Decomposing Bokashi in a small space | Soil Factory to Planter | Indoor composting | Bokashi Compost
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- čas přidán 19. 09. 2021
- When I asked people around me about starting a compost, many gave me the same answer: "I don't have space!" or "It is so hard to do..."
Months ago, I myself, too, was very hesitate to start a bokashi bin. I was living in an apartment and sharing with other people. Space was the main concern for me to plan for food compost. "What if it smells?" "What if I take up too much space?" "
It wasn't until I moved back to my landed house that has a garden, I can finally have an ease of mind to start a bokashi bin. As soon as I started, I realize that I don't neccessarily need a huge space or a landed garden to do this.
I want to share how to bokashi even if you only have a small space.
In this video, instead of a soil bed, I've tried out a soil factory, which can be used as a planter right after it matures.
You can use it to grow your own food, indoor plants or giveaway to your local gardener/farmer community.
Bokashi is a composting method that had been long practiced in Japan's agriculture to improve their soil.
By practicing bokashi, I've greatly reduce my daily kitchen waste going to the landfill, and creates nutritious bokashi tea and soil for my house plants.
Will you try out this method? Let me know in the comments :)
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I have used bocashi for years, & found it a lot easier to do than worm composting. Years ago I lived in the South Island of New Zealand, with cold long winters, so wasn't keen to dig holes in garden for my bocashi. So I used an old compost bin & taped up the ventilation holes, the base was open to the ground. Then over the months I added my bocashi. By spring it was full. I emptied it into my raised garden bed. Wow! It had become a worm magnet & the Zucchini I planted above it grew like a rocket. Thanks for reminding me about it.
Thank you for this idea. I have cold winters and was wondering how to handle this - perfect solution for me!
i am using bokashi. i love it. i have built a raised bed from free pallet wood and empty it there. i might put some leaves and dried leaves too that i will collect from neighbours. i think everyone should do bokashi because it's like getting free soil from leftover food. But it does take work
The flower pot impression is brilliant!
Thank you!!!
This is exactly what I was looking for!
Makes it alot more feasible now! Thank you fir sharing
You're welcome!! Im so glad this vid helps 💚
This really helps. I have been seeing bokashi being used as precompost for living in small spaces and no access to garden or ground soil :( This method seems very encouraging to try and see the final product ourselves 😀 Thank you!
I'm going to go back to my bokashi and get it going again. You have simplified the process and inspired me. Thanks
This is my first time composting and I don’t quite understand what am I doing yet, I decided to start a tiny kitchen composter and I chose to begin my first batch with bokashi bran since I knew this was a successful method for starting compost (and that it can help with bad smells), I was looking up the how to manage a bokashi compost and got quite nervous about how would I be able to use this acidic compost in my garden, I was brainstorming and wondering if I could eventually pre mix the bokashi batch with older or readily available garden mix soil, I am so happy to watch this since it confirms that this is a good option and I find it very encouraging! Let’s see how it goes! It seems you can get quite creative with compositing, I would’ve never believed if someone told be compositing can be interesting, enjoyable and spark curiosity!
Started a subpod.
Started a wormery.
Started a one bucket bokashi.
Ordered a proper bokashi bucket with tap.
My radishes were rubbish.
My strawberries and tomatoes are doing well.
Everything would grow better if the sun would shine on England a bit more!
Yes! I had a feeling this would work but you just confirmed it!
Great video!! I just got a wormery, but love the idea of bokashi too!!
Very informative. Thank you.
I have been using bokashi for a few years now, fill a big terracotta pot in layers just like in this & it looks nice in my small courtyard garden & doesn't smell. After a short while it breaks down and the pot fills with giant earthworms - I have never seen so many earthworms before!. hardly need to buy potting compost anymore
Yes, love that bokashi is a compost method with almost zero odour 🫶🏻 Create your own "black gold" (potting compost) 🥰
Hi from Paris… thank you for the many informative and useful videos you have posted!
I’m going to start my first bokashi and find your videos of the complete process extremely helpful.
Thank you for sharing ! 🌺
I just started bokashi composting and have wondered if I could make my own inoculant. Also how to do the last phase of the process > soil. Thanks so much, lovely videos! Best to you, your mom, and your food growing!
Nice dear ❤
Nice vid
Wonderful
Thank you! Cheers!
Have just started this system.
Obrigado por compartilhar seu conhecimento. Brasil
Obrigado pelo seu comentário gentil! Estou feliz que isso ajude. (Sorry if it sounds weird, I google translated these)
Just started my very first bokashi bin last Tuesday it's nearly full now so I will see how it turns out in about 6 weeks
Thank you.
