Composting has an ick factor.
I am totally uninterested in countertop composters that justincinerate your waste rather than make real compost.
It sat next to the worm tower Id been gifted, which was empty.
I felt strongly the worms had their territory and I had mine, and they were best kept separate.
It didnt require high heats or constant turning over and balancing with browns.
I kept seeing ads for theSubPod.
I could not get over how efficient the worms were, just plowing through the food.
I was constantly pulling incredibly good-looking, rich, dark compost out to put in my boxes.
Inside are two storage chambers.
You add your waste to one side, and when its full, you use the other.
When youre not filling the pod, you put the lid down.
The box portion has holes everywhere for the worms to go in and out of.
You just dont realize that sitting under you are thousands of worms.
But you might get them from places likeUncle Jims Worm Farmif you lack this confidence.
You upend the bag and dump the worms in.
As worms go, red wrigglers are pretty innocuous.
The sheer amount of work they do is impressive.
I feel really responsible for my worms.
It also comes with some natural-fiber mats that go into each of the pod compartments.
You put the food waste under them, and they insulate the food a bit.
Over time, the worms will compost them, too.
While you canbuy new ones, Ive generally found them unnecessary.
The worms do a lot of balancing.
Your brown materials, like paper, dry leaves or branches, balance the stuff from your kitchen.
With worms, you want to take an extra stepworms dont like citrus, garlic or onions.
That stuff can go into your city compost.
The thing that separates this from regular composting is that it just takes so much less time.
My worms make a weeks worth of waste into compost in about ten days.
Within sixty days, I have an entire bin full of compost ready to go.
it’s possible for you to sift it, using acompost sifter,but I dont bother.
The larger particles can continue to compost in place wherever they go.
SubPod has expanded to come in abunch of sizesfor smaller spaces like apartment balconies, which seems useful.
The worms and I are in our fourth year together and honestly, were pretty happy.
