C N Pankhurst

How to Make Bokashi Compost from Your Kitchen Waste & How to Make Bokashi Serum C N Pankhurst

If you are a gardener, growing vegetables or graceful flowers and you want a bountiful healthy harvest, this book will show you how to obtain it. How to make Bokashi compost is simple once you know how. Even making the serum is easy. But because the science of Bokashi is highly reverent to understanding the use of the compost, gardeners often feel overwhelmed when starting out. For over two years the author has been making and using Bokashi compost and has experienced first hand how kitchen waste can become gardener's gold. Making compost takes a lot of work and quite a long time. A certain amount of knowledge is needed to get the ingredients right in order that the compost will be hot and healthy. It also takes quite a lot of strength to move it around. Bokashi is really like a mini compost maker and short time producer. It is as if all that knowledge, experience, ingredients and strength and time were squashed into a little bucket. It really does only take a matter of weeks for the kitchen scraps to leave your counter top before it is compost in the garden awaiting plants to feed and invigorate. In all it takes approx six weeks. In this book the author explains how to make the compost and also how to make the serum to make the compost. Of course the Bokashi bran can be purchased but to have totally control of the process and to bring the cost down to nearly nothing learning to make the serum is very important. The author takes you through the steps of the procedure and makes it as simple as possible.