Glad the video helps🤍
Very Nice vidéo ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
Thank you so much for your kind comment🤍 Have a good day ahead
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Nice vidéo. I bokashi (if it’s a verb, 😂) too. I bury mine directly into my garden bed. If using a 2nd bucket with no holes, the liquid can be diluted and used as a liquid fertilizer!
That’s great!! I’ve collected so many of the liquid 🤣 I poured some down the drain for cleaning, since I couldn’t use it all for the plants in a short time.
加油
謝謝你💛💛💛
已经开始做了！周二在bunnings买了个波卡西堆肥桶，但是一个不够用，又太贵，所以今天在Facebook market买了十几个带盖的食品桶，又可以堆肥又可以种植，想想都美🤣
🤩🤩🤩 歡迎加入堆肥生活🎉
專業的波卡西堆肥桶真的好貴 雖然看著比較美觀 可是又不想錢包少一塊肉
最後還是乖乖自己diy，便宜又大個
先祝你堆肥順利！
@@Sydneytay 谢谢！🥰
@Sydney Tay a quick question does the material need to be wet when one first add it to the bokashi bucket? I have one bucket that is at least half filled with dry green plant material. It is not showing any sign of decompostion or white mold growth after three weeks in the closed bucket. So does one need to add water?
i think you still need a lot of soil if you have a very tiny space to bury your bokashi, you come back a month later to the same spot where you buries your bokashi and you can still see that slimy consistency and you dont just want to mix more bokashi into that so you need a lot of soil.
Right, you need at least 2-3 soil factory to maintain. Usually if the weather is good, sunny and dry, it will completely decompose in 2 weeks. However if the weather is always humid and rainy (like where I live in Malaysia), it might took longer.
Just my opinion, if you have too much soil maybe you can consider donate thru the Share Waste app or FB gardening community, most ppl will happily accept it :)
Hello Sydney, thanks for your video. May I ask, during the final composting process (i.e. bury the bokashi inside the paint bucket with soil), does it smell bad? Because I have really close neighbour house which I afraid will disturb them with the smell. Hope for your reply. Thanks!
Hello Ainol, thanks for leaving a comment!
Bokashi does produce a sour smell (vinegar like).
However, the smell will only come out during the process of burying or when you open the bin. Once buried, the smell will not leak.
I live in a terrace house so I suppose I’m very closed to my neighbors too. So far so good!
Be sure to avoid it from rain water, and clean out the water from the bottom(if you have holes drilled like mine). Should be fine 😊
@@Sydneytay I thank you so much for your reply with great details. Hope you will continue to upload videos. I love it because it's really help a lot!
👍👍👍👍👍🙏😊☝️
Thanks for the video and i want to ask you, the bin that you used to buried garbage between 2 layers of soid, is it a must to have some holes at the bottom?
Hi!! Yes, because with holes drilled will allow more air circulation, which the decomposing animal need (earth worms, millipedes, etc). It allows extra fluid to flow out. Hope you find this helpful!
@@Sydneytay Oh, i got it, thank you! Besides, if i place the drilled bin directly on the garden soil surface - which means the fluid will flow into soil, is it ok? Does it make any harm to the garden?
@@ettyeleven7871 Nope 😁 Small amount of the liquid is considered beneficial to your garden. Just be sure to keep away from very young seedlings
@@Sydneytay Great, luv you
then you use this compost for planting without any thing? Thanks for your video
Yes, it’s only the compost.
I will use diluted bokashi tea for watering, and maybe add some fertilizers after a few months to maintain the nutrition of the soil.
Did you use the volassi in a separate pail by sprinkling the bokashi directly on to the food scraps and layer each one till the paul was full.? Is that the mixture then used in the soul factory Paul’s along with the soil. Thank you 🙏🏼💜🇨🇦
Yes :)
Pail A: Food scrap + EMA (bokashi) liquid = fermented food scrap
Pail B: fermented food scrap + soil layers = decompose into organic compost soil
Great video. My question is how many times do we wet the soil when we layer it with th bokashi. Or do we not wet it at all.
When i layered the bokashi with sand i found tiny white wotms in the bin.
Hello, the soil don't need to be wet when we do the layering :)
The white tiny worms might be maggots, which means your bin might be too humid, or flies has laid eggs while you open up the lid to add in food waste.
However, the little worms is not harmful
Nice video. Is this a compost without browns and dry leaves?
Yes, bokashi is about fermentation in an anaerobic (no air) environment.
Once you have enough microbes and a suitable environment, they will start to ferment even without browns and dry leaves.
@@Sydneytay thank you for the reply. Will it have enough nutrients for the plants?
