When its early in the morning, or dark outside, and the coast is clear; I also "add fertilizer" to the backyard and shovel the pile into my leaf compost mound. Believe me, I'd much rather not have to go S.F. Secret Operations when nature calls. Tip of the hat to you, good Sir.
@@maccliff2115 You can do it. Just never stand there lookin down at the dick in question. You walk to a blind spot drop the pee while you light a cig or pull a dip. While you pee, never look down!
Something I've been doing to "store" the urine for later is to cycle it through my nutrient accumulators like nettle and comfrey patches, to then harvest later for mulch or ferments. The comfrey can handle undiluted urine if it just rained or is about to, in my experience. Crazy growth!
@@georgecarlin2656 Definitely, but 3% of a 10 yard pile is more than 50% of a few cubic feet pile too. I have about 500 comfrey plants and a few dozen nettle patches that will take undiluted urine a few times a year as well. I do use about 5% biochar in potting mixes and add a bit to raised beds as well. It's a great winter project and really holds onto the nitrogen.
This is so cool. Why don't more people know about it? It makes so much sense to use it, being a part of the ecosystem that feeds you. I take lots of vitamins and what comes out of me is going to be good food for my plants, recycling my vitamins.
More people don't know about it because they've been brainwashed for over a half a century into believing that the only way to fertilize a garden is to BUY bags and bottles of mass-produced stuff. The constant advertising is very powerful. It's even true of far too many university ag programs... I'm astounded how many farmers with degrees just do not know - and sadly, often have no interest in - the fact that they're spending WAY too much money on stuff that's made somewhere else and then shipped to them. That's changing, slowly. It needs to start changing much faster. Spread the word :)
At least someone is talking about using lime for urine ph lowering. I went and bought a pee funnel and a 40lb of lawn lime (all I could get locally and gas is prohibitive right now) first, and then I started watching videos. I got a few huge bags of sawdust free from a cabinet shop last year that I need to compost. It's pretty simple, tho. Dolomitic lime or ashes, urine, maybe some compost starter from my other compost and also throw in some azomite to boost the end product and of courst the sawdust. This solves two problems for me: I get free nitrogen for my sawdust composting and I save water by flushing much less, so I can spend that water on my garden with less guilt.
@@karma8001 The cabinet shop stuff appears to be all raw hardwood product, a combo of shavings and finer dust. The do have to sand between varnish, though: I never thought of that. Certainly you can buy pine or hardwood pellets, but there is a good bit of free carbon around the urban homestead, even paper shreds. Pee might help keep rats out of the compost. I have used it straight up on some trees and just watered it in and there is no smell. Compost also doesn't smell by the next day.
@@OWK000 if you can find someone with a chainsaw and get them to cut some wood for you out of the forest it will be the best. I don't know where you live but look up loggers around you. You can get it where there cutting. Sawmill. About the urine I'm a big deer hunter so we pee under mock scrapes and our pee smells like there's in less then 12hours. I heard mice and rats don't like the smell of ammonia. My advice for mice and rat problems if no pets around put corn in antifreeze. It's sweet and will kill them fast but dogs like it also so b careful
@@karma8001 Chain saws have chain saw oil. Plus, all the chain saw folk I know not only hog their own sawdust, they go steal it from the side of the road where trees fall down across the road and road keepers grind up lots tree material and leave piles
@@OWK000 go straight to where they cut the trees into wood boards. They do have bar oil but Colsh make a bar oil out of natural stuff. I seen them prove it by drinking it. I burn wood for heat so cut allot of wood. I cut a big truck load and only use 1 once of bar oil
I use Urine, great stuff. I soak Royal Oak All Natural Charcoal (same as Biochar), crush it down and put it in bucket. Use the bucket as a urinal. After a week or so I separate the chunks from the liquid, The liquid has a Mesquite odor to it at this point. I use the runoff Urine the same way as Miracle grow would be used. Explosive growth even with the Nitrogen sucked out of it from the Charcoal. As far as the charcoal goes, I used it in my Garden beds and the beds with Urine charged Charcoal (Biochar) thrived when my other plants were struggling during flash droughts.
@@markkian8551 I piss in an empty milk jug and dilute it down with the garden hose, the ratio varies each time. I do it once a week. Sometimes twice if the ration is very diluted. So far no adverse results.
@@markkian8551 Bare with me, its story time; my back yard is "L" shaped. I have a corner lot and the side of my house that has back yard faces East. It gets much shade. So there is where piss in an empty milk jug. I try to keep 3 full jugs at all times (its a prepper mentality) and the other two jugs are working jugs. I have a plastic green open spout cheap watering can that is probably 1.5 gallons. I'm not 100%. Its more than a gallon, but I doubt it 2 gallons. I'll pour about 1/4 gallon-ish of urine in the green watering can and use the sprayer to fill the can up with water to dilute it. Nothing is precise or constant, as far as ratios or concentrations. When I pour it on my garden I can see a slight tinge of yellow and that is what I go off of. I saw a video where some guy gave the lab results of the NPK of urine. Its very high in nitrogen. 15=2-3. Its not an every day application. Just whenever As far as not using it 10 days before harvest, I was unaware of that. Thank you for asking. I can only guess that its so the urine breaks down and there is not risk of anything that could be in the urine transferring to the harvest? That is my guess. Please let me know. All the Best to you.
