{"id":3099,"date":"2013-08-29T22:01:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T05:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2013-08-29T22:01:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T05:01:59","slug":"bokashi-soil-maker-harvest-a-big-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=3099","title":{"rendered":"Bokashi Soil Maker Harvest &#8211; A Big Surprise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bokashi compost consists of two steps: 1. Pickling the kitchen wastes with Bokashi bran, 2. Mix or bury them into native soil to complete the composting process. For the second step, instead of digging a hole and burying them into the hole, I used a hollowed up bucket to build up the compost so I can use them directly to fertilize plants. This was called the &#8220;Soil Maker&#8221; technique by some experts. Well, I got a big surprise when I open up the Soil Maker bucket at the end of the 2nd stage. Check out the video: Be forewarned that you probably don&#8217;t want to watch this while eating.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Bsh0kfvdqw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was all crawling with some kind of worms, maggots, or larvaes. They are called Black Soldier Fly larvaes, I later found out that they&#8217;re beneficial bugs, believe it or not. People actually harvest them to feed the chickens, ducks and birds. Very interesting and gross. I never intended to grow them but they showed up and ate up half of the pickled Bokashi kitchen waste.<\/p>\n<p>I learned that things don&#8217;t always turn out to be what you expected. If that happened, you may learn something from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bokashi compost consists of two steps: 1. Pickling the kitchen wastes with Bokashi bran, 2. Mix or bury them into native soil to complete the composting process. For the second step, instead of digging a hole and burying them into the hole, I used a hollowed up bucket to build up the compost so I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=3099\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bokashi Soil Maker Harvest &#8211; A Big Surprise!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3104,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}