|
09-14-09, 12:24 PM | #1 |
Administrator
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Germantown, WI
Posts: 5,525
Thanks: 1,162
Thanked 374 Times in 305 Posts
|
Better tomatoes via a fertilizer of human urine
Yep, pee. Apparently this increased crop production by over 4x! It also works on other plants as well. The study
So, I guess ya need to start filling those self watering planters in your bathroom Hig! Better Tomatoes Via a Fertilizer of...Human Urine? | Popular Science
__________________
Current project - To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. & To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. |
09-15-09, 02:12 PM | #2 |
The Gardener
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Manitoba - Canada
Posts: 492
Thanks: 17
Thanked 8 Times in 7 Posts
|
EEEWWW!
Plus...there's a tube...that means in the summer I don't even have to go back inside to pee. |
09-15-09, 03:54 PM | #3 |
Helper EcoRenovator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 75
Thanks: 0
Thanked 10 Times in 7 Posts
|
My plants get a combination of ovine and human urine...and the odd squirt of canine, filine, lapine, rodent, and batrachian urine. Of course, birds mix their urine with their feces as it comes out, so my plants get fertilized with a bit of bird urea along with the uric acid crystals expelled by the insects and spiders inhabiting the garden.
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. |
09-16-09, 10:34 PM | #4 |
Master EcoRenovator
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Western Wisconsin.
Posts: 913
Thanks: 127
Thanked 82 Times in 71 Posts
|
and here I peed on stuff to keep the rabbits away.
|
07-30-13, 05:13 PM | #5 |
Lurking Renovator
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 16
Thanks: 12
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
I did hear from somewhere that mixing Urine with water - At a ratio of about one to four - Would help fertilize plants. And hey, It reduces use of the five-gallon flush toilet (Which is where a lot of our time is going by using it, No joke)
|
11-24-13, 07:06 AM | #6 |
Too Many Projects
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: georgia
Posts: 91
Thanks: 0
Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts
|
We've been putting a 1:4 mix on the flowers for 22 years. I was initially worried about buildup of mineral salts in the soil but this hasn't proven to be a problem. The biggest problem is the bucket of whiz stinking up the bathroom before morning.
|
11-24-13, 08:55 AM | #7 |
Apprentice EcoRenovator
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Lakehills, Tx
Posts: 168
Thanks: 4
Thanked 10 Times in 9 Posts
|
I lived across from some drunks many moons ago. As drunks do, they would not always go inside to pee. They would go to the side of the house and pee, the side of the house where they had cucumbers growing.
When I would see them picking the cucumbers it made my stomach turn. |
11-25-13, 12:11 AM | #8 |
Lots of questions
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: San Jose, CA
Posts: 73
Thanks: 27
Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts
|
|
11-25-13, 11:28 AM | #9 | |
Too Many Projects
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: georgia
Posts: 91
Thanks: 0
Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts
|
Quote:
Urine makes an excellent starter for a compost pile as it will encourage decomposition of just about any vegetative material. I've seen a pressure treated deck destroyed because of poorly aimed "used" beer. |
|
05-01-14, 01:00 PM | #10 | |
Supreme EcoRenovator
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 4,004
Thanks: 303
Thanked 723 Times in 534 Posts
|
Quote:
If you allowed yourself to become aware of these things, you might become something I'm sure you do not want to become... an activist. -AC P.S.: Then there's THIS.
__________________
I'm not an HVAC technician. In fact, I'm barely even a hacker... |
|
|
|