@@maccliff2115 thanks for your reply, I have found a video yesterday that you might also like to watch, it's and interesting gardening trick Back to Eden Gardening - Full Film ruclips.net/video/6rPPUmStKQ4/видео.html God bless!
My husband collects his urine for me all summer to use on my very large garden. It works really well on the garden. I never thought of adding the ashes,I usually just store in a gallon jug and then dilute to use about once or twice a week.
Wood ashes contain all the mineral elements that were in the wood. Potassium, calcium, and magnesium carbonate or oxides are present in comparatively large quantities giving the ashes a strongly alkaline reaction which can neutralize acid soils.
@Ava Anderson-Kemper It depends on your soil and ashes, my heavy clay needs lime and organic matter. I lightly scatter it on grass clippings and mulched leaves for elderberry or pine bark mulch for bamboo to prep for planting. A simple plant tea like confrey or diluted urine is good for established plants (and free!). Your soil is completely different, no experience with high desert ground. Just experiment, good luck 🍀
@@mountainjewellandproject2161 hehe I was wondering as well, using wood ashes is not really recommendable for plants which prefer acidic soil, vinegar is probably the way to go there, but be careful to dillute properly both urine and vinegar are acidic! So even raw urine lowers your ph vinegar on top even more!
I live in a non-freezing climate and I use a urine-separating composting toilet. The yellow stuff goes straight into the greywater plumbing and thence to mulch beds surrounded by plants. No complaints so far after almost 15 years.
Hey, im all with you on this. EXCEPT the part where you talked about using human manure as fertilizer. DO NOT do that. Also don't use the manure from cats, dogs or any other carnivorous mamal. I cannot stop you from doing it in your own garden, for your own use. But if you sell or trade or even give away things you grow like I do DO NOT do this. There's a very high probability of passing on parasites or prion diseases which can kill people or animals. Its exponentially worse with mammals who eat meat because not only are they much more likely to have infection overlap with us, but we can not only contract anything they have but also anything any animal THEY ATE had. With humans obviously its the worst. Not only are we omnivores but we also obviously can all get any disease any other human can get. Cow manure. That's the way to go. They don't eat meat, they have a very thorough digestive process. Even if you don't eat beef, or are not comfortable slaughtering a large animal just keep one as a lawnmower/ fertilizer machine. They are very docile good companions too if you raise them from an early age. Other acceptable choices are chickens, goats, oxen and im sure there's more ive never tried if you look into it.
Another option to use instead of vinegar or citric acid (agree with others, the wood ash will actually raise the pH) to stabilize the urine and limit ammonia off-gassing is Effective Microorganisms or lactobacillus serum. I add about a cup of EM to a 1 gallon bucket that I pee into and once full, pour into a 5-7 gallon sealed container (will also add in about a cup of molasses and some fine ground biochar), which usually takes around a month or so to fill. Then I start the process over with a new 5-7 gallon container. Once the second one is full, I know the first one has sat/brewed long enough (can test with pH strips and as long as it is under 4) to be ready to use diluted in the garden. Aside from the EM or LAB keeping the stored urine from becoming stinky or losing a lot of the volatile nitrogen, another added benefit of using it is that you are adding a ton of beneficial microbes to your soil as well. I’ve had 7 gallon containers of EM brewed urine sitting in the garage for 4-6 months over the winter that have absolutely no bad smell (usually smell slightly sweet and fermented) and are highly active when I start using them in the early Spring. And the nitrogen will be in an active form that the plants can readily access when a lot of the soil nitrogen is still locked up and unavailable due to the cooler soil temps.
what a beautiful high tunnel! thanks for the info :) unfortunately I am gardening in my parents space right now and they are not at all comfortable with using urine in the garden, it's a shame!
Negotiate.. A sealed garden system. A couple of raised plastic tubs with soil in them draining into a reservoir with a pump that circulates water to the tubs. Add a bio filter with aquarium bio filter items to break down ammonia into nitrate. see Anthroponics
Another way is a pee bale. Bale small rectangular in the corner somewhere screened off the pea on it. In the autumn take it spread on garden and dig in .
