You should compost them before dumping them in the soil. If theThe food waste is not already degraded, and bacteria/bugs in the soil will try to degrade themdegraded some while releasing a bad smell. To degrade the scraps, bacteria/microbes initially suck up nutrients from the soil, thereby depleting it in the short term. Also, it doesn't look good and requiresrequire a long time to degrade too. I should warn you, there will be plenty of bugs if you just dump the food to the soil.
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