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Old 11-01-2012, 08:41 AM posted to aus.gardens
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Default Composting



Hahahahaha The idea of composting you cross posting troll is to not buy
ingredients but use what you can scrounge. OTOH, there is a sucker born
every minute.



Oh you should know that bokashi composting involves no heat, does not need
to be turned and is not concerned with carbon/nitrogen ratios. It is
actually fermenting foodscraps which can include paper, fruit, vegetables
and meat scraps. You do need to buy some things to grow the microbes that
will ferment things.

Now I have done hot composts and cold composts. Hot composts require turning
the pile which myself I prefer not to do and getting the C/N ratio right is
a science. I would need to buy straw or pea hay to use as my carbon and it
is not cheap these days here. The cold compost takes a long time to fill the
bin and you end up with manky stuff as it rots down and undesirables like
cockroaches like to set up shop. I haven't tried worm farms.

The bokashi method you ferment and bury your scraps and 6 weeks later you
have a rich organic black soil full of worms and not red wrigglers either.
You can also add it to a worm farm. I can't confirm it works myself I am in
the process of making what I need to find out.

My newspaper (microbe infused) will be ready for drying in just over a week
and the sawdust equivalent will be ready a week after. Then the fun begins.