Can Human Urine be used as a Fertilizer in your Organic Garden
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2015
- Can you use Human Urine as Fertilizer?
On today’s episode I am going to take a look at one of the questions I have been asked a few times now. Can you use human urine as fertilizer?
can urine transmit diseases?
Can there be drugs in urine?
Other benefits of urine as a fertilizer
Background on the subject
From the dawn of agriculture and the domestication of animals we have used other animals manures and urines in agriculture as a means to return essential nutrients to the soil allowing for increased crop yields later.
On this month’s instalment of the testing garden assumptions series let’s take a look at the use of human urine in the garden and if it brings any benefits.
Hypothesis
Today’s Hypothesis is that Human Urine can be used as a fertilizer in the garden.
Research
In order to understand this better we need to know what fertilizer potential urine has and if it poses a risk to human health if used in the garden.
Results with general findings
Is Urine a Fertilizer
Urine is the liquid waste stream produced by filtering the blood stream in the kidneys. Commonly urine is high in nitrogen along with other surplus water soluble elements found in your body.
a 2005 study from Goteborg university in Sweden assessed the recycling of nutrients excreted in urine from urban areas as a a method of ecologically sustainable development. They found that straight urine has an NPK of 18:2:5 while urine flushed with water has 15:1:3. The study went on to find macro and micro-elements essential for plant growth including Cu, Zn, Cr, Ni, Pb and Cd.
Urine can have a pH between 4.6 to 8 however garden soils usually have sufficient buffering capacity to avoid a change in the pH.
So there is research to support that urine does have value as a fertilizer and is unlikely to be able to change the pH of your soil. The next thing we should take a look at is if urine is safe to use in the garden.
Is Urine Safe to Use in the Garden
In order to understand if urine is safe we should know if it contains anything that may be harmful if someone comes in contact. The first thing that comes to mind is bacteria that may be harmful.
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When I was a child, my siblings and I would visit our paternal grandparents for a week or two during the summer. One of the joys was going out back and stuffing ourselves with the cherry tomatoes that grew out back. Later, I noticed that the tomato plant(s) were growing on the side of their outhouse. :)
We never got sick.
Wow, you went there. You went there, opened the door and walked around in it. Kudos for broaching a touchy topic.
Hopefully you enjoyed the clip! I can't tell you it took me awhile to figure out how to broach this subject.
Hopefully it gets the message across with out getting stuck on other issues.
I recently started collecting urine each time I'm out in the yard cutting grass or working in the garden by having a 5 gallon pail in the shed (for privacy) with biochar in it. I find the biochar really helps reduce the odor of the urine and 48 hours later I empty the pail into my compost pile. The more you drink prior to starting yard work the better... Beer really helps the creation of urine too. LOL
Its better to use fresh urine. If you let it sit in a container harmful bacteria builds
Do you not dilute it first. I mix mine with 10 parts water,
@@micksayers1 no you can just mix it with compost or soil keep it wet and let it sit for 30 days. It takes 30 days for the urine to decompose in the soil and then you can use it for your plants
Human urine has been used for many generations in many parts of the world. As long as you are healthy, eat well, not on medication urine would make great fertilizer instead of wasting water to flush away. If you drive around immigrant neighborhoods around here many of them save them in jugs for their gardens! Love your series. Keeps getting better!
Germans would love this
+Wendi Phan I am really glad you enjoy this serries! it is a lot of work to put together but I feel well worth it!
As I mentioned in the video there are just so many benifits to sustainability its a wonder why it is not done more often.
+Alberta Urban Garden Simple Organic and Sustainable Thank you, we appreciate the time and effort you put into this to help make the world a better place.
It is my pleasure !
Yes its nitrogen dilutte it what the fuck do you think the asians in china have used to create a large population by being self sufficient until rcent times the equivelant to the USA in maybe the 1800s.
Doesnt sound good but it works .
Remeber there werent ads to make us buy fertilizers .
Another excellent study! The BBC's 'Gardeners' Question Time' program on BBC radio 4 regularly endorses the use of human urine as a fertiliser. The recommendation from Bob Flowerdew, one of the panel, is to site your compost heap out of view and urinate on it when the need arises. My technique is to pee into my watering can in the privacy of my garden shed and then water either plants or compost heap with this diluted solution.
