lets talk about the "Circle of Life "...............

[trioderob]

[trioderob]

I will kick it off.....here is a cool way to get compost for the palms :

(what is special here is that you can use raw/cooked meats, shellfish, poultry.......)

Bokashi

Bokashi

is a method that uses a mix of microorganisms to cover food waste to decrease smell. It derives from the practice of Japanese farmers centuries ago of covering food waste with rich, local soil that contained the microorganisms that would ferment the waste. After a few weeks, they would bury the waste that weeks later, would become soil.^[14]

Most practitioners obtain the microorganisms from the product Effective Microorganisms (EM1),^[14] first sold in the 1980s. EM1 is mixed with a carbon base (e.g. sawdust or bran) that it sticks to and a sugar for food (e.g. molasses). The mixture is layered with waste in a sealed container and after a few weeks, removed and buried.^[14] EM primarily composted of lactica acid bacteria, yeast and phototrophic (PNSB) bacteria.

Newspaper fermented in a lactobacillus culture can be substituted for bokashi bran for a successful bokashi bucket. ^[15]

Edited December 9, 2013 by trioderob

[MattyB]

I like to "talk" the internet all day too

http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/soil/msg121455293194.html

http://www.wikihow.com/Compost-Fish-Remains

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/compost-meat-waste-78294.html

http://www.thekitchn.com/bokashi-composting-for-the-home-175427

http://ecohearth.com/eco-zine/food-and-garden/1230-breaking-down-the-bones-how-to-compost-meat-and-other-animal-products.html

Good discussion. Let's have it again soon.

[trioderob]

here is a real odd one that works

not something I would want to do myself but apparently some people use "grubs"
to make a super fast compost in just a few days !

[trioderob]

[DoomsDave]

That's more or less been my approach, greens and browns.

You can add other things to the cocktail, including kitty poop. Full of bacteria to start the process of rot. Or dog, or rabbit or even people . . . . (poop).

The organisms are all around us, and it's a good thing. Without them, we'd be up to our eyeteeth in the remains of the dead.

[DoomsDave]

May beetle larvae (much smaller) do that, much faster than earthworms.

[paulgila]

are we still talking about it or is it done?

[KennyRE317]

i never thought about using grubs .... when i was digging out my raised planters and removing the good soil mix i had put in there were hundreds of grubs everywhere.

[Jeff Searle]

A good reminder, I must go out in the yard and check to see if any apples on the tree are ripening up yet.

[Moose]

Cycle of Life = Buy, buy, buy + Sell, sell, sell, repeat

[trioderob]

these african grubs are the best - but hard to source:

[Alicehunter2000]

Don't think I will ever say....."let's get some grub"....again.

Hey...I got kids...somebody had to do it

[trioderob]

naw they are not bad with some pepper and red wine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj9CysSSsps

[palmislandRandy]

naw they are not bad with some pepper and red wine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj9CysSSsps