Although the government does not like you to do that, they consider it a landfill and want you to get permits and stuff, many gardeners do bury kitchen scraps. You need to bury them more than an inch or two, 6-8 inches is better and make sure no bones, meat, fat, or poop from animals that eat meat. There are various reasons, and exceptions to these rules I will not go into.

Three methods are followed:
- post hole - dig a hole with a posthole digger, dump in the scraps, cover up.
- meandering trench - start a trench, as you put scraps in the trench, cover them with dirt dug from continuing the trench.
- pit and trench - divide your garden, row by row, into three rows. Trench and bury in one row, plant in the second, walk in the third and repeat thru your garden. Next year plants go where the trench is this year, trench goes where you walked last year and walkway goes where you planted last year.

You may want to get a composter made for what you wish to do instead. Add some leaves, sawdust, or shredded paper everytime you add kitchen scraps. If it smells you are not adding enough of the browns. Once full, let it set for another six months to a year while you start a new one. Worms will find them and take care of the real work.

Hardin,

Yes, you can dig everything directly into your garden beds. You can chop it into small pieces or leave it in chunks. You have earthworms already; you will attract many more if you keep your soil full of compost. I wouldn't bother buying any. All you need to do is keep the soil moist (just like any garden) and you will have great sucess.

Good luck,
Marshall

Very good, thank you. I have finished my front bed and I had already dug in some shredded leaves and some compost. I just finished laying out a 2" layer of mulch. I have a little bulb digger and I'll use that to spread dinner for the diners. I will keep my fingers crossed. My hubby is sweet and thinks I 'm crazy but I get a bigger kick out of this than a dozen roses. He even brought me home about 50 worms from his mom's yard. SO COOL. :)

I put about half of my scraps in with the worms, and the other half I bury in the garden. I have two spots where the scraps decompose pretty quickly, and I alternate back and forth between them. The only time I have trouble is if meat or bones goes in--then critters dig it up at night.

After feeding the worms for a while, I was digging some holes for flowers, and stumbled into a worm SO BIG, I left the premises immediately thinking it was a baby snake. After eyeballing it from the porch, I crept closer and it was an earthworm. LOL. I felt pretty silly, but happy after the fear receded. :)

LOL I found a "baby snake" recently in my garden bed too. And it was startling! I didn't know they grew THAT large! LOL