One thing that I do that somewhat reduces opening the bokashi bin is: i put my scraps in a smaller container daily and put that container in the freezer. Once the container is full (and frozen) then I dump it in the bokashi bin. I actually use 2 small containers in the freezer. I live alone so my freezer has room. Maybe freezing also breaks down the fibers some.
Bokashi is an ideal solution if you live in an apartment and have a balcony with some veggies (or flowers) like me. I put the fermented material directly in my small veg garden on my rooftop garden and covered it with the old potting soil. The scraps mostly keep their appearance (the orange peels kept their colour for example), so the most surprising thing is how FAST the bokashi turns into rich, moist, black earth, even without the help of worms! This process lasted only 3 to 4 weeks (in August). I only found one avocado seed, which was brown inside. Even the avocado peels had disappeared. I usually crush the eggshells in a mortar, so they disappeared too. It is truly a very good system and I would like to recommend it to everyone. No need to buy fertilizers anymore and almost all your food scraps are recycled.
Went to a three hour workshop on Bokashi composting yesterday and loved it. You boiled down the key components here succinctly in only five minutes. BRILLIANT ❤ Thank you!
Thank you for this excellent and concise video. I just want to check the running costs of this system. So you spend about £12 a year on the bran? How many full Bokashi bins or litres of compost do you create in a month or year? I’m trying to compare this cost to bulk buying compost. Thanks !
The trouble with putting god waste directly into the soil is it attracts vermin. It also attracts Foxes and Badgers which dig for it, you wouldn't believe just how much damage those blighters can do or how deep they are prepared to dig.
Great video thank you! I have recently had to stop doing my normal dalek style compost bin due to rats, i’m thinking that Bokashi could be the answer. I see that the output of Bokashi still needs to go in a compost pile for a few weeks, do you know please if the bokashi fermented veg-peelings would still be ‘attractive’ to rodents or not? Thank you!!!
Hi, thanks so much. As for the rats. No they shouldn't be attracted to the fermented veg. I put all garden waste and spent soil into my regular compost bin and then turn the bokashi into that. Even cooked food, meat or bread when fermented won't attract rodents so it's an ideal solution. Hope that helps xx
@@livinggreen9095 awesome thank you! I actually ordered the bokashi starter kit yesterday, i’m looking forwards to faster, higher quality compost! Keep up the good work😃
Yes they do fine in the subpod. I have heard this before too but I can't really find the reason why. When I add my bokashi to my regular cold compost bin the amount of worms doubles if not more.
Can damp shredded paper alone be bokashi fed, or is it better to add something in with it, say sugar or milk or blood & bone, to give the bacteria a wider, thus more wholesome diet ?.
So after you have filled your bokashi box up. And let it sit for 3 weeks. How much has it decreased in volume. When you go to bury it in your other compost bin? Thank you in advance for your reply. And do you this as something you will continue to do
When it's in the bokashi bin it doesn't decrease at all, it will come out of the bin after 3 weeks looking much like it did when it went in, but once covered in soil or in the compost bin covered in soil it will completely break down in a matter of weeks and you would never know it was there just looking like rich compost. I will definitely carry on with this type of composting. I've been doing it for over a year now and I can't imagine giving up and putting all the waste back into the normal bin for landfill. It can be a little extra work but not much and it makes my compost so much richer.
@@livinggreen9095 I am trying to figure out. Why to do this. When I can just add to my Aerobic compost pile. Is there a particular advantage you can point to? Thank you for the reply. Am debating on whether or not to try this. But I have enough space to handle all my waste in a conventional compost system.
@@MrSeadawg123 for us its about being able to compost ALL of our food waste. So carbs, meat, bones and other foods your generally are not supposed to put in a standard compost pile. However, you can also do most of this is a hot composter, so depending on your space you might prefer a hot composter. No problem always happy to answer questions.
when i started my first bokashi i stunk so bad i had to throw it away or you would unalive yourself. it was horrid. i still dont know what ive done wrong :(
Be careful with this. Remember where this originates from. (No one really knows) but if you look at the part of the world it comes from, the east. Their lifestyles and eating are different to ours. Now if you look at farmers. Farmers have to be extremely careful and the have been doing Bokashi really for centuries where. Silo pits are governed tightly as run off, the fermented juices are extremely bad for the environment. Just because its organic, it doesn’t mean that in a concentrated form its good. Or the mixing of various organic is good. You just have to look at the damage a pile of grass does when left to ferment. Personally I would advise people to have worms in their compost, and if worms cannot survive in their compost, then their compost should be altered. If a worm cannot live in that environment, we shouldn’t put that environment into our soil no matter how good our plants look. Farmers have been putting stuff into our soil for nearly a century to make our crops look good, yet our soil is screaming out for proper organics to brick back soil health. Do not look at your plants to gauge how healthy your soil is. Look at what lives within your soil.
