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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

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iamtanmay@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

Yeah... I mean I could already compost it with a compost pit... but the question was if we could separate Urine in a non disgusting way to supplement wood ash as a full spectrum fertilizer. Personally I have 2 ideas:

Let urine dry, then scrape and mix it with wood ash -> It will still smell like Urea/Ammonia, but the dry stuff won't slosh around disgustingly like stale liquid urine.
If there is a (non sprinkler !) watering system, like rubber hoses with holes, add a big water container in the system. Then either connect a urine only/urine separating toilet to this container or store and mix the urine manually (ewwwwww).

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thatguyoverthere@charlestown.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
@iamtanmay ah ok I'm tracking. yeah the toilets will separate it I think but then you are stuck with a sloshy bucket that could get messy. The wood ash idea seems like you would end up with a final product that is basically ready to go right? all of the nutrients in the right ratios (or close to it)
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- iamtanmay@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  A better automated idea - connect rubber hoses to a big water container connected to both water tap and urinal. Make holes in hoses at regular intervals, then lay them across the crops. Set an electric switch to open valves at both water tap and hoses at a set time every day, say 6 in the morning.
  
  What should happen is that fresh water would mix with the urine from the previous day and get released into the soil, thus avoiding all the dirty work
  
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