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Omaha, NE (N41-15-42 )

Found this article today:
http://www.geocities.com/impatients63/FreeUreaBasedFertilizer.htm

You will know right now that I'm pretty unflappable.

Anyone out there courageous enough to admit to peeing in the patch? LOL!

How about to admitting you saw the unnamed grower down the street pouring it on?

Seriously, though, I'm open to thinking out of the pot, and trying new things. Anyone use "Free urea" or have any thoughts on it?

2/5/2004 3:40:19 PM

Appalachian Mtns.

Heck yea...it's easier than walking back to the house.

2/5/2004 3:56:17 PM

Walkerton Ont

same here, im down at the patch, on a edge of a hay field no one can see me except for the fishes in the river and people walking on the local trail, but i always point the other way and make sure noone is walking on the trail. Hehe

2/5/2004 5:13:39 PM

Spokane, WA

I love going outside...Ya don't have to aim or put the seat down when you're done. (I live in a house of girls)

2/5/2004 5:35:16 PM

Omaha, NE (N41-15-42 )

Okay, let me ask you this:

The article I read today talked about saving it up and applying it to the patch as you would other fertilizer. Anyone want to fess up to doing that? Anyone have any thoughts?

2/5/2004 5:43:10 PM

Eugene, OR

I remember reading a diary on this site where the guy did just that. He would collect his own urine for use in the pumpkin patch. He had some nice looking plants and pumpkins....so there may be something to it.

I believe the grower was from Germany but I'm not 100% on that.

2/5/2004 6:35:24 PM

Montoursville, PA

It's animal urine. It would likely benefit you most if you have and run it through the compost pile first. My patches are away from the house. There is always a pee bucket in my shed. I'm in surburban conditions with lots of eyes watching. I let them see me cleaning my liquid ferts tanks into the same bucket. Works for me. It all goes to the compost pile. I rinse up or clean up the bucket with a shot of chlorine and a small scrub brush. I let the chlorine evaporate out over night. It goes to compost the next time I'm out there.

I also have experimented with it as a deer repellent. It might work for one night. Not sure! These educated surburban deer do not fear the smell of man.

2/5/2004 6:59:29 PM

Indiana

Sweden-Gustavsson was the guy, read his last years diary.
Steve

2/5/2004 7:01:28 PM

Indiana

Hmmm Beer as free fertilizer. So thats how the Wisconsin people grow them so big.
Steve

2/5/2004 7:05:24 PM

Montoursville, PA

I any animal urine is not composted or given time for aerobic bacteria to act completely and do their clean up there could be transfer of pathogens to the food crops. This can be read about and clearly understood in most organic trending books. If it becomes a part of a working compost pile at a temperature of about 140 degrees for several days, in aerobic conditions, any concern would be literaly converted to safe forms or the pathogens would be heat treated to safe levels.

After all we may be forgetting that composting was practiced anerobically by man ever since man became a grower. The rest of the underdeveloped world even today, for the most part, does not even know what a synthetic fertilizer is. I doubt they know aerobic handling, in most cases, would be better, even today

2/5/2004 7:59:37 PM

Deer Park, WI

Ok, so wizzing in the patch is pretty commmon. A number of growers do it to keep pesky animals out of the patch. I do cuz im too lazy to walk the 10 feet to the bathroom...lol. But now the real question must be asked...who takes a dump in the garden??? Now thats fert..

Anyone who fesses up to that deserves an 845, not that im offering or admitting.

2/5/2004 9:26:42 PM

Walkerton Ont

hehe funny

2/5/2004 10:37:48 PM

Appalachian Mtns.

I would Joe but everytime I have the urge I remember a phrase I read awhile back..."if it eats meat you don't want it's poop in your garden, bad mo-jo"

2/6/2004 12:40:53 AM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

Joe you ever tried wiping your butt with a pumpkin leaf...they are scratchy enough against your legs, let alone using them to wipe that part of your anatomy.. :)

2/6/2004 1:44:12 AM

Montoursville, PA

The larger percentage of the Chinese gardeners return human waste to the soil as they have done for thousands of years.

Our international helpers and missionaries, who have the composting knowledge, are training someone somewhere, in soil enrichment, by placing manures into the soil, right now, as you read this.

Up to about 1940 when my dad added plumbing to the house our outhouse got dug out every spring and put in the tatter patch.

1940 was a good year. We got the first electricty in the house, the first telephone and indoor plumbing. Our milk cow and nanny goat provided us with lots of git up and go for the garden. We had a few chickens but dad would not put that on the garden for some reason. He tossed it on the fence rows where it grew wild berrys and other entanglements, the size of golf balls. :)

2/6/2004 10:26:37 AM