I failed at Bokashi last year.

I came back to a new kitchen and there was no good place to put the bokashi bins and one of the bins started leaking and I just gave up.

It was easy to stop because I don’t think I really got the hang of it in the first place. My bokashi never smelt pickled, it always smelt foul and the bins were a massive pain in the neck!

However, just before Easter, I ordered compost for the plot. 50 80 litre bags and it cost £175. There was also a 7-8 week wait. I need to start making compost on a slightly grander scale and I think bokashi will help.

So I decided to try again. I cleared a space for the bins behind the kitchen door and bought new, more airtight bins from Wiggly Wigglers

I’ve decided that I needed to commit to it, which means using more bran and draining the bin every day.

It’s a new year (I’m convinced that the new year should start in spring and as the start of 2024 was rockier than I’d hoped, I’m just starting it now!) and I’m going to make this work and make composting on the plot work!