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Old 15-05-2008, 09:52 AM
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Hello Folks,

I've a wormery with no worms at present. Could I use it as a Bokashi bin instead and top it up weekly?


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Old 15-05-2008, 09:55 AM
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as long as it has a sump and tap, I don't see why not!
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No, a bokashi bin needs to be air tight so that you get the right reaction - a wormery isn't so it'll stink and go off.
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Alison is right, I didn't realise wormerys weren't air tight!
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Why not get some worms to colonise the bin? 10 minutes in someones old compost heap will get you loads.
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Digger,

That's what I'm going to do now.

As an aside the the compost go from the bokashi to the wormery?

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I put my bokashi in the compost bin (although I've also burried some in a bean trench recently) as I wouldn't want to put that volume in the wormery in one go.
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