Generally a good video, but one issue I have is that I'd recommend mixing the urine at a ratio of around 8 or 9 to 1, instead of the 3 to 1 like this video says....This has a couple of benefits, IMO: First, it makes it less likely to accidentally burn the plants with too much nitrogen. And second, the extra water helps the fertilizer get deeper down to the lower roots of the plant. Of course ultimately up to each gardener, and one can experiment and see what works best for them :-)
I use it at around 8-10 to 1 for the same reasons you mentioned. As the host mentioned in the video, I only add it to moist soil, preferably after a nice rain but hand-watering some first if required, for really the same reason - it gets down into the soil better. It's always good to encourage roots to grow deeper rather than just get "lazy" and stay right near the surface. "Lazy" roots are really, really susceptible to dry spells.
@@dogslobbergardens6606 - Yes I largely agree, although I typically will water with the urine mixture first, and then add additional water afterwards to wash it down deeper. 100% agree in terms of encouraging deeper root growth, which is why it's best to do less frequent watering, but to water a lot when one does water 🙂
@@Bike_Lion the only reason I usually fertilize after rain or watering is to avoid leaching out the nutrients I'm adding, but I really don't think that's a huge deal in the ground like it would be in containers. Kind of just a habit, I guess. I used to grow a lot more stuff in containers, and it's more important then. I'm confident your approach of watering first then fertilizing works perfectly fine, possibly better.
I keep my urine in 5ltr bottles with screw caps and I leave them for at least a month before I use it. I dilute 4:1. I used month old urine in my biochar in a bucket with a snap lid. I read that this helps the ammonia to break down any bacteria that's lurking.
How long does urine need to sit in a bottle before use? Do you use it right away? How often can you apply it? I've watched four videos on This and no one answers these basic questions.
@@oneyaker Thank you kindly. Does keeping it in a closed container and maybe adding wood ash to neutralize ammonia does that compost the urine and bring other nutrients? It is it strictly for fresh use before the nitrogen evaporates? I do watch and listen to the videos but haven't cought this info so thank you .
@@DagaanGalakticos There is small amount of ammonia in urine, but most of of the Nitrogen is in the form of Urea. Urea decomposes with the aid of microorganisms which is why it is a slow release fertilizer. Older urine is fine too and you can produce endless supply. Adding wood ash does not neutralize. It just adds more Ca, K, P and other minerals to the mix. Wood ash is alkaline and contains Potassium Nitrate and Hydroxide. Add the brew to the soil around the plants diluted 1:10 and a week to two later you will notice a significant reaction in the plants which just keeps going as the soil bacteria make the nutrients available to the plans. Fertilize every two weeks.
1:22 Adding acid like vinegar or citric acid sounds make sense. But, do I need to be concerned about chemical reaction or anything like that when adding acid? Thank you.
No. While human urine can have some variability in pH due to diet and health of the individual, it tends to be rather neutral and usually in the 6-8 range. So adding an acid to it, or fermenting it with lactobacillus or effective microorganisms, is only going to lower the pH, helping to reduce the volatilization of the nitrogen. There won’t be any other chemical reactions that you need to worry about since there aren’t any strong bases and acids being combined.
I live in the city and only grow stuff in pots. So do I just use the urine straight or do I need tp ferment it? If fermenting, does it have to be sealed off, like in a PET bottle?
Can I use urine to replace water completely for gardening in the desert? My partner and I use a chamber pot and collectively make about 3 gallons of urine a day. (We like to stay hydrated 😅)
On a serious note. Cholera, e-coli and hepatis is a big risk using number twos.. In Tasmania Australia a large majority of the mining town population was wiped out from Cholera in the 1850's from non existent sewer management.
I watched an interesting video from a USA university where they pasterised the collected urine using a solar powered heat bank before using it. To kill any fecal contamination of the number ones.
So cool thanks! Can I also add the ashes and vinegar after the urine fermented without it or do I have to add everything before I start filling up the bottle with the urine? So does it also work if I put all of it later on? Greetings
@@brianfitch5469 ah okay, you mentioned it right after that with the wood ashes in the middle of the video. So better no vinegar and citric acid into the urine? Can I also add the ashes after I collected the urine or is it nessecary to add it in the beginning? Thx
@@brianfitch5469 Fresh urine is pretty much Ph balanced. Aged urine on the other hand, is very alkaline. Potash is very alkaline as well. For soils that are already alkaline to begin with, adding this combination is not recommended for acid-loving plants/fruits/vegetables, due to alkalizing the soil even more. Vinegar(acetic acid) is acidic and will lower the Ph in this combination.
@@sunny483 ya just add a couple spoon full of ashes if you want to the diluted urine when you go to use it. I wouldn't add vinegar. Vinegar can kill plants and it's unneeded. If you have a good soil bacteria biome it will keep your pH balance where it needs to be.
@@davidisaacson9328 while I agree somewhat. If you have a healthy bacteria/fungal biome in your soil it will keep the pH balance where it should be within a couple of days.
