I use human urine, woodstove ash, leaves, and rabbit/chicken manure all winter long on my garden rows. I did that last winter, and this year my garden has preformed so well!!!!!
Wow you got it dialed in. ashes yes.manure yes dig down &get the old stuff. Worm castings yes. Get a batch of soil cooking..the idea to create a rich bacteria culture...😮
Why would anyone say it is bazaar to use urine in the garden? I would rather use my urine than cow or horse $hit, that I have no clue what is in there. I have mostly used urine in my hot compost, but I also use it on my tomatoes, peppers, onions and potatoes. I agree, would not use on leafy greens. Thank You Ashley, for vilifying my thinking. You are AWESOME!!!!!
i don’t care if it is in the dirt, I don’t want it used as a foliar feed. I do not want my dog peeing on my lettuce or strawberries and I don’t want human pee, even my own, on them. Even after washing, it is just unappetizing.
I've had great results putting my biochar in 5 gallon buckets, setting it next to my husband's hang out/beer drinking spot and have him fill it up, I let it set pretty much all winter and when my composting ramps up again for the year I start adding it to the heaps in layers. Kind of pre-charging that char before it even gets to the compost.
I also noticed that while it's open, local wild honeybees will constantly be crawling all over the urine soaked char. Dozens of them. A beekeeper friend says they love urine and are drawn to the mineral content in it. Setting it up next to gardens might be beneficial!
I just add the urine to the compost pile. Probably not the most efficient way to fertilize the garden, but it helps the compost and get rid of the urine.
@@MssWinnie No, but I add fresh urine. I add like a few liters per week or similiar, in a compost that is carbon dominated and about 4m3 large. Its negliable. Urine stink if stored. Or if used in massive amounts, like on a farm. Smell should not be a problem
I pee in a bucket on my homestead, food scraps, Scott's TP bucket gets dumped on my compost pile. Then water it in, also remove tarps and let the compost pile get rained on. The Scott's TP has a second life.
Yes your opinion is highly respected. I couldn't help but laugh as you were explaining how your garden bed is being fertilized. Tooooooo funny. And the student to the teacher. 🍎
I take a bucket of water, a gallon of compost, crab shells, salmon and urine then use it fresh after using a Stainless steel strainer and dilute, the best strawberry patch I have ever seen in 25 years of gardening.
Just to add to your comments around the 8:36 mark, it's important to note that the container MUST be sealed for this process to be effective. If not, nitrogen off-gassing will take place over the course of the aging process, thereby reducing the concentration of N to a degree. There are also several studies available now showing that the amount of medications or chemicals like caffeine making into plant tissue is exceedingly small, especially when compared to what comes out of our current wastewater treatment systems. For anyone actually concerned about meds in their water or food, they *should* be using their urine as fertilizer instead of flushing it. A healthy soil biome and sunlight is very effective at breaking down these chemical compounds prior to uptake.
Been using this natural fertilizer for years and your spot on for concentration and situation. I reduce the concentration through Autumn when plants are blooming/fruiting. I also use this through my composting cycles as it reduces the material faster and with leaf mould it is a fantastic corrosive, producing a light and fluffy seed starting medium after 8 months. Fermenting or aged is better although fresh works too. Biochar charging with urine and compost works wonders as a soil amendment, usually layer this under a mulch of garden compost to over winter and repeat before spring planting.
I've used urine as a fertilizer for decades. In fact I did a research project on a tomato, cucumber garden in 2006 with two plots of vegetables: one with organic soil and high quality organic fertilizers such as Plant tone and one with organic soil and diluted urine (10:1 water:urine). The urine plot was the highest yielding and most flavorful. I've also used it to fertilize cannabis when I ran out of my nitrogen formula which created amazing results. Right now, I'm using a JADAM technique of using urine as a fertilizer. Mix a cup of leaf mold into a 5-gallon bucket. Fill the bucket up with urine with a closed lid. Add another cup of leaf mold at the end. I let it sit for 1-3 months. Longer is much better. All you need is 1 tsp/gallon if foliar feeding. 1 tbsp/gallon for roots. It works so well.
Im currently using urine to water my plants on potted plants and it's unbelievably effective. The plants are growing very healthy and their leaves are so shiny and dark green.
I love your story about no dirty footprints in the house so the men can fertilize the garden bed because I have a similar story. In summer time my 2 sons and their buddies playing in the swimming pool will eventually need to go to the toilet and can't go in the house and leave a wet trail to the bathroom so they can whiz around the base of my 6 citrus trees in our 3 acre backyard and after 2 years the citrus trees are doing great. They liked this so much they just prefer to pee outside so they also add compost fuel to the wood chip pile with the free wood chips we get, after doing this the wood chips were steaming like a volcano. I love watching that nitrogen devour that dry carbon. Urine + wood ash is also good for my neighbors rose bushes. In the cold season I scoop out the stove ash and dump it in a hole and the boys love playing fireman peeing out the hot coals in the ash and after a while the dozens of rose bushes have some plant food. I never used this on anything we eat except the citrus, I've never heard about fermenting it before.
@@GardeningInCanada Yes, getting some buckets into a rotation that I can continue to use once it gets ready. When Fall gets here and I got some stockpiled, I will do some fresh, diluted until the others are ready.
