Turn ALL your food scraps in rich compost with a Bokashi Kitchen Composter.

Add your kitchen waste, including cooked food, meat fish and dairy products, together with a handful of the magic bokashi bran to the specialised Blackwall composter. After two weeks the contents can be safely transferred to your compost bin or dug straight into the garden.

The Kitchen Composter is small enough to be kept in the kitchen (under the sink, for example), and the bokashi bran actively neutralises any odours. The composting system is clean and easy to use and will quickly become part of your kitchen routine.

The Kitchen Composter kit includes everything you need

• Two Kitchen Composters each with carry handle, air-tight lid, drainage tap, inner drain tray and a liquid drain cup
• 600g of Bokashi bran (2 months supply)
• Full instructions

Two Kitchen Composters are supplied so that you can rotate the composters and continually compost your food waste.

Bokashi Kitchen Composter description

• Price: £58.50
• Dimensions: 32cm wide x 25cm deep x 37cm high
• Weight: 1200 grams
• Capacity: 15 litres
• Made from partially recycled plastic
• Guaranteed for 2 years

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This post describes the science in layman’s terms and invites readers to comment on their favourite way to recycle food waste. Of course, I added my two-pennies worth about the merits of bokashi composting! So, by composting our own food waste in a compost heap or bin, the carbon dioxide generated is far less harmful to the environment than the methane generated from that same waste going to landfill – it’s a no-brainer mate!

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I’ve written about the merits of bokashi juice on my Bokashi Instructions page. There I talked about how EM-rich bokashi juice (the by-product to bokashi composting) can prevent algae build-up in drains. I’ve also noticed how well bokashi juice cleans stains from around the plug when it’s poured down the sink, but with commercial products being developed, this takes the benefits of micro-organisms to a whole new level.

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Kate provides us with a bit of know-how so we can ‘avoid some of these pitfalls and reap the benefits’ of home composting. Because, as Carl Nichols says, home composting, whether it’s a wormery, a Bokashi bin, or saving fruit and veg scraps to put in to your compost bin, doesn’t just give you nice, enriched soil to feed back into your plants, it also cuts down on your waste, clears our air, and keeps our planet from overheating. Read the ‘Take the compost challenge’ article.

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Collect fallen leaves for leaf-mould. Store moist leaves in black plastic bags and after a year or so you’ll have a rich, crumbly mulch your plants will love.

Much as I love autumn, I do dread picking up all the leaves. It’s never ending, especially when you live at the end of a wind tunnel like we do. But great things can come of all that hard work. Here’s how to turn those damp leaves into a rich mulch for your garden:

Stack your leaves in a wire mesh compost bin

You can mix a few leaves into your compost heap, but too many will make the compost slimy. You’re better off stacking large quantities separately, using a wire mesh bin to keep them tidy. You can easily cobble together a wire mesh compost bin by wrapping chicken wire around four supporting stakes. The secret is not to let the leaves dry out, so you should sprinkle them with a little water during dry periods, or turn them occasionally to mix wet leaves with dry.

Pack leaves into black plastic bags

If you have a smaller garden you can fill black plastic bin liners with your leaves. Rake them up just after rain so they’re nice and moist and pack them into the bags. Tie the bags at the top and pierce them to encourage air to circulate. Alternatively, you can use biodegradable leaf sacks. Stack the bags somewhere out of the way and forget about them for at least a year while the leaves break down into a rich, crumbly leaf-mould. Some leaves take longer to decompose than others. You’ll find, for example, that oak, hornbeam and alder leaves will take longer to break down than sycamore, chestnut and beech. Avoid using evergreen leaves for leaf-mould because they take too long to break down.

Good things come to those who wait

Although leaf-mould takes longer to make than compost, once you’ve packed the leaves in a wire mesh bin or plastic bags you can just leave them alone. After a year to eighteen months you’ll have a rich, crumbly mulch, which you can either spread around the plants and borders in your garden, dig in as a soil improver, or mix with your potting compost.

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This Compost Box from Crocus is a traditional style wooden compost bin made from pressure-treated FSC wooden slats.

The compost bin is guaranteed for 15 years against rot

Dimensions: 650 litre capacity, 100x100x70cm

It will be delivered flat-packed and is quick and easy to set up.

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You’ve embarked on your bokashi composting adventure, you’re feeling good about your green credentials, but to your dismay, your bokashi bin leaks. This is what to do:

My Bokashi Bin Leaks! How do I Fix It?

This is a problem for two reasons:

1. It smells bad
2. The composting process is anaerobic; a leaking bin means air can get in and your waste may not ferment properly.

So, what do you do?

Well, you need a two pronged attack – fix the leak and reduce the juice. If, after that, your bokashi bucket still leaks, you’ll need to replace the tap’s washers.