@@mlauntube - The ash is correct. You want alkaline to stop the ammonia off-gassing. If you don't have wood ash, you can also use baking soda, though that doesn't add potassium - not a huge issue though, as potassium is usually abundant in compost, particularly composted wood, like old rotten logs. The only issue I have with what he says in this video is that I'd recommend mixing the urine at a ratio of around 8 or 9 to 1, instead of the 3 to 1 like he says....This has a couple of benefits, IMO: First, it makes it less likely to accidentally burn the plants with too much nitrogen. And second, the extra water helps the fertilizer get deeper down to the lower roots of the plant :-)
@@Bike_Lion No, the opposite. You need to add an acid (citric, acetic) or ferment with effective microorganisms to lower the pH, increase ammonium (NH4+), and reduce volatilized conversion of urea to ammonia (NH3) from off gassing. Adding an alkaline substance (wood ash) will raise the pH and increase the ammonia levels (and subsequently the toxicity to soils). richearthinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Urine-Fertilizer-Home-Garden-Guide_091123.pdf
separate the urine from the number twos ! A funnel on a two litre bottle with a ping pong ball in the funnel.. you do not want number twos in the garden .Or a Urine diverter on the portable toilet in the Skoolie.
In the old days my grandparents' parents' generation used #2 as fertilizers, but during those times most people in their village also have hookworms in their intestines, and many other rural type of diseases, lol. Due to how easily diseases and pathogens are spread, from using untreated good ol' #2.
Many African countries use human waste as fertilizer but it has to be completely composted and turned to soil first the process takes about a year done naturally sped up by artificial means around 6 to 8 months then it can be used. It's a good option for poor soil climates but not a fast process so not efficient for most of the world
@@karma8001Absolutely not true. Humanure is perfectly safe to use as long as it has been properly processed and allowed to compost for a year or more. Many off-grid homes use composting toilets. It’s completely understandable that we have a natural “ick” factor to the idea of using human feces for compost, and so for those that do, you can choose to use the finished compost only on non-edible plants or for fruit and nut trees where the compost will never have any direct contact with the products we consume from that tree.
Urine is sterile in the body when there is no ongoing infection. Keeping urine sterile as it passes skin surfaces during collection is the tricky part.
Another thing great about living in the sticks is I can fertilize my trees when nature calls. I think it also keeps coyotes on edge.
When its early in the morning, or dark outside, and the coast is clear; I also "add fertilizer" to the backyard and shovel the pile into my leaf compost mound. Believe me, I'd much rather not have to go S.F. Secret Operations when nature calls. Tip of the hat to you, good Sir.
Marking territory is marking.
@@maccliff2115 You can do it. Just never stand there lookin down at the dick in question. You walk to a blind spot drop the pee while you light a cig or pull a dip. While you pee, never look down!
Plants and humans have a symbiotic relationship, we NEED each other to SURVIVE.
plants dont need humans...
Finally, a fertilizer in my budget! 😝
Something I've been doing to "store" the urine for later is to cycle it through my nutrient accumulators like nettle and comfrey patches, to then harvest later for mulch or ferments. The comfrey can handle undiluted urine if it just rained or is about to, in my experience. Crazy growth!
The best storage for N is biochar (charcoal), because regular compost stores like 3-5% of N, while biochar can store up to 50%.
@@georgecarlin2656 Definitely, but 3% of a 10 yard pile is more than 50% of a few cubic feet pile too. I have about 500 comfrey plants and a few dozen nettle patches that will take undiluted urine a few times a year as well. I do use about 5% biochar in potting mixes and add a bit to raised beds as well. It's a great winter project and really holds onto the nitrogen.
@@lastharvest4044 I'm not sure how much is a yard but it seems you have a ridiculous amount.
@@georgecarlin2656 Haha yes, 28 cubic feet. I do deep bedding with my goats and chickens so tend to end up with mountains.
you can use it on the compost heap as an accelerator
Yes, that is what I do over winter ( Indiana )
PEE POWER ! !
This is so cool. Why don't more people know about it? It makes so much sense to use it, being a part of the ecosystem that feeds you. I take lots of vitamins and what comes out of me is going to be good food for my plants, recycling my vitamins.
So true..
More people don't know about it because they've been brainwashed for over a half a century into believing that the only way to fertilize a garden is to BUY bags and bottles of mass-produced stuff. The constant advertising is very powerful.
It's even true of far too many university ag programs... I'm astounded how many farmers with degrees just do not know - and sadly, often have no interest in - the fact that they're spending WAY too much money on stuff that's made somewhere else and then shipped to them.
That's changing, slowly. It needs to start changing much faster. Spread the word :)
It just sounds yucky for most people to use.
Because the fertilizer industry is a billion dollar Industry
Yup, just piss in the garden !
I found using fresh urine to be very effective too. No smell as well. I dilute 1 part urine to 12 part water and apply to moist soil.