I keep 2-1/2 gallon kitty litter jugs around my property. It never fails that when I go out back I have to pee. I let it age at least 2 weeks to turn into ammonia. Nothing I know of can live in a high ammonia solution. I accumulate this liquid fertilizer faster than I can use it so I have some that is over a year old. The plants don't seem to care if it's two weeks old or two years old. I put 1/2 gallon of liquid fertilizer in a 5 gallon bucket And I add 4 gallons of rain water too it. That's my standard mix. I have tried weaker and stronger but that seems to work best. It's too good to waste.
My ex hated my standard fuchsia. Every morning before work he pissed on it. I would follow with a good watering. It thew off so many flowers it was the topic of neighbour conversation ( back yard) urine breaks down home compost heaps.
Here in Australia, it's almost a tradition for guys to pee on their lemon trees. Probably the only fertilizer they get in many gardens. I do sometimes add diluted urine to my compost bins when they are too dry but not straight in the garden. Hope that's not a negative thing.
I appreciate the video and glad you mentioned fermentation as this is the key to making it an awesome safe fertilizer. Combining with LABS makes for a quick turnaround in the ferment process and really helps the smell!
The only one in my house who is med free is my dog… I really don’t want to ask a neighbor for their urine, although they all know me lol! Thanks for all of your great information.
@@raczyk I will use what I can generate, watered down to maybe 3:1 or 5:1, depending on how much I have to do the whole front lawn. So I might need a gallon, and just use the watering can to apply it. We'll see. A couple weekends in the backyard drinking beer and I might have a gallon. Haha gl. I'm just wingin it here. You could probably do it every couple weeks if needed.
@@jeil5676 Will try a 2:1 ration my lawn. The vide @6:30 does day 1:1 for inground plants. How often you plan to fertalize your lawn with this solution?
Would calcium added aid this ? I have kept my egg shells and grinded them into a fine powder. I have seen on videos that adding vinegar will turn this into a soluble calcium source for the plants.
The traditional mix rate is 1:10 urine to water for established plants and 1:20 for seedlings. Reason is that plants need a lot of water vs nitrogen. Here is what I have been doing: I cooked the 'soil' in my grow bags to sanitize it and get rid of bugs and their eggs. I lasagna layer that soil with fall leaves. Next, I mix urine with water - 2 quarts urine to 2 gallons of water. I water each grow bag when filled. I also add in 1 cup sugar and 6 tablespoons of Alaska fish fertilizer to that mix. I will add in some wood ashes and soil sulfur here in a day or two, top layer. The mixture of what I did and the solution has all winter to get things established. About every 2 weeks I will use that solution. I MAY heat the solution up to 120F just to heat up the soil a bit since the soil temps are around 40F in those bags. I found several pillbugs and so far one grub worm in the soil. I have a plague of pillbugs eating everything and trying to exterminate them without insecticides. So many pillbugs it looks like a moving carpet on the ground at night. At least cooking my soil (204F for 10 minutes) eliminates some of them anyway. And gets rid of soil pathogens. I can not replant things in the nightshade family in the same containers.
I have a bucket of water I pee into in my shed. I use it on my grass and it works great. The dilution is about 2 parts water and one part urine. I wouldn't use it on anything I plan on eating from my garden. If you toss the bucket out daily it doesn't smell much, but keeping it longer will tend to smell. Don't use that bucket for any other thing.
Another recipe I have heard and yet to try is a handful of leaf mulch with wood ash and let ferment for a few months in a sealed container evidently the wood ask takes away the odor and the leaf mulch adds the microbes and wood ash the minerals. We are in summer in Australia so this time of year wood ash is little hard to come by
Thanks for the video! I tested with Urine back in 2021 in a 5gal bucket of 7 seed potatoes and a 16gal recycling bin of 14 seed potatoes. I found that the very first pee of the morning diluted at least 1-1 applied once a week for the bucket and twice a week for the recycling bin was the maximum they could tolerate. I started off with twice a week for the bucket but 2 plants died. The yields were about 15% less than the other bucket and recycling bin using miracle gro 24-8-16. I used to pee into a watering can in my washroom, go outside, pour that into another watering can, flush out the first watering can with tap water and then dilute with a bit more rain water before applying. The effort required isn't really worth it for so little gain. Unless I have a system in which I just pee, return to my work-from-home job and that pee is automatically diluted and applied, it's not really worth it to me. Just my thoughts and experience.
@@satoriseedclub I had so many potatoes in there that I figured that they would compete for the nitrogen anyway. Given enough plants, 1-1 dilution might barely be enough N but definitely not enough P or K.
@@theurzamachine that might be true about total nitrogen amount needed, but in that case they’d need nitrogen more often as opposed to more nitrogen at once. Dogs kill bushes by peeing on them, it’s really strong stuff.
@@satoriseedclub From what I read, dog urine is more concentrated than human urine. Also, I think urine takes a total of 4 days to become bioavailable. Since the process is likely not 0 -> 100% in one go, it's probably a slow enough release with enough plants competing for it.
