How to create the New Zealand box – another easy-to-make compost container for hot compost to be used in your organic garden.

Perhaps the best small-scale system for the relatively energetic composter is a design known as the New Zealand box.

This home-made New Zealand hot-compost box is a bottomless wooden box with ventilation spaces between the wall boards, and its face is easily removable to facilitate turning. Since the compost rests directly on the ground, a lid is normally added to prevent nutrients leaking from the pile during heavy rains.

A New Zealand box, or something similar, can be made at home with a minimum of skill. It can be moved to a new location fairly easily if required, and it keeps the compost neatly out of sight.

A popular variation has two or three compartments in a row. The compost is turned from one box into another, and the empty box is then used to accumulate the material for a new batch of compost.

It is ideal for those people who would like to create a compost pile but cannot accumulate that much kitchen and yard wastes to make a really big pile.

There have been situations where the composter used this idea to build just one box and made the box approximately 3 ft wide by 3 ft long by 2 ft high. (1 meter wide by 1 meter long x 3/4 meter high). It worked quite nicely.

So if you are energetic or would like to create hot compost but cannot accumulate that much kitchen and yard waste to make a huge pile, try the abridged version of the home-made New Zealand Hot Compost Box described in the paragraph above. Whether you go big or small, the New Zealand Hot Compost Box is easy to make and easy to use.

Although so far I have focused on compost containers for hot composting, there are other ways to compost. These other methods of composting will be discussed in the next few posts.

Be healthy! Stay Healthy!

Marcie

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