Professional regenerative farmer here. thank you for this video! More people need to know about your urine. There are a few important points that have been missed… The fermentation works, but not worth the labor. 1 tablespoon per gallon is almost nothing. You are getting most of your benefits from all the other things you’re doing, not the urine. If your primary source of nutrients is urine this is what you should do: add one cup of urine per 1 gallon of water. For all watering. You can do this “ almost” indefinitely. I say “almost” because if you are primarily using urine as a fertilizer eventually you’ll get sodium and chloride toxicity (especially if you are in the southwest United States where the soil already has high levels of sodium and chloride). Sodium will block the uptake of potassium, and sodium stays in the soil. Chloride will block the uptake of nitrate, however fortunately chloride washes out of the soil when it rains. So if you are in a rainy area, the extra chloride from the urine will actually be beneficial. However the extra sodium will still be a problem. If your primary source of nutrients is urine, you should grow crops that are high in salt. Chard, beets, celery, onions, garlic, spinach etc. these crops can remove the sodium and chloride from the soil as fast as you are putting it in. Most other crops will not be able to remove the sodium fast enough and you will eventually have potassium deficiencies because the sodium is blocking the uptake of potassium.
What are your thoughts to get rid of the Salts? I heard that the rain/extra watering, will help with salts. I also read "Lime" (assuming rock, but maybe lime fruit) will help with sodium. Any thoughts are appreciated. From what you said, it sounds like it's not really worth it to ferment it as he does in the video or are the benefits to doing so? I was initially going to just mix urine with water (I also wanted to mix feces as well, do you have any thoughts about that being mixed in with the water/urine mix?) Thank you for your time, I appreciate it!
@@lukebrindax7465 to get rid of the salts, I would grow salty plants. Chard, beets, onions, garlic, celery, spinach etc. Lime (rock or fruit) will not get rid of sodium. You have to actively take it out of the soil and nothing is gonna do that better than a living organism that likes sodium. Poop is a great fertilizer but carries some risk of pathogens, if you are aggregating it from many people. Best to compost it first. There’s plenty of literature on how to do it. you should not mix it with your urine. Urine is great because you can mix it with water and irrigate easily. run it in drip lines, sprinklers, or watering cans. If you were to mix poop, it would be much harder to work with. Properly composted poop should be top dressed around plants. edit: to clarify. it's fine to have urine in your composting toilet mixed with poop and cover material. Then you compost it all together and top dress on the soil. If you already have urine separated from your humanure, then keep it separate because it's a lot easier to dispense urine in a watering can when it's not mixed with poop.
@@ratemyboard Thank you. I don't have the space for onions/garlic, but I would love to grow those at some point. www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs141p2_018280.pdf When I looked up "How to remove Sodium from the soil" this was the first article, and it was the one that spoke about lime and another compound called "Gypsum (calcium sulfate) " Now, one thing is, I'm looking to grow in growbags/smart-pots, so I figure that the salts might wash away (or to wash the bottom) of the smart pots... I'm not sure if that would help. As for fecal matter, I have heard a few comments about it. Many say to compost, but with nature, humans and animals just go directly into the soil, so I don't understand the need to compost. I eat extremely healthy, so there shouldn't be issue with parasites and nasties. I wasn't sure if I could mix it into a water solution to get a mix for spraying the soil as well as foliar feeding. I figured that some parts could clog the nozzle, but I thought it was a good idea. I don't really have a compost area here, nor did I think that composting fecal matter would be more beneficial than to just go right into the dirt but I don't know. I just look at nature and don't see it happening when animals/humans just go whenever. Thank you very much for all of your time and help, I greatly appreciate it.
I agree with everything you said, however Chards, beets, celery, onions, garlic, spinach….. come on now. Using urine on those is the stupidist thing. Thats ‘how to get sick 101
I still remember ,growing up we have to collect our urine in the bucket everynight and the next morning we mix it with water and apply to our plants(flowers and orchids) the garden is llush and blooms all year. Learned it from my grandma.❤
Thank God! I love urine! it's powerful, effective and sterile, and yet no one will talk about it. I use an antique "piss-pot" rather than a toilet and the entire homestead is becoming well fertilized. Fortunately there's a forest at the edge of the land, where black-gold leaf mold and little spirits hang out. Thank you for keeping it real, brother!!
@@gardenlikeaviking well I'm here to report, you're the only other person who appreciates a good piss-pot. Another magic expanding from urine is the shield of protection it affords- especially when other's learn of it
I learned about urine nitrogen for the garden. Even the water I use to rinse out drops of beer before returning collected in a jug. I let my cooking water cool from potato, pasta, boiled eggs, etc. Surprised the Dutch don't know about this.
@@grumpygrannysgoatsngardens3185 Come to think of it my gram back in 50's through the urine in the garden. lol. I thought it was a mistake. My uncles loved a cold beer so a 2fer for the garden.
@@grumpygrannysgoatsngardens3185 when I was growing up in the fifties, we still had outhouses in the village and the mining company hired a guy to collect the nightsoil… the “honeyman”! One neighbour put a lock on their toilet so Mr. Honeyman couldn’t get nightsoil… NO ONE EVER RAIDED THEIR GARDENS!!! We knew how they fertilized it. But man did they have an awesome veggie patch!
When I was a kid I had an early morning ritual where I would pee in the backyard (don't ask me why) even then I noticed that the area that I directly peed on was dead BUT the surrounding grass was much lusher and greener than the rest of the yard. The truth is in the pudding or pee... 😁
Another good one 👍🏻 Humanure composting system, where everything goes in the toilet bucket and is covered after each donation with sawdust. The bucket is emptied into a compost bay and covered with more sawdust. The finished compost bay, left for 12 months, makes the most amazing soil. Never any smell.
yes that is fantastic advice!... we did it like that when I lived in the mountains and nobody here believes me there was literally no smell LOL... thank you for the input my friend.
Ive been doing this over 3 yrs, off and on, with great success. But i didnt do it consistently. Problem was i wasnt satisfied with my collection process. Til now. Im a female, in my 70s. I now have a 5 gal bucket in my master bath. Fitted with a removable toilet seat. I use it to collect urine. Otherrwise i use the regular toilet. When my bucket is 25 to 30% full i put on the regular lid and transport it to the garden. There i fill the bucket with rain water. I use a oversized plastic measuring cup for dipping in and watering my plants. Take my bucket home and start over again. I Grow a fairly large garden. I rotate around the garden so everybody gets blessed. I generally do this twice a week and everything is beautiful. Between this and alfafa pellets im growing some awesome stuff and having the time of my life. Try it. Youll be convinced.
I will need to watch this video repeatedly. I will also have to put title in my file to find it again. Another commenter is sending her spouse to directly deposit his urine in the compost. My neighbor will laugh his arse off.
