Soil Factory: second stage of bokashi composting (RAT PROOF!)
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Hi Everyone! And Welcome to my Oxfordshire allotment where today I'm showing you how I've made a soil factory to keep the rats out of the second stage of my bokashi composting 😂
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I don't want to share the goodies so a rat proof soil factory is a must if I'm to keep my bokashi to myself! Check out my playlist if you want to know more about what bokashi composting is and why you need it in your life ➡️ • Bokashi Composting UK:... ⬅️
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About: I'm originally from Sweden but have lived in the United Kingdom since 2005. I have been using my allotment and became an allotmenteer since 2018 and love to share everything i have learned about growing my own produce and seasonal food and general organic gardening with you, my green fingered friends! My Oxfordshire, UK, village allotment is managed using the Charles Dowding no dig or no till method of cultivation and is a beautiful vegetable patch☝️ I am a scientist IRL but have no formal horticultural education, just a bunch of enthusiasm 😁 Let me know if you have any questions and video suggestions, and i will try my best to help you out 👍
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Hi Hanna! That was really interesting. I’ve been thinking about bokashi bins for a while vs a wormery. Can’t make up my mind which route to take.
Do they have to be kept indoors for the fermentation to happen? And Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas! Was just watching your December tour 😆 The fermentation process is faster if you keep it indoors (ie 2 weeks with the lid closed). So now in winter I keep mine for maybe 4 weeks outside. I’ve kept them indoors in the past but our house is too small. There is no smell from the closed bin, so storing them isn’t a problem (compared to wormeries that I hear smell bad when kept indoors 🤷🏼♀️). The downside is the initial cost of the bins and the ongoing cost of the Bokashi bran. But as I can put everything in, including bread and cooked food and small bones (chicken) it is worth it! My partner hates the smell of the bran, but I love it 😂 might be a genetic thing!
I'm in the US. I had an inground wormery. It was very difficult to maintain due to fluctuating weather. Worms don't like heatwaves +40C. Also like Hanna states, some food scraps cannot be used in vermicomposting, especially indoor due to smell. I just started bokashi. I finished filling up one 5 gallon bucket in 3 weeks, let if ferment for 2 weeks and further composted with shredded cardboards, grass clippings, leaves... for 3 weeks. The compost was beautiful. It smells good, looks good with no trace of what it was before except for the chicken bones. The in ground area that I composted the bokashi had worms in it so maybe after the bokashi has composted, the worms cocoons may hatch and further compost.
Wow! Never thought of adding grass clippings! Great tip, I’ll try that 👍 no problems with animals digging it up?
@@Allotment4life No problems so far.
Good!
I enjoyed the, “...you know what, I’ll just show you,” transition! I intermittently have some unwelcome furry 'friends' coming to stay under my shed, and I found a mouse sized hole dug under my compost Dalek recently too (kitchen veggie scraps and garden waste only, and it’s sat on a hard base with small holes for worms and drainage). Composting area is very interesting as important stuff happens and I like to see how others tackle it - I cannot produce enough of the stuff here at McTavish Manor. In your closing chat you had your GH behind you. How did you attach the water runoff gutters to a Hoselock pipe? That struck me as a great idea. PS - Newsletter landed - I’ll be following along. I particularly want to join in with the Squashes this year, as they will be new to me for 2021. Also Sweetcorn.
Yay! I’m glad you’re joining in the growalong!
I need to make a proper video about my compost system, it’s an evolving project 😂 Need to put a roof on! And yeah, it’s hard to keep the rodents out, mice can squeeze through the tiniest hole...
The hozelock is barely attached to the gutter, I’m using a wire and it doesn’t hold if the wind comes from the north east. But it works most of the time 👍
I’m so excited for squash next year! Roll on spring!
Great video and thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Great video, thanks. Does the soil factory have to have air? One bokashi site said build compost bins with air flowing, but I don’t want rats! I have made very successful compost with your method, but very difficult to do
It out. It is in an old rotary bin.
Great information!
Thanks 😊 Do you use Bokashi composting?
@@Allotment4life no, just normal composting.
Great! So many plot holders here don’t do that, not sure why 🤔 but I’m giving out pallets to people to build their bays. Everyone should have a go 👍
Most of us dont have a rusted out bin and it would be awkward to get one out. Do you need the air on the bottom?
How long to store your Bokashi tea in that bottle plastic?
If Mother Nature were to read a book about Mother Nature, she would laugh. This video inspired these words.
So, how'd itturnout?
Still rat proof, but not broken down yet due to cold temperatures ❄️
👍👍
You dont aerate it?
Not necessary, the mixing with soil aerates it enough to start the second stage of breakdown 👍
@@Allotment4life Cool, thanks.
I think aerating it once a week speeds up the composting process. I mixed the fermented bokashi with shredded cardboard, some old compost/soil, grass clippings and brown leaves . The pile heated up within two days. I flipped the mix once a week . Three weeks and compost is done. No heat, no smell, and all material broke down except small chicken bones which I may have to chop up and place back with the next batch of bokashi.
Air always helps!
too dangerous keeping your tea in a pop bottle haha
we keep ours in a beer bottle though maybe that is even more danger
hahahah! true, especially since its an orange fanta bottle haha!