Considering households and gardeners all over the world have been using the bokashi methods for ages, your comments come off as fear mongering, extremist and unfounded.
There is ALOT of research to say bokashi is complete safe and more so very beneficial for our soil. The amount of worms in my compost more than tripled when I started using bokashi so from my own experience I would say the soil health and life within the soil an very much improved with the use of bokashi. As for our diets being different, that may have been the case many years ago but (in our household anyway) we use and cook a lot of Asian and eastern cooking methods as well as ingredients. I'm sure this is the case across the country,
You did hear the part where she says mix 1 part bokashi juice to 100 parts water before putting on your plants? Worm composting is fine, so is this method. Just because it comes from another part of the world there is no need to be so suspicious. It is just fermented food and yard waste after all.
One thing that I do that somewhat reduces opening the bokashi bin is: i put my scraps in a smaller container daily and put that container in the freezer. Once the container is full (and frozen) then I dump it in the bokashi bin. I actually use 2 small containers in the freezer. I live alone so my freezer has room. Maybe freezing also breaks down the fibers some.
Bokashi is an ideal solution if you live in an apartment and have a balcony with some veggies (or flowers) like me. I put the fermented material directly in my small veg garden on my rooftop garden and covered it with the old potting soil. The scraps mostly keep their appearance (the orange peels kept their colour for example), so the most surprising thing is how FAST the bokashi turns into rich, moist, black earth, even without the help of worms! This process lasted only 3 to 4 weeks (in August). I only found one avocado seed, which was brown inside. Even the avocado peels had disappeared. I usually crush the eggshells in a mortar, so they disappeared too.
It is truly a very good system and I would like to recommend it to everyone. No need to buy fertilizers anymore and almost all your food scraps are recycled.
Thank you. This is a really helpful explanation of how to successfully keep a bokashi system running.
So glad it helped, thank you for the lovely comment x
Went to a three hour workshop on Bokashi composting yesterday and loved it. You boiled down the key components here succinctly in only five minutes. BRILLIANT ❤ Thank you!
This is so helpful - I was wondering how bokashi fits with no dig and you've answered my questions. Many thanks :)
Thank you, I'm glad it was helpful to you. I find it works so well with no-dig so good luck x
Dang that is a lot of bokashi juice for a couple of days.
Thank you for this excellent and concise video. I just want to check the running costs of this system. So you spend about £12 a year on the bran? How many full Bokashi bins or litres of compost do you create in a month or year?
I’m trying to compare this cost to bulk buying compost. Thanks !
Very helpful!
I wouldnt even wash that container, some of the bacterial species might set foot in the material and help you start the next fermentation
Is this better than just dumping the food scraps directly in the soil?
No it’s the same just for ppl with small spaces
Put it in the garden bed the worms and microbes love it.
The trouble with putting god waste directly into the soil is it attracts vermin. It also attracts Foxes and Badgers which dig for it, you wouldn't believe just how much damage those blighters can do or how deep they are prepared to dig.
@introtwerp not true. Bokashi is much faster
Great video thank you! I have recently had to stop doing my normal dalek style compost bin due to rats, i’m thinking that Bokashi could be the answer. I see that the output of Bokashi still needs to go in a compost pile for a few weeks, do you know please if the bokashi fermented veg-peelings would still be ‘attractive’ to rodents or not? Thank you!!!
Hi, thanks so much. As for the rats. No they shouldn't be attracted to the fermented veg. I put all garden waste and spent soil into my regular compost bin and then turn the bokashi into that. Even cooked food, meat or bread when fermented won't attract rodents so it's an ideal solution. Hope that helps xx
@@livinggreen9095 awesome thank you! I actually ordered the bokashi starter kit yesterday, i’m looking forwards to faster, higher quality compost! Keep up the good work😃
@@grandmasterflash213 great to hear, good luck with it!!