I'm in S. Ontario Canada, in Belleville. We get sub freezing temp for long periods up here, and composters definitely can freeze up. Mine is made from skids so its big and square, and the corners froze and I had about a 5 gal bucket worth of it still not froze. Its knee deep, and i am still building up material in there, and So I added 2× 4litre bottles of Urine to it, and it smelled like a bus stop for a day then gone, and its totally thawed out, just in time to be ahead of it for spring. Totally worked, and now weeks later you'd never know I added it. Thx Nate. 🇨🇦👊🏻👨🏻🏭✨🙏🌞
I am so glad you have broached this topic that many people shy away from. Urine is a great fertilizer, but some people I've talked to shy away from the topic, like it's forbidden or something. It's just basic information which is free and awesome.
@@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123 Tell her she is drinking someone's or some animal's (dinosaurs included) recycled pee every single day since Mother Earth does not just buy clean water from other planets. It's called the Hydrological Cycle!
@@andreamortimer2610 she is on a cruise right now, little does she know that water is just filtered onboard 🤷🏼♀️ She is a sweetheart but is too smart to have common sense.
@@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123 AAAhh, I can totally see her chilling at or in the pool completely unaware of all the added urea, chloride, sodium, potassium, creatinine and other dissolved ions, and inorganic and organic compounds together with quite a bit of H20 that some humans more or less (in)voluntarily release 😏🤣 That's okay as long as she brings happiness into your family's life 🥰
I knew you were gonna say urine. I pour mine on my wood chip pile in one area. I've dug into it and it's the only place where the high carbon wood chips are turning into dark, smaller pieces quickly. I think wood chips are 500 parts carbon to 1 part nitrogen and a good ratio is 30 parts carbon to 1 part nitrogen. When I saw the name of your channel I thought, "AWESOME! This is what I want to learn more about and teach about too." Great info on your channel, I subscribed right away when I saw your wood ash video. Thank you.
I've been using a mix of urine and water as a fertilizer, and the results are fantastic. I usually ignore the proportion of diluting, to the point that I use 50/50. Haven't had any problems so far, and the plants thrive.
I use it straight but never right on plant. Rather all through off season in prepping the soil and around dormant trees. If you look at orchard fertilizer it is all urea. Urine is all an established orchard needs.
Made some of this last fall and stored it outside all winter in half gallon plastic grapefruit juice bottles. (Milk or water gallon jugs would freeze and bust, juice jugs won’t) it’s dark brown now just as shown in the video. I Added a couple ounces of it to 4 gallons of seedling compost extract fertilizer and the 3 week old onion and cabbage seedlings I’m growing outside in clear totes jumped 2 inches in 3 days. Lots of leafy growth. This stuff smells like rotted vegetables and death, mixed with the compost extract at roughly one ounce per gallon there was no smell. Thank you sir.
Here's something most people don't know. The best Chinese restaurants sprout mung beans and use in many dishes. Once initially sprouted they give a nutrient so the sprouts explode with growth. What is the nutrient? Urine. All over the world urine is looked up on as water of life, as one of the most valuable fertilizers and medicine available to the self sufficient being here in this place we're in
People are going to do this as a result of this elegantly presented videoed information. The jokes are wonderfully healing because some are too funny and not in the lease elegant.
After watching this video I decided to go ahead and make this. I have made the liquid fertilizers before. I started mine on the 8/6/22 and I decided to check on it today 9/7/22. I was expecting to have my nose shot from the smell but to my surprise when I open the container it was not as I thought. It seem like the microbes did a very good job taking care and reducing the bad smell. I am hoping to harvest mine around the end of the year or some time in January. Thanks again for the info.
@@shneershiishonest also the USA date makes no sence. Day-month- year is a row. But yes, some are thinking that the whole World is circeling around them. 😉
My friend; I just stumbled onto your video… I had to rush and become your newest subscriber!!! I must say that you TRULY have a gift for teaching. This presentation was phenomenal and I can’t wait to watch the rest of your videos!
I started using urine on all the plants even the ones I don’t like , which my spouse loves (I prefer food producing plants for water economy). All the plants I mean all of them keeps producing new leafs suddenly. I thought it killed the mangoes but the horticulturalist thinks the winter killed them as they are sensitive.
Thanks for all the Informationen in a nutshell! I was frustrated with my gardening results- now I'm gonna give it another try. If one never fails, one never steps out of his or her comfort zone and thus doesen't get better. Not learning means to be almost dead....
@@gardenlikeaviking works great for an even long term release of nitrogen in the garden. Bio-char will actually soak up nutrients if added directly to garden soil or the compost pile until it's 'fully charged' only then releasing it as it decomposes so if it's fully saturated with nitrogen from soaking in urine before you add it, it immediately begins to discharge it slowly rather than uptaking from the soil first.
Lots of super great info ! I got my own special antique glass jar that I have used for a long time . I feel bad when i'm out and have to pee in the toilet lol . I wish I could get my kids to save their urine but they still think it's weird . I hope you have a great evening !
LOL I know exactly what you mean!!... it feels like such an unfortunate waste to just dump the nutrients down the drain... I hope you are having a great day as well
I paid mine a dime a piss. The boys got pretty accurate aims! Ok, that's a lie. I only paid a nickel but I didn't want to sound like a cheap stake. Hey it was years ago. Inflation!!
I do at moment I need to go, and I am near my hydroponicsystem, I do it in the water ot that system. As a kid I allready knew it was so good for plants. Found out that as I was on the lawn at my parents and I did it in a corner of the lawn that spot was so much more green and the grass was so more a live as the rest of the lawn.
Hello my friend! I want to start off by saying thank you for sharing all of your knowledge with me! I have been making all of the goodies you have shown us how to make and now I am wondering, can I filter and store the things like bloom fertilizer, Eurea, and the liquid calcium to be used as needed? I know that things like LABS and other bacterial based things need to be used in a timely manner while they are alive and active. Thanks again for your knowledge!
Thanks for this. It would be interesting to determine scientifically exactly what the final components of the product are, including the NPK percentages.
Thanks for the tutorial on urine. I knew it was hot, so I put a gallon between the rows a week before planting my sweet corn. The stalks are like trees. Now I know how to ferment it to make it safe to use..
For anybody concerned about making their garden smell like a latrine: please don't worry. In my experience, using urine creates no unpleasant odours at all, whether it's applied diluted as a fertiliser or neat as a compost booster. As soon as it hits the ground, or is dug into the soil, or is poured by the gallon onto the huge bin full of dry autumn leaves that I use to create leaf mould, the smell vanishes within 2 minutes. Presumably it's a biochemistry thing. The resulting odour is of a deciduous forest floor after a fall of rain - a clean, pleasant, 'earthy' smell without a trace of toilet. Fresh urine has no smell anyway, but even if you leave it in a sealed container for weeks (until it reeks!), the smell disappears as soon as it contacts organic matter.
