Bokashi Composting from Start to Finish (DIY Bokashi Bucket)
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
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Bokashi composting is one of my favorite ways to make extra use of an abundance of food scraps. By building a simple bokashi bin or bokashi bucket, and using inoculated bran as a fermentation agent, you can 'pre-digest' food scraps before you put them into your soil.
It's an absolutely amazing way to compost quicker, and compost MORE. You can compost meats, fats, oils, and cooked food with bokashi, none of which you'd put in your hot compost pile or worm bin.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
1:44 - 5 Benefits of Bokashi
3:09 - Building and Filling a Bokashi Bin
8:11 - Checking Up on Bin
9:09 - Adding to Soil
10:55 - 1 Month Checkup
I prefer ocean fertilization ... lol
Where do you get Bokashi?
How can I take care of the bokashi if I live in an apartment and in an area that gets way below freezing temps in the winter? I looked online and people say to store the fermented contents outside in another airtight bucket, but what if I don’t have much room around me to do that? Also, I live where temperatures fluctuate a lot because of wind, and in the summer gets to around 100 degrees (WA state)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like you could have gotten two circles out of that towel (4:45). Feels a bit wasteful, even if it's an old one that would have gone in the trash otherwise.
Do the spent grains need to be dry.? I can get spent brewery grains from the brewery down the street, but they're WET....
Should save a little bit of the bokashi and the juice from each batch to start your next batch -it will help and you won’t have to start from scratch and use new grain each time
Can you explain a little bit more on why you should use the juice?
There is nothing wrong with this, but I have heard that the microbial activity from the formulated "Effective Micro-Organism Mix" happens in stages. First the lactobacillus, then the yeast and other fungal/bacterial activity. If you start a new batch with just the old juice, you aren't getting the proper "cycle" of microbial activity so it is usually a better idea to use the grain from scratch every time. Hope this helps!
He didn't ever say what to do with the drainage
@@seresnyder4348 it's great for watering your indoor plants. Plant smoothie
@@seresnyder4348 liquid fertilizer! Dilute.
I’ve been doing bokashi composting for several years with good results. I use a fraction of the inoculate bran that you use in the video. It simply doesn’t take that much to get good microbe activity.
How do you use this method for composting day to day food scraps? Should I save up scraps for several days and then add them to the bucket? What if it takes a few weeks to fill the bucket? Will the older stuff in the bottom be ok to leave while I wait for the top stuff to be "ready?"
@@amym.4823 yes, I keep a bag going in the fridge until it’s full and then transfer to the bokashi bucket and add the bran. It can take a while to fill the bucket. The spigot on my first bucket broke so I don’t even bother draining the leachate and it doesn’t seem to matter.
My mom is an agriculturist in the Philippines and we’ve been composting with bokashi for years! Never knew this is what happens tho 😬😳😳
How is the final product look like? Cause i the final product in this video is still not broken down in my opinion
Bruh
Panji Rizki it does not break down. It ferments.
My wife studied agriculture for 4 years. She even graduated in agriculture. But she doesn't know anything about agriculture. My wife's kinda useless in it.🤣
@@neverwinterfarms yes, im finally understand what bokashi is
Perfect video. This is how this kind of videos supposed to be. Showing all the processes within 2 months span. So we can see the process and the result. Appreciate the time and effort. Thanks
I live in the Northeast and have used bokashi to ferment my kitchen scraps all winter long. When my bucket got full, I would let it ferment for two weeks and then bury it in a raised bed in my garden. Now that it's spring, I'm looking forward to top dressing my garden with this awesome soil. I find the breakdown was much faster than a normal compost pile in winter (here in Connecticut).
I want to start a bokashi compost bin, but I live in an apartment. From your experience, is bokashi composting smelly?
@@TheeAntiChris I’m currently doing bokashi in my kitchen, it does not smell. When open lid no bad odor, just a sweet fermentation smell
I live in Mesa, AZ and the soil can be very hard. I have a small are to garden in., I have a coffee can with a lid that I put my table scrapes in. When it is full, I walk out to the garden and dig a hole and dump the coffee can contents into hole and then cover it with dirt. My garden rows can be turned over with very little effort. Anyone that lives in AZ understands what that means. I'm in my 70's and need very little work. My method works for me. Good luck on all the methods suggested.
