I just received my Bokashi Buckets about half an hour ago and I've been busy fitting the taps and chopping up putting a few scraps into one of them. I'm really looking foreward to having lots of good soil improving stuff to add to my allotment very soon, and also use the "tea" to feed my plants too.

I have a couple of small queries though. There's a list of do's and don'ts, most of which are self explanitory. There is one thats puzzled me and thats the fact that tea bags are a no no for putting into the bin. Whats the reason for that? Is it just because the tea is in a bag or is it because of something to do with the tea leaves themselves? I was intending to tip out any tea from bags into it rather than put the bags in as one, and then put the bags into the worm bin that I have. Would this be okay?

The other question I have regards gravy. Is that okay to put in the bucket even though its a very salty product?

I'm pleased to see that even bones can be put into the bin as well. I'll probably smash any bones with a hammer before I put them in there though.

Thanks to Grow Your Own magazines August 2009 edition, I now know why I'm not supposed to put tea bags in the buckets. Apparently its because there is too much water in them. I'd have thought that it would be okay then if you squeezed the water out of them, but never mind. They can go either in my wormery or straight into my compost bin anyway.

hiya Dynamo,

Tea bags are ok to put into a wormery or bokashi bin BUT you do have to let them dry out fully first.

also we find with our wormery in the kitchen at work that if you break up the tea bags as you put them in they decompose much faster

Sorry no one replied to your post, but i do hope you managed to pick up some great tips from Grow Your Own magazine