What is Jadam, an anaerobic extract? Just guessing if it stays in the barrel that long. I did a barrel of pond plants like that last year and worked it into my zucchini bed after it turned black and stinky. The growth this season is phenomenal, but I let it mellow over the winter before planting. Water hyacinth has a very high lignin content and two months in the barrel wasn’t quite enough to dissolve it. Nice chunky stuff that grows really fast and makes beautiful compost as well.
I have a low tech bokashi thing too. Kitchen waste goes into a plastic coffee can with a lid so it doesn’t stink. Alot of wets go in there, leftover coffee and grounds, and yoghurt whey (the liquid that gets dumped out) to innoculate it. After a few days the can is full and stuff is already turning to goo. It either goes in the compost heap or if I think a garden is too dry I bury it 18” deep one hole at a time over the winter. My gardens are in sand, it seems to make a subsurface muck bed that holds onto water and nutrients. It cooks a bit in the spring but really releases the nutrients when the ground heats up in the summer. Really I just want the stuff out of the house and into the garden with as little work as possible, and this method fits the bill.
The whole KNF thing I find fascinating however I think it really works best from a practical standpoint. The farmers who had this knowledge were really only working with what materials they had and problems they faced because they had too. I grow weeds up to use the biomass too. My grandma used to raise pigs off the weeds in her yard. I hear you about the raised eyebrows, that you did something useful with a weed.
I made some homemade tuna head emulsion this week. I use the anoxic methods for teas, just stirred 2x per day.