At least someone is talking about using lime for urine ph lowering. I went and bought a pee funnel and a 40lb of lawn lime (all I could get locally and gas is prohibitive right now) first, and then I started watching videos. I got a few huge bags of sawdust free from a cabinet shop last year that I need to compost. It's pretty simple, tho. Dolomitic lime or ashes, urine, maybe some compost starter from my other compost and also throw in some azomite to boost the end product and of courst the sawdust. This solves two problems for me: I get free nitrogen for my sawdust composting and I save water by flushing much less, so I can spend that water on my garden with less guilt.
are you sure the stuff I got from the cabinet shop isn't made from treated wood or full of varnish? I do woodworking and would never use it
@@karma8001 The cabinet shop stuff appears to be all raw hardwood product, a combo of shavings and finer dust. The do have to sand between varnish, though: I never thought of that. Certainly you can buy pine or hardwood pellets, but there is a good bit of free carbon around the urban homestead, even paper shreds. Pee might help keep rats out of the compost. I have used it straight up on some trees and just watered it in and there is no smell. Compost also doesn't smell by the next day.
@@OWK000 if you can find someone with a chainsaw and get them to cut some wood for you out of the forest it will be the best. I don't know where you live but look up loggers around you. You can get it where there cutting. Sawmill. About the urine I'm a big deer hunter so we pee under mock scrapes and our pee smells like there's in less then 12hours. I heard mice and rats don't like the smell of ammonia. My advice for mice and rat problems if no pets around put corn in antifreeze. It's sweet and will kill them fast but dogs like it also so b careful
@@karma8001 Chain saws have chain saw oil. Plus, all the chain saw folk I know not only hog their own sawdust, they go steal it from the side of the road where trees fall down across the road and road keepers grind up lots tree material and leave piles
@@OWK000 go straight to where they cut the trees into wood boards. They do have bar oil but Colsh make a bar oil out of natural stuff. I seen them prove it by drinking it. I burn wood for heat so cut allot of wood. I cut a big truck load and only use 1 once of bar oil
I use Urine, great stuff. I soak Royal Oak All Natural Charcoal (same as Biochar), crush it down and put it in bucket. Use the bucket as a urinal. After a week or so I separate the chunks from the liquid, The liquid has a Mesquite odor to it at this point. I use the runoff Urine the same way as Miracle grow would be used. Explosive growth even with the Nitrogen sucked out of it from the Charcoal. As far as the charcoal goes, I used it in my Garden beds and the beds with Urine charged Charcoal (Biochar) thrived when my other plants were struggling during flash droughts.
I myself have been pissing in jugs saving my urine. I’m a backyard Gardner, great content.
Thank you for posting.
How often do you water with urine the vegetables?
@@markkian8551
I piss in an empty milk jug and dilute it down with the garden hose, the ratio varies each time. I do it once a week. Sometimes twice if the ration is very diluted. So far no adverse results.
@@maccliff2115 How much when you say 'very diluted'? Also do you know the reason behind 'not to pee 10 days before harvest'?
@@markkian8551
Bare with me, its story time; my back yard is "L" shaped. I have a corner lot and the side of my house that has back yard faces East. It gets much shade. So there is where piss in an empty milk jug. I try to keep 3 full jugs at all times (its a prepper mentality) and the other two jugs are working jugs. I have a plastic green open spout cheap watering can that is probably 1.5 gallons. I'm not 100%. Its more than a gallon, but I doubt it 2 gallons.
I'll pour about 1/4 gallon-ish of urine in the green watering can and use the sprayer to fill the can up with water to dilute it. Nothing is precise or constant, as far as ratios or concentrations. When I pour it on my garden I can see a slight tinge of yellow and that is what I go off of. I saw a video where some guy gave the lab results of the NPK of urine. Its very high in nitrogen. 15=2-3. Its not an every day application. Just whenever As far as not using it 10 days before harvest, I was unaware of that. Thank you for asking. I can only guess that its so the urine breaks down and there is not risk of anything that could be in the urine transferring to the harvest? That is my guess. Please let me know. All the Best to you.
@@maccliff2115 thanks for your reply, I have found a video yesterday that you might also like to watch, it's and interesting gardening trick
Back to Eden Gardening - Full Film
ruclips.net/video/6rPPUmStKQ4/видео.html
God bless!
My grandpa do like this everyday in almost his life and his plant and soil grows very very well and healthy. It's such an amazing thing.
My husband collects his urine for me all summer to use on my very large garden. It works really well on the garden. I never thought of adding the ashes,I usually just store in a gallon jug and then dilute to use about once or twice a week.
Yep works great. I lived off hrid and used composting toilet during that time...the humanuer was the best compost ivever used
Wood ashes contain all the mineral elements that were in the wood. Potassium, calcium, and magnesium carbonate or oxides are present in comparatively large quantities giving the ashes a strongly alkaline reaction which can neutralize acid soils.
Good info, but wood ashes increase the pH, vinegar will lower it a bit. Bamboo and elderberry love it 🍀
Ah, I misspoke on the vid. Thanks for the correction.