To dispose of urine by washing it down to the sewer with a gallon if drinking water is a poor use of resources.
I hate to think of the sheer waste of water world wide we have all the while fighting to grow food !
As long as one is decent about it you can really benefit !
That's exactly what I do. When I have a can full it goes over the compost heap, producing wonderful humus in just a few months. Fortunately I have a large garden so that I can site my heap as far from the neighbours as possible as a freshly "watered" heap does tend to pong for a few days afterwards. I also have a fine mesh container (with lid) for my kitchen scraps so as to keep, not so much vermin as cats and birds away. There are a lot of very frustrated birds in my area who can longer redistribute the contents all over the garden.
That's all the authorization I need! 'Piss on it' is a common Canadianism with a slightly different connotation but it will do. Cheers!
@@AlbertaUrbanGarden yep totally agree, wars will be fought over water if we continue to waste it. I always pee in a Jug in the garage, then add this to a 5 gallon container. This either goes on one of our compost heaps or in the water butts. (we have 6 butts to collect water from the house and 4 more down the allotment. We save every drop of water we can and love collecting rain water
Now I pee in my garden with head held high,
Canadian Stephen told me to do so.
More specifically on your compost pile :)
Hehehe that's excellent thought
I used to pee directly on my guava tree every morning and dumped lots of vitamin C tablets into the soil. The tree produced hundreds of sweet guava, more than enough to share with neighbors. I once discontinued this practice for a while and the fruit became very hard to bite.
For a fully grown tree in a pot, a 1:5 dilution is good, though 1:10 is safer for the roots.
dilution noy needed
@@ennakavi2129 - It depends on which plants and how much you're peeing. With a big tree it's not an issue, but a bunch of pee directly on some small lettuce plants would likely burn them.
I've done this for years with my Tomatoes. In the spring I use a little 10-10-10, Milorganite, gypsum, and my urine. I grow so many tomatoes that I give much to family, neighbors, and friends. I've been told by so many that I have the best Tomatoes.
In fall I like add 6 inches of leaves. In the spring i fertilize fertilize and gypsum, then I use cardboard on top of that a week before planting tomatoes. It's a weed blocker and keeps moisture in. I plant my Tomatoes deep down. Basically 75% is buried straight down. I find that even when its dry for a few weeks my Tomatoes are still fine. I add 10% urine to water when I do water. Sometimes just water. They grow great. The worms are doing their part. Planting Tomatoes is the highlight of all my plants. I'm disabled from the Army so Tomatoes grow up making it easier than something like carrots.
Damn man you made them drink your urine?
I have to say:
I love how professional and eloquent you sound, as well as your decision to look at available scientific literature.
It felt like listening to a very good professor's lecture.
I'm using diluted pee on my pot plants. The NPK is good for them especially during bud and flowering. Diluted 10:1 is best.
Really?
Well you kind of have it right the P is good for flowering. Of course I mean the P in NPK. Urine is more for leaf development since it is high in nitrogen. The one really good thing about urine is the micro nutrients that it contains that aren’t covered by NPK but are vital for plants or should I say soil. The best way to think of it is as feeding the soil not feeding the plant. The nutrients that the plants use are from the biology in the soil not the nutrients you are putting in the soil which are actually feeding the soil life. If you want healthy plants you have to feed the biology in the soil so the plants can use the waste products from that life. You can trick the plant by using chemical fertilizers that do directly feed the plant but it harms the soil so, if you use chemical fertilizers then you are kind of stuck with always using it because your soil will not be healthy and won’t support good plant growth.
@@chrissede2270 no the P is for roots, the K is for the flowers.
Excellent information on using urine as a fertilizer, Stephen!
Thank you my friend !
OYR Frugal & Sustainable Organic Gardening
Urine is used in many ways, Even on humans. Fresh urine can make you look and feel better about yourself.
Wash your face with urine 2 times a week to improve your face.