Lol you seem to be stalking me lol, i just made a new compost pile and i always start with about 20 liters of urine to kick the barrel off, the heat from my thermometer gets nice and roasty
I use a permitted 600+ gallon aeration tank to treat the fluids where it eventually passes to a pump tank that is treated with tablet-bleach before being sprayed onto a section of lawn where the last possible hazardous ~3% of the fluid can get baked in the sun. Then use a bagger on the mower to pile those clippings in hopes to max out composting temperatures at 131f for 15 days with 3 or more flips, I almost always can reach the max 164f. Then I put the treated-urine in the edible-garden.
Now I hear them saying very alarming about all the plastic particles that been showing up in the water right now plastic particles will that get into the plant tomato plants pepper plants Etc so when you consume the tomatoes and peppers and whatever everyone growing will the plastic particle will it be in the vegetables and fruit your growing and consuming?
Birth control and I'd say antibiotics wonder what else how about diaretics how about blood pressure? How well do u think plants handle antidepressants....just to randomly pick possible medications
If you put manure on your beds, I wouldnt worry much about urine. I avoid leafy greens though just cuz Its not so much needed and you dont wanna eat pee, but the manure could harbour e-coli and your soil might likely already.
Nicely done! Now, what do you think about my ratio of using urine on my fescue lawn at 5 to 1?. I mix it up in a 55 gallon drum, drop a pump in it, and spray it over my lawn with a garden hose. And no, I don't have any pets or children on it, and my neighbors don't know. So far it seems to be working well. Do you like this ratio? Thanks for the great videos!
Use your urine in your brown waste (wood chips, dried leafs) and biochar knowing it'll probably be at least a year before it gets into your food supply.
How 2 species I love dearly…MEN and DOGS…can find peeing on EVERYTHING so ENJOYABLE is beyond me - LOL!🙃 Great comment about pt the compost heap…have to ask my brother about that one…although…he’s surrounded by all females who would be grossed out and harass! Somehow, I think he’s got a THICK sink after dealing with Oil Patch guys - out in the field & in the office dealing with “suits” (which he’s now become one - oh the irony - lol😉).
My understanding is that one should dilute it, either with water for immediate use or with "browns" in a compost pile for use next growing season? I am also of the understanding that it can contain salts which are detrimental to plant growth (except halophytes), and that if applied directly, it should be applied to the root zone, to minimize food safety issues. I would also assume that those who don't have, erm, todgers should construct a sit-down urinal if they should like to perform collection? Re: medications: the only people who don't have some kind of hormonal influence in their urine are going to be quite young children and people who are menopausal or have become castrate who aren't taking hormone replacement. If you're taking meds other than hormones, you should look into the metabolism of those meds before using it in the garden, I assume?
@@GardeningInCanada I'm super curious if household compost piles can get hot enough to kill off the common pathogens in cat waste. They have such heavily concentrated waste and there are so many biodegradable litters these days, it almost feels like a waste everytime I clean the litterbox 😅
@@ladylamellaeI'm curious about this too. I have tried various things over the 15 years I've had my cat(s- now only 1) such as buying kinds i could flush and doing that, having a separate compost pile for it, etc. Now I'm just bagging and tossing it, though I'm still trying to buy only biodegradable litter. But if i knew i could safely decompose it in my garden somewhere and maybe even benefit the plants i would in a heartbeat.
What is truly bizarre is that more people don't use urine in their gardens. It's so easy. No need to fuss with dilution, just sprinkle it over a larger area that is getting watered anyway.
Yes, I use it to and im wondering how we can estimate the nitrogen & phosphate rate in one litre of human urine? And oh yeah! BTW: Do you happen to know where we can can a reliable M3 garden soil test in Canada?
Thanks for this 👍 Could you talk about using human poop? I've been looking into what to do if a flushing loo isn't an option. I saw a video that you could just get a large bin with a lid, put your business in there, layer with dirt, leaves etc and in two years you would have fertiliser safe for use on the garden. True?
I helped build a couple of earthships ( ie tire homes) and the use of humanure and urine were researched and considered. I chose to use own urine on my own crops in specific ways. I would only use humanure ( ie bio-solids) in a careful and researched manner and on non-food plants.
@@ecologytoday Can I run my idea by you? Thought I would get a large rubbish bin, drill holes down the bottom so worms can get in and situate it under some fruit trees. I'll probably recess the bin into the soil about a foot and a half. Do you see any problems with that?
@@BonesAndButtons There are many pathogens in humanure. To be safer, it is best to get the correct information about proper temperatures and amounts of time so that the hazards are lessened. That said, I would not use humanure on edible crops, but only other landscaping.
Great video! Well done. May I run something by you? I have been using urine on my fescue lawn and seem to be getting good results. I mix it 5 to 1 in a 55 gallon drum, drop a pump in it, and spray it with a garden hose over my lawn. Haven't had any signs of burning with that ratio. I do it in the early spring and the late fall. Seems to be working. Do you like that 5 to 1 ratio for a lawn?
Thank you for bringing up about medications. In our household, we've got some pretty powerful pain medications in use, among other prescriptions. I'd never even consider using our urine as a fertilizer.
If the plants were watered with a diluted urine solution from the bottom instead of top watering, would there be a risk of the plant up-taking things like E. coli from the urine?
Urine from a healthy person is totally sterile. It is cleaner than the water you are drinking from your well. No E.coli. Don't believe it? ask your doctor.
