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[Ain't Nobody Here]

After spending £25 on my bokashi bins (not to mention the bran) I feel a bit guilty not to be using them. I had 2 disasters when it didn't work and it's really put me off.

 

Is anyone having any success with them? Can you encourage me to have another go?!

[Tiggy]

my chooks eat most of our kitchen waste now so theres not a lot left for the bin so we were getting horrible mouldy stuff that I tipped into the ordinary compost, then reaslised its supposed to do that it rots down really quickly then, the juice out of the bottom is good as a plant feed

[Ain't Nobody Here]

The first couple I did went the way the blurb says - not mouldy but kind of pickley looking. Just a pickley smell too.

 

The next couple went into a mouldy sludgy disgusting mess . I don't think it was supposed to do that . I ended up putting it in the bin rather than the compost .

[Happy chickens!]

I've been using mine for a while now, but my husband says it's worse than the wormery!! It doesn't matter what I do, it smells. I never throw it away though, no matter what it looks like, just dump it in with the compost or use for lining a trench for beans etc. It always rots in the end.

 

Since getting the chickens, there is a little less kitchen waste (though the girls don't eat as much of it as I would like), so feed the bokashi bran to them as well.

[Janty]

I use mine and get mixed results but I put it on the compost no matter what it looks or smells like.

 

[dancing cloud]

I never got mine to work that well and now stick to the worm bin/tumbling composter and, of course, the cats and chickens

[Yorkshire Pudding]

I gave up too after they started to smell of vomit. Now I feed the bokashi to the chickens and compost the veg matter etc, but had to forget abou the bones and dairy bits.

 

Most disappointing, but I hear they use it all the time in Japan so maybe I'm doing something wrong.

[Trish]

I've never really had a problem with mine, occasionally a batch is a bit stronger smellying, more like an odd pickled smell really. One thing I was advised was not to wash the bin out too well after emptying it, a good rinse is all they need.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I got that pickley smell on my first two but the next two just went mouldy and mushy and disgusting . I do plan to have another go but haven't got round to it yet.

[Guest]

I gave up as I couldn't stand the smell of vomit when I opened it.

 

Been using up the Bokashi by mixing it in with the girls feed.

[Looney]

I have a couple of these bins in my shed - never used I bought them and then decided against using them, too many other things going on at the time to add this to the list plus I worried about trying to find places in the garden to dig the contents in as it is only a small garden....thinking of trying to give them away.