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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• masterofballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I grill on a big green egg. The wood is natural wood. So I've been using the ashes as fertilizer for my grass. Seems to work.

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• thatguyoverthere@charlestown.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  @iamtanmay https://epn.org/best-composting-toilet/

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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:

    1. 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.

    2. 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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  • thatguyoverthere@charlestown.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    @iamtanmay this was meant to be in reference to:
    
    > 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 ?

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• Scruffy_Nerfherder@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  And urine. Evidently urine is good but you need to compost it first. I just watched a video of a youtuber dumping 5 gallons of his wife's pee in some woodchips.

  He either must really love her, or their are into some kinky stuff.

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  • 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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