@@jojomiafunnycats4756 Yes! I’ve been growing pumpkin and asparagus from these soil factories and it’s producing so much flowers and harvest ☺️☺️
Hey! i found your way of making Bokashi is really simple? but i'm kinda confuse, alot of people using activated liquid for microorganism for their Bokasi? so is it actually useful or i can skip using that liquid? thanks alot! 😉
Yes, Bokashi is actually very simple to do.
No you cannot skip the "spraying the microbes" part because it is what bokashi need- "fermentation" :)
Hi Sydney,
My one is not is not going so well. I buried some bokashi in a container/pot a few weeks ago and when i dug it up there was greyish mould around the ‘pretty much broken down food scraps’. Do you have any idea why this would happen and what I can do with the that soil? :(
Hi Adenise! Thanks for the comment
It could be many reasons 😲
ex:
-does your container has air circulation?
-did water get into the soil factory/bed?
-did you bury layer by layer or all at 1 go?
- where did you place your soil factory? At a very hot (under sun) or in a cool dry shade?
- did your fermentation went well before you bury?
@@Sydneytay Oh thank you for replying!
The bokashi was doing great in the bucket. Had a really nice smell and no mould other then a tiny bit of white mould.
They were buried in a rectangular pot that can hold around 70L of soil. The pot has a self watering section at the bottom. Pot was left outside under the cover in the shade. The weather has been cool (below 27 C) and no water has gotten into the factory.
I layered the pot with soil. Then poured in the bokashi and mixed i with soil. Then i poured more soil on top. Top soil is at least 10cm thick.
I didn’t take this into consideration until now but could it be the soil? The soil were used soil from all my pots from last year. Which is all potting mix from the store. I’ve just read that there is no soil live in potting mix. So i’m not sure if this might be the problem.
I’m also more concern about what to to do with the factory now. 🤦🏻♀️ If you have any ideas can you please share them with me?
@@adenisevuong8381 Thanks for the detailed description 🤍
Your way of burying should be fine for the factory to properly break down all the scraps 🧐
Reusing old potting soil would not cause a problem cuz I’m doing the same
Could it be water entering from the “Self watering section” of the pot?
As for the factory,
I have some batches buried and not completely break down after months.
What I do is dig it up and sun dried it a few days (beware: the smell might be quite strong tho for first few days) then, I buried it back again, it break down well.
@@Sydneytay Thank you for sharing your thoughts. ☺️
It could be that the factory was too dry. Someone from the bokashi fb group suggested that I give the factory a bit of liquid. I added a bit of liquid with organic fertiliser to see if it will help.
I had a mask on when i dug through the factory because of the mould but i noticed that it actually didn’t smell and and most of the food clumps were broken down.
At this point i’m going to hope for the best.
@@adenisevuong8381 Ah! If no bad smell it will be fine 💚 Hope your factory will go well!!
Did you add multiple layer of soil or you just put soil in the bottom and on the top?.
Hi! I’m adding by multiple layer. By layering, it can decompose faster
@@Sydneytay ok thank you 😁
Should the soil factory bucket have holes in bottom and should it sit inside another bucket? Does it need air?
Soil factory will need air, yes :) It is for the worms that help decomposing the bokashi
Hi Sydney, newbie bokashi-er here! First soil factory. I did like in your video but just a little confused when you mean to not make it airtight for the worms....will the worms come in? I layered the bokashi compost with store bought topping soil (nothing living in the soil I think)
I am new to it after it fermented fir 2weeks I live in apartment can u put in a small portable compost bin on balcony
Sure, you can use your compost bin and add some soil on top
How do you keep animals from digging into the soil farm?
What would you like to plant in your garden? Comment and let me know🤍🤍🤍
have you measured the PH of bokashi soil? 🤔
Have you tried making a soil factory indoors?
Hi, thank you for leaving a comment! No, I've not tried that because my indoor area has less light for plant growth. Plus my indoor space is limited to do repotting so I prefer to leave all the mess outside for an easier clean up 🙏🏻
If you have an indoor space that receives a lot of sun and convenient for you to do a (messy) repotting, like an apartment balcony, that will be ideal!
this is difficult and time consuming method.
I as a lazy person will just put some soil at the bottom of the pot, then add kitchen waste, manure or whatever. Sprinkle some thricoderma powder, cover it up and directly plant the seed. Wolah... grow wonderful.
harvest it and repeat again
Please make the text appear bigger. It is really hard to try to read the text. Well it will be better if you do a voice over and remove dependency on this reading thing
Thank you for the suggestion! Really appreciate the feedback, I will make the text larger in the future.
However, I’ll need some time to gain confidence for a voiceover 😂
You did something wrong, by ramming dplant pot into d soil you compact d bottom. You shud hve taken out some soil put d plant in and just fill around it. That way d roots can push into d soil easily.
Thanks for letting me know, a young gardener learnt something new today! 😂😂