I was going to say, as long as one's garden bed is in contact with the ground, all we need to do in AZ is bury the fresh scraps, cover with soil and plant immediately 👍
A really GREAT tip for the buffer rock in the bottom bucket. The top one can get so heavy it sticks in the bottom bucket and it's a struggle to separate them. I use newspaper as a filter at the bottom of the top bucket.
put a hole in the bottom bucket so no air suction is created. Somewhere above where you expect the liquid level to be. It always helps some, the bigger or more holes, the easier, but do not over do it. Lol
I did what you did with the bokashi. However, I did it differently. I got woodchips (the more decomposed the better also decomposed leaves.) I got seaweed from the beach, washed the salt out of it, and I got fish waste from my Chinese fish market. Mixed fish waste and wood chips and washed seaweed, and put it in a bucket capped it off with fresh woodchips and spent coffee grounds from Starbucks, and voila. In one week composed. Instead of a bucket, you can put it in a pit.
Don't wash the seaweed the sea salt minerals are very good for the soil
@@patrickwilson9783 Okay, thanks.
Kevin, I do all types of composting and have recently learned that bokashi is high in Organic NH4. Worm castings on the other hand are high in NO3. Both are plant available under different conditions. One when it’s hot and the other when it’s cool. Considering it was 40f in New Orleans a few days ago and today it’s over 70f, my garden is covered. Btw I’m enjoying watching you build up the new garden. Keep the great content coming. Thanks
Very helpful. Thanks.
Thank for sharing your bokashi composting I'd never heard of it & i was looking for greener solutions for food waste because it seem counter intuitive to recycling some foo like fruit but others ended up in landfill.
But I'd grateful to hear your thoughts from experience , think something went wrong, because i used a tshirt to line the bottom bucket and when went to empty the bokashi into the soil the t-shirt had completely disintegrated, has anyone known that to happen or have i done it wrong?
Any thoughts on that would be greatly appreciated thanks 😊
@@morganjones5922 it sounds like you are on the right track. The liquid leachate is an acidic liquid so for the T-shirt to disintegrate sounds reasonable. I actually put a mix of ash and charcoal from the fireplace in the bottom bucket. Ash is alkaline so it neutralizes the leachate and charcoal is a great sponge that soaks up the liquid so I’m able to capture the potassium from the ash without raising the PH in my soil and the charcoal once soaked make a wonderful biochar soil amendment.
Simple. Clear. Informative. Thank you so much for the video!
Super excited to see you using SD Microbes. I was using them in my cannabis composting operation. I now use them for food waste composting. One of the most active bokashi products I've used.
It can be really hard finding any kind of useful bokashi info. This clears up a lot of questions I've had. Thanks!
I'm from Philippines and I've been doing bokashi composting for months now. My plants are doing well. 😊
Adding this as a mulch with a layer of compost on top at the end of the season would be beautiful
I do all grain home brewed beer and use the spend grains in my composter all the time. The added heat from the mashing stage really helps kick the compost pile into overdrive. Usually find it still steaming a few days on. Gets compacted a bit easily however so you need to turn it from time to time.
I watched your video in early 2020 and now I’ve moved to my newest farm and am doing this method I’m on my first bucket which is ready to sit for a couple weeks before going out to the garden bed
Thanks for sharing
Wow I’ve been using Bokashi for years and I still got some great tips to up my game from this video. Thanks
Thank you for this video. I wanted to compost but didn't want the hassle of the "traditional" way. Now I will just put this on my patio and save up compost for next year! I was thinking of using the urban worm bag for this but instead of worms, alternating compost/soil with bokashi fermented scraps. That way my finished compost can be harvested from the bottom.
I’ve made my own Bokashi for years with shredded paper and em1. I live in maui where bran is imported so tried paper. I love it because I continue to fill my bin with very little smell. I just have a single bin that I keep under my kitchen sink. I dump into my garden or compost every 3-4 weeks. It looks a lot more broken down than yours did. Plus it is great way to get rid of paper you don’t want anyone reading!
Kathy, if you know a coffee roaster, you can use the coffee bran to make your own :)
Kathy I use shredded paper that I don't want to see in my worm bin . It works great in the worms seemed to like it.
Can we fill the garbage day by day? I mean not directly fill the whole bucket?
just bbought my 1st ever bokashi compost bin! Hella excited! My first ever compost system!
