Our #Bokashi composting is a huge success. We utilise two bokashi fermentation bins which we keep in the covered area outside the kitchen back door. Our internal food waste caddy gets filled daily and emptied into the fermentation bins each evening. They then fill up over the course of two weeks when one (from previous fortnight) gets emptied into our three composting "daleks" and we swap the two bokashi bins over. The Three bins in the garden move down the line. A Empty into B, B empties into C and C is final usable compost.

I just opened up bin A and it was moving. Thousands of red garden worms, working hard breaking down the food and garden waste .

Bin B is almost usable too. But bin C. Full of dark, crumbly rich compost.

Been a real success. Going to stick with it. I think this year I want to investigate biochar. Activating it in a bokashi tea bath, then mixing that in to provide nutrient capture, water retention and carbon capture and availability for our veg growing at the allotment.

#WordOfTheDay : Bokashi

#Bokashi is the Japanese name for a fermentation process that converts food waste into healthy soil for the garden and liquid that can be used (in diluted form) as a power food for plants.

If you’re the kind of person who likes to make their own #compost, and you happen to have children (the kind of #human that leaves a lot of food waste), bokashi may be recommended for you!

#mrsCleyton would have had no idea how to use bokashi.

Entdecke die Welt des Mini-Bokashi! Keine Biotonne mehr nötig: Fermentiere Küchenabfälle platzsparend und umweltfreundlich. Dein Schritt zu einem nachhaltigen Haushalt! 🌍🌿
#Bokashi #Nachhaltigkeit #Umweltfreundlich

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Got myself this tool for turning our #compost bins. It's really handy and works great. It doesn't so much "turn" as "churn"

It drills down easily, then you pull it out, rinse and repeat. Combined with the #bokashi it's going to improve our #composting

#Gardening

So, nearly two weeks in. One #Bokashi bin is nearly full. It seems to be working well. Not having a sense of smell myself I've had to ask my wife to sniff them for me but they smell fine (apparently)

Getting productive with the bokashi tea. I've been adding it to our existing compost bins and I've noticed a change in their breakdown. Perhaps I'm imagining it but it does look as if it's breaking down faster.

The content of the Bokashi bin itself seems it's processing nicely. I think I'll start filling the second bin and let this first one "cook" for another week.

But so far, so good. For the last two weeks no food waste in the kerbside bin. It's all being used now.

#Composting #Gardening

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