1. Fix the leak

Assuming the leak is coming from the tap at the base of the unit, the likelyhood is that the silicon seal isn’t doing its job. Remember, it should only be finger tight. Any tighter and the washer may stretch. You can’t access the nut without first removing the waste, so try to tighten it by turning the tap clockwise. If this doesn’t work, try applying some silicone sealant to where the tap joins the bokashi bin. Otherwise, I’m afraid, it’s a case of removing the waste, replacing the seals and making sure the nut is only finger tight.

2. Reduce the juice

You can easily reduce the amount of juice your bokashi bin produces by only adding dry material. Avocado skins, egg shells, potato peelings and bread crusts, for example, won’t produce much liquid. Fruit scraps like pineapple peelings and apple cores, and tea bags do produce a lot of juice, and for now at least, should go straight on the compost heap, or dug directly into the garden. While your bin is drying out, stand it on a tray just in case there is any further leakage.

3. Replace the washers

The tap screws on to the bokashi bucket and a rubber washer should be placed on both the inside and the outside of the unit. If the nut holding the tap is too tight, the washer may stretch and the seal will be broken. Consider replacing the washers with good quality washing machine inlet hose washers to ensure a water tight seal. You can buy a set of six from Homebase or B&Q for about £1.20. These won’t stretch, which means you can tighten the nut more than you could with the standard issue silicone washers. Once the tap is in position, fill the bucket with water and test for leaks before adding your next batch of bokashi compost.

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Reduce the amount of waste going to landfill and boost the health of your garden with these ten top tips for making compost :

1. Make sure your heap is handy

When setting up your compost heap find a spot in your garden that’s fairly close to the kitchen, so that it’s handy enough so you don’t mind popping out with kitchen waste fairly frequently. And if possible, make sure your compost heap or bin is in the shade, so the compost doesn’t dry out.

2. Build your heap on the cheap

The only piece of equipment you must have to make compost is a garden fork. You don’t even need a compost bin. If you want you can just build a heap and cover it over with some old carpet or cardboard, but a compost bin will keep the compost heap neater. You can build your own using recycled materials such as brick, stone, timber or plastic. For example, you can assemble a bin from old wooden pallets, or cut the bottom out of an old plastic dustbin and press the bin into the soil, keeping the lid to cover it.

3. Think about tomorrow

If you’re making a wooden compost bin, build a four-sided frame about 1 metre cubed that is open at the top and make sure one of the sides can be easily removed so you can turn the heap and extract the ‘cooked’ compost.

4. Protect your stash

If vermin such as rats are present in your area, they may pay your compost heap a visit in the same way that they might visit any other part of the garden. Bury wire netting 30cm deep around your compost heap to keep them out.

5. Help the worms help you

Worms and other soil organisms are crucial for making good quality compost. Make sure you position your heap on a level, well-drained area of soil. The worms will soon find your heap, but if you want to boost your compost production, bags of worms can be bought on the internet. The best worms to get are tiger worms (elsena fetida). Don’t worry about adding too many, their numbers will quickly adjust to suit the conditions.

6. Blend your ‘browns’ and your ‘greens’

Add alternating layers of carbon-rich ‘brown’ materials such as dried leaves, egg boxes, sawdust, dead flower stalks and twigs with soggy, nitrogen-rich ‘green’ materials such as cut grass, manure, tea bags and vegetable and fruit peelings.

7. Get to know the neighbours

Ask the neighbours for any organic matter they might otherwise throw in the rubbish. While you’re at it, offer to gather up compostables from your workplace; unbleached tea bags and coffee grounds break down very quickly and supply proteins, oils and nitrogen. Pile the material on your compost heap to rot down into glorious soil food.

8. Bottoms up

If you have the energy and the motivation, ‘turning’ your compost heap at least once a month will speed up the composting process.

9. Do compost

• Fruit and vegetable peelings
• Coffee grounds
• Tea leaves
• Unbleached tea bags
• Stale bread
• Eggshells
• Sawdust
• Vacuum cleaner dust and hair
• Natural fibres
• Grass cuttings, non-woody prunings and leaves

10. Don’t compost

• Meat, fish and bones
• Cooking oil and fats
• Cooked food
• Dairy products
• Diseased plant material
• Dog and cat waste

Cooked food, meat, fish and dairy can all be safely thrown on the compost heap if they have first been fermented in a Bokashi Bin. But, if in doubt, leave it out. Suspect materials can be sent to your local green waste recycling facility.

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1 refill bag for the Kitchen Waste Composter contains 600g of bokashi bran, which is enough for approximately 2 months. Buy in bulk and save:

1 x 600g   £4.95

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6 x 600g   £23.50

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