Confession – I am befuddled by the composter. It appears to have no airholes. More importantly, the lid sticks on so tight I can’t get it off, lol. So, perhaps my amazing find from Freecycle isn’t so amazing after all. I’ve been reading about composting with worms and it appears that if the compost tumbler has airholes, there can be worms in it. See the second sentence above. No airholes=no worms.
However, I have located plans to build my own worm composter. Why am I so into building things myself? I could just shell out the cash and have the nice, new thing that is pretty much guaranteed to work shipped to my door. But no, not me. I always have to do things the complicated way and in this particular case, I will be drilling holes through plastic bins and whatnot.
Part of me is tempted to put the compost project aside, but then I get distracted by visions of gorgeous dark moist nutritious humus. I’ll give it a go and see what happens, what can it hurt?
Randomly, every time I see the word “humus” it always reminds me of “hummus” and makes me hungry. Not that I want to eat soil or anything…