Warning: Olky use urine on flowers that you don't expect to eat. Nastutiums have a peppery flavor like arugula and beautiful flowers. If you plan to eat them, treat them like greens. Avoid urine.
What happens to stale urine? I collect about a gallon before mixing into a 5g bucket and adding to my lawn. Depending on circumstances that may take three days or ten
Just a minor correction, urine is not all urea. It does contain phosphorus & potassium (& sodium & other elements). It has an average NPK of roughly 7:1:2
Good question. I can’t speak to it though because I didn’t see anything suggesting the use of sugar. I would assume there is some “sugar” in the urine to begin with.
Folks! this is really import! With regards to urine dilution, think about it. You MUST dilute it, and a lot more than people recommend. think about it, Fish emulsion (4/1/1) is typically diluted 128 to 1. No one would dilute it 1 to 1! or even 1 to 2! this means, you need to dilute urine at least 20 to 1 or much more! PS: using the best fertilizer nature ever gave us (urine) is not Bazaar! i don't know why you would say that.
Get the guys to pee in a jug and then dilute it and spread it out in the compost. I would never let my garden to be used as a urinal, even for my own use! However, the facts about what the urinine may contain are definitely a concern.
Is there any research out there about menstrual fluid use? I use a cup so its easy to pour into my urine jug. I figure monthly microdose of iron and such can't hurt. But that's a trust-nature idea not actual legit science.
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I use human urine, woodstove ash, leaves, and rabbit/chicken manure all winter long on my garden rows. I did that last winter, and this year my garden has preformed so well!!!!!
Wow you got it dialed in. ashes yes.manure yes dig down &get the old stuff. Worm castings yes. Get a batch of soil cooking..the idea to create a rich bacteria culture...😮
Store manure in a pile so weeds from what they have eaten.. 10 month manure is brilliant.
Store urine for 6 weeks make good weed killer.
Been using urine for years
@@Blythe1967ablehow?
Why would anyone say it is bazaar to use urine in the garden? I would rather use my urine than cow or horse $hit, that I have no clue what is in there.
I have mostly used urine in my hot compost, but I also use it on my tomatoes, peppers, onions and potatoes. I agree, would not use on leafy greens.
Thank You Ashley, for vilifying my thinking.
You are AWESOME!!!!!
😅 I think we are so darn detached from “normal”
i don’t care if it is in the dirt, I don’t want it used as a foliar feed. I do not want my dog peeing on my lettuce or strawberries and I don’t want human pee, even my own, on them. Even after washing, it is just unappetizing.
@@lydiaahubbell8545lol all the things in food in general 😂 that's your biggest issue? Lol
@@Wise-o.g. not at all!
I've had great results putting my biochar in 5 gallon buckets, setting it next to my husband's hang out/beer drinking spot and have him fill it up, I let it set pretty much all winter and when my composting ramps up again for the year I start adding it to the heaps in layers. Kind of pre-charging that char before it even gets to the compost.
That is totally genius
My bucket sits near my firepit.
I also noticed that while it's open, local wild honeybees will constantly be crawling all over the urine soaked char. Dozens of them. A beekeeper friend says they love urine and are drawn to the mineral content in it. Setting it up next to gardens might be beneficial!
She does it again! As a new gardener with a professional science degree, you are a goddess-send. Evidence based gardening ftw!
Haha awe thanks ❤️
I just add the urine to the compost pile. Probably not the most efficient way to fertilize the garden, but it helps the compost and get rid of the urine.
Does it not smell?
@@MssWinnie No, but I add fresh urine. I add like a few liters per week or similiar, in a compost that is carbon dominated and about 4m3 large. Its negliable.
Urine stink if stored. Or if used in massive amounts, like on a farm. Smell should not be a problem
I pee in a bucket on my homestead, food scraps, Scott's TP bucket gets dumped on my compost pile. Then water it in, also remove tarps and let the compost pile get rained on. The Scott's TP has a second life.
Yes your opinion is highly respected. I couldn't help but laugh as you were explaining how your garden bed is being fertilized. Tooooooo funny. And the student to the teacher. 🍎
I take a bucket of water, a gallon of compost, crab shells, salmon and urine then use it fresh after using a Stainless steel strainer and dilute, the best strawberry patch I have ever seen in 25 years of gardening.
Just to add to your comments around the 8:36 mark, it's important to note that the container MUST be sealed for this process to be effective. If not, nitrogen off-gassing will take place over the course of the aging process, thereby reducing the concentration of N to a degree.
There are also several studies available now showing that the amount of medications or chemicals like caffeine making into plant tissue is exceedingly small, especially when compared to what comes out of our current wastewater treatment systems. For anyone actually concerned about meds in their water or food, they *should* be using their urine as fertilizer instead of flushing it. A healthy soil biome and sunlight is very effective at breaking down these chemical compounds prior to uptake.
Been using this natural fertilizer for years and your spot on for concentration and situation. I reduce the concentration through Autumn when plants are blooming/fruiting. I also use this through my composting cycles as it reduces the material faster and with leaf mould it is a fantastic corrosive, producing a light and fluffy seed starting medium after 8 months. Fermenting or aged is better although fresh works too. Biochar charging with urine and compost works wonders as a soil amendment, usually layer this under a mulch of garden compost to over winter and repeat before spring planting.
