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.❤
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... 😁
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!
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 😁
“The amount of life there is in any given place is in exact proportion to the amount of death and decay that has been there.” Life from death, death from life, the great circle. Love this 🙏
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. 🇨🇦👊🏻👨🏻🏭✨🙏🌞
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.
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 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 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.
My dad served in the Korean war, and landed in Japan on his way there. He said the gardens they marched past we so beautiful, thanks to this practice by the Japanese.
I am engaged in regenerative agriculture for my pastures for cattle. My small tractor with a 8ft boom sprayer is how I am going to get my jadam fertilizers out there. I bought the book but your channel does way much to simplify the process. Great information but I still recommend you get the book
The best UA-cam video that I have seen this year. Extremely well produced video, gets right into the content, great presenter, easy to understand, and most importantly, positions the request for likes and subscribes at the end, exactly where it should be, and asked in a non-offencive manner, brilliant. I learnt a lot and increased my knowledge in just 10 mins, I wish all UA-cam videos followed the same format and then I would not have to unsubscribe from so many channels that waste my time and give em a thumbs down, especially when they instruct you to hit the like button before you have had the opportunity to watch and assess the content. Anywayz, this video ticks all the boxes in terms of design and production, so 10/10 to the people who made it.
thank you so much for this extremely helpful feedback my friend!!!... I agree all requests for likes need to be AFTER the viewer has received some kind of value from the video otherwise how would they know if the content is worthy!!...
I like the sound quality. No wind noise, with overlay voice track, and the intro, with theory, then we go outside to the garden, then we come back inside for the final part. There is also text on screen with screenshot nuggits of info we need provided. I am a musician so I notice the format pattern of cyclic things. Viking Nate Rocks! A natural. 🇨🇦👊🏻👨🏻🏭✨🙏🌞
Thank you for your ideas and suggested ratios. I live in Australia, where water is valued as a precious resource. It’s not uncommon for men to urinate outside to avoid flushing the toilet, and the spot to go is often by a lemon tree. Every night the dog and I go for a wee outside before bed. I try to vary my spot and have used the compost heap and straight to the watering can. Eucalyptus leaves are very woody (high carbon content) and contain Eucalyptus oil which impedes breakdown, unless you combine with nitrogen.
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.
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.
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'm reasonably knowledgeable about plants and gardening but watching your videos has made things even clearer to me. Love your enthusiasm and tons of knowledge made easy for everyone to take on all the information and put it to good use.. Thanks brother!
I used to use urea when I gardened for myself, but we are building a market garden and this wouldn’t be a big seller to the public. I’ll be using it in compost for sure!
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
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.
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. 😉
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....
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!
Years now of yt vids and I have never added a comment.. So here go's Sir, you make a very good video. Very informative ,not to long. I enjoyed it. Rog out
I really love your content and enthusiasm about the topic. Theres a lot to learn about (ancient) organic gardening. Regards from Germany, keep up the good work ✌
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..
that's very inspiring, who knew lol this will be my third year growing a garden and i've never used any chemicals, just plant-based commercial extracts like neem which is awesome against any pests. but i'm itching to try all natural, free, home-made preparations.
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.
the stuff on the bottom of your 1 year aged urea is probably your stem cells that are found in your urine that multiply every day :) love this video. super informative. ive been using urine on my garden diluted and also the microbial solution. seeing it combined makes me so happy and excited to try it
LOL! Me, my grandparents and the old man that teaches JADAM, have been saying this for decades, grow your soil, everything else will fall in line! 🤗 The old man had another one I liked, evidence of what is seen, is evidence of what is not seen! LOL I wish I could find a place that would let me grow. I had to stop collecting cuz I already have several gallons that have been fermenting for over 4 years now and that's just a small tip of the iceberg of what I've accumulated, jonesing because I want to grow so bad.
I have been peeing on my compost and wood chip piles for years. My friends would come over and I would say "if you need to pee, go on the compost pile in the back yard. It really helped break things down faster. When the compost pile turned black is when I would stop. I will ferment some urine and test it out.
