Compost

[ailbhe]

Our wormery has failed again. Basically, the kind and quantity of food waste we generate is beyond a wormery. So I've ordered a couple of bokashi bins to use in rotation, and some new worms to hopefully finish off what's failing to compost in the actual wormery. We've also started digging out the raw food waste/garden waste composter and we're getting lovely dirt out of it for our friends with gardens.

Wish us luck.

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Re: Compost

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

that seems to happen to a lot of wormeries i've known of. i never had a real one.

have you tried bokashi before? i'm getting real curious about it, especially because the smell of rotting veggie matter isn't my favourite thing in the whole world, and from the reports i've read bokashi smells rather a lot better.

Re: Compost

[ailbhe]

I've never tried bokashi before. We may end up with three tiers - raw food in the wormery (much drier), other stuff in the bokashi bin, and gunge from either tipped onto the garden waste compost bin, which takes grass cuttings and tree prunings and so on.

The idea of landfilling compostable stuff annoys the hell out of me.