thrown on the beach - makes me angry that people waste like this and how they couldn't even be bothered throwing them back in the ocean let alone used in the garden, which is what you and I would have done... Thanks! :)
I've composted on top using some things as mulch. Corn husks make great mulch, and so do lettuce leaves. I don't use cabbage though because it can smell.
Years ago when lobster was not the food to eat the farmers threw truckloads of lobsters into the fields and plowed them under.
Here in BC we get fresh halibut, it is in season now. At $ 23.00 a pound we do not bury the fish. The cheapest fish is $ 5.00 a pound, Tilapia from Vietnam. Farmed in the slews😛
@@robertkat We have a Vietnamese family a few houses down from us that use fish scraps for compost and they have an awesome garden.
If you are lucky enough in your lifetime to buy yourself a piece of land, you must realize that, not all lands have a fertile soil.
This way, may take time, but it’s the most natural and organic way to make any soil receptacle to any fruits or veggies plants or trees.
..Great stuff 👍
I came out of the army in 1971, bought some timbered land and built my small farm on it. While clearing a large garden space I noticed that the soil was red clay gumbo and would bake in the summer. After plowing barn manure into it all these years it is now dark loam. In thinking about what you wrote I wondered how deep the loam was so I went out to see how far the loam goes down and it was a measured 14 inches before I got into the red clay.
Some soil is shit and compost won’t do much to help. Not to mention, plants feed at the grass roots level and there is virtually no benefit to working compost into deep soil, as plants don’t need deep roots to find nutrients; in nature composting only happens on the surface and close beneath - which is why a granular fertilizer works by spreading in on the surface. Not to mention anaerobic composting takes quite a bit longer than aerobic composting. If your soil structure is poor, deep compost may help improve it, but it’s not an effective way of adding nutrients to soil.
@@arlarl5122 burying it shallow will that help?
Brendons Forehead i suppose. But might as well compost it on the ground and get a nice fluffy humus. I would expect it to take a full year to compost anaerobic and you likely attract animals who will dig it up anyway.
Nature doesn’t let things go to waste. This is awesome! I’m just starting my urban food garden. Thanks for this!
I keep pouring my trash out on my neighbors farm but they keep getting mad.
Some people are just so unappreciative.
I did something similar, aiding in my neighbor's growth....
I took a huge poop in his birdbath, and man....he grew a huge temper *wtf* is his problem. I'm tired of being used.
There's no helping some people.
Next time dig a hole and then do it, then you'll really help them😉
Good one...lol
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I am a city girl. I don't have a garden: I don't have a backyard: I have never wanted to have a garden: but I love your garden, your idea and your hands digging land. Now I wish I have a garden.
City kids unite
Geee, your comment sounds poetic!!! Now try cutting it in lines to polish, so you have de some verses to sum your first poem. Then, take other topics that can go in through. You'll be getting your first creative writing work, something like "City girl routines & her dream poems".
Don't forget to recognize my encouraging.
Greetings from Honduras.
Currently attempting to nurse a potted plant in my windowsill. Maybe if I care for it well for a year, some good will come of it.
H YoOoN ....grow in pots 👍🏼😉💜
Grow in containers on your porch or balcony!!
"I'm digging with my hands, it would be more effective on camera if I hit something icky." Thank you for your service sir.
i never wear gloves when gardening...
@@augustheat but you not burrying dead animals all over the place lol
Came for the garden, stayed for the amazing accent, subscribed for all the good advice about growing food!
Greetings from the Mississippi gulf coast. When I was a child in the 70's, my old granny use to always bury fish heads in her garden. I always thought that was crazy. I guess old granny was smarter than I gave her credit for. We use to call whatever vegetables we were eating fish head tomatoes or fish head okra. Just found your channel and subbed. I love what you're doing mate. Cheers!
Didn't you know the older you get the smarter your elders get.
i have seen my mom do this throughout my childhood. you won my heart with this video. subscribed right away. i am so much looking forward to having an organic garden of my own. now will watch more of your videos for more inspiration.
