So would this be the end product that you make (or similar, at least)?
I'm kind of at a loss at what to say. I added bokashi to my soil because I had plenty of it, but I would say that my plants responded well to it. I use rabbit manure compost and everyone is going to have different results from the compost. If you want to try it out, just make sure that you keep enough 'kashi to top-dress with. Barley, I add it my soil and as a top-dressing. Barley has chitinase, which breaks down chitin(crustacean).
Yeah I just seem to be getting two different definitions for “Bokashi”.
I'm only using the bran for everything. Like I said though, I'm buying wheat bran 25gal/$14 and using expanded EM1 $35/5gal. I also had to buy the carboy jugs/airlock and molasses. It was def a good buy. The 'kashi bran will keep your worm bin warm all winter long. I had snow and ice piled on my tarp, but it was steaming warm when I opened it. However, it turned into a mouse hotel.
The book that I read about this said that it is redundant putting the bokashi food scraps in the worm bin. They said that the 'kashi compost has more enzymes and you should just use it in the corner of a garden or the bottom of a pot and cover with dirt. It sounds interesting, but I was cutting trees down to make room for a garden and I had a tree bounce back at my leg. It was a smaller tree, but it still busted up my leg. I just know to not be mind-numbing stoned next time. I was more worried about dropping the tree on my dogs. Anyways, that's why I'm on the computer this week. I have some bokashi compost to use in my garden and plants to plant, but I had to take the week off.
Ok, thanks. I think I read somewhere it is hard to get that EM1 in Canada, but I'll look into it.
It can get confusing, it's all pretty much the same, just both liquid and dry versions of the same Efficient Microbes like EM1.
Well, I’ll look into the EM1, but it seems uber expensive in Canada! But it seems the advice is to make my own, and then like you said, I can use different types of bran.
Its been a struggle to get here! Hyroot led me to using Grokashi/SIP and I don't think that I'll look back. I feel dumb that I didn't want to believe him at first and it took convincing... I've been adding greensand, azomite, and a very small amount of Mn sulfate to the bran. However, I read that it is better to add Mn to woody compost, so the humic acid will chelate Mn. I'll get there soon with my worm bin, which is going a lot faster now.