I have been experimenting to improve the soil at the garden with Bokashi. It is food waste from my kitchen compressed in a special bucket with bokashi flakes (macrobiotic things living in?!). It is something you can buy and I was curious how good they do to poor soil like the one in this garden (it is otherwise very sandy). It usually takes me ~2 month to fill with vegetable peals and cut outs. I usually do not put cooked food wastes (and there are hardly one!) or meat products. There are egg shells though. After it is filled completely, I let it sit in room temperature for 4 weeks, then I bring it to the garden. It needs to be buried inside the soil for another 2-4 weeks (depending on the temperature) before it becomes completely like soil.
As you can see, when I open it, the surface is covered with fungi. I am not sure if this is microbe from the Bokashi flakes, or the mushrooms I put in (I cook a lot of mushrooms. When I the bucket around into the soil, I can see the food waste still keeping the shape. at this pint, it does not look like soil yet.
I made sure that the hole is deep enough so the animals do not dig it up. place the content of the bucket and cover it with the soil.
This is the 3rd time I buried Bokashi bucket this year. I have checked the previous hole and you do not see any food waste, but dark humus looking soil. I guess it is doing something good?!
