One thing that I do that somewhat reduces opening the bokashi bin is: i put my scraps in a smaller container daily and put that container in the freezer. Once the container is full (and frozen) then I dump it in the bokashi bin. I actually use 2 small containers in the freezer. I live alone so my freezer has room. Maybe freezing also breaks down the fibers some.

Bokashi is an ideal solution if you live in an apartment and have a balcony with some veggies (or flowers) like me. I put the fermented material directly in my small veg garden on my rooftop garden and covered it with the old potting soil. The scraps mostly keep their appearance (the orange peels kept their colour for example), so the most surprising thing is how FAST the bokashi turns into rich, moist, black earth, even without the help of worms! This process lasted only 3 to 4 weeks (in August). I only found one avocado seed, which was brown inside. Even the avocado peels had disappeared. I usually crush the eggshells in a mortar, so they disappeared too. It is truly a very good system and I would like to recommend it to everyone. No need to buy fertilizers anymore and almost all your food scraps are recycled.

Thank you. This is a really helpful explanation of how to successfully keep a bokashi system running.

This is so helpful - I was wondering how bokashi fits with no dig and you've answered my questions. Many thanks :)

Dang that is a lot of bokashi juice for a couple of days.

Very helpful!

Thank you for this excellent and concise video. I just want to check the running costs of this system. So you spend about £12 a year on the bran? How many full Bokashi bins or litres of compost do you create in a month or year? I’m trying to compare this cost to bulk buying compost. Thanks !

I wouldnt even wash that container, some of the bacterial species might set foot in the material and help you start the next fermentation

Can damp shredded paper alone be bokashi fed, or is it better to add something in with it, say sugar or milk or blood & bone, to give the bacteria a wider, thus more wholesome diet ?.

Is this better than just dumping the food scraps directly in the soil?

Great video thank you! I have recently had to stop doing my normal dalek style compost bin due to rats, i’m thinking that Bokashi could be the answer. I see that the output of Bokashi still needs to go in a compost pile for a few weeks, do you know please if the bokashi fermented veg-peelings would still be ‘attractive’ to rodents or not? Thank you!!!

I read that Bokashi is too acidic for worms. Do your worms in the subpod do ok with the Bokashi?

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Can you believe it? People actually drink bin juice as part of pranks!

So after you have filled your bokashi box up. And let it sit for 3 weeks. How much has it decreased in volume. When you go to bury it in your other compost bin? Thank you in advance for your reply. And do you this as something you will continue to do

isn't the amount you throw in in one go too much? shouldn't it be max 5 cm thick?

Bed scraps? Eeeuuw

U waste plenty food

Be careful with this. Remember where this originates from. (No one really knows) but if you look at the part of the world it comes from, the east. Their lifestyles and eating are different to ours. Now if you look at farmers. Farmers have to be extremely careful and the have been doing Bokashi really for centuries where. Silo pits are governed tightly as run off, the fermented juices are extremely bad for the environment. Just because its organic, it doesn’t mean that in a concentrated form its good. Or the mixing of various organic is good. You just have to look at the damage a pile of grass does when left to ferment. Personally I would advise people to have worms in their compost, and if worms cannot survive in their compost, then their compost should be altered. If a worm cannot live in that environment, we shouldn’t put that environment into our soil no matter how good our plants look. Farmers have been putting stuff into our soil for nearly a century to make our crops look good, yet our soil is screaming out for proper organics to brick back soil health. Do not look at your plants to gauge how healthy your soil is. Look at what lives within your soil.