Take care
True, but didn't think I would like to eat at your hose. Sounds more like a male teratorial thing, if I am permited to say. 👀😀
You did a great job of covering a sensitive subject! After driving behind several gigantic trucking rigs hauling dairy manure to crop fields this afternoon, your video topic seems downright refined! I'm not sayin' whether I do or don't -- I'll just say that I can really heat up a compost pile! : )
+HChrisH200 - Haphazard Homestead I am glad you enjoyed the clip. I have been working on this one for over a year as I wanted to frame the conversation just right so people would get the info with out getting distracted ;) A warm compost pile is a good thing :)
My father and his before him always peed on the compost pile everytime they added to it. 😃 Great information glad to know old gardening still works. 👍
So glad you mentioned the medication aspect…so many people who cover this topic skip it entirely.
I have been pissing in a small watering can since yesterday! It's good to see proof of its usefulness in the garden!
I use wood ash and urine but I never thought of combining them! I am so glad I discovered Alberta Urban Garden site.
I really appreciate the amount or research and scientific data u put into your vids. Thank you!!
Love your videos : 0 ) So open minded and informative. Thank you.
I love your channel!! Subscribed today and binge watching!
A Very straight up guy,good info,thats why I subscribed
Great for the home gardener to know during these times of fertilizer shortages and expense due to import issues. I would use it around tree crops and definitely not on lettuce and such. My father told me that during his army service in WW2's China Theater, locals bucketed out the latrines for use on their fields. No time to be squeamish if survival is the issue.
In many countries of the South-East Asia, the content of latrine is systematically put in soil that is kept for a year out of use to allow a complete decomposition and for safety reasons.
I keep a bucket of sawdust and wood shavings at the back of my wood shop. When it full of urine I chuck it straight in the compost it’s fine.
Steve, I thank you for the work you put into your videos. I find I trust your information, I can see you put time in what you share on you tube, I enjoy knowing I can seek you on information I need to know on garden related facts. Thank you Steve. Sincerely Rick
Rick thank you for the kind words my friend! I am glad the work I do can help you. I post all of my references on my website just incase you would like to read them as well!
Thank you I have been thinking about using this method for a while now.
A very wasted resource in my book.
Use it mainly in compost but also "spot" fertilise a number of plants around the patch ;-)
Urine is used by quite a few folks to cycle aquaponic systems & also to run "Peeponic" systems too. Hope +Bo turns up soon to tell you about his.
+RobBobs Backyard Farming I agree my firend it is a wasted resource! Hopefully you enjoyed this clip better than my first version ;)
I wonder how many people it would require to run a Peeponics sytem! I would love to hear more!
+Rob Bob's Backyard Farming what is peeponic? is it a fishless system? I have been thinking about trying manure, compost, an worm castings instead of fish, as the fish aspect is very costly, with food an the time it takes to grow them to a decent size
+WhatAmI “TheKingdomeWithin” IsItInMe
Certainly is a fishless system. If you search peeponics a few clips should come up on YT 👍
Rob, aquaponics is a waste of time money and energy. Anything not grown naturally in compost and sol is not worth your time. Food grown in naturally made soil is the only way to go and grow
Green houses are also a waste of money especially when you grow food. Tomatoes lose 250 out of the 300 phytochemicals needed to fight skin cancer. Food for tought
@@svetlanikolova7673 🤔🤔 So, how do you get the fish you want to eat to survive in soil and compost?
Do you add extra compost tea or water it to saturation point?
Would welcome any advice on how you do. 👍
Another great informative video much appreciated here in a very cold UK. I've been adding this waste product to my comfrey tea for months now as a trial. I intend to add it to my compost bins in a bid to heat them up because they are literally frozen St the moment the temp Is around 13° but the compost is well on its way so I'm not too concerned. thanks again.
Thanks for this info I don't have a garden I just work as a organic green teen and botany and biology are now in my top 3 interesting topics!!!
Excellent research! Good job!!!! :) thanks
This works amazing on my indoor plants
Hi I came here from a Argentinian channel. Thanks for the subtitles, they help a lot to Non-English speakers.
I use my own urine in my bio-garden. I use one simple rule 5 and 5. I add 5 times of water for each part of urine, and, I let the mixture "cook" for 5 days, That's ready to use. I got the idea from a Swedish experiment in Africa, and it works fine.