I used it last year. Worked well.on my carrots very early in season
Good to know!
I've used urine as a fertilizer for decades. In fact I did a research project on a tomato, cucumber garden in 2006 with two plots of vegetables: one with organic soil and high quality organic fertilizers such as Plant tone and one with organic soil and diluted urine (10:1 water:urine). The urine plot was the highest yielding and most flavorful. I've also used it to fertilize cannabis when I ran out of my nitrogen formula which created amazing results. Right now, I'm using a JADAM technique of using urine as a fertilizer. Mix a cup of leaf mold into a 5-gallon bucket. Fill the bucket up with urine with a closed lid. Add another cup of leaf mold at the end. I let it sit for 1-3 months. Longer is much better. All you need is 1 tsp/gallon if foliar feeding. 1 tbsp/gallon for roots. It works so well.
👍 I am sure the urine has to be medication free, yes?
Im currently using urine to water my plants on potted plants and it's unbelievably effective. The plants are growing very healthy and their leaves are so shiny and dark green.
I love your story about no dirty footprints in the house so the men can fertilize the garden bed because I have a similar story. In summer time my 2 sons and their buddies playing in the swimming pool will eventually need to go to the toilet and can't go in the house and leave a wet trail to the bathroom so they can whiz around the base of my 6 citrus trees in our 3 acre backyard and after 2 years the citrus trees are doing great. They liked this so much they just prefer to pee outside so they also add compost fuel to the wood chip pile with the free wood chips we get, after doing this the wood chips were steaming like a volcano. I love watching that nitrogen devour that dry carbon. Urine + wood ash is also good for my neighbors rose bushes. In the cold season I scoop out the stove ash and dump it in a hole and the boys love playing fireman peeing out the hot coals in the ash and after a while the dozens of rose bushes have some plant food. I never used this on anything we eat except the citrus, I've never heard about fermenting it before.
I use urine for composting mulch, biochar, and leaves. Only thing I add to it supplementary wise is rock dust for mineral content.
OMG! How did you know I have been saving mine for the past 4 months, lol. This is the video I needed.
Hahaah! Perfect. Are you fermenting?
@@GardeningInCanada Yes, getting some buckets into a rotation that I can continue to use once it gets ready. When Fall gets here and I got some stockpiled, I will do some fresh, diluted until the others are ready.
@@KeepOnGrowin very nice!
I feement my urine with leafmold soil following the Jadam principle.
I keep 2-1/2 gallon kitty litter jugs around my property. It never fails that when I go out back I have to pee.
I let it age at least 2 weeks to turn into ammonia. Nothing I know of can live in a high ammonia solution.
I accumulate this liquid fertilizer faster than I can use it so I have some that is over a year old.
The plants don't seem to care if it's two weeks old or two years old.
I put 1/2 gallon of liquid fertilizer in a 5 gallon bucket And I add 4 gallons of rain water too it. That's my standard mix. I have tried weaker and stronger but that seems to work best.
It's too good to waste.
My ex hated my standard fuchsia. Every morning before work he pissed on it. I would follow with a good watering. It thew off so many flowers it was the topic of neighbour conversation ( back yard) urine breaks down home compost heaps.
I love your garden and your hubby's hobby space. Its refreshing to see 2 people share and enjoy space
Here in Australia, it's almost a tradition for guys to pee on their lemon trees. Probably the only fertilizer they get in many gardens.
I do sometimes add diluted urine to my compost bins when they are too dry but not straight in the garden. Hope that's not a negative thing.
Kinda like Burt from Invergargil NZ in worlds Fastest Indian
I appreciate the video and glad you mentioned fermentation as this is the key to making it an awesome safe fertilizer. Combining with LABS makes for a quick turnaround in the ferment process and really helps the smell!
The only one in my house who is med free is my dog… I really don’t want to ask a neighbor for their urine, although they all know me lol!
Thanks for all of your great information.
Hahahaha if you do ask them can you record the reaction?
@@GardeningInCanada absolutely 🌻
Hilarious!…You’re an absolute RIOT!🤣
@@shelleyhender8537 gotta get your laughs somehow 🌻
Omg, Shes a gardener, She's educated and SHE's CANADIAN ! WOO HOO ! im a happy new sub !
I have about 10 liters saved up from last winter but I generally use it on the fall leaves. I think I might try some on the lawn.
Also want to use on grass lawn. What ratio you planning to use and when will you apply jt, how often?
@@raczyk I will use what I can generate, watered down to maybe 3:1 or 5:1, depending on how much I have to do the whole front lawn. So I might need a gallon, and just use the watering can to apply it. We'll see. A couple weekends in the backyard drinking beer and I might have a gallon. Haha gl. I'm just wingin it here. You could probably do it every couple weeks if needed.
@@jeil5676 I was thinking doing 1:1 for my grass lawn. You think that may burn the grass? Maybe I should start with 2:1 to start with?
@@raczyk Yes. Better to use caution rather than burning your lawn imo.
@@jeil5676 Will try a 2:1 ration my lawn. The vide @6:30 does day 1:1 for inground plants.
How often you plan to fertalize your lawn with this solution?
Would calcium added aid this ? I have kept my egg shells and grinded them into a fine powder. I have seen on videos that adding vinegar will turn this into a soluble calcium source for the plants.