Same here, I’ve been putting per on my compost and in my garden for years and it has no smell. I even use it as a weed killer in my driveway, full strength in the heat of the day and it burns them up ! Still no smell 😁
Love it! World pee in austerity. I obtain 5 gal., food grade buckets with lids, which are stackable, at the Bakery Dept. at grocery stores. I also understand that Zips hamburger sells them for $5 each. That is still a good deal.
An very important point everyone is forgetting about peeing in the garden,or compost is that it saves a lot of water for not flushing the toilet . Water is spares and expensive in Australia. That’s why we got water tanks . It also saves the waist of plastic bottles from the hardware store if you make your own fertiliser. Eh guys we all live on the same planet
I keep a milk jug under my bathroom sink. When it gets a quarter of the way full I fill it up the rest of the way with water and pour it around the roots. My plants seem to loves it. Only been doing it for about a week but I can see a clear difference in how much darker green the lettuce is getting and my peppers are responding well also. The corn was already growing good so can't tell much of a difference in it yet.
Great video! I collect and use my urine and feel wasteful when I don’t! Grossnes warning: every month women have additional nutrients to add to the compost/ferments if and when covered up enough not to attract big animals. What climate are you in and do you leave your buckets out during all the seasons? I’m in the freeze zone 5 and the freeze/thaw will buckle the flimsy plastic buckets so i need to figure out what I’m going to do. Bringing in stinky weed ferments is probably not a good idea. I love the harder plastic muck buckets that are food grade and able to take freeze/thaw and I freeze water in them for ice sculptures! But they don’t have lids and don’t have an even top for tight fitting coverings. I just bought a food grade 5 gal bucket and the plastic is so flimsy and soft I’m not buying more for fetid swamp water but instead going with the industrial regular 5 gal buckets. I wonder how much the type of plastic matters for something sitting with so much microbial activity. My gut tells me it does matter, less plastic chems is always best. Where do folks get buckets?
I'm in zone 5b and my buckets and barrels are left outside all winter long and they freeze solid for 2 months strait with no ill effects... but I have very heavy duty 55gal barrels and i empty most the liquid out of them so minimal remains
@@gardenlikeaviking great tips, thanks! I’m encouraged by the lush fertility of your garden in 5b! I’m nor lacking for lushness in my spot in southern Vermont. I am lacking for sun so I focus mainly on native perennials and interplant food amongst them. And fruit shrubs. Also videos about practical utensils and just the daily or weekly practice of cycling through the buckets and what’s inside and which tools to use when would be very appreciated! I’m still figuring what kind of ladle situation to use, which stick is the designated stirrer, how to cap these tools so the flies don’t bother them. I find the flies come en masse when I open a bucket and as long as I cap and rinse off spills and there’s no attractant for them, they disperse. It’s a turn-off for sure. Only the hardy! I am very interested to see how you (mostly) empty your barrels to prepare for winter. I have a batch I just started with very active ingredients and would like to let it sit for a while. I’m assuming any freezing of microbial life revitalizes it when the heat returns. Thank you!
Not only have I been using urine in my garden for years and I use it on everything ... You and believe how much water you save as well... I haven't used any store bought fertilizers in years and My garden is many many times better than it was prior
I use ,1/4 of that stuff in a (5) gal. Bucket a spray it (3) feet around a mandarin tree this year and most of the branches went right down to the ground laden right now and they are huge.
Amazing how much I urinate. I collect 32oz every day. I dump it on my compost pile and some on my woodchip compost bin and some in my 2nd 5gal bucket with leafmold. Looking forward to using it all in 2023. Thanks. Nate
I have health problems where I have to urinate like 5 times per night and the bathroom is too far away so I just pee in mason jars and dump it out the window.. the grass is super green and grows fast. Does not burn the grass and doesn't smell
When your urin after a fermentation is still smelling, the Nitrogen isn't stabilized. I can't imagine that your leaf mold (btw. Is this composted leafs?) will do much, as there are mostly aerobic microbes, but in Urin it's anaerobic, so they die. My suggestion from my own experience: ferment it with EM plus citric acid (to bring down pH and avoid oxidation) instead of leafmold and leave it be for 2-4 weeks. It won't oxidize, therefor no smell, which leaves more for the soil and plants ❤
My question is: Would this be possibly a quicker route to eradicate CONTAMINATED SOILS in a greenhouse situation? And does it put an end to the heavy metals and highly toxic soil which was used?
the ideal thing for helping purify and balance contaminated soils is this microbial solution ua-cam.com/video/Lv-TOGhwlW4/v-deo.html .... make this and water your contaminated soil with it... and so long as no plants are in the ground you can use it pure undiluted for best results treat the soil 5-8 times with this before planting
thanks for your videos- will watch more of them very soon. you have given me a bit of hope on small scale commercial farm ( i am American in the Philippines most farms are only 5 acre in size ) i tried leasing one hector to grow corn with the normal chemicals and just broke even the labors made money and the owner made money and all i did was get back my investment-- no corn for my livestock. but now i have hope i can try again with home made fertilizers- now i have to see your videos on leaf mold-- cheers
wow thank you for sharing your story my friend and this is a somewhat common experience I am hearing about people just breaking even (if they are lucky!).... for corn you'll want lots of this fertilizer and the ash fertilizer if you can burn brush and spread the ashes on the fields thats great and also make the JADAM grass fertilizer with lots of fast growing grasses as those are highest in Nitro and corn is a type of grass
@@gardenlikeaviking thanks for the additional input and suggestions. you do give me ideas. i do have about 2 hectors of very hilly land i was trying to figure a way to get a bit of corn. but i may be thinking wrong. the hillside would be better at growing grasses and doing free range chickens- less corn needed. vetivier grass is a great grass for erosion and has very deep roots it should be loaded with nutrition- it is used for cows and goat as i am told but i am not sure how they like it i am told by an experienced lady that i can plant it dense and use it as fencing for chickens. no well but i could do rain water collection for most of the needs of chickens and find a way to haul water in dry times . all fun, wish i was younger but i am doing this for my kids so if i can just live long enough to get them started-- thanks again
I saw someone put LAB in the urine, so I've been doing it that way. I believe the lactobacillus is quicker, but thanks for the info for another option.
LABS is a great substance and I'm actually just now making a video on how to make it!... but the purpose of the leaf mould is diversity of organisms... the LABS is pure Lactobascillus and the leaf mould has thousands upon thousands of different kinds of IMO's and that is what we want here
Totally pee on my compost piles all the time. It’s a great addition to the compost as you have indicated! Fermentation sounds like an interesting option. Can you use aged compost if leaf mold is in short supply?
@@gardenlikeaviking copy. Thanks for sharing. High desert forest are hard to come by. Maybe down in the river bottoms I can source some. Love the content!