@Ava Anderson-Kemper It depends on your soil and ashes, my heavy clay needs lime and organic matter. I lightly scatter it on grass clippings and mulched leaves for elderberry or pine bark mulch for bamboo to prep for planting. A simple plant tea like confrey or diluted urine is good for established plants (and free!). Your soil is completely different, no experience with high desert ground. Just experiment, good luck 🍀
@@mountainjewellandproject2161 hehe I was wondering as well, using wood ashes is not really recommendable for plants which prefer acidic soil, vinegar is probably the way to go there, but be careful to dillute properly both urine and vinegar are acidic!
So even raw urine lowers your ph vinegar on top even more!
This is awesome!
Do you know how to estimate the nitrogen and phosphate rate in each litre of urine?
I live in a non-freezing climate and I use a urine-separating composting toilet. The yellow stuff goes straight into the greywater plumbing and thence to mulch beds surrounded by plants. No complaints so far after almost 15 years.
Hey, im all with you on this. EXCEPT the part where you talked about using human manure as fertilizer. DO NOT do that. Also don't use the manure from cats, dogs or any other carnivorous mamal.
I cannot stop you from doing it in your own garden, for your own use. But if you sell or trade or even give away things you grow like I do DO NOT do this.
There's a very high probability of passing on parasites or prion diseases which can kill people or animals. Its exponentially worse with mammals who eat meat because not only are they much more likely to have infection overlap with us, but we can not only contract anything they have but also anything any animal THEY ATE had. With humans obviously its the worst. Not only are we omnivores but we also obviously can all get any disease any other human can get.
Cow manure. That's the way to go. They don't eat meat, they have a very thorough digestive process. Even if you don't eat beef, or are not comfortable slaughtering a large animal just keep one as a lawnmower/ fertilizer machine. They are very docile good companions too if you raise them from an early age.
Other acceptable choices are chickens, goats, oxen and im sure there's more ive never tried if you look into it.
I think he’s talking about composting toilets, not directly putting human poo on garden.
One of the best videos on the subject. Short and succint, but packed with good info. Thank you!
Another option to use instead of vinegar or citric acid (agree with others, the wood ash will actually raise the pH) to stabilize the urine and limit ammonia off-gassing is Effective Microorganisms or lactobacillus serum. I add about a cup of EM to a 1 gallon bucket that I pee into and once full, pour into a 5-7 gallon sealed container (will also add in about a cup of molasses and some fine ground biochar), which usually takes around a month or so to fill. Then I start the process over with a new 5-7 gallon container. Once the second one is full, I know the first one has sat/brewed long enough (can test with pH strips and as long as it is under 4) to be ready to use diluted in the garden.
Aside from the EM or LAB keeping the stored urine from becoming stinky or losing a lot of the volatile nitrogen, another added benefit of using it is that you are adding a ton of beneficial microbes to your soil as well. I’ve had 7 gallon containers of EM brewed urine sitting in the garage for 4-6 months over the winter that have absolutely no bad smell (usually smell slightly sweet and fermented) and are highly active when I start using them in the early Spring. And the nitrogen will be in an active form that the plants can readily access when a lot of the soil nitrogen is still locked up and unavailable due to the cooler soil temps.
what a beautiful high tunnel!
thanks for the info :) unfortunately I am gardening in my parents space right now and they are not at all comfortable with using urine in the garden, it's a shame!
thank you and yes I hear ya, we definitely have a phobia around such things in our culture!
Use it on covercrops or compost pile. It adds an extra step. Then use compost tea.
Let them know it's perfectly safe unless you're on medications.
I personally show the price of urea and that quickly changes most gardeners minds.
Just do it without them knowing. They have to leave the house or sleep sometime.
Negotiate..
A sealed garden system. A couple of raised plastic tubs with soil in them draining into a reservoir with a pump that circulates water to the tubs. Add a bio filter with aquarium bio filter items to break down ammonia into nitrate. see Anthroponics
This is exactly the information I needed! Thank you!
I noticed my weed tea barrels stopped stinking when I threw biochar in it. Never thought to add some to the pee jug. Thanks for the tip.
Great video, and wonderful concept.
Must age it for 1 month minimum to killa ny medication
Many thanks for your kind sharing...
It's valuable work for the good of the many...
Another way is a pee bale. Bale small rectangular in the corner somewhere screened off the pea on it. In the autumn take it spread on garden and dig in .
Generally a good video, but one issue I have is that I'd recommend mixing the urine at a ratio of around 8 or 9 to 1, instead of the 3 to 1 like this video says....This has a couple of benefits, IMO: First, it makes it less likely to accidentally burn the plants with too much nitrogen. And second, the extra water helps the fertilizer get deeper down to the lower roots of the plant. Of course ultimately up to each gardener, and one can experiment and see what works best for them :-)
I use it at around 8-10 to 1 for the same reasons you mentioned. As the host mentioned in the video, I only add it to moist soil, preferably after a nice rain but hand-watering some first if required, for really the same reason - it gets down into the soil better.