THANK YOU for ALL your videos! They are fantastic!
Great video. Now I can finally use the bokashi bin I bought about 10 years ago!
What a great, clear informative video. I feel ready to give this a go now! Thankyou! 🌿
I;ve been wondering about bokashi since i encountered it 2 years ago. Thanks so much for this video
I bury all the plant remnants at the end of the season. I was skeptical at first, but it worked great. I live in Edmonton, Alberta which is a zone 3b/4a, and have a very dense clay based soil. The section I buried the plants in turned into incredible soil in one winter. So needless to say it gets done every year now.
Do you cut them up or just bury them whole? I’m in zone 5b and curious to try it!
@@trackee2024 Cut up anything hard or fibrous, like brassica stems, into one or two inch pieces. A dozen whacks with a hatchet will do if you don't have a wood chipper.
I did that too. Didn’t bother cutting stuff up. I even buried a whole bunch of bananas that went black. The soil and plants loved it. It went from hard clay soil that would twist my garden tools to soil I could scoop with my hands. 🤩🤩🤩
I watched bokashi processing too, I never did one, but I give a try one day ...here in kuching sarawak, Borneo... Its a tropical climate ...it works as long ones wanted ....required knowledge of how's matters most...
It's literally that easy, but people like to complicate composting. Burying at the end of the growing season is a slower process though, and growers become impatient. I'm working with worm composting. It's not going as well as I hoped.
thanks for sharing this information. I am challenged when composting because it takes so long, I usually don't have enough of browns or greens materials... but the bokashi method seems like a fantastic alternative to my compost efforts. Woo Hoo!
Thanks for this video. In Arizona, we don't have worms in our crazy soil! This is probably the composting method I will switch over to. Right now we are trying "keyhole gardening" for arid zones, but it's not a high turnover system. This is exciting.
Also live in Arizona I've been doing the "daves fetid swamp water" thing with veggy and fruit scraps. Becuase I don't want alot of roaches. Meats and dairy products I've only ever used once when I was planting my pomegranate I dug the hole super deep and mixed in old milk, moldy cheese, old steak, something from the freezer that wasn't meat anymore and anything yucky. Crushed up some charcoal threw that in there stirred it up and put a layer of dirt on top. Then planted my pomegranate on top. Mulched around it then planted 13 bean soup in the mulch. So far it has been doing great in 117 degree weather I water about every three days but I don't use the water strait from the hose becuase of the chlorine kills fungi and bacteria. I let it sit in tubs for a day to dechlorinate first.
Thank you Kevin.🌸
I do Bokashi n i was surprised u went to soil in 2 weeks. I generally fillup the bucket and then let it sit for 6-8 weeks, i may drain the liquid n then use the liquid as compost tea. After 6 weeks of sitting in the bucket, i put in soil for 4 weeks. That way i dont get any scraps.
Can you add this material right into your garden? I have lots of veggies but didn't know if compost isn't fully broken down if it would cause other things to grow
Do you compost Dairy on your Bokashi? I wanna try it out because you can compost anything!
@@alyssahenderson2089 Throw into the soil directly. No need to wait. Some critters might dig and eat, but hey no worries. It will all be decomposed a few weeks.
How often can you open your bucket? Like, in theory, could you use this instead of a garbage bin? Add food scraps to it throughout the day? Or does that defeat the purpose of it being anaerobic?
I use mine like a garbage bin! It still works
I usually gather the organic waste in a separate bin and add into bokashi bucket once a day
Brand: All Seasons Bokashi, 3 pack of 1 gallon bags = 45$ ordered on Amazon.
I put vegetable scraps in a bucket with dry leaves and after a month I get the white mycelium buildup. When it’s time to brew a microbe tea I’ll pull a few white patches out & put in a strainer type bag and brew a tea using worm castings, a little dry nutrient, maybe liquid kelp, a sugar like molasses, brew with an oxygen machine for 12+ hours, dilute & feed. I’m no pro but that’s what I’m using Bokashi for.
I also tested a plant by putting a large amount of Bokashi in the soil to see how a plant would handle too much Bokashi (I also put overkill on Biochar) the plant grew fabulous. I have a video of it. Ethos Purple Sunset. Super strong/ funky terps.
