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Message: [QUOTE="Microbe, post: 273445, member: 23314"] I trench composted food scraps for my tomatoes this year. I dug a trench 12-16 inches deep and approximately 40 feet long by 8 inches wide. I save food scraps from the kitchen and placed them in the bottom of the trench and filled it back up with the soil I removed. I’d never done it before but I wanted to give it a shot. It sat from November of last year until this spring. I noticed when I transplanted my tomatoes, I had a very good worm population that I hadn’t had before so I felt pretty good about that. Scraps were mostly vegetable scraps, eggshells, coffee filters & used coffee grounds, etc. No bones or meats. & fats of any kind. The results weren’t as good as I was expecting but the wife got sick early summer and the garden just didn’t get the attention I would’ve normally given it. So my lack of attention is what I attribute to the lackluster harvest. The tomatoes were planted directly atop of where I had buried the food scraps In the fall. Whether this was right or wrong, I have no idea but I did give it a shot. Weeds ended up becoming an issue but again, I attribute that to my lack of knowledge and attention to detail and time. I‘ll plant this section again in the spring and see how it all ends up doing. That’s what’s fun about gardening, seeing results of our efforts and learning from those results. [/QUOTE]