bokashi

Has anybody tried bokashi yet or experimented any way with EM?  I hate spending lots of money but I constantly feel guilty when we waste cooked food and chuck it in the bin for land fill.

I've looked at websites but a) the initial cost seems quite high (unless you make your own bins) and b) digging the stuff in looks like you need to be more organised than me.

Tks

Richard

I wonder too. I googled for it and all I found was Bokashi EM which was a compose activator. You don't need an activator for compost.

Learn to make less cooked food and let your vegetables start... composing in your fridge like I do    :oops:

I've googled bokashi as well - like most US things seems a little overhyped -LOL but the idea seems sound. Having said that we compost all vegetable wastes, used kitchen paper (unless it has meat fat on it), loo roll innards and cardboard egg boxes.

The amount of waste left that you could bokash (a new verb?) isn't much. If we had a few chooks I could reduce that further.

There was a series of articles in one of the garden mags - kitchen garden - about using micro-organisms on an allotment - seemed quite effective.

Has anybody tried bokashi yet or experimented any way with EM?  I hate spending lots of money but I constantly feel guilty when we waste cooked food and chuck it in the bin for land fill.

I've looked at websites but a) the initial cost seems quite high (unless you make your own bins) and b) digging the stuff in looks like you need to be more organised than me.

Tks

Richard

Hi Richard, I've got two Bokashi bins, had them for a year or more now. At the time I couldn't get down our garden in the winter coz it was like a bog, so tried this system, and only make one trip every 6 - 8 weeks or so. I haven't used the waste direct in the soil yet, but put it in the compost bin. It breaks down loads quicker than normal waste. Looks a bit like a bucket of pickles when you've filled it and left it for two weeks. There's no smell from the bins, coz it's hermetically sealed, but the juice that you can tap off and use diluted on plants smells a bit like sweet and sour.
I like the system, it suits me. It was one of those things I wanted to try but wouldn't particularly have bought if I hadn't got vouchers for my birthday, coz they are pricey. I topped up with 6 months worth of bran late last year and it has to be kept in the fridge or it smells vile and is useless, so you need to bear that in mind.

You will know all of this coz you've looked on t'intertnet, but a personal view or two always helps !


Cheers,

Kerry.  

The greencone sounds very interesting, redwellies. Too bad we don't have them over here, because I'd get one for my kitchen wastes.