The summer calls for more frequent emptying of the food scrap collector- I went over a week and now I've got fruit flies. No food scrap collector is immune from bugs, but the Sure-Close buys you some time- if you empty it once a week you should be all set.
I finally got around to doing some guerilla gardening in the neighborhood to empty out my finished compost- I had nearly a cubic yard of the stuff left over! The Geobin compost bin is not the prettiest looking thing you can buy, but it gets the job done every time with ease- I've had mine going for over 8 years now :) To start this pile, all I did was add two full garbage bags of leaves, followed by a week's worth of food scraps and some extra stuff that went bad in the fridge. I soaked down the pile, then added another couple inches' worth of leaves on top and got that wet, too. A week later, and this thing is cooking at a temperature of 142 degrees! It's…
If you have the room for these, this is by far the best way to compost- throw stuff in the pile, cover it and walk away. It's cheaper than a compost tumbler, and there's no need to worry about oversaturating the contents or having odor issues. With a pile of this size, it's easy to hit the high temperatures needed to create fertile, finished compost. Even cheaper, chicken wire shaped into a circle will get the job done, too. I basically wrote a book based my experience using this compost bin- I boiled it all down to the bare essentials to keep composting simple and efficient. Grab it over here for a nice discount :)