That allows the nitrogen to convert over to available forms. I saw the research paper on the subject and they are having massive success.
I wish I could subtitle all of my episodes. This one someone helped me with. I am glad you enjoyed it.
but did not you say that fresh urine is better and that if its kept it loses some percentage. thanks for the video
Very thorough. Thanks!
I love how you support your info❤️ Thank you so much
Glad I could help!
I'm glad that you specifically addressed the risks involved with medication by-products. I really like how you highlight the environmental and financial benefits. Unfortunately in order for this to catch on we need to eliminate the 'yuck' factor. I think this would be great for my garden - but my family would think it was disgusting and stop eating my home-grown veggies. I really hope we see a cultural shift on this over the next 10 years or so. Perhaps increasing water shortages in places like California will help make this transition. Thanks so much for putting this well researched video together!!
+Kim Bell I am glad I could help my friend! I believe cultural shift happens through conversations like this. the more people are exposed to the science the more acceptable it will become!
I came to the same conclusions as you Stephen and been using urine in my compost pile or diluted 1:10 with water in the garden for 3-4 years now, especially at the cottage where gentlemen can just go directly in the composter in summer...I have a septic system over there and it is checked by professionals every year, since I don't use any harsh chemicals and save water it never had to be emptied for the past 10 years! Weird but I'm pretty proud of that :-D
+Elyse Joseph You should be proud of that my friend! A healthy system should never need to be drained or cleaned! well in theory!
the cabin sure makes it easy to take advantage of the compost pile! If only I were that lucky!
I love his semi-monotone way of speaking, it keeps me listening and learning about a subject I'm already interested in.
I am then furthest thing from an actor ;)
@@AlbertaUrbanGarden Hi, it's great to see some activity from you! I'm a big fan. I've watched a few of your videos multiple times. Any chance you'll be making new videos in the near future? One idea, best ways to test soil PH. Are the at-home tools all quite inaccurate? Edit: I just noticed that you have a video on PH.
I'm in Florida and I have been experimenting with strips of my sandy soil. I recently mixed n very cheap leafy mulch topsoil for a little organic material, applying diluted urine(My own), and keeping it moist by lightly watering and covering with dead palm fronds. After Two months of this the light grey sands started becoming dark with bacterial growth and it started smelling earthy and sour. I planted squash and watermelon as they grow well in sandy soil to see what would happen. They are taking off at an incredible rate. Me and a buddies next project it's going out to the swamps and gathering some of that stinky black silt that builds up in corners and sloughs to try and mix into this sandy soil with some organic. High hopes. Appreciate the video. Keep up the great work. If you have sandy soil start peeing in jugs and just dilute the next day. P.S, I do take Adderall. People going to be wondering why these melons give them so much energy?. 🤣
Basically, the simplest thing to do is to add everything to your compost pile. As I say below, I precondiction autumn leaves by peeing on them for a year, and adding them to the pile, but also to the pile go the coffee grounds, all kinds of kitchen peelings (I also make stock from chicken carcasses and veggie peeings, and after straining the stock off, and reboiling the remainder with more water and straining off again, I figure the remainder has almost no food value for rats), cardboard, and yes, barbecue ash, lawn clippings, eggshells.. and sometimes I throw in some zinc tablets, selenium tablets, Epsom Salts etc...
The more stuff you mix in, the more everything evens out. Sometimes I add in animal manures (shicken manure etc), or animal bedding (I had a guinea pig at one point). Turn the heap once or twice and its ready to use.
Thank you very much for all this information!
it is my pleasure!
My Uncle told of Japanese gardeners during WW2, carrying 'honey dippers' to deliver human waste to their gardens. Small bucket type containers suspended from a yoke worn over the shoulders. "Night soil" was another term used for this fertilizer.
I have herd this aswell
Another terrific piece of information. Thank you
You are more than welcome !
Animal urine doesn't smell as bad as human urine. There's a risk that your flowers, vegetables and everything starts smelling like a public toilet if people start peeing in their plant pots or garden patches. If there was a way to reduce the smell then it would be perfect. Also what are people's thoughts on ammonia from urine and does it matter?