Over time yes. But most soil isn’t deficient. Where are you located? North America if so you are likely fine.
I had to double the comment for this one. Audio sounds amazing. I just ordered the Rode ME. I LOVE your channel!
Honestly I’ll never try anything else. It’s way better then my Lavalier
Thanks for the ratios 👍 I think a mixture of sulphur & diluted pee will be good on my potted blueberry
If you mixed it with mulched nettles and weeds you could make a healthy drink for your plants
The traditional mix rate is 1:10 urine to water for established plants and 1:20 for seedlings.
Reason is that plants need a lot of water vs nitrogen.
Here is what I have been doing:
I cooked the 'soil' in my grow bags to sanitize it and get rid of bugs and their eggs.
I lasagna layer that soil with fall leaves.
Next, I mix urine with water - 2 quarts urine to 2 gallons of water.
I water each grow bag when filled.
I also add in 1 cup sugar and 6 tablespoons of Alaska fish fertilizer to that mix.
I will add in some wood ashes and soil sulfur here in a day or two, top layer.
The mixture of what I did and the solution has all winter to get things established.
About every 2 weeks I will use that solution.
I MAY heat the solution up to 120F just to heat up the soil a bit since the soil temps are around 40F in those bags.
I found several pillbugs and so far one grub worm in the soil.
I have a plague of pillbugs eating everything and trying to exterminate them without insecticides.
So many pillbugs it looks like a moving carpet on the ground at night.
At least cooking my soil (204F for 10 minutes) eliminates some of them anyway. And gets rid of soil pathogens.
I can not replant things in the nightshade family in the same containers.
Will salmon fish oil work? I have a lot left over real good quality refrigerated from my dog the ccp killed during pandemic lockdowns.
I have a bucket of water I pee into in my shed. I use it on my grass and it works great. The dilution is about 2 parts water and one part urine. I wouldn't use it on anything I plan on eating from my garden. If you toss the bucket out daily it doesn't smell much, but keeping it longer will tend to smell. Don't use that bucket for any other thing.
Another recipe I have heard and yet to try is a handful of leaf mulch with wood ash and let ferment for a few months in a sealed container evidently the wood ask takes away the odor and the leaf mulch adds the microbes and wood ash the minerals. We are in summer in Australia so this time of year wood ash is little hard to come by
As long as you're not pissing SSRI'S or antibiotics into the soil. Inthink more people should do this.
I would love if you did a video on Kelp
I will add that to the list
@@GardeningInCanada look forward to that video
Great topic thank you. Always wondered about that subject 😂
Hey pls answer me . If I use only urine no compost or any chemical fertilisers does my plants produce fruit
you can also make amonium nitrate out of it
To preserve the urea, you could just mix 3ml vinegar per litre of urine (before application)
I've put it in a compost pile.
Thanks for the video!
I tested with Urine back in 2021 in a 5gal bucket of 7 seed potatoes and a 16gal recycling bin of 14 seed potatoes. I found that the very first pee of the morning diluted at least 1-1 applied once a week for the bucket and twice a week for the recycling bin was the maximum they could tolerate. I started off with twice a week for the bucket but 2 plants died. The yields were about 15% less than the other bucket and recycling bin using miracle gro 24-8-16.
I used to pee into a watering can in my washroom, go outside, pour that into another watering can, flush out the first watering can with tap water and then dilute with a bit more rain water before applying. The effort required isn't really worth it for so little gain.
Unless I have a system in which I just pee, return to my work-from-home job and that pee is automatically diluted and applied, it's not really worth it to me. Just my thoughts and experience.
1:1 is a massive dose. Most people go 1:10. Never even heard of anyone going this concentrated.
@@satoriseedclub I had so many potatoes in there that I figured that they would compete for the nitrogen anyway. Given enough plants, 1-1 dilution might barely be enough N but definitely not enough P or K.
@@theurzamachine that might be true about total nitrogen amount needed, but in that case they’d need nitrogen more often as opposed to more nitrogen at once. Dogs kill bushes by peeing on them, it’s really strong stuff.
@@satoriseedclub From what I read, dog urine is more concentrated than human urine. Also, I think urine takes a total of 4 days to become bioavailable. Since the process is likely not 0 -> 100% in one go, it's probably a slow enough release with enough plants competing for it.
Lol you seem to be stalking me lol, i just made a new compost pile and i always start with about 20 liters of urine to kick the barrel off, the heat from my thermometer gets nice and roasty
Hahah I have cameras in everyone’s yard
I use a permitted 600+ gallon aeration tank to treat the fluids where it eventually passes to a pump tank that is treated with tablet-bleach before being sprayed onto a section of lawn where the last possible hazardous ~3% of the fluid can get baked in the sun. Then use a bagger on the mower to pile those clippings in hopes to max out composting temperatures at 131f for 15 days with 3 or more flips, I almost always can reach the max 164f. Then I put the treated-urine in the edible-garden.
Yea that’s the smartest!
Now I hear them saying very alarming about all the plastic particles that been showing up in the water right now plastic particles will that get into the plant tomato plants pepper plants Etc so when you consume the tomatoes and peppers and whatever everyone growing will the plastic particle will it be in the vegetables and fruit your growing and consuming?