It's always good to encourage roots to grow deeper rather than just get "lazy" and stay right near the surface. "Lazy" roots are really, really susceptible to dry spells.
@@dogslobbergardens6606 - Yes I largely agree, although I typically will water with the urine mixture first, and then add additional water afterwards to wash it down deeper. 100% agree in terms of encouraging deeper root growth, which is why it's best to do less frequent watering, but to water a lot when one does water 🙂
@@Bike_Lion exactly, I learned "water deep less often" a long long time ago, and it makes a big difference.
@@Bike_Lion the only reason I usually fertilize after rain or watering is to avoid leaching out the nutrients I'm adding, but I really don't think that's a huge deal in the ground like it would be in containers. Kind of just a habit, I guess. I used to grow a lot more stuff in containers, and it's more important then.
I'm confident your approach of watering first then fertilizing works perfectly fine, possibly better.
I keep my urine in 5ltr bottles with screw caps and I leave them for at least a month before I use it. I dilute 4:1.
I used month old urine in my biochar in a bucket with a snap lid. I read that this helps the ammonia to break down any bacteria that's lurking.
What about using a little Coffee? To neutralize the smell
Add biochar instead. Try it. You'll be glad you did.
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Great pee tips, and, I love the Tiroler hat.
How often do you use urine? What about potted plants? I mix mine 1 - 5 water. 3 x a week...
How is it working out for you? Are they still growing well?
Why filter out the ashes?
Thank you. How many times a week should I fertilize or how many times a week is too much?
Apparently urine is perfect fertilizer for citrus and other nitrogen heavy feeders.
This is so cool
How often to use it ?
Why can’t we replace with comfrey mulch ?
Do you add any thing else in urine fertiliser?
Thankyou
Banana trees and Japanese Yucca go berserk on full strength urine. If you take vitamins then drink a few beers they like that too.
How does adding highly alkaline wood ash drop the ph of the urine?
@@micelamicela I guess you do not understand ph scale. Dropping ph means increased acidity which is what he is saying.
@@micelamicela alkaline is base..
I didn't catch what I can use instead of ashes. Vinegar or citric acid I think. What ratio?
Ashes raise the pH and might help ammonia gas off - not what we want
Great video
How long does urine need to sit in a bottle before use? Do you use it right away? How often can you apply it? I've watched four videos on
This and no one answers these basic questions.
The sooner you use the urine the less Nitrogen is lost. Great direct fertilizer and speeds up brown matter decomposition in compost
@@oneyaker Thank you kindly. Does keeping it in a closed container and maybe adding wood ash to neutralize ammonia does that compost the urine and bring other nutrients? It is it strictly for fresh use before the nitrogen evaporates? I do watch and listen to the videos but haven't cought this info so thank you .
@@DagaanGalakticos There is small amount of ammonia in urine, but most of of the Nitrogen is in the form of Urea. Urea decomposes with the aid of microorganisms which is why it is a slow release fertilizer. Older urine is fine too and you can produce endless supply. Adding wood ash does not neutralize. It just adds more Ca, K, P and other minerals to the mix. Wood ash is alkaline and contains Potassium Nitrate and Hydroxide. Add the brew to the soil around the plants diluted 1:10 and a week to two later you will notice a significant reaction in the plants which just keeps going as the soil bacteria make the nutrients available to the plans. Fertilize every two weeks.
@@oneyaker You're a saint. Now I feel I have a grip on the subject. Thank you so.
Great video! Thank you 😊💚
Sorry, I can't turn around right now I'm fertilizing.
Are you related to Woody Harrelson?
your area looks sparse, what season is this?
1:22 Adding acid like vinegar or citric acid sounds make sense. But, do I need to be concerned about chemical reaction or anything like that when adding acid? Thank you.
No. While human urine can have some variability in pH due to diet and health of the individual, it tends to be rather neutral and usually in the 6-8 range. So adding an acid to it, or fermenting it with lactobacillus or effective microorganisms, is only going to lower the pH, helping to reduce the volatilization of the nitrogen. There won’t be any other chemical reactions that you need to worry about since there aren’t any strong bases and acids being combined.
You're cute dude and invited to the Cookout, but I'm just gonna have you bring the Napkins 😳😁
Lol
I live in the city and only grow stuff in pots. So do I just use the urine straight or do I need tp ferment it? If fermenting, does it have to be sealed off, like in a PET bottle?
Hmmm, interesting....but doesnt wood ash normally raise the ph?
You're spot on! It does.
I grow cannabis indoors and once a month my wife kindly pees into a bucket so I get a bloody urine mix. The plants love this.
They love a little blood in the urine?
🤣Not even knocking it!
@@johnniea7448 best thing is not telling your mates until they are smoking. The looks on their faces cracks me up.
