BOKASHI - BURYING THE WASTE FOR THE 1ST TIME

[fleurbleue8]

I think you have to avoid putting cooked foods and animal products in your bokashi, That is what attracts the rats. Look it up in the Findhorn book,, they mention it somewhere. Good luck!

[Pregolegs]

Can you compost bread and rice with Bokashi? Also, how do you know when your Bokashi is ready to be buried?

[nigelbartlett1]

Thanks will try that. Nigel

[nigelbartlett1]

Thanks for the tip. Will try the burying deeper.

A friend has also suggested after 4 weeks put the bokashi into a sealed compost bin and mix with regular compost - later dig into to the garden.

nigel

[nigelbartlett1]

Hi

After a year of doing bokashi we have a mega rat problem. Rats are digging into the buried bokashi - even bokashi buried 8 months ago, nesting and eating. We have followed the bokashi recipe, all looks good in terms of the bokashi mixture after 4 weeks of pickling its into the trench and all nicely covered up as per video. All well and good until spring time when the rats move in.

Help!

[billjackjane]

@nigelbartlett1 Try Burying 6 inches deeper and then really stomp down on the topsoil.

[projectoutdream]

@nigelbartlett1 feed your bokashi scraps to a worm farm. for the garden combine the ruth stout method with bokashi to very quickly create fertile conditions. in other words mix up a large batch of bokashi & cover the entire surface of your garden with it, cover that with 8 inches of mulch in the form of grass clippings, hay/alfalfa/straw, wood chips, leaves, etc. use the dirt from your worm farm for seed starting & potted plants.

[Gruurk2]

Am familiar with this method. Its a landfill on a small scale. I would prefer to use an anaerobic digester myself or a normal aerobic composter. But if this works for you then go for it. Just my opinion.

[tuti2368]

What is squeeling back there..? RATS?

[billjackjane]

@tuti2368 No, definately not. I know the squeeks sound, weird, but thats just the natural habitat, birds. We bury it deep enough that the rats cannot get to the waste.  The waste is fermented, not rotted anyway, they don't appear to be that interested, only good results, if you follow the instructions. Thanks for commenting.

[billjackjane]

@tuti2368 Birds

[ccoasterdesigner]

First of all what all can you compost by bokashi methods? Meat? Is it easy to do? Thanks!!

[crazyaboutcompost]

@ccoasterdesigner yeah, it's easy to do. it can be a tad expensive as each full container requires a new bag of bokashi.

The appeal is that you can compost meat, dairy & fish in addition to the usual stuff. Also, the ratio is not as important since the bokashi is doing the work.

[billjackjane]

@crazyaboutcompost Bag of Green Frog Bokashi will do 2 x Green Frog Bokashi Buckets of waste.

[IdahoViewing]

@crazyaboutcompost You can also make your own bokashi by buying the essential microbes and carrier. Do a search on essential microbes and how to make bokashi.

[888zzz]

If scraps are buried without being treated with bokashi won't they convert to soil too, or do the scraps need to be treated with bokashi in order to be converted to soil?

[billjackjane]

Everything will breal down in the end. The scraps will rot and lose their goodness. Better to bokashi them.

[cdiaz1998]

I see no reason to actually use the Bokashi thingy. If you bury scraps on its own, worms will eat it and convert if to vermicompost, I doubt they would eat "Bokashi treated" food scraps,, so you would have to wait even longer for compost. It would be better to just bury raw food scraps then treat it with bokashi

[billjackjane]

If you want to know about the poor sound, it is the airplanes overtop.

[billjackjane]

I am really happy that 10,00 views have been accomplished. Thanks, Billjackjane