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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Bokashi - prep [found in FB group Electroculture Gardening Abundance]
  • Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 20:31:58 -0700

How to prepare Bokashi
Inputs
• 1 sack of chicken manure
• 1/2 sack of charcoal or carbon dust
• 1 sack of saw dust
• 2 litres of molasses
• 2 litres of activated M.M solution
• 1 sack of maize bran
• 1/2 sack of chopped grasses and banana
stems
• 2 kg of wood ash
• 2 kg of fresh cow dung
• Put the inputs in layers and later mix them
well.
• Mix water, molasses and fresh cow dung
in a basin and sprinkle it while mixing the
heaped inputs.
• The material should have an optimal water
content (moisture). The best practical way, is by squeeze the mixture in the hand-palm and no water comes of the finger. It forms a ball when you open when you open the palm and collapses easily.
• Remember that if mixture is dry add water and when its very humid add chicken
manure or dry soil or coffee husks.
• When it has a lot of water, the temperature generated during the fermentation process
will be low resulting into a “rotten bokashi”
and if it has less water (moisture content),
the temperature generated will be very high which will results into “burnt bokashi”
• After mixing and the moisture content
is right, leave the material in a heap-like
structure of 1 metre tall, if the quantities permit, cover with banana leaves and it should be under a shelter or shade.
• A day after, the material start to generate temperature. Turn the bokashi
to lower the temperature and to accelerate uniform fermentation.
• For the first 4 days, turn the heap twice a day (morning and evening) and then after
turn it once a day for 10 days.
• Each day you turn the heap, lower its height by widening its base up to about
one foot tall.
• On the 15 day after preparation, when it cools, put the bokashi fertilizer in gunny sacs to storage and apply it during rainy season.
• Bokashi can be applied in the hole directly during planting of annual crops or during transplanting of seedlings. For perennial
crops, spread it around the plant (where feeding roots are located).


--
Lawrence F. London, Jr.
lfljvenaura@gmail.com






  • [permaculture] Bokashi - prep [found in FB group Electroculture Gardening Abundance], Lawrence London, 08/14/2024

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