Yay! Finally- I find out how to use urine. I tried a couple of years ago in my flower garden in the city, and I burned the hell out of my favorite Jasmine. I'd been told by a friend of a friend that urine was the best fertilizer so I poured it straight on the ground around my plant. (I was very enthusiatic so I used about a half gallon.)
I do use it full strength before a good rain, but don't go within the drip line. I overdid the fruit trees one yr and they didn't blossom. They did have vigorous growth though!
Use mustered cake . Ferment it in water for 5 to 15 days according to your environmental temperature. You get a balanced fertilizer. Mix it it water in 10:1 ratio then use. You can use jaggery to accelerate fermentation process.
Urine that dark May need a Dr consult for dehydration or such. Some meds and foods etc turn it darker too I know. But perhaps you need to drink more water?
In the old movies western one of John Wayne I think you catch a glimpse of a tall ceramic or porcelain chamber pot or vase, I guess their about 3 feet or more high and have a very narrow mouth at the very top then flares out wider on the length down, it would be possibly ideal use
yes that would be pretty good but for me I like to use anything with an air tight lid because the ammonia will quickly evaporate and smell quite awful lol
I was pissing on my garlic chives & tomato plants for weeks (to my family's horror when they found out after sampling some). I did notice some eventual ill effects due to pH increases, so I stopped.
gracias por ensenar lo que sabes chingon mi vikingo no entienso mucho ingles pero tus explicasiones son muy profecionales y son muy intendiblies gracias
I cant help but think that to bubble air through the fermenter, helping and multiplying the bugs, would speed up the process so less tubs need to be stored.
This is an anaerobic dominant fermentation process so there is nothing gained by an air bubbler… I’ve done it both ways and it produces a completely different product
When you introduced the bottle of urine, at about the 6:45 mark, it looked like a "fine pilzner brew". I may never enjoy a beer again. lol. When I bottle up the finished product, I might use a plastic bottle. I certainly wouldn't want to drop that glass jar in my house if it smells as bad as you say it does.
I just found your channel yesterday; I subscribed right away! Thank you for ALL the great information. I have one question: what do JADAM and JLF stand for?
welcome to the channel my friend!.... JADAM doesn't actually stand for anything its the name of a Korean based farming technique using ancient ways.... JLF stand for JADAM Liquid Fertilizer and its the foundation of the JADAM system... here we don't subscribe to only one method of farming we utilize many different methods and tailor it to what suits us best
Ever heard of So poor they don't have a pot to pee in? In the old days a farmer would pay for pee and use it as a fertilizer. You had to have your own pot. If you didn't, then you were so poor because you didn't have a pot to pee in and sell it. That's where the saying came from.
and i always thought the guy pissing in bottles and collecting them under his bed and everywhere else when that was full, i always thought he was crazy. now i know better.
I've been using urine in my compost heap, and diluting it for use in the raised beds. I gather it in a bucket each day (I drink A LOT of water - so steady supply...). Here's my question - if I dilute it approx 10 to 1 and pour it in my beds after sitting uncovered for the day, have I lost the benefits? Thanks for your ancient wisdom! ❤
I also use urine, it's an excellent fertilizer. I hadn't thought of fermenting it, thank you very much for the recipe. Shouldn't we be feeding microorganisms, as is the case with JADAM JMS (potatoes)? Regards.
I just piss in my compost pile lol 😆 my son is 7. He goes out of his way to pee on the compost and to put his fruit scaps in the compost! Love your methods and videos man! I Hate that it took me this long to find your channel. I've been gardening my whole life. (Off and on depending on my situation that it)
What are your thoughts on using this fertiliser for grass. I can buy fertiliser for my lawn that will green it up. Would spraying this fertiliser diluted work the same?
Just curious if you have any science behind this? I don't know that mold can survive being submerged in a liquid, which urine is. So doesn't the mold just die?
Professional regenerative farmer here. thank you for this video! More people need to know about your urine. There are a few important points that have been missed…
The fermentation works, but not worth the labor. 1 tablespoon per gallon is almost nothing. You are getting most of your benefits from all the other things you’re doing, not the urine. If your primary source of nutrients is urine this is what you should do: add one cup of urine per 1 gallon of water. For all watering. You can do this “ almost” indefinitely. I say “almost” because if you are primarily using urine as a fertilizer eventually you’ll get sodium and chloride toxicity (especially if you are in the southwest United States where the soil already has high levels of sodium and chloride). Sodium will block the uptake of potassium, and sodium stays in the soil. Chloride will block the uptake of nitrate, however fortunately chloride washes out of the soil when it rains. So if you are in a rainy area, the extra chloride from the urine will actually be beneficial. However the extra sodium will still be a problem. If your primary source of nutrients is urine, you should grow crops that are high in salt. Chard, beets, celery, onions, garlic, spinach etc. these crops can remove the sodium and chloride from the soil as fast as you are putting it in. Most other crops will not be able to remove the sodium fast enough and you will eventually have potassium deficiencies because the sodium is blocking the uptake of potassium.
What are your thoughts to get rid of the Salts? I heard that the rain/extra watering, will help with salts. I also read "Lime" (assuming rock, but maybe lime fruit) will help with sodium. Any thoughts are appreciated.
From what you said, it sounds like it's not really worth it to ferment it as he does in the video or are the benefits to doing so? I was initially going to just mix urine with water (I also wanted to mix feces as well, do you have any thoughts about that being mixed in with the water/urine mix?)
Thank you for your time, I appreciate it!
@@lukebrindax7465 to get rid of the salts, I would grow salty plants. Chard, beets, onions, garlic, celery, spinach etc.
Lime (rock or fruit) will not get rid of sodium. You have to actively take it out of the soil and nothing is gonna do that better than a living organism that likes sodium.
Poop is a great fertilizer but carries some risk of pathogens, if you are aggregating it from many people. Best to compost it first. There’s plenty of literature on how to do it. you should not mix it with your urine. Urine is great because you can mix it with water and irrigate easily. run it in drip lines, sprinklers, or watering cans. If you were to mix poop, it would be much harder to work with. Properly composted poop should be top dressed around plants.
edit: to clarify. it's fine to have urine in your composting toilet mixed with poop and cover material. Then you compost it all together and top dress on the soil. If you already have urine separated from your humanure, then keep it separate because it's a lot easier to dispense urine in a watering can when it's not mixed with poop.
@@ratemyboard Thank you. I don't have the space for onions/garlic, but I would love to grow those at some point.
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs141p2_018280.pdf
When I looked up "How to remove Sodium from the soil" this was the first article, and it was the one that spoke about lime and another compound called "Gypsum (calcium sulfate) "
Now, one thing is, I'm looking to grow in growbags/smart-pots, so I figure that the salts might wash away (or to wash the bottom) of the smart pots... I'm not sure if that would help.
