Another Bokashi query, sorry!

[Dynamo]

I'll have to have a look around for that style!

Try here. Bokashi Buckets & Bokashi Bran : Original Organics Ltd.

[Alison]

Today I gave all the plants in the allotment and also at home a generous feed with the Bokashi tea that Ive made. Out of two bokashi bins, I got over two litres of the tea, and thats just since last wednesday. I hope it really is good plant food. We'll soon see if the plants remain healthy.

I also emptied one of the bokashi bins into my compost pile. It wasn't really done enough to be honest, but I didn't find that out until I started to tip it out and I couldn't be bothered putting it back in again. In future though I'll leave the bins to fester a few weeks longer. They say two weeks is long enough in the instructions, but it clearly isn't. I'm also going to be more selective about what I put in the bokashi bins because at the moment they are filling up just a bit too quickly, hence the reason why I've emptied one today. I'll put stuff like greens and potato peelings straight onto the compost heap in future and save the bins for cooked stuff etc.

Good grief, I only get a few dribbles of liquid off mine over the couple of months it takes me to fill each one! Mind you, as has been discussed previously, I think it depends on what you put in. I don't use mine to process things that I could put straight into a compost bin so there isn't much water content in my bokashi mix.

Re the state of the waste when you put it in the compost bin, it never looks very well decomposed, even if you leave it for a few weeks but for some reason it rots down really quickly as soon as it hits the heap and attracts 1,000,000 of worms!

[Dynamo]

Re the state of the waste when you put it in the compost bin, it never looks very well decomposed, even if you leave it for a few weeks but for some reason it rots down really quickly as soon as it hits the heap and attracts 1,000,000 of worms!

Thanks for that. I'm glad that I have a good compost area to put the stuff into now. I mst admit that on looking at it a second time, the stuff at the bottom was rotted very well really and was quite a contrast to the stuff at the top, even though there was only a few days difference in when I'd added it to the bucket. I reckon another week or so in the bucket and the stuff would have looked a lot better. Hey ho though, the less well rotted stuff is now in the compost bin and I'm sure it will rot down nicely.

[vikkib]

Try here. Bokashi Buckets & Bokashi Bran : Original Organics Ltd.

Thanks for the link Dynamo. I'm very tempted!

[Sonata]

I only put stuff in mine that I can't put in the normal compost, but am getting quite a bit of tea. Not as much as two litres though!

They have a really nice forum on the Original Organics website...might pop on there to ask about my bin..tis leaking tea - boo! However, I've stood it on an upturned Morrisons bucket with another under the tap to catch all the drips.

[Dynamo]

I only put stuff in mine that I can't put in the normal compost, but am getting quite a bit of tea. Not as much as two litres though!

Yeah I've started to put normal compostable stuff in my compost bins now that I've built them. As for the tea, I drained my two buckets today for the first time in a week and only got about half a litre between them.

They have a really nice forum on the Original Organics website...might pop on there to ask about my bin..

It looks like a good forum, but I posted a question there a couple of weeks ago and no one wants to reply to it. I thought that at least the people who sell the buckets would have made a comment since the question was really to them.

[MagicLady]

I'm looking into getting a couple of these. How long does a 1kg bag of bran last? And are they really odourless, or should I keep them in the garden?

[Dynamo]

I'm looking into getting a couple of these. How long does a 1kg bag of bran last? And are they really odourless, or should I keep them in the garden?

One bag of bran should last a couple of months. I don't think you really need to put too much in the bucket.

Mine are odourless until I empty them. I get very little smell off the bokashi tea and also very little when I am topping a bin up. What I have found though is that it isn't nearly as smelly when they are left to ferment for a month rather than just two weeks like my first one was. I'd suggest you keep them outside anyway because they are bulky and pretty heavy when they are getting fuller.

BTW, thanks to Grow Your Own magazines August 2009 edition, I now know why I'm not supposed to put tea bags in the buckets. Apparently its because there is too much water in them. I'd have thought that it would be okay then if you squeezed the water out of them, but never mind. They can go either in my wormery or straight into my compost bin anyway.