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.

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Home-Made Compost Container –The Compost Drum And The Compost Tumbler

The fourth type of home-made compost containers, the Compost Tumbler and the Compost Drum, are extremely easy to use. A rotating barrel composter can be made from a large drum with aeration holes punched in it . You can also have fins inside the drum to lift and mix the compost materials. A hinged loading door in the side allows wastes to be added gradually.

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Today we will look at the third type of compost bin — the home-made, sturdier, outside bin. These types of compost bins may require a little more skill to build but are very inexpensive.

The four sides of this sturdier, home-made compost bin can be made of almost anything:

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All sorts of composting units are available commercially. Some are cones covering a collecting basket in a pit. Others have doors or chutes to let you harvest the compost out of it from the bottom. On this post we will look at three of the six types of the most popular compost containers which may be used by gardeners: the commercially sold compost containers and the home-made pen.

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Because finished compost does not burn plant roots, large quantities of compost can be applied to the soil at any time. Here are a few ways you can use your finished compost:

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Have you ever wondered how hot your composting pile should be in order for it to compost well? If so, follow along as I explain how to identify the different stages of the composting timetable of a hot compost pile.

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If you are using a compost bin and have a compost pile in it, you will probably find that the summer’s high heat accelerates the composting process (providing the pile is humid and it has been turned to allow more oxygen to circulate). On the other hand, perhaps your pile won’t heat up. What can you do? What are compost activators? When and how can compost activators help?

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