How to Choose a Composting Method
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | How do you choose a composting system that makes sense for who you are as a grower as a |
| 0:19.3 | gardener, but also who you are as a homeowner or renter or apartment weller? |
| 0:24.3 | There really are so many different ways to compost off the top of my head I can think |
| 0:28.5 | of about fiveish ways, sort of general categories, and it is overwhelming to figure out which |
| 0:34.9 | one of those makes sense for you. |
| 0:36.9 | So I'll go over a rough framework and I'll kind of map it to how I grew up as a gardener |
| 0:41.7 | because of course I started off as an apartment gardener and back then there were only a couple |
| 0:46.9 | options that were open to me. |
| 0:48.1 | So let's go from small space to large space, right? |
| 0:53.0 | So in an apartment or balcony style setup, in my view you have about three methods available |
| 0:57.6 | to you. |
| 0:58.6 | The first one is to use Bokashi Composting. |
| 1:01.5 | So that would be using Bokashi brand to basically pre ferment food scraps and what this |
| 1:08.5 | allows you to do is actually compost almost anything that would come out of your kitchen |
| 1:13.0 | including meat and dairy and leftovers. |
| 1:15.5 | The only problem with this method in a balcony is you need somewhere to put that Bokashi |
| 1:21.4 | compost. |
| 1:22.4 | So you of course could bury it in your containers, but eventually based on the food |
| 1:26.1 | output coming out of your house, you will produce too much even for you to support on your |
| 1:32.1 | balcony. |
| 1:33.1 | So you'd need a secondary source to put that, maybe a community garden plot or a friend |
| 1:37.8 | or something like that. |
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