Bokashi

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Comment by Dallas Nesbitt on February 27, 2013 at 7:55pm

Thanks Megan,

It was such a frosty winter and we had a couple of floods and now a dry dry summer that things are not sprouting. We get wonderful things from our compost bins though - melons, fabulous pumpkins, all sorts.

Comment by Megan on February 27, 2013 at 10:58am

welcome Dallas, good on you for organising your "Bokashi team" - your trees must be flourishing! It will be interesting to see what comes up where you've buried your buckets - I've found fruit tree seedlings, pumpkins, tomatoes, avocados:) Too cold down here for the latter to survive but have given away a few as houseplants.

Comment by Teeli on February 27, 2013 at 8:01am

Thanks for the welcome Bridge Scully.

Unfortunately I don't seem to have success with the bokashi system at all. Maybe it is because I have a worm farm plus 6 compost bins and there is only me, so not much in the way of food scraps. I also forget to empty the liquid often enough. However, I enjoy reading about how others have success with Bokashi...  :)

Comment by Dallas Nesbitt on February 26, 2013 at 8:32pm

We live in Sandringham, Auckland and we also have a bit over 1 hectare of land in Waihi which we are re-foresting. I have a 'Bokashi Team' - I bought cheap bokashi buckets on Trade Me for a couple of my colleagues and my daughter and my neighbour. They all fill them up, drop them off at my place and I take them to my land, use the contents, clean the buckets and drop them off to respective houses. If any of you are living in or near Sandringham and find, as many others do, that you run out of spots to bury your bokashi, please join my team. I can use as much as you can produce!

 And if you wear gardening gloves to avoid getting bokashi grit under your fingernails, check out my group 'Glove Love'

Comment by Sheryl Kitchen on February 15, 2013 at 9:56am

I started using the bokashi system after seeing my nephew's. I went to worms-r-us in Manukau and bought 6 units for family members. Got quite a good discount. My nephew had told me about the potato masher. Have been digging it in to my raised beds.

Comment by Megan on November 29, 2011 at 8:06pm

hello Flo, I picked a great tip from Hester's blog about bokashi where she suggested using a potato masher to press everything down - obvious once she'd pointed it out :) alot less messy than bare hands which is what I'd been doing up until then.

Comment by Flo on November 12, 2011 at 2:33pm

I have been led to believe that your bokashi bucket contents are most nutrient rich for your garden if applied directly and planted straight into (or at least within a week or so). The composting micro organisms in bokashi (anaerobic) are quite different to that in your compost heap (aerobic) and possibly richer. Having said that, their shouldn't be any issue putting them into your other compost, it's just you would probably loose the 'bokashi-ness'.

Another tip: my bokashi bucket greatly improved when I was advised to put a plastic bag over the top of my chopped food scraps and press it firmly down to get rid of as many air pockets in the bucket as possible. You then leave the bag covering the scraps until you put more in and repeat the pressing. The guy who told me (our local bokashi rep) this also said to collect your food scraps in a bowl and only add them once a day at the most to avoid too much aeration in the bucket... that'll also be why we need to buy expensive air-tight buckets.

Comment by Bev G on November 12, 2011 at 1:24pm

I'm new to Bokashi - just got my bin today and haven't set it up yet but am very excited to be able to use all the scraps that my worms won't eat.! I have a very small garden so instead of bury the bokashi contents and planting on top I understand I can use it as 'green' in my compost. Would this still apply in a tumbler composter? 

Comment by Julie Hayward on July 10, 2011 at 9:21pm

Thanks Megan for your advice.  I had never heard of bokashi.  I will try and get some and try it with my food scraps with aview to making my garden boxes soil healthy and productive again.

Comment by Jools on February 10, 2011 at 2:02pm

Thanks so much Neville - yes I can see a few things I am doing wrong namely leaving the juice in the bottom bucket for too long and keeping my scraps in another container before transference to my bucket.  We have had high temperatures in Gisborne so that's been a factor too.  Cheers for the advice.

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