wren_brown•16d agoProlific Poster

I was convinced bokashi was a gimmick until my friend in Seattle showed me her setup

She just uses two 5-gallon buckets from the hardware store, one nested inside the other with a tap on the bottom one. Every time she adds kitchen scraps, she sprinkles in the bran, presses it down, and seals the lid. After two weeks of fermenting, she buries the pre-compost in a community garden plot. No smell in her 600 sq ft apartment, not even with fish scraps. I tried it and it just works. What other methods have people used that they thought would fail but actually surprised them?

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phoenix_schmidt16d ago

Tried making leaf mold in a simple wire cage last fall. Figured it would just rot into a slimy mess, but I left it alone for almost a year. Opened it up this summer to find perfect, crumbly black gold. It felt like magic for doing almost nothing.

barbara96716d ago

That wire cage method really is the best.