Can i bury kitchen waste directly into my garden soil , without using waste decomposing bin?

Question

and the resulting decomposed elements will not be toxic to my plants?due to the anaerobic decompositing?

Answer 1

I wouldn't.  I think it leaches the nutrients from the soil to help with decomposing.  You could bury it in a part of the garden not being used, maybe.

Answer 2

The decomposition of plant materials, such as kitchen waste, and other material normally composted, can produce high heat: As high as 150F. That heat would kill your plants. It is better to compost the kitchen scraps first before putting them into your garden. That way the bacteria that do the composting have their chance to work. These bacteria also kill off any diseases or weeds that may sprout from material that has not gone through the composting cycle.

Answer 3

I would think that would create fungus and bacteria.

Answer 4

By kitchen waste I will assume you mean fruit and vegetable peeling, cores, rinds, seeds, onion skins, etc, but do not mean meat, poultry or fish – grease, butter or fat from cooking.

Yes, you can bury them directly in your garden. What you should do is come up with either an imaginary (or written down on paper) grid. Sectioning the garden into small squares and number them, say 1 – 50, depending on the size of your garden. Start your first burial, so to speak, in section one, then two, then three and so on – so that by the time you get to section one again the “kitchen waste” you have buried will be unrecognizable. Make sure you bury the items in SMALL AMOUNTS – like the size of a one pound deli container and below 8 inches, in each section and all should be fine. The micro and macro-organisms will have a field day and in time, you will have some really good friable fertile soil.

You can speed up decomposition in two ways. One is by freezing the foodstuff before burial – freezing will burst the cell walls of the plant matter, making it easier for the fauna to consume. The second way to help thing along a bit would be to microwave the items before burying them – also helping to break down the cell structure. But neither of those two methods is necessary for you to end up with the result you are looking for.

Although I would not suggest it – you can bury animal products – but they must be buried down far enough that any animals in the area will not be able to smell them and dig them up. Bones could be a problem – they take forever to decompose but if you were to dig them up, say, a month or two later, they will have been picked clean by the itsy bitsy critters that not only live in your soil but will become more abundant.

I don’t think there would be any problems or toxic effects from any anaerobic bacteria (if you would have any) – it’s not like your making a landfill where the waste would be hundreds of feet deep and methane gas could build up to the point of explosion. I also don’t think the food waste will sit around long enough or be buried deep enough to let anaerobic bacteria take hold – but that’s just my opinion.

Answer 5

There are some things that can go directly into your garden.

Such as coffee grounds and crushed egg shells.  Be sure to turn the soil over.

Never potato peelings.  You will end up with 50,000 potato plants. (Don't ask how I know that.)