Gardena turns your food scraps into ready-to-use homemade fertilizer, by reducing a week-long process to anywhere from 16 to 24 hours. Designed to hold up to eight pounds of food, you can toss in variety of different types of wastes like – apple cores, onion skins, moldy bread and whatever is left on your plate after a meal. This system utilizes oxygen, moisture, heat and a plant-based additive and a agitator to expedite decomposition process, to produce homemade organic manure that can be used in lawns, garden or in potted plants.