Great and informative video
Thanks !
Now I know it is okay to empty the 'emergency' urinal pail that I have in the garage, in a line on the crushed rock 'patio' for the evergreens (plus) to potentially 'soak' up ! 8-)
I also use the water drawn out of our fish tank during monthly water changes' application when the frost is out of the ground, on the flower beds, what's left of the lawn, and occasionally portioned out to the indoor potted plants during winter vs pouring down the toilet !
I've used urine in my compost pile and tumbler for a long time and it works great but I learned something new today with regards the wood ash. Very cool.
+Jora Lebedev Glad I could help ;)
Thank you!
I put lawn and leaf clippings directly under my plants and then water with diluted urine and wood ash. Works great. Fruit trees do exceptionally well also. Mulch keeps the weeds down.
I use similar techniques ! I have run all of those and they are great and best part is free.
Nice summary of studies, and data
Thank you.
I thought that this was very informative and you covered many questions that I did not think about
I am glad I could help!
Excellent information. It may be high time to put our conditioned bias against these things aside and start putting our waste to good use.
+O-zen I could not agree more and we can even start with simpler ones we toss in the trash every day.
Excellent information! We stopped all prescription medication about 3 months ago so we could begin using this method more often.
Good stuff!
Good chunk of information there thanks for doing all the research :) I think that as long as you are using your own urine and your families it is much safer as you are fully what is in it. I don't mind using it on compost, under fruit trees and bushes although still reluctant to use it on veggies... but Martin Crawford for example in his book mentioned that 5 pees will provided enough nitrogen for annual vegetables on a square meter, so ye still need to try this one out ;)
I think your on the right tract. I am interested to add this method to my gardening practices more as the nitrogen content is important for me !
Very good series & video. Great job.
Thank you my friend !
He actually made this video with a straight face. Maybe I am still immature lol
Great video, thanks.
Glad I could help
I like your scientific documentation. Thanks Stephen
My pleasure !
Awesome research
Thanks for mentioning the very important fact about being careful using human urine IF one is taking certain medications.
Thanks so much
Yes!! My mother used it to her orchids!! She delute it of course with water.
Great info, thanks for sharing
+Sabine RiverAuthority Glad you enjoyed it my friend!
Thanks for sharing.
Great topic to cover, found it very interesting. Also really like your latest intro brand!
I am glad you enjoyed the clip my friend ! It took nearly 12 months to put together !
The brand is my fav !! We took a lot of time putting it together !
The brand is very professional. What kind of program or services did you use?
To be honest my older brother helped me with the branding :)
Good video Stephen. Use in the compost pile is my primary interest. Have been thinking of it for a couple of years but have not done so yet because my compost is filled with red wrigglers and I am not sure what affect it would have on them. I've also wondered about mixing it with ash as well. After watching this I think I will be giving that a try next year.
In a compost that is built up it should not harm the worms. But mixing with ash and added to a hot compost would be effective :)
Excellent info,as ever
+Frank Scales I am glad you enjoyed the clip!
That would be a YES!
Love your scientific and analytical approach to this important subject! Great video! From the research of Goteborg University at 1:17, there's a chart of materials going across from left to right: Cu, Zn, Cr, Ni, Pb, Cd, are they stand for: Cu=Copper, Zn=Zinc, Cr=Chromium, Ni=Nickel, Pb=Lead, Cd=Cadmium? Thanks for your reply! :)
Damn
as a balcony gardener, I may try this out as there is supposedly a big shortage of fertilizer chemicals and I was looking for 1. other options and 2. ideas for use in a grid down situation.
I have been using straight morning urine as an elixir for dawn redwoods for over 25 years, and recommend it to anyone who contacts me with various issues regarding their languishing trees. I have been using it in the garden for the past two years, as I produce 2-3 gallons of it a day, which is diluted enough to go straight into the garden while still fresh. For high N plants, like corn and Brussel sprouts, I soak each bed once a week. Additionally, if you are taking vitamins, they will transfer to the soil and add additional nutrients.
Thank you
Excellent video!
+Miguel Mourato glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you. Results are great.
