7 Easy Ways to Compost Kitchen Scraps in Your Garden! 🌱

I adopted a method my Mom had been doing for years. I bury the kitchen scraps into containers throughout the year, since I garden in containers. No fuss, no muss - and the soil is enriched by the next planting season. And if I’m lucky, I’ll get volunteer veggies in the spring/summer.

My friend always took her scraps from her kitchen and swirled them with water in the blender. If you saw the results of what she poured it on then you would also be convinced it is an awesome idea. It's going to instantly make it all readily useable.

I live in a small one bedroom apartment in NYC and don't have a garden. I have tons of houseplants and have managed to grow some herbs in my window sills and from pots I have hanging off the bars of my window. Composting for myself is not all that viable. However, NYC has recently implemented a composting program. Apartment buildings now have to have a food scrap bin that gets picked up once a week. There are also food scrap bins on various corners that can be opened with an app and are picked up often. There had been composting at community gardens too, but our piece of crap Mayor shut that down. I love that I can collect my scraps in my little bin and then take it out the the building's bin. While I'm sure there are issues, I'm happy that my scraps are not going into landfills.

I actually dedicated an old blender to chewing up food scraps before composting or giving to the worms. But then, I'm retired and have the time to do silly stuff like this...

I've been watching you since I took up gardening during covid. I finally bought my first house last month and I'm soo excited to get my own garden in the ground somewhere permanently. Just entered the giveaway, fingers crossed, and thank you! 🤞

Here's the giveaway link! https://www.hoselink.com/pages/win

From bok choy and onions to carrot tops etc, if there's about an inch around the root area that I'm not gonna eat, I plop them in the garden to see if they'll grow. With this method, I've never bought green onion seeds or any other type of onion for gardening, as I have so many that I've gotten to grow from left over scraps. (And also used the onions to block holes that rats have dug in some of our garden beds.) If the plant isn't able to continue to grow in the garden, it just becomes quick compost in that small area I planted it. A win either way! I also do a similar method that Jacques shared with the holes in the ground bin, but instead keep it above ground and only have holes in the bottom of the bucket and around the bottom edge. This way there's more space in our relatively small gardening space for the plant roots, and the container can be moved around every so often when a different area could use a fertilizer refresh.

I tried the worm tower idea last year. But here in south TX all that turned out to be was a huge neon sign for fire ants to move in.

I would have watched the video without the teaser for a giveaway, but not being able to find it was a disappointment.

I did this 2 years ago during the winter. My tomatoes were the best and biggest crop I have ever had. My tomatoes grew up 8 feet tall. 😋 😊 amazing results. 😊