I’ll have to look into this more most of what I have read is pretty loosely suggesting it.
Love your style! Just an FYI : urea solution is colorless, so a darker yellow probably indicates more B vitamins, not urea.
interesting!
B-vitamins create a bright yellow(almost fluorescent) colored urine. Dark urine is an indicator of varying hydration levels.
Hey hun have u ever peed on the plants directly? @@GardeningInCanada
Birth control and I'd say antibiotics wonder what else how about diaretics how about blood pressure? How well do u think plants handle antidepressants....just to randomly pick possible medications
I could only hope my plants would pick up my antidepressants and give them back to me! 🤣
Pure urine has wiped out tomatoe plants for me. Will try some more on some with dilution.
Yes, when my garden is growing good I go out on a Summer night and piss on Avery thing
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If you put manure on your beds, I wouldnt worry much about urine. I avoid leafy greens though just cuz Its not so much needed and you dont wanna eat pee, but the manure could harbour e-coli and your soil might likely already.
Urine was used during the middle ages as a toothpaste!
My dog peed on my chives and they died.😢
I will have to replant in a hanging pot.😊
Poor chives received a life time volume of N
Nicely done! Now, what do you think about my ratio of using urine on my fescue lawn at 5 to 1?. I mix it up in a 55 gallon drum, drop a pump in it, and spray it over my lawn with a garden hose. And no, I don't have any pets or children on it, and my neighbors don't know. So far it seems to be working well. Do you like this ratio? Thanks for the great videos!
Use your urine in your brown waste (wood chips, dried leafs) and biochar knowing it'll probably be at least a year before it gets into your food supply.
LOVED this! Erm, what about peeing on the compost heap? Lol😂
Hahah k this you can do safely and will help with decomposition
How 2 species I love dearly…MEN and DOGS…can find peeing on EVERYTHING so ENJOYABLE is beyond me - LOL!🙃
Great comment about pt the compost heap…have to ask my brother about that one…although…he’s surrounded by all females who would be grossed out and harass! Somehow, I think he’s got a THICK sink after dealing with Oil Patch guys - out in the field & in the office dealing with “suits” (which he’s now become one - oh the irony - lol😉).
@@GardeningInCanada Great! Er, I’ll let my friend …., yes friend…. Know to continue then. 😆
Thanks! x
For lawn application. Can I apply in spring then two weeks later overseed my lawn? Or will the seedlings not grow?
My understanding is that one should dilute it, either with water for immediate use or with "browns" in a compost pile for use next growing season?
I am also of the understanding that it can contain salts which are detrimental to plant growth (except halophytes), and that if applied directly, it should be applied to the root zone, to minimize food safety issues.
I would also assume that those who don't have, erm, todgers should construct a sit-down urinal if they should like to perform collection?
Re: medications: the only people who don't have some kind of hormonal influence in their urine are going to be quite young children and people who are menopausal or have become castrate who aren't taking hormone replacement. If you're taking meds other than hormones, you should look into the metabolism of those meds before using it in the garden, I assume?
Is it fine to add it to fermenting compost (which stays in the composter for months)?
I can understand quite clearly that meds can harm the microbes and if theyre uptaking a birth control med, that might prevent them from multiplying?
So it's the minerals in soil that can handle the undiluted urine better than potting mix?
sorry can i use it for everything brass flowers etc
Would love to see a video on bio solids as well.
Noted!
@@GardeningInCanada I'm super curious if household compost piles can get hot enough to kill off the common pathogens in cat waste. They have such heavily concentrated waste and there are so many biodegradable litters these days, it almost feels like a waste everytime I clean the litterbox 😅
@@ladylamellaeI'm curious about this too. I have tried various things over the 15 years I've had my cat(s- now only 1) such as buying kinds i could flush and doing that, having a separate compost pile for it, etc. Now I'm just bagging and tossing it, though I'm still trying to buy only biodegradable litter. But if i knew i could safely decompose it in my garden somewhere and maybe even benefit the plants i would in a heartbeat.
In other news Lets explore Fermented Plant juice as a fertilizer . ( using yard waste fermenting in Lactic acid water )
how often can you apply this natural fertilizer?
What is truly bizarre is that more people don't use urine in their gardens. It's so easy. No need to fuss with dilution, just sprinkle it over a larger area that is getting watered anyway.
Healthy menses blood has its uses too.
I only use diluted urine, bokashi and fermented banana peels as fertilizers, and it works wonders.
Yes, I use it to and im wondering how we can estimate the nitrogen & phosphate rate in one litre of human urine?
And oh yeah! BTW: Do you happen to know where we can can a reliable M3 garden soil test in Canada?
Thanks for this 👍 Could you talk about using human poop? I've been looking into what to do if a flushing loo isn't an option. I saw a video that you could just get a large bin with a lid, put your business in there, layer with dirt, leaves etc and in two years you would have fertiliser safe for use on the garden. True?
Ooo biosolids is a hot debate !
I helped build a couple of earthships ( ie tire homes) and the use of humanure and urine were researched and considered.
I chose to use own urine on my own crops in specific ways.
I would only use humanure ( ie bio-solids) in a careful and researched manner and on non-food plants.
I would be very careful about humanure, all kinds of diseases/viruses can come through in feces.