Great video! I have just ordered a bokashi bucket coz I’m too posh for old buckets 😁. I had been burying food scraps directly in the garden and it worked great for the soil but it was kind of nasty to go out in winter to do that. So we’ll see if the bokashi method is less annoying. Anyway, I loved watching your video. So thanks !
I am very impressed. I have been trying to raise worms for composting.
Great idea to fertilize over winter...
This sounds perfect. I can't wait to try it. Plus I really want one of your raised beds.
Yeah, it's a fun method! You can buy the beds at shop.epicgardening.com and feel free to email me with any questions kevin@epicgardening.com
So glad I found this video. I have 3 Bokashi bins going. A month now. Reason being I'm afraid to open it cause I have a fear of maggots.😅. I don't mind earth worms and garden alot. However I'm petrified of maggots and honestly thought if I open them I'll see maggots 😅😅😅😅. Thank you for this. Ready to bury by scraps now
This is so cool we will definitely try it
Thank you so much for the idea 👍
We use Bokashi as an in-between composter, especially during the winter. It's convenient to have the bokashi bucket in our kitchen and only go out to the outdoor composter once every few weeks.
I enjoy watching these videos and finding out about the different ways to compost. As a teenager (before the internet) I tried adding dog poop to our compost thinking it'd add useful nutrients [True story!]. Unsurprisingly the costs ended up outweighing the benefits; especially with regards to my mum's hanging baskets.
That must have been fun every time it rained.
@@RichWoods23 We had to be especially careful when watering too
Normally I bury my kitchen waste, but good to know this method. Thanks.
Thank you for sharing A - Z process..
I simply bury my food scraps straight in the garden without all the fuss and let the worms go to work. Breaks down in about 4-6 weeks and I repeat the process until planting season. Trench composting; easy and painless. But thanks you anyway.
@Cori MacNaughtonim not sold on bokashi either and its seems like an expensive gimmick but each to their own. I cant see the benefit in fermenting food scraps for 2 or 3 weeks only then to have bury it in the soil or a compost pile. If the scraps are just buried or composted straightaway, they would probably break down to the same point over that same 2-3 week period. If takes a little longer to break down than bokashi, then so what? Plus there is the ongoing cost with the bran which you dont have with burying or composting food waste directly. I may be missing something and as I said each to their own.
Do you bury meat, cheese and stuff like that?
I do the same! It is called “Pit composting”, it works great for me.
Cori MacNaughton I put the dirt from the pit on top of the compost in the pit and plant on it right away. So that is immediate use of soil, no waiting.
Rats are a real problem where we live.
Nice video and clear presentation..i liked it thank you.
Fascinating. Thanks for the post
Definitely giving this a shot! A couple of $3 Walmart 5 gallon buckets, a bag of Bokashi n it's save ur scraps time...thnx for the video, it helps alot
I use sour dough for my Bokashi. Its working great. Greetings from Germany and Merry Christmas.
Oh creative! Love it and Merry Christmas
Oooooh. I'll have to try this. :-)
@@loerkue I`ve used natural sour dough, in sour dough you have all your needed bakteria and yeast.
I searched through the comments specifically to see if sourdough starter can be used, thank you!
@@Marcian2013 how about the yeast we use for baking?
That's really cool tutorial and presentation. Thank you for sharing this kind of story with your followers. You are great
Hi Kevin and greetings from sub-tropical Brisbane, Australia. I love your channel, particularly the fact that you are prepared to interact with your subscribers and answer their questions. In my area I have Self Sufficient Me but he never answers any questions. The only change I would like to see is the provision of temperatures in degrees Celsius overlaid on the video. Otherwise I love both this and Epic Gardening Homestead. All I need to do is swap over the seasons so I always watch your new videos and then re-watch them in our growing seasons.
I think Mark only answers questions posed by his supporters on Patreon.
If that is his attitude then why post anything on CZcams. I have unsubscribed and now follow a range of channels where I can have my questions answered. I only watched Mark because he is just up the highway from me. He is making good money out of his channel and his subscribers.
I learned so much! I will now be improving and fine tuning my bokashi system with your tips. i did not know about the brick or cloth and I was almost going to quit bokashi altogether because the stinky liquid mes (which was flooding the bottom) was too gross. Thank you. I really appreciate this video.
