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I knew a woman many, many years ago who used to take the coffee grinds, veggie and fruit peelings, eggshells, etc., and put them directly into the soil in her garden beds. She would turn over a shovel full of soil and just toss in the bits and cover them with the upturned soil. Do you or anyone else you know do this? Is it advisable? I do not want to draw roaches and rats to my garden beds.
Last edited by PhinneyWalker; 09-26-2022 at 01:58 PM..
I know a woman many, many years ago who used to take the coffee grinds, veggie and fruit peelings, eggshells, etc., and put them directly into the soil in her garden beds. She would turn over a shovel full of soil and just toss in the bits and cover them with the upturned soil. Do you or anyone else you know do this? Is it advisable? I do not want to draw roaches and rats to my garden beds.
I imagine you could attract rats and other critter putting that stuff directly into the soil. Better idea is to compost it, then mix your compost into the garden soils.
I put table scraps in my worm bed. Yard cats will make sort work of any rats that show up. You can't put a better redworm on your hook than one that's been eating coffee grounds.
A lot of people do this. I suppose it does work in the long run. I have lots of room, so have a compost pile at the back of the yard where I mix that stuff with leaves grass clippings, manure etc. The skunks and raccoons do dig around in it a bit. They gotta eat too....lol
I knew a woman many, many years ago who used to take the coffee grinds, veggie and fruit peelings, eggshells, etc., and put them directly into the soil in her garden beds. She would turn over a shovel full of soil and just toss in the bits and cover them with the upturned soil. Do you or anyone else you know do this? Is it advisable? I do not want to draw roaches and rats to my garden beds.
That method isn't very effective but I wouldn't do it anyway just because of all the wildlife we have where I live. Kitchen waste will attract skunks, squirrels, possums, rats and other rodents as well as dogs, coyotes, a variety of bigger birds and insects that will dig up and scatter the kitchen waste disposed of in the garden beds ...... and then they will also turn their attentions to the PLANTS you have growing there. It's just not worth the decimation that wildlife of all sorts can cause to garden beds when they discover you've turned the beds into a garbage dump for household kitchen waste. It's better to start a proper compost pile and dispose of your kitchen waste into that for it to compost efficiently. The plants will benefit more from the composted material you add to the gardens and you won't get all those critters digging it up.
That method isn't very effective but I wouldn't do it anyway just because of all the wildlife we have where I live. Kitchen waste will attract skunks, squirrels, possums, rats and other rodents as well as dogs, coyotes, a variety of bigger birds and insects that will dig up and scatter the kitchen waste disposed of in the garden beds ...... and then they will also turn their attentions to the PLANTS you have growing there. It's just not worth the decimation that wildlife of all sorts can cause to garden beds when they discover you've turned the beds into a garbage dump for household kitchen waste. It's better to start a proper compost pile and dispose of your kitchen waste into that for it to compost efficiently. The plants will benefit more from the composted material you add to the gardens and you won't get all those critters digging it up.
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And consider the neighbors. You may not mind visiting critters OP but your neighbors may NOT!
^^^ I would be happy to have a compost pile if it could be about half a mile from my house. I do not want one in my backyard, though.
Your neighbors may not want a pile in your backyard either. Especially a poorly managed one.
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