As for fecal matter, I have heard a few comments about it. Many say to compost, but with nature, humans and animals just go directly into the soil, so I don't understand the need to compost. I eat extremely healthy, so there shouldn't be issue with parasites and nasties. I wasn't sure if I could mix it into a water solution to get a mix for spraying the soil as well as foliar feeding. I figured that some parts could clog the nozzle, but I thought it was a good idea.
I don't really have a compost area here, nor did I think that composting fecal matter would be more beneficial than to just go right into the dirt but I don't know. I just look at nature and don't see it happening when animals/humans just go whenever.
Thank you very much for all of your time and help, I greatly appreciate it.
Hey… that’s pretty good!
I agree with everything you said, however Chards, beets, celery, onions, garlic, spinach….. come on now. Using urine on those is the stupidist thing. Thats ‘how to get sick 101
I still remember ,growing up we have to collect our urine in the bucket everynight and the next morning we mix it with water and apply to our plants(flowers and orchids) the garden is llush and blooms all year. Learned it from my grandma.❤
Thank God! I love urine! it's powerful, effective and sterile, and yet no one will talk about it. I use an antique "piss-pot" rather than a toilet and the entire homestead is becoming well fertilized. Fortunately there's a forest at the edge of the land, where black-gold leaf mold and little spirits hang out. Thank you for keeping it real, brother!!
I'm so happy to hear this my friend!!... your piss pot sounds super cool!
@@gardenlikeaviking well I'm here to report, you're the only other person who appreciates a good piss-pot. Another magic expanding from urine is the shield of protection it affords- especially when other's learn of it
I learned about urine nitrogen for the garden. Even the water I use to rinse out drops of beer before returning collected in a jug. I let my cooking water cool from potato, pasta, boiled eggs, etc. Surprised the Dutch don't know about this.
@@grumpygrannysgoatsngardens3185 Come to think of it my gram back in 50's through the urine in the garden. lol. I thought it was a mistake. My uncles loved a cold beer so a 2fer for the garden.
@@grumpygrannysgoatsngardens3185 when I was growing up in the fifties, we still had outhouses in the village and the mining company hired a guy to collect the nightsoil… the “honeyman”! One neighbour put a lock on their toilet so Mr. Honeyman couldn’t get nightsoil… NO ONE EVER RAIDED THEIR GARDENS!!! We knew how they fertilized it. But man did they have an awesome veggie patch!
That's it! Sending my husband outside to relieve himself on the compost bin from here on out 😜👍
When I was a kid I had an early morning ritual where I would pee in the backyard (don't ask me why) even then I noticed that the area that I directly peed on was dead BUT the surrounding grass was much lusher and greener than the rest of the yard. The truth is in the pudding or pee... 😁
You shouldn't have let him inside in the first place ;)
Insist that he sits, instead of standing 😊
@@rabbitphobia And the proof is in the pee. 😁
@@smas3256 May the force and pee be with you...😁
Another good one 👍🏻
Humanure composting system, where everything goes in the toilet bucket and is covered after each donation with sawdust. The bucket is emptied into a compost bay and covered with more sawdust.
The finished compost bay, left for 12 months, makes the most amazing soil. Never any smell.
yes that is fantastic advice!... we did it like that when I lived in the mountains and nobody here believes me there was literally no smell LOL... thank you for the input my friend.
I've been using the same system for 3 years and it's perfectly brilliant 😊 no smell no flys, and looks fab at the end. 😊
Ive been doing this over 3 yrs, off and on, with great success. But i didnt do it consistently. Problem was i wasnt satisfied with my collection process. Til now. Im a female, in my 70s. I now have a 5 gal bucket in my master bath. Fitted with a removable toilet seat. I use it to collect urine. Otherrwise i use the regular toilet. When my bucket is 25 to 30% full i put on the regular lid and transport it to the garden. There i fill the bucket with rain water. I use a oversized plastic measuring cup for dipping in and watering my plants. Take my bucket home and start over again. I Grow a fairly large garden. I rotate around the garden so everybody gets blessed. I generally do this twice a week and everything is beautiful.
Between this and alfafa pellets im growing some awesome stuff and having the time of my life.
Try it. Youll be convinced.
So much information in just one video, especially for a beginner like me. So glad I found your channel ❤
I will need to watch this video repeatedly. I will also have to put title in my file to find it again. Another commenter is sending her spouse to directly deposit his urine in the compost. My neighbor will laugh his arse off.
I'm in S. Ontario Canada, in Belleville. We get sub freezing temp for long periods up here, and composters definitely can freeze up. Mine is made from skids so its big and square, and the corners froze and I had about a 5 gal bucket worth of it still not froze. Its knee deep, and i am still building up material in there, and So I added 2× 4litre bottles of Urine to it, and it smelled like a bus stop for a day then gone, and its totally thawed out, just in time to be ahead of it for spring. Totally worked, and now weeks later you'd never know I added it. Thx Nate. 🇨🇦👊🏻👨🏻🏭✨🙏🌞
I am so glad you have broached this topic that many people shy away from. Urine is a great fertilizer, but some people I've talked to shy away from the topic, like it's forbidden or something. It's just basic information which is free and awesome.
My daughter in law won’t eat anything from my garden because I told them I use my pee 😏
@@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123 Tell her she is drinking someone's or some animal's (dinosaurs included) recycled pee every single day since Mother Earth does not just buy clean water from other planets. It's called the Hydrological Cycle!
@@andreamortimer2610 she is on a cruise right now, little does she know that water is just filtered onboard 🤷🏼♀️ She is a sweetheart but is too smart to have common sense.
@@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123
AAAhh, I can totally see her chilling at or in the pool completely unaware of all the added urea, chloride, sodium, potassium, creatinine and other dissolved ions, and inorganic and organic compounds together with quite a bit of H20 that some humans more or less (in)voluntarily release 😏🤣
That's okay as long as she brings happiness into your family's life 🥰
I've been doing this for a 2 years now. On no petro chemical drugs, so it's good! 😊
Any effect on crop taste?
I use diluted urine 1:1 dilution every day on my plant. No issues and lots of fruits and flowers
yes I've done it that way as well....but personally I find this method of "fermentation with microbes" to produce a much more powerful fertilizer
@@gardenlikeavikingcan i ferment it with lab?
@hakanasd1 yes you can, but lead mold will be enough
I knew you were gonna say urine. I pour mine on my wood chip pile in one area. I've dug into it and it's the only place where the high carbon wood chips are turning into dark, smaller pieces quickly. I think wood chips are 500 parts carbon to 1 part nitrogen and a good ratio is 30 parts carbon to 1 part nitrogen. When I saw the name of your channel I thought, "AWESOME! This is what I want to learn more about and teach about too." Great info on your channel, I subscribed right away when I saw your wood ash video. Thank you.
