All Seasons Indoor Composter Starter Kit – 5 Gallon Tan Compost Bin For Kitchen Countertop With Lid, Spigot & 1 Gallon (2 lbs.) Bag Of Dry Bokashi Bran – by SCD Probiotics

I've used bokashi quite a lot over the years and after moving across the country our last composting set was left behind. I bought this starter kit because it seemed to be the best value for money. Bokashi is a pre-treatment for your food scraps and we use this mostly for pre-treating meat, fish, or dairy. I add my food scraps, press the air out using an old potato masher, then sprinkle about 1-1.5 cups of the bokashi bran. The anaerobic bacteria kind of pickle the food scraps making them less attractive to pests but it also makes them really fast at breaking down. What I Love: - The buckets are much bigger than the kit I had before. I have the buckets inside next to the kitchen to top bucket is being filled whilst the bottom bucket is fermenting/pickling for 4 weeks. The bigger size means that much more food scraps can go into the container and I'm not filling up so fast whilst the other bucket it full. - The lids are easy to open and are flexible. Bokashi needs a low air/low oxygen environment for the anaerobic bacteria to work best so a well fitting lid is a must but the lid needs to be used friendly to be able to take off to add food scraps. - Easy to clean. The parts are easy to take apart to wash with hot soapy water. - The buckets have handles that are comfortable to hold when they are full. - The containers have a false bottom that allows water and liquids to fall through and not the food scraps so the spigot doesn't get clogged up. - The bokashi juice or leachate is easy to harvest using the spigot. - There's no smell. I have 5 dogs and my Irish wolfhound cross is very smell orientated and would get into the compost container at every opportunity. Not with these! They are on the floor in a high traffic area and he's not interested! - You get 2.2 gallons of the bokashi bran in this kit which is so much more than I expected to get. How I Use Bokashi I add the leachate from the composter by diluting about 1/2 cup to 3 gallons of water and use in my vegetable garden. I add 1/4 cup of leachate to a 1 gallon mixture of water, Neem oil, fish emulsion, kelp, and a touch of Castile soap to make a spray for my fruit trees and other plants in the vegetable garden. Dilute 1 cup leachate to 3 gallons of water and use to water a dry compost pile after turning. Works as a great compost activator. I leave the full bucket to ferment for 2-4 weeks then I empty it. This part can be smelly and messy. I mostly use the treated food scraps by turning my compost so that I have the top half now on the bottom against the ground. Then I empty the bokashi into the middle of that pile. Next I add the bottom of the compost over the bokashi food scraps so the bottom of the compost is now the top. I water everything with the diluted bokashi leachate and leave it for about 2 weeks. The compost will heat up fast so I turn everything again and I usually have a good amount of compost I can take and use around the garden. This also is good to add to a trench compost where you bury the treated bokashi food scraps and it will break down in about 2-4 weeks. It is a little acidic so works great near those acid loving plants. Since we have wood burning fireplaces to heat, the bokashi helps to rebalance our compost with the higher pH from wood ash/lime. I would recommend this to a friend and I would even get another set so that I can compost more in winter when everything is frozen solid outside. Improvements If I could ask the manufacturer to make an improvement it would be that the bokashi bran is OMRI listed or able to be used in organic farming. Bokashi is a great way to use more food scraps in the garden and on the farm so having options that work for organic practices would be great.

I love this composter. It is large enough for plenty of kitchen waste, and when closed, there is no odor. I have two of them - when one is full, I let the waste "cook" while I fill the other one. I had one outside and a racoon tried to get into it, but was unable to open the lid. I have never had a problem with fruit flies or other pests. When my other ones burned up in a fire, I bought new ones. They are very sturdy and as I say. the lid fits so tightly that there is no odor, nor any pests.

I've had my composter for about 2 months now, so I feel pretty confident in giving a review. Here are my thoughts on it: - First off it's not really an indoor only composter. It's more of a holding/fermenting vessel. You still need space outside to deal with the final breakdown of the compost. What I do with great success is when I'm ready to empty the container I have a large pot that I fill 1/3 with potting soil, then the compost, then cover with soil. You have to then let this sit outside for another 2 weeks-month before you have soil you can actually use for your plants. Make sure to keep it somewhere where the varmints can't get in and dig through it. I still will find eggshells and onion skins after that time period, but that's it. I use that directly with my plants and they seem pretty content. - For one person it's a good size, but I could see if you had a family you'd be filling it up very quickly. I live alone and eat a lot of vegetables and fill it up every 2-3 weeks. - As other reviews have mentioned you go though a TON of the bran mix. I go through a bag of that in about a month. So expect ongoing expenses with it. I did a breakdown on expenses and it's still cheaper than buying organic potting soil. I have almost no garbage waste anymore which was more of my goal with it. - The instructions recommend pushing a trash bag down on top of the compost to keep it air tight. I've had some issues with mold due to it not being airtight with just the bag. What I ended up doing was cutting out a piece of plywood and wrapping that in plastic to use as an internal airtight lid. Since doing that I've had much better results. This is the only reason I've given it 4 stars rather than 5. - I haven't gotten any tea out of it, but I think that is more to do with the composition of my trash than anything else. - I haven't noticed any foul odors or flies. That's it! After making the one modification of building an internal seal I'm completely happy with it!

I'm very happy with this composter. I live in an apartment and wanted to compost my food waste without smells or mess. This is the perfect solution! The additive goes a long way and really does control the smell, even when the lid is off to add waste. The bin also fits nicely under my sink so it is out of the way and discreet. As for the leaky nozzle, it only leaked a little for the first week but hasn't leaked since (maybe once the decomposition starts to happen, it sponges up more of the liquids?). Anyway, no issues. I keep a compost jar on my counter for veggie waste and once or twice a week when its full I empty it into my bokashi bin. I've been using it for about a month and the bin is just starting to be full enough to leave for the two-three weeks it needs to fully ferment before I use it. I'm excited to add this to my houseplants -- it has to be buried, so i will be doing some up-potting of my houseplants and adding this to the bottom of the new pots so that the anaerobic bacteria survive. Apartment permaculture for the win! 10/10 recommend NOTE: if this it too pricey, you could do a bokashi bin in a 5 gallon bucket using the Bokashi mix, which you can purchase separately for much less. A little goes a long way!

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They said it does'nt smeel while you compost your waste and it's right But when you empty that thing... you'll probably got sick of the stench. Really !! I build my compost bin outside and use this contener as a garbage bin sheshhh...

Works well.