I've abandoned my bsf liquid fertilizer experiment. My can has started producing less and less liquid. It seems that some of the basil that was watered with the bsf liquid did a little better then the basil that was watered with just water. In the squash I could tell little difference if any. I believe I've got to much spent organic material that the maggots won't break down (leaves). I've started to see a surge in a different maggot variety in the bin, even though there are bsf maggots through and through. These new maggots are skinnier, don't get nearly as big and can curl them selves up and spring a good distance.
Here's a picture of my homemade bsf bin (you can see a pan under it for liquid collection. The bin is up on bricks)
I think my bin is way to tall/deep. Also, I think I'm not feeding it enough material. I think those two reasons are why I've got other flies in there. Still, the population of those flies is very small compared to my bsf population.
To the left of the bin you can see my worm bin. There's suprisingly few number of maggots in the worm bin. I was really worried they'd infest it and eat up the compost for the worms before the worms could get to it. But, I just make sure to keep the stuff in the worm bin well covered with other worm compost and it's worked out well so far.
