So, its obviously fall if you are reading this fresh out the oven. I have lots of pine straw and leaves and mulch and and etc.
I also have about 60 gallons of bokashi at my disposal. As well as a gallon of cultured EMe that needs to get used up by the end of the year.
So, I'm going to make a fermented starchy compost starter.
Normally we would use rice wash. (That's right, the rinsings of your rice can be saved and used) Well, I'm a health nut to some extent and don't eat rice. So I'm using potato starch left over from the beginning of the year's baking.
1tsp-1T potato starch
1T EMe
1T molassases
1 gallon of natural water
Mix the ingredients and ferment for one week.
Pour over leaf moulding or compost or the toilet or septic tank, or the sump of an aquaponics system or just straight into a small pond. It'll clean up sludge and decompose a pile of dying organic matter in a short amount of time.
The ia my first run at leaf mould but I'm well equipped for composting this in less than six months as opposed to the typical 2 year process.
What I have done so far is a pile of mulch at the bottom over an old shower curtain, then some large pieces of decomposing tree and bokashi. Next I raked alot of leaves and pinestraw up and piled it up by the wheelbarrow on the mulch. After every wheelbarrow I smoothed the top out and sprinkled a half gallon of bokashi across it. After 5-6 layers.of this I ran out of leaves. So, I threw a some weight on top to squish my pile down. This is to bring up my carbon to nitrogen ratio per overall volume and less air space. In spring I'll add some african nightcrawler worms. For now I have to keep my population up over the winter. The species is African native and doesn't handle winters well.
I'll get to the liquids later tonight or this week and will also be adding fully fruited wood loving mushrooms to drop spores. These will do most of the work over the winter. Many species of mushroom prefer the cold weather!
Project starting 10-22-15 due by 5-1-16