urine in the garden

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  1. sweetpea

    sweetpea Junior Member

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    I am usually in too big of a hurry to dilute urine, and I've just been using it straight with no problem. But I also use compost which I think helps keep the pH balanced. The only thing it does is make the weeds HUGE...so I have to make sure they are outta there first.

    I put it in gallon milk jugs with screw tops in the bathroom, so it's easily portable. The air doesn't get to it and it doesn't get that ammonia smell. I make compost tea with it in a garbage can, it goes further that way. It's easy for girls to use a large cottage cheese or large yogurt container, collect it in that, then decant it into the milk jug.

    If you saturate sawdust with urine, that sawdust will hold onto it until it's broken down, and it won't be available to your plants for possibly a year. But it is the best way to compost sawdust, it just takes time. And whatever nitrogen is left over will be available to the plant roots.
     
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    My girlfriend always asks me why I pee on the lawn or the citrus.... 'theres a toilet just inside' apparently.

    My plants would beg to differ. They love hitting the piss!
     
  3. Michaelangelica

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    https://www.howtodothings.com/home-garden/how-to-use-urine-as-a-fertilizer
     
  4. Michaelangelica

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    A good book?

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    https://www.amazon.com/Liquid-Gold-...TF8&coliid=I1G8FOBCPOC0GK&colid=3FZHYE9WJDY0P
     
  5. sweetpea

    sweetpea Junior Member

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    Michaelangelica, you know, the Chinese have been doing this for thousands of years, and we think we're just now reinventing the wheel :) I'll bet you Sepp Holzer uses *everything* *grin*
     
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    Yes agreed sweetpea,
    I remember reading an Australian "Who-dunn-it" set in the Victorian Goldfields in the 1850's.
    The Chinese were paid to remove night soil etc from the settlements.
    They then sold back to the residents fresh vegetables !
    They didn't need to dig for gold! It was handed to them!
    Occasionally you still see Chinese Market gardens They are amazingly productive! Unfortunately most Chinese families are no longer peasants , most are doctors etc!

    Re-inventing the wheel? Well some still try. . .
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    Even urine may be re-invented!
    https://www.impactlab.com/2009/07/04/hydrogen-produced-from-urine/
     
  7. kaviare

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    I've just planted a lemon tree - one more and a lime to go in. I've been using a bucket while waiting for my morning shower to warm up, and that goes on. (As an aside, apparently there's a public pee in the shower' campaign in portugul to savewater from flushing.) But how much is too much? If I give my morning 'yeild' (usually a couple inches in a standard bucket, and HIGHLY induluted due to overnight processes :p) to the citrus in rotation, so they get it every three days, will that be an ok amount, or too much? Once I get the rest of the garden growing I intend to dilute and share it, and maybe 'harvest' more - although that may have to wait until my sister moves out!
     
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    What about my dog's urine? Is it okay if he pees on my tomatoes (etc)?
     
  9. butchasteve

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    not if you want to eat tomatos straight off the vine like i do!!
     
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    urine is normally a sterile substance so in fact I think there should be no problem
     
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    https://www.tbyil.com/Hearty_Tomatoes.htm

     
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    I wonder what proportions/ratios were used.
     

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