Excellent job Mark! Here in the US we have too much food waste, and its sometimes overwhelming to my compost pile without constantly adding wood chips. Ill try adding swaths into the garden beds as well to spread the load!
We have a lot of kitchen scraps and I had to only go to coffee and tea bags because the scraps are just too much for my compost.
As a novice gardener, I want to learn more about these techniques. What do the wood chips do to a compost pile? Thanks
You are soo helpful with your detailed knowledge and tips with gardening but especially because it’s designed for Aussies, our climate and resources. Love your episodes and am learning a great deal, more than from anything else I’ve seen to date!
Much appreciated ❤
love the self-sufficiency message at the beginning
If you have a blender you can run the veggies through it. Take them down to a chunky salsa consistency before putting in garden. They will break down even faster.
Thats what ive been doing using coffee grounds and bannana peels with water in blender for roses
lc M worms love used coffee grounds.
My mother threw some tomatoes pulp, seed and skin in her composter and after a while spread the compost around her shrubs. Now she has tomatoes growing everywhere.
Green tip: blending them takes energy and has a carbon footprint. Let nature do the job :)
Thats what i do
I actually put an apple core directly into the soil. Five years later and I have an apple tree!
I ate some rambutan fruit in my yard but i was lazy to trow it in the trash so i trown them at my yard ,now im selling seedlings to my neighbors😁
apples dont work like that, but id say theyll be good enough to ferment!
Mitchell Kuske brush your teeth
@@luke_5187 take a shower
@@luke_5187 Floss your teeth! (I just wanted to join in)
Giddy Mate from NZ. That is exactly what I have been doing in our small city garden. I had no worms when I arrive at this place. I dig a trench down 40-50cm and put some rougher garden clipping down first if I have it, then a thin layer of soil. I repeat with another thin layer of kitchen scraps or lawn clipping and top that off with some more soil and do it again. I aim for 3 layers of green waste. I make a soil and food waste CLUB SANDWICH with the last layer of scraps being at least 100mm down. If you do this CLUB SANDWICH method (at least 1 mth prior) for tomatoes (and such like) that you plant deep into that sandwich mix, you will need some more friends/family and/or recipes to keep up with all the tomatoes that will be coming your way! Great Videos. I learn so much!
I've tried whole fish. Worked great that year. Like steroids for tomatoes
I wish I could quit my job, buy some land on country side and live like this guy
Dr m you can..it’s all about priorities. I used to have friends and a boss. now I have money and a garden and a happy state of mind.
his wife is still working and paying the bills
i wish i could too.....but i was born with a hereditary disease called poverty.....
You would probably be bored out of your mind during the winter months.
sabin97 you choose to stay in poverty? Or do something about it?
I love this. You don't have to be self-sufficient in everything. Just be self-sufficient in something.
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Here in Sweden every household has a bin for food waste which is collected and transported to a biogas plant where it's converted to biogas fuel and fertilizer.
Years ago ( 8 ) I threw a peach pit into a compost pile and actually got a peach tree that produces great peaches ... how lucky is that ?? Sadly .. I had a huge crop last year and I see no blooms this year. I had over 400 Peaches ... I'm not kidding Some were 2" wide and others were 3-4 inches. I'm applying fruit tree fertilizer so next year hopefully I get a good crop.
Best of all ... It naturally did not grow upright and tall .. It grew out so no part of the tree is higher than 9 feet. People do this to fruit trees to make harvest easier and mine naturally did that. I'm going to graft them and see if the same thing happens. I may have a cool new heirloom peach tree. I'm excited to see what happens.
Mokimanify love that!
Sounds about par for the course
@@HandlingItAll If you grow a tree from a fruit seed you will likley not get a tree that produces good fruit ... if any at all. Futit trees are heterozygous.
You put it in a compost like, the best of whatever places to throw it in to)
How neat is that
yes I cant attest to the fish and tomato thing. I had a disease go through the fish pond . It killed 4 of my larger fish. I buried them in the garden and planted tomato's on top of them. The effect was tremendous. Crazy big plants, lots of fruit.
