Traditional compost piles tend to be less active during the winter as the core temperatures drop. Bokashi composting offers a great solution for composting your food scraps during these colder months (and in colder climates). You can continue to compost all of your food scraps in your bokashi kitchen composter through the winter.

Tips for using your bokashi bucket in the winter

You can continue to use your indoor bokashi kitchen composter in the same way as during?the rest of the year. Keep adding your food scraps and sprinkling on the bokashi bran. There are just a few simple things to consider when bokashi composting in the winter:

1. If you normally keep your bokashi bucket?outside, move it to somewhere where temperatures will not drop below freezing. Your bokashi bucket should be kept at around room temperature whilst it is being filled and during the fermentation process ?Keeping you bokashi bucket?inside is often most convenient as it is close to where food waste is produced.
2. Store your bokashi compost accelerator (bokashi bran) in a place where temperatures will not fall below freezing. Freezing may kill the EM bacteria and therefore make your bokashi bran?ineffective.
3. If possible, leave your bokashi kitchen composter for an extra few days to complete the fermentation process, rather than just the two weeks usually suggested. The pre-compost may take slightly longer to break down after being buried during the winter. So?make sure the fermentation process has had plenty of time before transferring the pre-compost outside.

What to do with your pre-compost in the winter

Snow may cover your garden during some (or all) of the winter and your soil may be too frozen to dig into. But don’t worry, there are still a number of ways in which you can add the bokashi pre-compost to your garden. Read more.