What a brilliant NO ODOUR way this is to turn kitchen food waste into nutrient rich compost & soil conditioner for the garden in just 4 weeks! Not only will provide you with wonderful natural compost with little effort, but will also help to reduce the waste that gets dumped into landfills. Our family of 5 are filling a 15lit Bokashi bucket a week, so that is 780 cubic litres of food waste per year recycled to our garden!
What goes in the BOKASHI Bucket:
All Leftover Food scraps
All Fruit and Vegetable peelings and scraps (including citrus and onion)
All cooked and/or raw Meat/Fish scraps (including small bones)
Coffee grounds & filters, tea bags.
BOKASHI – Pre-ferments food scraps in a neat, no odour, Bokashi bucket system that can store in you kitchen under a bench or in a cupboard. Once the bin is full the contents are buried into a hole or trench anywhere in the garden. When Bokashi fermented food scraps make contact with natural soil bacteria, the scraps rot down very, very quickly – no rotting odour, and creates a nutrient rich compost for the soil – improving the soil texture and fertility immensely. It also populates the soil with good EM bacteria that excludes pathogens that cause bacterial diseases in plants, meaning plants will not require spraying (or dramatically reduced spraying) for diseases. Within a month, the waste in the soil will have become a rich natural organic fertiliser and soil conditioner.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How much of the starter is required each time
A: Initally, 1 tablespoon in the bottom of the bucket. Then for aprox every litre of food scraps put into the bucket, you sprinkle 1 tablespoon over the scraps. Keep layering in this manner until the bucket is full. Then you put it aside for between 3 to 7 days to ferment. After that, its ready to dig into the garden.
I really like using this easy system but have a couple of problems,/questions: Firstly the organic scraps take months to thoroughly rot down once in the earth. Does this matter when applying as compost? Secondly in my small garden there is not enough room for any more holes/trenches to be dug for bokashi container loads. I would welcome any suggestions, responses to my email address julietraven@xtra.co.nz or any web link. Thank you Organic trails /trials
Comment by Juliet Raven — 14 November 2008 @ 6:01 pm
Hi, where did you get your bins for holding the food? I’m looking at buying a system but there don’t seem to be a huge amount of places that sell it. Thanks!
Comment by Pam — 24 March 2009 @ 3:39 am