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Waste Not: How to Safely Use #Urine in Your Home #Garden.

"Using Urine to Feed Plants

Not many people talk about it, but lots of home gardeners do use their pee in their gardens. This practice is centuries old. Some gardeners will use it around fruit trees, or in their flower gardens. Some add it to their compost piles, or to strategically placed straw bales that later get added to compost piles or used to mulch vegetable beds.

Worried about the smell? Read below about dilution. Any smell will dissipate within minutes of application."

https://www.sustainablemarketfarming.com/2025/02/19/waste-not-how-to-safely-use-urine-in-your-home-garden/

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Waste Not: How to Safely Use Urine in Your Home Garden.

  Using Urine to Feed Plants Not many people talk about it, but lots of home gardeners do use their pee in their gardens. This practice is centuries old. Some gardeners will use it around frui…

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Show threadBytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱6d ago

@DoomsdaysCW

When I was a kid 'helping' my dad in the garden, if I needed to pee, he would tell me 'go pee on the rhubarb - that makes it grow better!'

Mother was a 'Domestic Science' teacher (and these days would have been full on with 'organic gardening' had that been a thing in the 60s) and she approved, because it involved no chemical fertilisers.

Show threadDoomsdaysCW6d ago
@bytebro I guess some plants could get "burned" from the salts found in urine, so dilution is best long-term.
Show threadBytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱6d ago

@DoomsdaysCW

True. I suspect dad sprayed the hose over said rhubarb afterwards, although at aged 7 I didn't retain that info!

Show threadAkash Hodja Al Lefkoshi6d ago
@DoomsdaysCW setting up a urine collector with a wood charcoal filter , does marvels for the smell ,still have to dilute ,& even at 10% ,very agressive ,like using fertilizer salts ,can long term disturb a stable bacteria-mycorhyzhea-worm-organic matter balance ,using the 'inoculated char' or soaking 'straw' with the diluted stuff ,still at 1/10 ratio ,seems less disruptive ,less sickness ,less insects ,less doped plants ,in the perspective of a healthy soil ,fertilizers are like drugs ,not good
Show threadAsh-Miw-Re6d ago
@DoomsdaysCW Considering how petroleum intensive it is to make chemical fertilizer, this is a thing that at least *should* become important very soon. Getting people sold on something usually considered "gross" can be hard, though.
Show threadDoomsdaysCW6d ago
@Ashmire Heh. I get that! I've stayed at places that had composting toilets. Waste can be dealt with safely -- and locally. I like the idea of having separate systems for urine and poo (like urinals for everyone). The urine can be used in the garden, and the humanure can cook into something safer (not sure if I would use it in the garden, though, but at least it would break down).
Show threadpoison punk6d ago
@Ashmire @DoomsdaysCW
it'll become illegal one day to farm on industrial scale using artificial fertiliser.
farms should have a maximum amount of land, only farm indigenous, local, seasonal crops they'll only be able to sell nationally to a quota. only surplus crops above that quota can be exported. prices should be significantly higher or traded for other goods so farmers can have a decent living. they should fulfill a guardianship over the land, & all land should be in public guardianship & considered sacret.
when countries can't farm to self-sustaining levels their needs should be met by other countries in return for resources they have in abundance.
all surplus land not needed for farming should be restored to natural habitat & guarded, monitored & maintained by trained locals.
hunting should be heavily restricted & regulated & ppl should be incentivised to become vegetarians / vegans.