Comments on: Vermicomposting vs Bokashi https://www.compostguy.com/worm-composting/vermicomposting-vs-bokashi/ Composting, Gardening, Sustainable Living Thu, 11 May 2023 13:54:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: Yeti https://www.compostguy.com/worm-composting/vermicomposting-vs-bokashi/comment-page-1/#comment-131464 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 16:47:15 +0000 https://www.compostguy.com/worm-composting/vermicomposting-vs-bokashi/#comment-131464 Oh and by the way, my hopes are that with this formulation of sorts I can quickly blend a fermented bucket, establish a curing time for the bokashi to inoculate the bedding materials aerobically and for the minerals to bring the pH up a little(~1wk), fill worm factory trays and forget it. The worms will get to it when they are ready. My thoughts are that they will process it much more quickly than they would conventional kitchen scraps.

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By: Yeti https://www.compostguy.com/worm-composting/vermicomposting-vs-bokashi/comment-page-1/#comment-131462 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 16:34:56 +0000 https://www.compostguy.com/worm-composting/vermicomposting-vs-bokashi/#comment-131462 Hey all,
I know this article is long dead but I’ve been surfing these very questions for some time. I have been using bokashi composting and just filled my second bucket, the first finishing now, and am excited to find a good way to mingle this system with the worm factory.

I believe that the white fungi are plenty good for decomposition and exist in parallel with worms in almost any sort of compost bin. They are very common in animal manure/straw mixtures. Surprisingly I used the juice every few days from the 3wk fermented bucket on a fresh built 4x4x4 compost pile of my garden waste and have never seen so much of this white fungi so immediately, and have also never seen a pile diminish so quickly. It was dropping inches every day in height. Generally I see inches/week on these sized piles.

My plan with the full bokashi bucket is to add an equal part to twice as much of a mixture of paper scraps/egg cartons/peat moss/coco coir/leaf duff/leaves/whatever I have around. I will also add my mixture of minerals that I add to my soil amendments, including basalt, bentonite, oyster shell powder, and glacial rock dust. To this mixture I will be experimenting with the quantity needed of oyster shell powder to balance the pH as I have read a fully pickled bucket will generally gives pH readings as low as 3.0, which is probably quite a bit lower than any worms would prefer.

Hope this helps and if anyone still cares, feel free to respond.

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