One a day, I was riding with my bike to my aunts garden and saw she crouching with pants down, between her tomatoes. 🥶🥵🥶 How awkward, what do you think ???
Good info on Wood Ash to balance out he nutrition from urine! I commonly use urine, but mainly to feed the trees in my yard.
+Shannon Reis I've also read of biochar/ash being useful on Avocado and other orchards with saline soils or ground water, apparently it works as a wonderful in-soil water filter.
Trees enjoy a good watering :)
Ash might help too :)
Yes brilliant, piss on the campfire at 3 am, then you have PH balanced feed for your weed
WELL RESEARCHED
Thank-you, As a "sink or swim" gardener, I view ALL of your videos for scientific data and rationale as guidelines.
I am a huge proponent of experimental gardening in other words sink or swim! Let me know if there is anything else you would like to know !
+Alberta Urban Garden Simple Organic and Sustainable Which reminds me . . . How far up your list of study projects is 'Does Bio food really deliver health benefits [compared to industrial-farmed produce]'?
This is a wider topic than your usual ones, but knowing whether 'bio' delivers real benefits underpins our gardening philosophy, hence it seems to me to be most important. If you've answered this question elsewhere, sorry to have missed it - perhaps you could deal with that problem with an FAQ file somewhere.
It's on the list my friend however much like in nature I kind of pick from the list at random. The higher level questions take longer as I usually have to figure out how to break them up and deliver it in a few chunks.
Nicely done. Although, your comment about roots getting burned by direct application of urine is untrue. The only reason you see that happening in the case of dogs is because they urinate on the same area repeatedly. A gardener wouldn't do that when applying urine as a fertilizer. It takes very little urine to significantly increase the N ppm in soil to over 100 ppm (which is much higher than necessary for almost all soil applications) and even that amount won't burn roots. I regularly use urine in potted soil mixed with finished composted to increase the N in the mixture from 10 ppm to 105 ppm for growing potatoes (2/3 added at planting time & 1/3 added at bloom time) and I've never had any negative effects on my plants. I've also used less urine directly applied to tomato & corn roots with zero adverse effects.
1 L of urine has ~9 g of N, by the way.
I read that in order not to burn plants it should be diluted, one part urine to ten parts water. Good tip on mixing urine with ashes.
That's a great I think the dilution factor is similar to what others recommend.
Chez, Alberta, Kelvin please could you tell me if I can do that every day or is it once a week thing the 1 urine part for 10 water part . I am planning to test it on none edible tree or small jasmine bush. cause I read a study that 27% of water use is to flush the toilet .. and want to contribute my share to save resources ... so could you tell me if I can use that daily or once a weak? thanks in advance, nice day. shall I water it after that or the mix will be fine? thanks
in Korea, they use poop and pee's of human for plants fertilizer. They process it first before applying it to their vegetables, that's why their veges are huge and healthy.
very informative.
Glad you enjoyed it
A terrific, under-appreciated idea! My wife has been doing this for years in her big greenhouse. It's not rocket science, people. By the way, your doctor won't have the slightest idea as to whether your particular pharmaceutic drug poses a problem in the garden. Try googling your question instead.
I remember a neighbor did not like the sapling planed in the small back yard of the condo below him. So he would pour ammonia down on the sapling which quickly grew. My thought was the ammonia combined with nitrogen in the soil, ammonia nitrite, and fertilized the tree.
There is some ammonia in urine.
Nice video my new friend. From Davao ty
yes it is a very good fertilizer. My Mom's flower garden blooms non stop all year round in PI, just using the pee and mixing it with regular water.
That was a well put together argument.
I am glad you enjoyed it !
Kimberly Cabanas
Urine
At one time was the best medicine around the world 🌎.
It helps humans look and feel better about them selfs.
Urine helps humans look younger then there age. Wash your face 2, times a week and you well see a difference in a mouth. Take care.
Luis Sousa: I've heard about that. Let's give a try!
Kimberly Cabanas I think girls pee is better since she is more fertile..And all those Estrogen .You can pee on my soil any day.I'll watch. :)
Hi! Kimberly u r beautiful..😆😆😆😆
wow 18,2,5 is wayy better npk than I expected. Liquid gold for sure.
