Homemade compost is so exciting! (MERGED)

ethansmum

I'm not sure where to post this but still.

If you live in Doncaster, phone the councils customer services and ask for a free Bokashi bin. They are still giving them away from free

olibearhorse

akh43 wrote: »

Do you have to put your composter on soil? The position I was considering using is on concrete in a part of the garden where not much grows well as its in the shade of my garden shed. Would this be ok?

Thanks

It's better on soil as it means the worms can get up from underneath and speed up the process. Having said that, lots of people on this thread have it on concrete and it seems fine, just mix it alot and add worms as you find them!

olibearhorse

ethansmum wrote: »

I'm not sure where to post this but still.

If you live in Doncaster, phone the councils customer services and ask for a free Bokashi bin. They are still giving them away from free

Hi ethansmum

What's a bokashi bin?

olibearhorse

Jayar wrote: »

Good idea Beer, I have plenty of that.

I read this before your previous post and thought you were saying what a great idea 'beer' is and how you had plenty of it!:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: I was going to ask if you had any to share!

Glad your pet dalek has finally arrived by the way!:T

absfabs

now don't be greedy, oli, you already get a pint of cider every morning!

olibearhorse

I'd swap the homemade cider with beer any day abs!:rotfl: :rotfl:

ethansmum

olibearhorse wrote: »

Hi ethansmum

What's a bokashi bin?

Heres a quote I found. Its great because you can put cooked food scraps init too.

Bokashi Composters use a mixture of bacteria, fungi and yeasts to safely compost your kitchen food scraps including meat, fish, fruit and vegetable waste. These small composters (19 litres) will easily handle the kitchen waste from a large family. It is so efficient that even meat and fish scraps can be composted indoors without smelling.

ethansmum

The Bokashi System was developed in Japan and is a unique way of composting kitchen waste. As landfill sites fill up and councils talk about cutting roadside collections to once a fortnight or even charging by weight to take bags away, composting our own kitchen waste is becoming more and more attractive. On a daily basis, simply add your kitchen waste (including vegetable and fruit waste, meat and fish scraps, tea bags, coffee grounds etc) and sprinkle a little of the Bokashi Bran (containing the bacteria, fungi and yeasts) over the top. The bacteria, yeasts and fungi in the Bokashi Bran then get to work on the waste, kick-starting the composting process and eliminating nasty odours. Keep adding kitchen waste and Bokashi Bran, pressing it down as you go until the bin is full. Every 2-3 days, drain the liquid off from the bottom of the bin - this can be diluted down (1:100) and used to feed plants or poured down drains to clear pipes and stop nasty odours.

olibearhorse

Wow, that sounds fantastic - thanks ethansmum. I take it it can't be used on the garden though? I need to look this up....

ethansmum

Oh yes totally! You can either put the stuff in your regular composter or you can put it in the garden and cover with a couple of inches of soil where it fully decomposes very quickly (so I'm led to believe!).