How to Enrich Your Vegetable Garden With Food Compost

If you are like me and love to have a vegetable garden every spring through fall then let me share my tips on what I do to help create rich soil for my plants to grow. The best part is, it is minimal work, with huge payoffs in the form of tasty veggies.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Shovel
• Large plastic tupperware bowl with air tight lid

1. The best nutrients for your soil come in the form of your food scraps. What happens is when you bury food scraps in your garden, the worms will find it, eat it and in turn creates a dark rich soil nutrient rebuilding process...in other words, worm droppings.
   
   The first step is to save your food scraps into a large tupperware bowl with an airtight lid. You can save anything and everything, however do not save bones from chicken or steak etc. They will not breakdown. Do not save any leftover chemicals such as sweet n low, or that type of stuff. Although it will break down, I have not read any research on it to confirm that it helps.
2. Once your tupperware bowl gets filled, go dig about a foot and half to a two foot hole in your garden.
3. Dump the contents of the tupperware bowl into the hole.
4. Cover the contents in the hole by filling it in with the dirt.
5. Mark the spot with a stick or whatever you choose so that you do not dig up that area the next time.
6. Rinse out your tupperware bowl to get it ready to be refilled.
7. Repeat these steps throughout the year giving each hole of compost about 90 days each for complete breakdown. In other words do not dig in the same hole sooner than 90 days to give the worms time to do their "thing".
8. Before your gorwing season turn over your soil in the areas to mix in your new nutrient rich soil with the top layer.

Tips & Warnings

• Split your garden in half and alternate each year as to which half gets the compost.
• Do not add chemicals whatsoever to your compost holes.