Compost My Kitchen Waste: Bokashi, Worms or Both?

Quick guide: which should I choose?

Mostly fruit and vegetable scraps?
Choose a wormery. It turns suitable scraps into worm compost and liquid feed.

Want to include cooked food, meat, fish or dairy?
Choose Bokashi. It ferments a wider range of kitchen scraps, but the fermented contents still need to finish breaking down in a garden composter or in the soil.

Want to deal with both kinds of scraps?
Use a Bokashi bucket and a wormery side by side, for different scraps. 

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Choose your composting kit

Wiggly Bokashi Organko Essential Compost Kitchen Waste Value Pack - Black

Bokashi Organko Essential Compost Kit – Turn Kitchen Waste into Living Soil

£90.00

For almost all your kitchen food waste

Bokashi can handle cooked food, meat, fish and dairy as well as everyday scraps. After fermenting in the bucket, the contents need to finish breaking down in a garden composter or in the soil.

Wiggly Urbalive Worm Composter Wormery - Complete Kit OLIVE *NEW* / Start Now (Includes 500g Composting Worms)

Wiggly Urbalive Worm Composter Wormery - Complete Kit

£179.95

For fruit and vegetable scraps

Feed suitable scraps to composting worms and make your own worm compost and liquid feed for your plants.

Compact Worm Farm from Wiggly Wigglers - Complete Kit

Wiggly Wigglers Urbalive COMPACT Worm Farm – with Complete Value Pack

£119.95

For smaller households and tighter spaces

A smaller wormery for getting started with fruit and vegetable scraps.

Wiggly’s LIVE Bokashi Active Bran – Turn Food Waste into Living Soil | Made on Our Herefordshire Farm

Already have a Bokashi bucket?

Wiggly’s LIVE Bokashi Active Bran is made on our Herefordshire farm and used with a Bokashi bucket.

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Which system should I choose?

  • Wiggly Bokashi Organko Essential Compost Kitchen Waste Bucket - Olive

    Choose Bokashi for the wider mix of kitchen waste

    Bokashi is an indoor fermentation system. Put your food scraps in the bucket, sprinkle on live Bokashi bran and press them down. It can take food that isn’t suitable for a wormery, including cooked food, meat, fish and dairy.

    After fermenting in the bucket, Bokashi is not finished compost. Add it to a garden composter or bury it in the soil, then give it time to break down before planting into that spot.

  • Choose a wormery for fruit and vegetable scraps

    A wormery is home to composting worms. Feed them suitable scraps and they’ll produce worm compost and liquid feed for your plants. Add food in small amounts and let the worms get on with it.

    Fruit and vegetable scraps, tea leaves and coffee grounds are good choices. Keep meat, dairy and oily leftovers out of the wormery.

  • Want to compost all sorts of kitchen scraps? Use both.

    Bokashi and worms work well as separate systems. Put suitable fruit and vegetable scraps into the wormery. Use Bokashi for cooked food, meat, fish and dairy. When the Bokashi has fermented, finish it in a garden composter or in the soil — don’t put it into the wormery.

How it works

  • Bokashi

    Kitchen scraps + live bran → ferment in the bucket → finish in a garden composter or soil

  • Wormery

    Fruit and veg scraps → composting worms → worm compost and liquid feed

Ready to get started?

Pick the system that matches the scraps you want to compost. Start with the right kit, follow the simple steps and let the microbes or worms do their thing.

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