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#2
By
Equilibrium
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04-22-2013, 08:31 PM
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![]() Rack Em!!! You done good.... nooooooooooo..... you done excellent!!! Anyone can do this.... literally.... anyone. Coupla things I've learned "playing" over the last few years. T-shirt material works great.... better than a dish towel which I had been using in the beginning. What I found works better is thread bare underwear. Ya know how guys hang onto their underwear a little bit too long trying to get a few extra wears out of their tightie whities>>>? That's the underwear you want to get your hands on. It's perfect.
-- For me.... inoculating newspaper with my EM serum works the best because I can tear off a sheet of newsprint at a time and toss it in my kitty litter bokashi buckets and after I add a few inches of waste.... I tear off another sheet of newsprint and add it and keep layering like that until the bucket is full. I've found that for my big momma composter out back in the shade, inoculating wood pellets for wood burning stoves works best. I think a bag of the pellets is about 40 lbs. Could be 50#. I inoculate a $4 bag of wood pellets with the EM serum. The pellets will disintegrate soon after they absorb the EM serum. They're basically reduced to sawdust. Anywhooo, I dry the sawdust in a kiddie pool. Every few days I stir it so it dries thoroughly. When it's done drying, I store it in 5 gallon buckets and sprinkle it over the top of my compost pile when ever I remember. Adding the inoculated sawdust accelerates the rate at which our food wastes and chicken poops process in that pile exponentially. 1 thing though, that compost pile is in deep shade not sun. High temps will destroy the essential microorganisms. The center of it might hit higher temps but the top layers of waste never do. |
#3
By
soundsgood
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04-23-2013, 05:22 AM
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![]() Eq! Yes! I KNEW you would have streamlined and customized your process
![]() Started writing this last summer in anticipation of converting my many city pals who were also beginning to garden (roofs, windows, fire escapes). Also, writing/teaching helps me to fine tune the thinking. Wanted to have something to email 'em when the time came that I'd been doing it successfully for a year and had proof that Urban Garden 2.0 plants were as happy as imagined. Yup. Re-read the above-linked WG Extreme Bokashi thread as I posted the words: wow. There are (were) a lot of people here trying it. Hope others who've refined will also post their experience, testimonials and tips/tricks. Bokashi is extraordinary and may be scaled to work in cities as some towns across the pond are proving. |
#4
By
biigblueyes
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04-23-2013, 10:18 PM
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![]() Very nice! I'll have to come back and study this. My bokashi experiment was a bust. I may need to try again.
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#5
By
soundsgood
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04-24-2013, 05:25 AM
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![]() Hope it proves an inspiration for you toward success, BBE. Nice to see you again. Know you were active on the original discussion. Good luck!
It was a pressing matter to succeed, with no dirt of my own and being highly motivated to grow at least greens for the bunny. Just closed up a container of last year's Stabilized EM 1:6/bran for two weeks ferment, as much proof of concept that it has a long shelf life as a need for more Bokashi bran. |
#6
By
biigblueyes
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04-24-2013, 12:12 PM
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![]() The bran came out fine. It was the bucket of compostables mixed with the bran that went bad. As in Maggots!
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#7
By
soundsgood
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04-25-2013, 07:39 AM
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![]() Yeah. I had that issue with bucket #3 or #4. Think it was because i hadn't sealed it properly one day. I closed that 'un but good, left it to ferment, and started a new one. After an extended ferment, all the maggots were dead. What got me through that was thinking of those who use flies for composting...
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#8
By
biigblueyes
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04-25-2013, 03:08 PM
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![]() I imagine the bunny thanks you for your persistence!
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#9
By
CincyGarden
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05-17-2014, 05:09 PM
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![]() This is awesome. Thank you. A few points (questions, really) to follow, but I've taught folks to do this in workshops, and I couldn't have done any better with your work.
Thank you, again. |
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