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Which suits you best – Compost bin or Worm farm? All QuizzesCompost bins process your scraps via above ground, partially buried, or rotating chambers.
- Processes lots of food scraps (limit meat and diary).
- Above ground and tumblers compost garden waste too.
- Low maintenance.
Produces fluffy compost for fertalising, mulching and building up your soil. You can even use it as potting mix and plant straight into it.
See benefitsWorms break down food scraps into solid and liquid nutrients in traditional multi-tray and new below ground farms.
- Processes small to medium amounts of food scraps, primarily fruit and vegetables.
- Suitable for indoor as well as outdoor placement.
- A bit more maintenance.
All worm farms produce rich worm casting fertaliser. Traditional farms also produce lots of liquid fertiliser for your plants.
See benefitsBokashi uses anaerobic bacteria to ferment food waste in a sealed kitchen bench bin.
- Ferments medium amounts of food scraps, all kinds!
- Suitable for indoor or outdoor placement.
- Low maintenance, except when emptying.
Produces fermented food scraps (you then bury as a soil improver) and concentrated liquid for dilutoin as fertiliser for your plants, or a probiotic all purpose cleaner.
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