That week my bokashi bin got fruit flies and I almost quit composting

I had been doing bokashi for about 4 months in my 1 bedroom in Houston. Worked great until I got lazy and left the lid cracked for 2 days. Suddenly my whole kitchen was crawling with fruit flies. I wanted to throw the whole bin in the dumpster. But a neighbor in my building saw me complaining about it and showed me her setup with a layer of diatomaceous earth on top and a tight seal. Made me realize it's not the system that's bad, it's my habits. You guys ever almost give up on a method then figure out it was user error?

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davis.emma21d ago

Tight seal is everything, learned that lesson the hard way myself.

sean11921d ago

Is there anything more frustrating than fixing one problem only to create another one because you missed the basics? You're right @davis.emma, the tight seal thing applies to way more than just whatever you're working on. It shows up in cooking, in DIY projects, even in how you pack your car for a trip. If you don't get the simple stuff right at the start, everything after that just gets harder. People always want to jump to the fancy solutions, but the simple stuff is what actually holds it all together.