I also do bokashi for my dairy, oil and meat wastes. I layer a few pieces of paper instead of a cloth. I bury the paper along with my bokashi and wash the bin without the need to touch that cloth. All veggie scraps goes to my worm bins as bokashi takes more efforts when comes to bury and the smell can be an issue if not bury deep enough.
Janet Great idea to use paper!
4:31 an Epic Hoof! Kevin let the dogs out lol
thank you! you're really kind.
THANK GOD I FOUND THIS! I will be doing a lot of beer the folowing years so this will be perfect for me!
The govt charges us for our leftovers that don’t go in our compost, but now after this I’ll know what I will be doing, even tho they’re still charging me for it. Lol. New subscriber. Cheers skipper.
Such an inspiration!
Thanks!
Good stuff! Thanks for sharing.
Very, very interesting! This looks very doable!
Totally!
You are always the best thank you!
Wow took a month to do with worm composting would do in a week. Great.
Thank you. Very good information 👍
I live in Australia and have the Urban Composter (made in Australia). Same process. This video is great because I just got it for christmas and it gives me more knowledge on how to use it. I love this process because I can compost anything, so living in Australia, we have flies. It reduces flies that were once flying around my garbage bin because there is no food scraps in there anymore. The lid is great. The ants can't get in, they tried and I did have maggots, from a fly that got in when the lid was opened, but because of the acidic conditions, they didn't last long. They got composted. Thanks for this video.
Glad to hear, you're very welcome!
Great presentation
Got my discounted bokashi grains, can’t wait to give it a try!
It's such a fun process, esp during the holidays with lots of extra food scraps!
LOL, the food was buried closer to the edge and your test dig was closer to the middle hence the difficulty in finding the compost. None the less, looks like a good system. Love your videos.
I had not heard of this before. Thankyou so much for sharing this process!! I will be using this in the future!
You’re the best, thank you!
Best video yet on Bokashi...informative, succinct:) My hesitation has ever been the cost... $40 could buy lots of green sand, guano, etc. I prefer soldier flies. They used to ick me out but I have learned to respect the little guys...they relish everything icky. (Eughk). AND my duck frenzy- feeds if she finds some.
One idea: a blender takes less time than chopping and the food will compost more quickly:) I try to blend all my food compost and add scrap paper till the brew reaches the desired consistency.
Yeah there are many methods, if the price tag on the bran hurts then of course other options work :)
I asked this on another video: " would it be worth it to invest in a small cheap blender?" For compost only?
And apparently.. I'm not the only one to think this as a good idea😊👍
@@mom23js goodwill
@@mom23js A blender is a great idea, but depending in your foodscraps, you may need a fairly powerful one.
Similar to Jadam natural gardening (KNF) Jadam was my success story so glad I found it.
Great stuff. Thanks.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
You too!
thanks a lot， quite clear
Cool idea
Awesome video. Thanks for sharing.
Merry Christmas 🌲
Keep up the good work 👍
God bless you 🤗
Merry Christmas my friend
Thx, good explanation
Thank you for the coupon code. I just ordered a bag.
Awesome!
wow thank you so much!!!
Food is peace!
Hold up, did u ever say what to do with the liquid?? I watched it twice looking for that 😆 well?? You've got some explaining to do! Lol thx for all the valuable knowledge.☺🌱
Me too !!! Watched twice looking for juice 🧃 lol
hey dear, as my researched I've found out you can use plain Bokashi juice to clear your drains, or you can dilute it 1:100 ratio with water to manuring for your plants
@@vanpham4691 thx😅
Interesting concept. I might not be impartial since I love my worms hahaha, but this seems like more work than just feeding a worm bin. Still it's very cool to learn alternative ways to compost! Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome! Yeah I also worm compost, can't give it up!
Exactly the information I was looking for. My worms, being pretty savvy, formed a union. If I even think about putting them out of a job, tiny protest signs start popping up. Two years ago I tried to re-home about 500 because a friend was interested in vermicomposting. The dental floss disappeared from the bathroom cabinet. The raspberries I had set aside in the freezer, couldn’t be located. A few days later I noticed a bunch of the woody composting bits, you know, leaf stems, the brown twisted bits left over from one of their grape stomping parties, they had these bits and bobs setup to hold dental floss. Tiny bits of paper covered with almost microscopic scribbles, were hanging on the floss lines, drying! They had plastered one of the larger Rubbermaid tubs with copies of their, our, collected bargaining agreement. In a flash I realized I could cancel the dog’s vet appointment. Yes, she still had tiny furless spots on her muzzle but I wasn’t paying a bum-load of money on allergy tests just because she let some worms take fur to make paint brushes!