It's an old habit of planting trees on the buried remains of larger animals like cows or horses. One of my donkeys died a few years ago and after burying her I planted an apple tree on her grave. Initially the tree didn't seem to thrive but after several years it took off and is now far larger than the surrounding trees. Future donkeys will enjoy apples feed by their ancestor.
Spelling made it a bit confusing
I'm sorry but I definitely do not recommend burying "diseased" fish and then eating produce that recieved nutrients from that fish.
@@idonthaveaname6000 if you have any understanding at all about microbiology then you would know there are no consequences of eating from plants grown above diseased animals
Austin Sharpeta uh huh because now the tomatoes have AIDS so you definitely don't wanna eat that
"And you might need a fair sized garden"
**shows a whole acre of land**
Lowkey Flexing skill: MAXED OUT
That's what I thought... He was talking about backyard garden which my father is very fond of but it's not even quarter of an acre...
DareDog101 lmao
Alastar Astra Na mate you look like you take it in the rear!
@@BeaTMaN696 Stop projecting
Interesting how you have covered this concept. This is exactly what I’ve been doing rather than a compost area as I was impatient and through previous experience I have found that it takes a long time for scraps to break down. I have bought four raised beds and have positioned one in the front of my garden as I have limited space. I layered it with newspaper, cardboard, soil, scraps, and repeated the process. I was too impatient to wait for anything to happen before I have planted some flouring plants that are looking very happy. Thanks for this video as I now know I’m on the right track and will continue with setting up the next bed.
Love these videos. My family transformed our backyard from wild overgrowth last year - now we're turning all the beds into gardens. These are giving us so many great ideas - so thank you for your work and sharing your expertise!
Why is this SO entertaining? Seeing him dig up the pigeon was full on brilliant
Where? I think I skipped past that bit. Saw him look for one and fail to find it ...
Ouroboros i originally wrote this as “attempt to dig up a pigeon” but i didnt want to ruin that he didn’t find it 😂
@@partlyironic Hahaa! You got me! Ah crap, I ruined the joke lol
Slightly worrying how I really wanted to see a pigeon skeleton Hahaha
@@ApexHerbivore yes...same worry here xD
I wish you were my neighbor. You have such a great personality and make me smile. I love your videos and have learned a lot. I'm on my way to watching all your videos. Thanks👍😁
Mark YOUR channel is one of the BEST GARDENING CHANNELS on the internet! Brilliant gardening information!!!!!
I live in an urban area and when I put the scraps into my garden, I noticed a rat and other critters visiting more often and tearing up my garden. So now I blend my scraps into a chunky smoothie. It works! The worms are still happy.
I love your enthusiasm. I learned a lot from just this one video. My son and I have started a very large garden this year and we have had wonderful results. We're looking for videos just like this one, so that we can learn more. Thank you so much! Subscribed!!! : )
I’ll add a small colony of worms from my bins too if that garden is particularly new. Great video, there is something so addictive about watching healthy soil being dug up and combed.
I started doing this a few years ago and my garden soul has improved so much. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I did the reverse and put garden scraps in my kitchen.
It didn't do shit and now my house it dirty. Little annoyed to say the least.
Ikr? I wanted my dinner table to grow in size and nothing happened. *DISAPPOINTED*
Eric the alcoholic 😂😂😂😂
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lazy bastard. same shit.
Just a wee bit dyslexic on the whole process but what the heck
4:58 he was so proud with himself after saying that joke 😂
That subtle grin at the end haha
Dad joke level 3000
lil peep yea yea
Like the video just for that joke 😂
I'm dead
Yes, I do this very thing in the fall when my garden is all finished. As I pull out the plants we put the kitchen scraps in the dirt. I've definitely seen a difference in my garden.
I’ve used this method for a long time now to build vege beds. I get heaps of food scraps from the local fruit and veg shop. Anything that the chooks won’t eat I lay down in rows with a sprinkle of cow manure and cover with a good layer of mulch. I keep layering until I get the right height and mix in a bit of soil. It usually takes a few months for the beds to be ready, but it’s far easier than making compost and turning it. It also means I don’t have to cart barrow loads of compost everywhere. It does take time to breakdown but at least I’m not busting my gut anymore.👍