Comment on PSA for making fertilizer during shortage. Add beans/legumes to your crop for 'N' of NPK, aka Nitrogen. Rest is in wood ash

Scruffy_Nerfherder@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• iamtanmay@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Urine contains urea, which is a better N fertilizer than Ammonia. People say 10:1 water to urine mix once or twice a week is enough. I haven't tried it myself

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  • masterofballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    So when I get drunk and piss on someone's yard I'm doing them a solid.

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  • Scruffy_Nerfherder@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    There is something about dumping a 5 gallon bucket of pee into a pile of mulch.... It was a little off-putting.

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    • syntaxerror@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I just pee directly into my compost pile....

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      • Scruffy_Nerfherder@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Cut out the middle mam!!

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    • iamtanmay@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Yeah, no that's disgusting. Using pee and poop as fertilizer goes back millenia, so there has to be a better way. Maybe a separate urine toilet or urine separating toilet with smaller flush sending it to a compost with mulch/ash ?

      In dad's farming villages, they would let animal poop decompose and dry out before using it for fertilizer/fuel, and there was less smell. They didn't use pee though

      Rural farming is messy business

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      • squashkin@exploding-heads.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        check out humanure handbook (human manure)

        seems like you can compost it like other waste

        I'd probably want to put it somewhere away from food

        I remember hearing a farmer say they got some treated sludge from the wastewater treatment place and it was potent fertilizer for whatever they were growing

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