@@garywillow6578 But only after you hear their feedback when you tell them the strain is called "Strawberry Dew"
Doesn't it smell indoors
Molasses would add potassium
Can I use urine to replace water completely for gardening in the desert? My partner and I use a chamber pot and collectively make about 3 gallons of urine a day. (We like to stay hydrated 😅)
Haha! That's alot of piss! Your kidneys are thanking you though.
I can just see him planting his cuttings into a fresh terd
On a serious note. Cholera, e-coli and hepatis is a big risk using number twos..
In Tasmania Australia a large majority of the mining town population was wiped out from Cholera in the 1850's from non existent sewer management.
I watched an interesting video from a USA university where they pasterised the collected urine using a solar powered heat bank before using it. To kill any fecal contamination of the number ones.
So cool thanks! Can I also add the ashes and vinegar after the urine fermented without it or do I have to add everything before I start filling up the bottle with the urine? So does it also work if I put all of it later on? Greetings
Why would you add vinegar, just urine or urine and woodash diluted.
@@brianfitch5469 ah okay, you mentioned it right after that with the wood ashes in the middle of the video. So better no vinegar and citric acid into the urine? Can I also add the ashes after I collected the urine or is it nessecary to add it in the beginning? Thx
@@brianfitch5469 Fresh urine is pretty much Ph balanced. Aged urine on the other hand, is very alkaline. Potash is very alkaline as well. For soils that are already alkaline to begin with, adding this combination is not recommended for acid-loving plants/fruits/vegetables, due to alkalizing the soil even more. Vinegar(acetic acid) is acidic and will lower the Ph in this combination.
@@sunny483 ya just add a couple spoon full of ashes if you want to the diluted urine when you go to use it. I wouldn't add vinegar. Vinegar can kill plants and it's unneeded. If you have a good soil bacteria biome it will keep your pH balance where it needs to be.
@@davidisaacson9328 while I agree somewhat. If you have a healthy bacteria/fungal biome in your soil it will keep the pH balance where it should be within a couple of days.
0:46 1 day? year? Life time? worth of pee to grow that much?
Why did you say to use wood ash (alkaline) or vinegar (acid)? How do you know opposite ph components do the same work?
Another comment he said he misspoke
@@mmccrownus2406 I didn't see the comment so which one is correct the ash or the vinegar?
@@mlauntube - The ash is correct. You want alkaline to stop the ammonia off-gassing. If you don't have wood ash, you can also use baking soda, though that doesn't add potassium - not a huge issue though, as potassium is usually abundant in compost, particularly composted wood, like old rotten logs.
The only issue I have with what he says in this video is that I'd recommend mixing the urine at a ratio of around 8 or 9 to 1, instead of the 3 to 1 like he says....This has a couple of benefits, IMO: First, it makes it less likely to accidentally burn the plants with too much nitrogen. And second, the extra water helps the fertilizer get deeper down to the lower roots of the plant :-)
@@Bike_Lion No, the opposite. You need to add an acid (citric, acetic) or ferment with effective microorganisms to lower the pH, increase ammonium (NH4+), and reduce volatilized conversion of urea to ammonia (NH3) from off gassing. Adding an alkaline substance (wood ash) will raise the pH and increase the ammonia levels (and subsequently the toxicity to soils).
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We have been trying to figure out what we want to do with the gray water from our Skoolie so we can use it on our homestead! This may be an option!
separate the urine from the number twos ! A funnel on a two litre bottle with a ping pong ball in the funnel.. you do not want number twos in the garden .Or a Urine diverter on the portable toilet in the Skoolie.
I wonder.......when will you start to experiment with #2? I am sure it is a very good fertilizer as well.
NO NO NO. Most animals not ours
In the old days my grandparents' parents' generation used #2 as fertilizers, but during those times most people in their village also have hookworms in their intestines, and many other rural type of diseases, lol. Due to how easily diseases and pathogens are spread, from using untreated good ol' #2.
Many African countries use human waste as fertilizer but it has to be completely composted and turned to soil first the process takes about a year done naturally sped up by artificial means around 6 to 8 months then it can be used. It's a good option for poor soil climates but not a fast process so not efficient for most of the world
@@karma8001Absolutely not true. Humanure is perfectly safe to use as long as it has been properly processed and allowed to compost for a year or more. Many off-grid homes use composting toilets. It’s completely understandable that we have a natural “ick” factor to the idea of using human feces for compost, and so for those that do, you can choose to use the finished compost only on non-edible plants or for fruit and nut trees where the compost will never have any direct contact with the products we consume from that tree.
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Great
the camera nauseated me
Umm urine is not sterile not even close..
Absolutely is sterile when properly collected, unless infected.
Wrong. Look it up before looking stupid.
Urine is sterile in the body when there is no ongoing infection. Keeping urine sterile as it passes skin surfaces during collection is the tricky part.
You got to ask yourself what are you more afraid of chemicals or bacterial
get a new camera person! the camera work made me nauseous lol
Too much babbling not enough actually showing how it's done. Put some shoes on.
Great video