Bokashi?

moments_of_sanity

I have a wormery which I have managed to get anaerobic and all the worms have died! :eek: I am going to get the wormery back up and running but my problem is there is nowhere to put the food that the worms can't eat apart from in the bin so we are considering Bokashi bins but I don't know enough about them to know whether we will find them useful.

We have a blackwall compost bin but these take an age to compost the veg down and can't be used for all household waste (such as meat, fish, cheese etc) so does anyone have a Bokashi and can tell me whether they work well and really what the point of them is as I can only seem to find information that says you fill them, let them ferment for 2 weeks and then put in your compost bin?????

Looking forward to hearing from anyone who has one of these.

PhGage

You're supposed to bury the contents of the bokashi bin for several months before adding to your compost bin. This can be a problem if you have animals: see,

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/435830

I tried using one for some time but ended up using far more of the bran to conceal the smell than I can afford.

Other people's experiences of bokashi seem a lot more positive than mine.

moments_of_sanity

PhGage wrote: »

You're supposed to bury the contents of the bokashi bin for several months before adding to your compost bin. This can be a problem if you have animals: see,

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/435830

I tried using one for some time but ended up using far more of the bran to conceal the smell than I can afford.

Other people's experiences of bokashi seem a lot more positive than mine.

Thanks for your reply, not sure this will work for me then as I have 2 Border Collies and one of them eats everything he can!

I have been looking at the HotBins so this may be something I go for instead.

meg72

PhGage wrote: »

You're supposed to bury the contents of the bokashi bin for several months before adding to your compost bin. This can be a problem if you have animals: see,

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/435830

I tried using one for some time but ended up using far more of the bran to conceal the smell than I can afford.

Other people's experiences of bokashi seem a lot more positive than mine.

Sorry dont think that is right. You can either bury it after two weeks OR put it in compost bin. I have tried both and find that the site I have buried it is absolutely alive with worms, if put into compost bin breaks down much quicker.