I will subscribe to this channel, is very interesting.
Wow, actual literature in a gardening video.
Glad I could help ;)
OK, I was wondering about bile salt, how is that not hurting soils, although I have seen many people I know do this, I just believe your pee contains salt, and salt destroys soil over time, my neighbor says he has worked that out by combining things that bind the salt crystals, by adding compost to it. :) So I believe your video is pretty spot on.
My neighbor saves his urine and places it in a 50 gallon rain barrels all year long, he then adds leaves, grass clippings to it, he then adds yogurt bottles to it, the FAGE type and any brand that has the most enzymes/bacteria to the mix. he says he lets it sit for about 3-8 weeks it ferments. He winters his tanks by using old milk tank trucks that he pumps into from the barels, I only know he uses this for his greenhouse plants, and garden conditioning programs, but says it produces the best growth in plants he has ever seen. our local university is also now studying his farms.
As a neighbor I put up with a lot of stuff, including the smell of this, when he uses a spreader to spray this material with his tractors, planes on farm land, so. Seriously its about as bad as a pig farmers dumping ground no offense.
His profits are now about 5 times higher than normal. He did say he used a heat sanitizer on the fluid before using his extractor before placing in his tractor tanks to spray, and he also runs a carbon exchanger system that reduces other odors, but let me say, it stinks, I do not go near that stuff especially when he sells it to other folks. Though he has proven it works, the Agricultural Society just approved more greenhouses for him with grants to boot. Turns out DOW and some other companies also use similiar fertilizers for soy bean farming, at least that is what I was told by a retired employee.
He says the best solution is to take your yard clippings and leaves raked up and place in garbage bags and donate them to your local farmers and to stop dumping them in garbage, farmers who can either add it to water, or plow it under the garden soils. Its a complete recycling program, so in that aspect its as green as you want to get, though I prefer a little less green smell. LOL
Hi stephen, thanks for the video, learned alot, now im planning to mix urine nd wood ash to be use as peeponic solution, any idea about the water dillution for this kind of mixture? Thanks
Very interesting.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Keeps my corn nice and green.
I tested my urine with an Electrical conductivity meter. It was off the scale. (Up to 20 millisiemens ) I diluted it by half with deionised water. Urine became 13ms.
13 x 2 because I diluted it = 26ms. Most plant's general range is between 0.2ms - 1.2ms. Anything more and you would risk dehydrating the plant by reverse osmosis (fertiliser scorch)
+yathatisgood the common dilution factor recommended in most research is 1 part urine to 10 parts clean water. That should drop the original to 2.6 which again would probably need one more factor of dilution to be non-harmful. that said I recommend adding it to a compost pile to avoid any damage issues.
thank you for taking the time to sample and present your findings. its really great information!
Another use for urine in the garden is insect, slug and spider mite buster. Dilute 2 cup 1/2 litre in a gallon spray. Wait about a week for the ammonia to be released from the urea ( smell will be strong and PH will increase ) and spray on the leaves. lightly at first to ensure the solution is not too strong then. The strong smell only lasts for about an hour. Slugs will turn into soap, spider mites will immediately vacate and the plants will be stronger from the folliar feeding. Personally I would not use on lettuce ready to eat but if the slugs are there, the lettuce won't last
During WW2 POWs held by Germany were allowed to grow veg. Piss was the only fertiliser they had.
Congrats
I was researching on Urea Fertilizer, when I ran into information that recommends to make it at home. They say one should add a table spoon of baking soda to a gallon of urine, followed by dilution with water. They don't specify the proportion, though.
It would make a very awesome essay.
Good to brush teeth with
thanks! Now my wife doesn't think I am so weird for pouring my Urine on the compost bin. Glad to see this Garden technique proved to be true. I have been doing bokashi composting lately. if you have a backlog of things you might be willing to do some research on - could you please add that to the list? Is Bokashi composting beneficial to the garden? My hypothesis is that it is beneficial so hopefully, if you ever get around to it, you can prove it for all of us bokashi composters.
I have it on my list to evaluate but there is quite a que forming on that list. I can promise I will get to it.
well done
Thank you sir !