In the end, my friend signed the collective bargaining agreement, union representatives visited the new work site, looked over the housing, checked the bedding for unhealthy inks and even spent a few nights nesting in the small pile of shredded cardboard. Who knew organic cardboard was even a thing!?!
So you see why I need to know how worms fit into bokashi composting. I don’t want to have a walk-out on my hands. Maybe that term should be “wiggle-out”
@@patElfpat you win this thread!
Hey Canadians and snow people. What about the long winter? Can we bury it in frozen soil? Will it still decompose as much in the cold or must I store it until spring and then chuck it on in as things thaw?
My Grandma always used trench composting in her garden
Great video! We generate a bucket full of waste every 2 days. So is it possible to use a large barrel, maybe a 200 liter one and follow the same anaerobic process?
Step two pretty foot.Lol Thanks for sharing
I used to trench compost in the garden. Healthy soil should already contain a bunch of types of lactobacillus and if buried, there would be limited oxygen, though not entirely anaerobic. Shoot, I have had potato slips i plant decompose almost completely in 7-10 days (didn't let them cure long enough I suspect)
Yeah, my friend Mark at Self-Sufficient Me did a test on that...burying straight also works
@@epicgardening You, Mark, and Brian are the gardeners I am Depending on to get my survival garden off to a roaring start this fall. I have lots of starts right now and I am looking forward to planting garlic when it cools down here. We have been working on compost piles for the spring with all the yard trimmings and now I will try this with our kitchen scraps. Thanks in advance!!
I ONLY SUBBED BECAUSE YOU ARE FROM SD! And your info is dope too...LoL
Ahh nothing like the smell of anaerobes in the morning! Thanks, nice video. Might give it a go..
The liquid looks like it'd make a great add to watering cans.
5L of bokashi bran costs $18 aud in Australia. If I use similar amount shown in the video it’ll end up costing way more than buying $4 per 25L compost directly.
you're a cool dude.
Merry Christmas
You too!
Thank you for the very informative video. I have only just started looking into this. I was expecting you to pour the liquid in as the bokashi tea. What did you do with the tea/ liquid?
thanks
AND... my first thought is "how do I get out of continuously buying Bokashi grains?" Ah HAH! use some of the liquid from the bottom to inoculate the next batch, just like I do with sauerkraut. I believe it is the same bacteria ! Or maybe I should just wait for the next video.
That'll work!
It may work. But it could go wrong too. The Bran is not that expensive. If you are filling more than 15buckets a year, just make a batch of Bran yourself.
Sweet! Thanks for the advice!
It was interesting to learn how this works but I think I will stick with my compost bucket to compoat bin or worm bin. If you can't put in moldy scraps then I wouldn't have enough of them to even get started before the stuff in the bucket got moldy. Another technique that works for me is to build compost in 4 tree pots I got free from a landscaper. Right now they are growing tomatoes, zucchine and peppers but when they come out I will dump the made soil on the garden beds and start composting in them. I'll keep the soil in one or two of them and put some shovelsful of soil on top of the scraps in another pot to deter animals. When that one is full, I'll start another and plant in it next year. Can't have a real compost bin due to living in a condo/HOA community. Plus I am old and not strong.
Glad you got it worked out but I wouldn’t write off bokashi bc “you can’t put in moldy scraps.” Be careful about listening to advice that deals in absolutes. I would say give it a try. It costs little in money and effort to start up, and see if your bokashi microbes can outcompete!
interesting..😊
Fabulous!
okay, so I have basically killed my compost hahaha perfect (I had put rotten food on my Bokashi) Thanks for the info!
Good video
Damn homie just threw in veggies that I'd normally eat
Dragonfruit and everything!
Lol
LOL
Probably just an example for the video. Fruit mightve been overripe or otherwise not worth eating.
I actually dig and bury it in the ground, it works fine.
I would be super interested to know if you found that this had improved your soil when you planted in that bed after using bokashi??