I've been using a mix of urine and water as a fertilizer, and the results are fantastic. I usually ignore the proportion of diluting, to the point that I use 50/50. Haven't had any problems so far, and the plants thrive.
I use it straight but never right on plant. Rather all through off season in prepping the soil and around dormant trees. If you look at orchard fertilizer it is all urea. Urine is all an established orchard needs.
@@TechnologistLiveand morel mushrooms if it isn’t sprayed 🎉
Made some of this last fall and stored it outside all winter in half gallon plastic grapefruit juice bottles. (Milk or water gallon jugs would freeze and bust, juice jugs won’t) it’s dark brown now just as shown in the video.
I Added a couple ounces of it to 4 gallons of seedling compost extract fertilizer and the 3 week old onion and cabbage seedlings I’m growing outside in clear totes jumped 2 inches in 3 days. Lots of leafy growth.
This stuff smells like rotted vegetables and death, mixed with the compost extract at roughly one ounce per gallon there was no smell. Thank you sir.
fantastic testimony!... thank you and best of success with the upcoming growing season!
Here's something most people don't know. The best Chinese restaurants sprout mung beans and use in many dishes. Once initially sprouted they give a nutrient so the sprouts explode with growth. What is the nutrient? Urine. All over the world urine is looked up on as water of life, as one of the most valuable fertilizers and medicine available to the self sufficient being here in this place we're in
wow I have never heard of that but I do not think its unlikely
I respect you providing this wisdom to us so elegantly,
People are going to do this as a result of this elegantly presented videoed information. The jokes are wonderfully healing because some are too funny and not in the lease elegant.
After watching this video I decided to go ahead and make this. I have made the liquid fertilizers before. I started mine on the 8/6/22 and I decided to check on it today 9/7/22. I was expecting to have my nose shot from the smell but to my surprise when I open the container it was not as I thought. It seem like the microbes did a very good job taking care and reducing the bad smell. I am hoping to harvest mine around the end of the year or some time in January. Thanks again for the info.
Your 8/6/22 starting date? Please edit your dates Alva T... its 7/18/22
@@smas3256 Not everybody in the world is an American, just so you know.
@@smas3256 June 8
@@smas3256 why? There’s many date formats!
@@shneershiishonest also the USA date makes no sence. Day-month- year is a row. But yes, some are thinking that the whole World is circeling around them. 😉
Beautifully described process!
Glad you introduced yourself on Martenson video. I really needed someone who wants to help us use resource all around us!!
thank you and yes I feel the time is right for people to learn these skills thats what this channel is all about!!!
My friend; I just stumbled onto your video… I had to rush and become your newest subscriber!!! I must say that you TRULY have a gift for teaching. This presentation was phenomenal and I can’t wait to watch the rest of your videos!
thank you for the positive energy my friend I'm happy you are here!
I started using urine on all the plants even the ones I don’t like , which my spouse loves (I prefer food producing plants for water economy). All the plants I mean all of them keeps producing new leafs suddenly. I thought it killed the mangoes but the horticulturalist thinks the winter killed them as they are sensitive.
Thank you for this info & the step by step part of it all.. Also extra thanks for not having any annoying back ground music
Thanks for all the Informationen in a nutshell!
I was frustrated with my gardening results- now I'm gonna give it another try.
If one never fails, one never steps out of his or her comfort zone and thus doesen't get better. Not learning means to be almost dead....
I like your spirit my friend and thats exactly my philosophy as well... its all about the knowledge we gain!!
I use our urine to fully charge our bio-char for the garden and compost pile.
thats a great idea!... thanks for sharing
@@gardenlikeaviking works great for an even long term release of nitrogen in the garden. Bio-char will actually soak up nutrients if added directly to garden soil or the compost pile until it's 'fully charged' only then releasing it as it decomposes so if it's fully saturated with nitrogen from soaking in urine before you add it, it immediately begins to discharge it slowly rather than uptaking from the soil first.
@@MK-ti2oo Good idea!
Me too.
I can't show my husband this. He's never going to go indoors again
Lots of super great info ! I got my own special antique glass jar that I have used for a long time . I feel bad when i'm out and have to pee in the toilet lol . I wish I could get my kids to save their urine but they still think it's weird . I hope you have a great evening !
LOL I know exactly what you mean!!... it feels like such an unfortunate waste to just dump the nutrients down the drain... I hope you are having a great day as well
I paid mine a dime a piss. The boys got pretty accurate aims!
Ok, that's a lie. I only paid a nickel but I didn't want to sound like a cheap stake. Hey it was years ago. Inflation!!
Ha! Same here. Can't get mine to do it either.
@@laneeacannon1450 😂😂😂. I just use my own these days. Hey! I'm an old granny with the occasional whisker- I'm betting it'll work
@@grumpygrannysgoatsngardens3185 I love it! My son has a crew of children he could get to do that!
Yeah, we all need food Gardens all across rhe planet.
I do at moment I need to go, and I am near my hydroponicsystem, I do it in the water ot that system. As a kid I allready knew it was so good for plants. Found out that as I was on the lawn at my parents and I did it in a corner of the lawn that spot was so much more green and the grass was so more a live as the rest of the lawn.
Fantastic content. You should be interviewed on main stream news as a counterpoint. To the bull sh*t they keep spouting about fertiliser shortages
Hello my friend! I want to start off by saying thank you for sharing all of your knowledge with me! I have been making all of the goodies you have shown us how to make and now I am wondering, can I filter and store the things like bloom fertilizer, Eurea, and the liquid calcium to be used as needed? I know that things like LABS and other bacterial based things need to be used in a timely manner while they are alive and active. Thanks again for your knowledge!
Thanks for this. It would be interesting to determine scientifically exactly what the final components of the product are, including the NPK percentages.
time line 1 minute in video.
Thanks for the tutorial on urine. I knew it was hot, so I put a gallon between the rows a week before planting my sweet corn. The stalks are like trees. Now I know how to ferment it to make it safe to use..
I'm convinced! Going to stop going in my neighbor's yard.
For anybody concerned about making their garden smell like a latrine: please don't worry. In my experience, using urine creates no unpleasant odours at all, whether it's applied diluted as a fertiliser or neat as a compost booster. As soon as it hits the ground, or is dug into the soil, or is poured by the gallon onto the huge bin full of dry autumn leaves that I use to create leaf mould, the smell vanishes within 2 minutes.
Presumably it's a biochemistry thing. The resulting odour is of a deciduous forest floor after a fall of rain - a clean, pleasant, 'earthy' smell without a trace of toilet.
Fresh urine has no smell anyway, but even if you leave it in a sealed container for weeks (until it reeks!), the smell disappears as soon as it contacts organic matter.
yes this is accurate and in line with my experience as well!!.. thank you for sharing!
I have a chair at the side of the compost heap. I stand on it an deliver straight from the spigot.
