I’m working my way through my garden To Do list this morning, and one item was checking up on my liquid comfrey feed project. It’s hard to believe the comfrey has been in there since the back end of June, but I didn’t want to check on it too soon and be disappointed and then I got sidetracked.
I am very pleased with the results – as you can see I made about a litre of comfrey feed, which will be great on fruiting vegetables next year (diluted!). The best thing about making it like this, without any water, is that it doesn’t stink. When you make comfrey liquid by immersing comfrey leaves in water, the stench is legendary.
To learn more about making comfrey liquid feed, check out my article on growing your own fertilizer.
I’m halfway through the final comfrey cut of the year and have emptied the leaf skeletons (they look like something that’s been hidden under a peat bog for millennia) into the compost bin and refilled the bokashi bin with more comfrey leaves for the next batch of feed.
Having found another use for at least one of the bokashi bins, I feel less guilty about the fact that I’m giving up bokashi composting. I’ve been doing it for around 2 years, so I think I’ve given it a fair trial and I find it unpleasant in the extreme. The contents of the bin smell horribly acidic. It may not smell like ‘bin juice’ (as Pete calls it), but the smell is nearly as unpleasant. A full bokashi bin is heavy, and as the contents remain pretty much as you put them in, when you empty it you get very messy. I wore rubber gloves to empty the last load into the outdoor compost bin, and then I had to wash them to get the ick off.
We throw away very little food that can’t go in the worm bin or the outdoor compost bins (and we’re constantly working to make it even less) and so we don’t really need the bokashi bins anyway. My composting urges are more than catered for with 3 compost bins and 2 wormeries.