@@ecologytoday Can I run my idea by you? Thought I would get a large rubbish bin, drill holes down the bottom so worms can get in and situate it under some fruit trees. I'll probably recess the bin into the soil about a foot and a half. Do you see any problems with that?
@@BonesAndButtons There are many pathogens in humanure. To be safer, it is best to get the correct information about proper temperatures and amounts of time so that the hazards are lessened. That said, I would not use humanure on edible crops, but only other landscaping.
Great video! Well done. May I run something by you? I have been using urine on my fescue lawn and seem to be getting good results. I mix it 5 to 1 in a 55 gallon drum, drop a pump in it, and spray it with a garden hose over my lawn. Haven't had any signs of burning with that ratio. I do it in the early spring and the late fall. Seems to be working. Do you like that 5 to 1 ratio for a lawn?
Isn't E.coli from the gastrointestinal tract rather than the urinary tract?
It is yea… but UTI are from the two tracts … mixing 🙈
Sounds like you need to make a video on installing an outdoor urinal.
I just pee in my compost bin lol I heard it brraks down to nutrients.
That it does 😂
Thank you for bringing up about medications. In our household, we've got some pretty powerful pain medications in use, among other prescriptions. I'd never even consider using our urine as a fertilizer.
Great video, thanks.
Glad you liked it!
If you pressure sterilize urine do you think there would be any concerns using it as fertilizer?
Jay; Urine from a healthy person is totally sterile. It is cleaner than the water you are drinking from your well. No need to sterilize it.
It's sterile when it comes out for about 15 minutes
If the plants were watered with a diluted urine solution from the bottom instead of top watering, would there be a risk of the plant up-taking things like E. coli from the urine?
Urine from a healthy person is totally sterile. It is cleaner than the water you are drinking from your well. No E.coli. Don't believe it? ask your doctor.
Warning: Olky use urine on flowers that you don't expect to eat. Nastutiums have a peppery flavor like arugula and beautiful flowers. If you plan to eat them, treat them like greens. Avoid urine.
Yea good point .
But my urine is sterile! 😂
Millennial gardener did an experiment, and ate lettuce fertilized with urine. Tasted the same
@@K-ZoneThe lettuce tastes the same...as in urine?😆
Urine is sterile. The only potential harm would be if you are taking antibiotics, or a few other medications.
what about adding urine to plastic compoaters?
I do this all the time in my compost tumbler...and have for years. 1 gallon(half urine/half water) every 2 weeks.
thank you , its great
Glad you like it!
i use 10:1 and have good results
Use it fresh or aged, but not stale. If it's been sat around for a day, it's stale. Apply it with wood ash, and you have a complete fertilizer.
nice
What happens to stale urine? I collect about a gallon before mixing into a 5g bucket and adding to my lawn. Depending on circumstances that may take three days or ten
What about the salt in your pee does it affect plants?
Just a minor correction, urine is not all urea. It does contain phosphorus & potassium (& sodium & other elements). It has an average NPK of roughly 7:1:2
This was great! Instant sub!
Would adding sugar spead up the fermentation?
Good question. I can’t speak to it though because I didn’t see anything suggesting the use of sugar. I would assume there is some “sugar” in the urine to begin with.
@@GardeningInCanadahey hun do u ever pee directly on the plant's?
is cow urine better and what would be the mix think 3 to1 seems the safest
What about rabbit urine
Over arching rule is anything anything digestive related needs to be composted, fermented, or cured in some way
Can you tell me about adding urine to a compost pile? Will it cause it to be too nitrogen heavy if I put a lot in the pile?
Should be fine. Alot will leach it’s normal
Wood ash and eggshels in a urine sauce?
I love your videos.
❤ I love your information as you give a balanced information. lol. You are getting beer diluted urine.
Hahaha
I pee in a 20L/5 gal bucket filled with leafy mulch, completely saturate, wait for 1 month then on the compost..
Your hubby pees on your tomatoes that's funny. Heck people freak out about seeing my commode pepper
God bless have a blessed day
Folks! this is really import! With regards to urine dilution, think about it. You MUST dilute it, and a lot more than people recommend. think about it, Fish emulsion (4/1/1) is typically diluted 128 to 1. No one would dilute it 1 to 1! or even 1 to 2! this means, you need to dilute urine at least 20 to 1 or much more!
PS: using the best fertilizer nature ever gave us (urine) is not Bazaar! i don't know why you would say that.
And medicinal and skin topical. . .
Well done
1 gallon urine to 3 gallons of water. Dump the bucket out in the yard and watch the difference. A 4x4' of lush grass is what you get..
Get the guys to pee in a jug and then dilute it and spread it out in the compost. I would never let my garden to be used as a urinal, even for my own use! However, the facts about what the urinine may contain are definitely a concern.
Toss it on one of my many compost heaps or under the lemon tree and hope for the best. The planet was doing just fine without us. 🙂
You have at lest 3 pfizer to be this cautious about this golden liquid
Can l use dog urine?
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Is there any research out there about menstrual fluid use? I use a cup so its easy to pour into my urine jug. I figure monthly microdose of iron and such can't hurt. But that's a trust-nature idea not actual legit science.
Witches and some of my exs used it regularly
Make sure you or who's donating the menses fluids ain't on any meds