@@grandmasterflash213 how do you like bokashi?
I read that Bokashi is too acidic for worms. Do your worms in the subpod do ok with the Bokashi?
Yes they do fine in the subpod. I have heard this before too but I can't really find the reason why. When I add my bokashi to my regular cold compost bin the amount of worms doubles if not more.
Can damp shredded paper alone be bokashi fed, or is it better to add something in with it, say sugar or milk or blood & bone, to give the bacteria a wider, thus more wholesome diet ?.
So after you have filled your bokashi box up. And let it sit for 3 weeks. How much has it decreased in volume. When you go to bury it in your other compost bin?
Thank you in advance for your reply. And do you this as something you will continue to do
When it's in the bokashi bin it doesn't decrease at all, it will come out of the bin after 3 weeks looking much like it did when it went in, but once covered in soil or in the compost bin covered in soil it will completely break down in a matter of weeks and you would never know it was there just looking like rich compost. I will definitely carry on with this type of composting. I've been doing it for over a year now and I can't imagine giving up and putting all the waste back into the normal bin for landfill. It can be a little extra work but not much and it makes my compost so much richer.
@@livinggreen9095
I am trying to figure out. Why to do this. When I can just add to my Aerobic compost pile.
Is there a particular advantage you can point to?
Thank you for the reply. Am debating on whether or not to try this. But I have enough space to handle all my waste in a conventional compost system.
@@MrSeadawg123 for us its about being able to compost ALL of our food waste. So carbs, meat, bones and other foods your generally are not supposed to put in a standard compost pile. However, you can also do most of this is a hot composter, so depending on your space you might prefer a hot composter. No problem always happy to answer questions.
@@livinggreen9095
Thank you for the reply!!
Keep on keeping on!!
Well done video!!
when i started my first bokashi i stunk so bad i had to throw it away or you would unalive yourself. it was horrid. i still dont know what ive done wrong :(
It could be a number of things. Most likely not enough of the bokashi bran maybe? Have you tired again since?
Maybe let too much air in. From what I learnt you have to push the scraps down very firmly in the bin
isn't the amount you throw in in one go too much? shouldn't it be max 5 cm thick?
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Can you believe it? People actually drink bin juice as part of pranks!
Bed scraps? Eeeuuw
I think it might have been veg scraps rather than bed scraps 😆😀😀
U waste plenty food
Well that is the point of compost. To recycle expired food into a useful material to grow more food or other plants. Also f you.
not wasted if it goes back into your garden as fertilizer.
Be careful with this. Remember where this originates from. (No one really knows) but if you look at the part of the world it comes from, the east. Their lifestyles and eating are different to ours. Now if you look at farmers. Farmers have to be extremely careful and the have been doing Bokashi really for centuries where. Silo pits are governed tightly as run off, the fermented juices are extremely bad for the environment. Just because its organic, it doesn’t mean that in a concentrated form its good. Or the mixing of various organic is good. You just have to look at the damage a pile of grass does when left to ferment. Personally I would advise people to have worms in their compost, and if worms cannot survive in their compost, then their compost should be altered. If a worm cannot live in that environment, we shouldn’t put that environment into our soil no matter how good our plants look. Farmers have been putting stuff into our soil for nearly a century to make our crops look good, yet our soil is screaming out for proper organics to brick back soil health. Do not look at your plants to gauge how healthy your soil is. Look at what lives within your soil.
Considering households and gardeners all over the world have been using the bokashi methods for ages, your comments come off as fear mongering, extremist and unfounded.
There is ALOT of research to say bokashi is complete safe and more so very beneficial for our soil. The amount of worms in my compost more than tripled when I started using bokashi so from my own experience I would say the soil health and life within the soil an very much improved with the use of bokashi. As for our diets being different, that may have been the case many years ago but (in our household anyway) we use and cook a lot of Asian and eastern cooking methods as well as ingredients. I'm sure this is the case across the country,
You did hear the part where she says mix 1 part bokashi juice to 100 parts water before putting on your plants? Worm composting is fine, so is this method. Just because it comes from another part of the world there is no need to be so suspicious. It is just fermented food and yard waste after all.