Burying bokashi
This is bokashi. It’s a method of fermenting household waste using an air-tight bucket and sprinkling in bran containing helpful micro-organisms. Once the bucket is full, you wait a few weeks and then bury your bokashi in the ground. About six weeks later you can dig it up, and it’s perfect compost: the fermentation has accelerated a process which might otherwise take a year. You also drain off a useful nutrient and good-bacteria rich liquid called bokashi juice which can be diluted and used as a plant fertiliser/soil conditioner.
But the issue if you live in an apartment block is where do you bury the bokashi? It’s probably an offence and/or very inconvenient to go and inter it in a public or national park. So here are some suggestions:
1. Nearby friends or family with a garden may have a spare flowerbed
2. Put it between layers of soil in a plant container, but don’t put plants in for at least a fortnight
3. If you have avoided putting in certain waste such as citrus, meat and onions, you could put it in a worm farm
See here for some videos of how to bury bokashi.
3 years ago