BOKASHI – BURYING THE WASTE FOR THE 1ST TIME

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What to do with the Bokashi waste once your bucket is full. Well, we must take it out to the the garden and bury it to achieve the most benefits. Dig a small trench , approx 800mm long x 500mm wide and 450mm deep. Tip the waste in and cover over with soil. See rest of YouTube channel for further instructional videos.

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20 Responses to BOKASHI – BURYING THE WASTE FOR THE 1ST TIME

  1. 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!

    fleurbleue8
    February 10, 2012 at 10:18 am
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  2. Can you compost bread and rice with Bokashi? Also, how do you know when your Bokashi is ready to be buried?

    Pregolegs
    February 10, 2012 at 11:08 am
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  3. Thanks will try that. Nigel

    nigelbartlett1
    February 10, 2012 at 11:33 am
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  4. @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.

    projectoutdream
    February 10, 2012 at 12:22 pm
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  5. @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.

    IdahoViewing
    February 10, 2012 at 1:15 pm
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  6. 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
    February 10, 2012 at 1:19 pm
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  7. @nigelbartlett1 Try Burying 6 inches deeper and then really stomp down on the topsoil.

    billjackjane
    February 10, 2012 at 1:26 pm
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  8. 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!

    nigelbartlett1
    February 10, 2012 at 1:34 pm
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  9. @crazyaboutcompost Bag of Green Frog Bokashi will do 2 x Green Frog Bokashi Buckets of waste.

    billjackjane
    February 10, 2012 at 2:23 pm
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  10. @tuti2368 Birds

    billjackjane
    February 10, 2012 at 3:01 pm
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  11. @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.

    crazyaboutcompost
    February 10, 2012 at 3:43 pm
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  12. 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.

    Gruurk2
    February 10, 2012 at 4:23 pm
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  13. @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
    February 10, 2012 at 4:47 pm
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  14. What is squeeling back there..? RATS?

    tuti2368
    February 10, 2012 at 4:56 pm
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  15. 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

    cdiaz1998
    February 10, 2012 at 5:54 pm
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  16. First of all what all can you compost by bokashi methods? Meat? Is it easy to do? Thanks!!

    ccoasterdesigner
    February 10, 2012 at 6:11 pm
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  17. Everything will breal down in the end. The scraps will rot and lose their goodness. Better to bokashi them.

    billjackjane
    February 10, 2012 at 6:17 pm
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  18. 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?

    888zzz
    February 10, 2012 at 6:27 pm
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  19. If you want to know about the poor sound, it is the airplanes overtop.

    billjackjane
    February 10, 2012 at 7:08 pm
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  20. I am really happy that 10,00 views have been accomplished. Thanks, Billjackjane

    billjackjane
    February 10, 2012 at 7:32 pm
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