Same here, I’ve been putting per on my compost and in my garden for years and it has no smell.
I even use it as a weed killer in my driveway, full strength in the heat of the day and it burns them up ! Still no smell 😁
Any problem with urine attracting rats and other critters?
@@DeesBotanicalBliss Not that I have ever noticed.
Yes, iv bn tipping urine onto my compost heap and yr right, its first class compost!
I've started doing this recently, the h
Wife ain't to pleased about it but it's worth the headache. Thank you for your knowledge
Love it! World pee in austerity. I obtain 5 gal., food grade buckets with lids, which are stackable, at the Bakery Dept. at grocery stores. I also understand that Zips hamburger sells them for $5 each. That is still a good deal.
I love you; thanks sooo much for sharing; you have enriched my life, I love making fertilizers, engaging in the circle of life.
thank you for this lovely comment my friend!
An very important point everyone is forgetting about peeing in the garden,or compost is that it saves a lot of water for not flushing the toilet . Water is spares and expensive in Australia. That’s why we got water tanks . It also saves the waist of plastic bottles from the hardware store if you make your own fertiliser. Eh guys we all live on the same planet
I like your thinking Richard!! thank you
I keep a milk jug under my bathroom sink. When it gets a quarter of the way full I fill it up the rest of the way with water and pour it around the roots. My plants seem to loves it. Only been doing it for about a week but I can see a clear difference in how much darker green the lettuce is getting and my peppers are responding well also. The corn was already growing good so can't tell much of a difference in it yet.
If your gardening and eating and living a healthy life, you are flushing your money and health and down the drain. Great info!
Great video! I collect and use my urine and feel wasteful when I don’t! Grossnes warning: every month women have additional nutrients to add to the compost/ferments if and when covered up enough not to attract big animals.
What climate are you in and do you leave your buckets out during all the seasons? I’m in the freeze zone 5 and the freeze/thaw will buckle the flimsy plastic buckets so i need to figure out what I’m going to do. Bringing in stinky weed ferments is probably not a good idea. I love the harder plastic muck buckets that are food grade and able to take freeze/thaw and I freeze water in them for ice sculptures! But they don’t have lids and don’t have an even top for tight fitting coverings. I just bought a food grade 5 gal bucket and the plastic is so flimsy and soft I’m not buying more for fetid swamp water but instead going with the industrial regular 5 gal buckets. I wonder how much the type of plastic matters for something sitting with so much microbial activity. My gut tells me it does matter, less plastic chems is always best. Where do folks get buckets?
I'm in zone 5b and my buckets and barrels are left outside all winter long and they freeze solid for 2 months strait with no ill effects... but I have very heavy duty 55gal barrels and i empty most the liquid out of them so minimal remains
@@gardenlikeaviking great tips, thanks! I’m encouraged by the lush fertility of your garden in 5b! I’m nor lacking for lushness in my spot in southern Vermont. I am lacking for sun so I focus mainly on native perennials and interplant food amongst them. And fruit shrubs. Also videos about practical utensils and just the daily or weekly practice of cycling through the buckets and what’s inside and which tools to use when would be very appreciated! I’m still figuring what kind of ladle situation to use, which stick is the designated stirrer, how to cap these tools so the flies don’t bother them. I find the flies come en masse when I open a bucket and as long as I cap and rinse off spills and there’s no attractant for them, they disperse. It’s a turn-off for sure. Only the hardy! I am very interested to see how you (mostly) empty your barrels to prepare for winter. I have a batch I just started with very active ingredients and would like to let it sit for a while. I’m assuming any freezing of microbial life revitalizes it when the heat returns. Thank you!
Dear thank you so much iam to start gardening due to your amazing gidance
Not only have I been using urine in my garden for years and I use it on everything ... You and believe how much water you save as well... I haven't used any store bought fertilizers in years and My garden is many many times better than it was prior
pity that I can give only one Thumbs-up! Many thanks! I was just thinking why my compost doesn't want to work...
I use ,1/4 of that stuff in a (5) gal. Bucket a spray it (3) feet around a mandarin tree this year and most of the branches went right down to the ground laden right now and they are huge.
Amazing how much I urinate. I collect 32oz every day. I dump it on my compost pile and some on my woodchip compost bin and some in my 2nd 5gal bucket with leafmold. Looking forward to using it all in 2023. Thanks. Nate
This knowledge plus something like a biogas biodigester, 2 birds one stone. Epic content
This was in the magazine "Mother Earth " magazine, when I seen it about 50 years ago.
I have health problems where I have to urinate like 5 times per night and the bathroom is too far away so I just pee in mason jars and dump it out the window.. the grass is super green and grows fast. Does not burn the grass and doesn't smell
When your urin after a fermentation is still smelling, the Nitrogen isn't stabilized. I can't imagine that your leaf mold (btw. Is this composted leafs?) will do much, as there are mostly aerobic microbes, but in Urin it's anaerobic, so they die.
My suggestion from my own experience: ferment it with EM plus citric acid (to bring down pH and avoid oxidation) instead of leafmold and leave it be for 2-4 weeks. It won't oxidize, therefor no smell, which leaves more for the soil and plants ❤
My question is:
Would this be possibly a quicker route to eradicate CONTAMINATED SOILS in a greenhouse situation?
And does it put an end to the heavy metals and highly toxic soil which was used?
the ideal thing for helping purify and balance contaminated soils is this microbial solution ua-cam.com/video/Lv-TOGhwlW4/v-deo.html .... make this and water your contaminated soil with it... and so long as no plants are in the ground you can use it pure undiluted for best results treat the soil 5-8 times with this before planting
thanks for your videos- will watch more of them very soon. you have given me a bit of hope on small scale commercial farm ( i am American in the Philippines most farms are only 5 acre in size ) i tried leasing one hector to grow corn with the normal chemicals and just broke even the labors made money and the owner made money and all i did was get back my investment-- no corn for my livestock. but now i have hope i can try again with home made fertilizers- now i have to see your videos on leaf mold-- cheers
wow thank you for sharing your story my friend and this is a somewhat common experience I am hearing about people just breaking even (if they are lucky!).... for corn you'll want lots of this fertilizer and the ash fertilizer if you can burn brush and spread the ashes on the fields thats great and also make the JADAM grass fertilizer with lots of fast growing grasses as those are highest in Nitro and corn is a type of grass
@@gardenlikeaviking thanks for the additional input and suggestions.
you do give me ideas. i do have about 2 hectors of very hilly land i was trying to figure a way to get a bit of corn. but i may be thinking wrong. the hillside would be better at growing grasses and doing free range chickens- less corn needed.
vetivier grass is a great grass for erosion and has very deep roots it should be loaded with nutrition- it is used for cows and goat as i am told but i am not sure how they like it
i am told by an experienced lady that i can plant it dense and use it as fencing for chickens.
no well but i could do rain water collection for most of the needs of chickens and find a way to haul water in dry times
. all fun, wish i was younger but i am doing this for my kids so if i can just live long enough to get them started--
thanks again
Just amazing. No question. Thanks.
