Yay, I just got another idea for composting better and faster.
I haven't build it yet because of lack of time, but I seriously consider building it this year.
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Get a big 20 liters (or moaar) PET bottle preferably with a narrow neck (optional).
Fill it with food scraps, mostly greens; it's best to add paper as the "brown stuff", since wood chips might have chemicals that irritate maggots.
Leave the lid open for flies to enter it and lay eggs.
Once the maggots appear, seal the lid by a mesh cloth (or anything else which lets ventilation to occur without letting flies to enter/exit)
Therefore the PET bottle will become a maggot prison, they will grow and mature into flies, and again lay their eggs at their own birthplace.
Then due to overcrowding, the excess flies will die and fall into the scraps and become dinner for other maggots.
The process repeats for some generations until no more maggot-usable nutrients are inside the prison.
If given a shady warm and moist place (but not wet), maggots become blitzkrieg composters.
The problem is that they will eat your scraps, and only give back a tiny fraction as compost, and store the rest of nutrients in their bodies and fly away.
But using this idea, no solid nutrient is going anywhere.
All of it will become compost, much much faster than conventional composting.
I'm gonna post pics and videos of it once I build one.
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Topic: Radium's Maggot Prison (Read 10237 times)