So it's both convenient and saves us some money! When I started using toilet paper, we actually didn't have to empty our septic tank as often anymore. What about the toilet paper then, doesn't it smell? Actually, it doesn't! We go through a lot of toilet paper in our family and using the paper this way has actually been beneficial in so many ways.
I then started using the bokashi juice as fertilizer. This means that you can put even more material in your bucket and it's also a lot easier to fill it. The bucket has a spigot that drains the fluid from the mix, so you don't have to use for example newspapers to absorb it. Since then, I have also bought a special bucket for my bokashi project. The material started to heat up and later turned into top quality soil. I then put the mix in my pallet collar raised beds together with bokashi compost. In the beginning, I also started collecting grass clippings and leaves in autumn. In this video I will show you how fast bokashi turns into soil: And its also, you know, maybe not the type of agriculture is really excited about, and we were, you know, just drawing up different farm plans for, in a winter. All of this added up to almost 300 gallons of compost in the first six months. Just like in the anaerobic compost tea, we aren’t worried about overloading the system with. It is a valuable tool we can use to boost the decomposition rate or digestibility of a nutrient source. On top of that, I also compost toilet paper (only used for no 1 of course) and all of the scraps from the green grocer in the village where I live. So Bokashi composting, under the broad definition above, is far from just pre-composting kitchen scraps bound for the traditional compost heap. We're quite a large family and we produce a lot of food waste. I want to give you an idea of how efficient this method actually is. It almost sounds too good to be true, but it actually works! This means that I don't have to do as much work in the garden since the soil is created right there in my garden beds.
The waste will turn into soil in just a few weeks. The biggest advantage of using bokashi is that I can simply dig down my food scraps (after about two weeks in buckets) directly in my garden beds, or get started on my own little soil factory elsewhere. Watch the video to get to know more about what bokashi is: I was skeptical at first but my friends in the gardening community talked me into giving it a try. But then I heard about this new trend that everyone was talking about: bokashi. My children started chasing the baby mice across the yard and the whole experience was just a bit too much.Īt this point, I was completely set on doing hot composting instead. We were turning the compost heap and suddenly discovered a mouse nest. I started using bokashi a few years back when I realized that we really needed to start doing hot composting. To my surprise, I managed to convert almost 300 gallons of food waste into compost in the first six months. I thought that the bokashi method seemed really interesting and decided to give it a try.
Every earthworm in your garden acts as an intelligent micro-plough, aerating, draining and feeding the soil as it goes.This is how bokashi compost looks like when it is time to put into the ground.įor me bokashi started as an experiment. Another valuable by-product of the Bokashi composting method using. Our Garden worms are also excellent for your garden! They replenish tired and impoverished soils the natural way. There they will be happy to accept your soil builder. Want your own earthworm ecosystem that recycles your kitchen waste? Order one of our Urbalive Worm Composters here (Plus they are £20 off until the end of October!) We love a good worm and there's no better use than for composting your kitchen waste! An October date was chosen in order to honor the father of earthworm ecology, Charles Darwin, as this is the month that his book 'The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Actions of worms' was published - he studied earthworms for over 40 years!įor 2020 it was decided that the theme for this year is Super Composters - World Earthworm Day 2020 In 2016 the Earthworm Society of Britain (ESB) nominated 21st October as World Earthworm Day to give the world an opportunity to celebrate these ecologically vital and under-appreciated animals.
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