So I was reading the Mother Earth News this morning,
and they had an article on homemade liquid fertilizers.
Human urine came up,
and they advocated putting a bucket of sawdust on the deck
to aim at
with the goal of producing a nutrient-rich mulch for use in your garden.
Hmmmm, what say you fellow gardeners?
I am thinking I waste a lot of valuable resources off the front porch every morning! :-[
I have to walk around the corner of the yard to the treeline…but I frequently give em a dose of Nitrogen…
They seem no worse for wear…oh yeah maybe they are where I get my juniper berries …kind of puts
an entire new meaning to the term Belgian Bier Funk. :o
Ahhhh But I seem no worse for wear either… ;D
Kind of reminds me of Anthony Hopkins and his lemon tree in “The Last Indian”
In addition, as long as you’re not a vegetarian, the urine acts as a pest repellent. Rabbits, deer, and such tend to stay away from “carnivore urine”. You can go out and buy expensive versions at the store or you can just provide it yourself.
I could see what pinnah said about in a pile of FINE sawdust. Then you could put that
in the compost pile where it would undergo the “sweat” rendering it just wonderful for
gardening IMO. Besides that, methinks it is considered sterile upon exit…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine So to me sterile is even more free of microbes
than the “Sanitary” condition required for our beloved hobby of brewing.
Edit: further down the page it does say that upon exit it has managed to get some bacteria
so this term " sterile" is variable.
Also down the page is a specific reference to fertilizer usages
About a decade ago I attended a Home and Garden show, and listened to a talk by Paul James, host of gardening and cooking shows on HGTV. In the Q&A someone asked him about getting rid of moles. His opinion was that the best repellent by far was human urine. At this point the guy in front of me said, “But they’re too damn fast!”, which broke up the whole room. A couple years later I had a major mole problem, and tried it. It works!
I don’t think I’d use it on any food crops. I know mine is loaded with ibuprofen, glucosamine, and Flonase residues ;D
urine is high in nitrogen, and nitrogen can be very beneficial to plants. However you can also provide too much N, which can burn them - especially if they are already getting nitrogen as part of other feedings.
I pee on the compost bin all the time. It gets tended in and builds the nature of the compost.
As for the ick factor above, meh. A little pee is no worse than huge chunks of cow manure in terms of ick factor, but the plants love it.
When I put my vegetable plants in I’ll pee everywhere. Dang cats do it. Why not me? If urine can keep them from crapping in my raised beds I will use it. After all there is a plentiful supply. ;D
Does anybody else put spent grain in the compost? I usually leave about 1/8th for the birdies and put the rest in compost. Since there’s so much of it, it does a good job covering up rotting smells, at least until it starts to ferment.