posted 3 years ago
Hello Jon! While I am certainly not an expert, I have tried out Bokashi as a way of storing future compost, indoors, in air-tight bottles, for transport to a future location. I have some bottles that have been sealed for a year and a half now, and I did an experiment where I recreated what I put into that bottle - allowing for me to bury a one month old Bokashi product and a year and a half old Bokashi product in the same area. Both broke down at approximately the same rate and seemed to have the same consistency/smell.
From what I have heard/read, the Bokashi process creates a very high pressure and high acidity environment, which kills off any weed seeds and bacterial pathogens. Things like chemicals and other contaminants will still remain.
I am planning to try an experiment in the future where I fill a bottle with the most diseased plant I can find, and one bottle with a mix of various weedy plants, both those that spread by rhizomes as well as by hardy seeds. I will take the first bottle and mix it into an area where I plant the same type of plant that got the disease, and I will take the second bottle and mix it into an area where I know the soil has not been contaminated by weed seeds, and see if anything comes up.
It's never too late to start gardening, and even the smallest project is worthwhile.