I saw someone put LAB in the urine, so I've been doing it that way. I believe the lactobacillus is quicker, but thanks for the info for another option.
LABS is a great substance and I'm actually just now making a video on how to make it!... but the purpose of the leaf mould is diversity of organisms... the LABS is pure Lactobascillus and the leaf mould has thousands upon thousands of different kinds of IMO's and that is what we want here
Oh fa sho. While you're waiting a year for the good stuff, you can have the LABS in the meantime within a week.
Totally pee on my compost piles all the time. It’s a great addition to the compost as you have indicated! Fermentation sounds like an interesting option. Can you use aged compost if leaf mold is in short supply?
yes high quality compost will work but its not quite the same so try to get at least a small supply of the forest microbes to add to your ferments
@@gardenlikeaviking copy. Thanks for sharing. High desert forest are hard to come by. Maybe down in the river bottoms I can source some. Love the content!
Me gusta tu canal, podrías permitir que los videos sean subtitulados al español? gracias.
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I always wondered about this. Will always piss on the compost now
Yay! Finally- I find out how to use urine. I tried a couple of years ago in my flower garden in the city, and I burned the hell out of my favorite Jasmine. I'd been told by a friend of a friend that urine was the best fertilizer so I poured it straight on the ground around my plant. (I was very enthusiatic so I used about a half gallon.)
LOL this is a common occurrence with using urine people get very enthusiastic and end up killing the plant!... well now you know
I do use it full strength before a good rain, but don't go within the drip line.
I overdid the fruit trees one yr and they didn't blossom. They did have vigorous growth though!
Thank you for this great video!
Use mustered cake . Ferment it in water for 5 to 15 days according to your environmental temperature. You get a balanced fertilizer. Mix it it water in 10:1 ratio then use. You can use jaggery to accelerate fermentation process.
Urine that dark May need a Dr consult for dehydration or such. Some meds and foods etc turn it darker too I know. But perhaps you need to drink more water?
Thank you for sharing your knowledge
In the old movies western one of John Wayne I think you catch a glimpse of a tall ceramic or porcelain chamber pot or vase, I guess their about 3 feet or more high and have a very narrow mouth at the very top then flares out wider on the length down, it would be possibly ideal use
yes that would be pretty good but for me I like to use anything with an air tight lid because the ammonia will quickly evaporate and smell quite awful lol
I'm getting mine ready 🤣 makes sense my compost piles are loving me
I was pissing on my garlic chives & tomato plants for weeks (to my family's horror when they found out after sampling some). I did notice some eventual ill effects due to pH increases, so I stopped.
gracias por ensenar lo que sabes chingon mi vikingo no entienso mucho ingles pero tus explicasiones son muy profecionales y son muy intendiblies gracias
Ok this is what i was looking 4 thanks,
I cant help but think that to bubble air through the fermenter, helping and multiplying the bugs, would speed up the process so less tubs need to be stored.
This is an anaerobic dominant fermentation process so there is nothing gained by an air bubbler… I’ve done it both ways and it produces a completely different product
I'm definitely trying this
I started saving my urine this last weekend.
Thank you. You are the best.
Amazing information. Thank you for your time
Is it possible to use fresh worm castings from a worm bin in place of leaf mold?
if thats all you have yes its ok but not as good as the top quality leaf mold soil
When you introduced the bottle of urine, at about the 6:45 mark, it looked like a "fine pilzner brew". I may never enjoy a beer again. lol. When I bottle up the finished product, I might use a plastic bottle. I certainly wouldn't want to drop that glass jar in my house if it smells as bad as you say it does.
lol... you would have to sell the house and move!!!
I just found your channel yesterday; I subscribed right away! Thank you for ALL the great information. I have one question: what do JADAM and JLF stand for?
welcome to the channel my friend!.... JADAM doesn't actually stand for anything its the name of a Korean based farming technique using ancient ways.... JLF stand for JADAM Liquid Fertilizer and its the foundation of the JADAM system... here we don't subscribe to only one method of farming we utilize many different methods and tailor it to what suits us best
Thank you
What if I used diluted urine, wood ash, and dried powdered eggshells on veg beds? Would plants thrive?
most likely yes they would... by now you should be having a few good barrels of liquid fertilizers to combine at point of use
Ever heard of So poor they don't have a pot to pee in? In the old days a farmer would pay for pee and use it as a fertilizer. You had to have your own pot. If you didn't, then you were so poor because you didn't have a pot to pee in and sell it. That's where the saying came from.
and i always thought the guy pissing in bottles and collecting them under his bed and everywhere else when that was full, i always thought he was crazy. now i know better.
I've been using urine in my compost heap, and diluting it for use in the raised beds. I gather it in a bucket each day (I drink A LOT of water - so steady supply...). Here's my question - if I dilute it approx 10 to 1 and pour it in my beds after sitting uncovered for the day, have I lost the benefits?
Thanks for your ancient wisdom! ❤
Life is offset by equals parts death and decay. That's deep. ☯️
Bro l love the way you explain things out l have about 1/2 tone of this urine for my medicinal farm.
I know that in South Africa the coffee growers collect urine from hotel and restaurant urinals, to fertilize the coffee plants
I can't wait to try this!
Good shit man!! I meant good pee!
I like how you're preaching to the choir at the end xD
I also use urine, it's an excellent fertilizer.
I hadn't thought of fermenting it, thank you very much for the recipe.
Shouldn't we be feeding microorganisms, as is the case with JADAM JMS (potatoes)?
Regards.
It's really funny watching my friends' reactions when I tell them I use urine in my compost. 😅
I've always heard of this from old school weed growers
WOW. ...JUST WOW❤❤❤
Great information
I just piss in my compost pile lol 😆 my son is 7. He goes out of his way to pee on the compost and to put his fruit scaps in the compost! Love your methods and videos man! I Hate that it took me this long to find your channel. I've been gardening my whole life. (Off and on depending on my situation that it)
Would you also use the Solid part in the bottom of jar?
Basically the cristelized part of Urin...
I hit the 1-gallon mark for next season. Letting it age.
Great info!!! Thank you so much
What are your thoughts on using this fertiliser for grass. I can buy fertiliser for my lawn that will green it up. Would spraying this fertiliser diluted work the same?
Thank you.
Bahaha look at those blunt cutters. I dig it.
Just curious if you have any science behind this? I don't know that mold can survive being submerged in a liquid, which urine is. So doesn't the mold just die?
its not mold is microorganism's and its very much alive!
@@gardenlikeaviking - OK great, thanx. I guess its just called 'tree *mold*''?
Can someone explain what leaf mold is please?
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