@@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.
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!
I've been adding a spurt of urine to about one gallon of water and dosing my plants with this about once a week. been doing this for about 10 years now to great results
Thanks for this. It would be interesting to determine scientifically exactly what the final components of the product are, including the NPK percentages.
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 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.
Question. Where is better to keep it during the cold winter? Is it OK to leave outside and freeze? Or is it better to bring it inside? Thank you . Very happy to find your channel.
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
Thanks for your video! I’m starting my journey into natural farming methods and have already made my lactobacillus culture. I’m thinking of working on this next. I have a couple of questions though. If it takes months to ferment and the tub is outside, how do you take care of it in the winter? Do you bring the smelly jug in so it doesn’t break in freezing temperatures? What about the microbes will they survive the freezing temperatures in that tub? Thanks again!
its ok to leave everything outside during the winter... most my ferments I just don't refill with water at the end of the season so the barrels are about 1/3 full and they freeze solid for 2 months strait and no the microbes just go to sleep they don't die
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 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.
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
My bladder is not as good as it used to be. I noted that i was going and flushing the toilet AT LEAST 12 x per day. With 50% of the world living without clean drinking water i could not justify flushing 5 l x 12 ie 60 litres of potable water down a toilet ea day soooo i bought a camping compost toilet fir $40 and i use that. At first i emptied it in the toilet at the end of the day and did 1 big 9 L flush. Then i discovered its fertilizer properties. Now it goes into the compost. I will have a go at fermenting it. Good idea. :)
Urine is also a human medicine In Ayurveda and yogic practices the first urine is drunk in the morning as a health tonic The body at night when resting makes this medicine as the perfect antidote for all health issues It’s a tough practice , so I’ve done it once and struggle to do again but it’s a good thing to know 😊
I mix my urine with ash 1:1 and dig holes and cover it with thin layer of soil (sometimes layer it on cold compost pile). I see pumpkins loves it. I think urine and ash pH balance each other.
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!
gracias por ensenar lo que sabes chingon mi vikingo no entienso mucho ingles pero tus explicasiones son muy profecionales y son muy intendiblies gracias
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.❤
Great stuff. Very informative.There's one thing in urine that nobody discusses, ever, is enzymes. Enzymes "do" everything! Cheers!
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...😁
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!
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.
“The amount of life there is in any given place is in exact proportion to the amount of death and decay that has been there.” Life from death, death from life, the great circle. Love this 🙏
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. 🇨🇦👊🏻👨🏻🏭✨🙏🌞
Am a minimalist and nature conserver and watching from kenya.i will use your knowledge .
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.
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. 😊
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.
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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 🥰
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've been doing this for a 2 years now. On no petro chemical drugs, so it's good! 😊
Any effect on crop taste?
My dad served in the Korean war, and landed in Japan on his way there. He said the gardens they marched past we so beautiful, thanks to this practice by the Japanese.
I am engaged in regenerative agriculture for my pastures for cattle. My small tractor with a 8ft boom sprayer is how I am going to get my jadam fertilizers out there. I bought the book but your channel does way much to simplify the process. Great information but I still recommend you get the book
The best UA-cam video that I have seen this year. Extremely well produced video, gets right into the content, great presenter, easy to understand, and most importantly, positions the request for likes and subscribes at the end, exactly where it should be, and asked in a non-offencive manner, brilliant. I learnt a lot and increased my knowledge in just 10 mins, I wish all UA-cam videos followed the same format and then I would not have to unsubscribe from so many channels that waste my time and give em a thumbs down, especially when they instruct you to hit the like button before you have had the opportunity to watch and assess the content. Anywayz, this video ticks all the boxes in terms of design and production, so 10/10 to the people who made it.
thank you so much for this extremely helpful feedback my friend!!!... I agree all requests for likes need to be AFTER the viewer has received some kind of value from the video otherwise how would they know if the content is worthy!!...
I like the sound quality. No wind noise, with overlay voice track, and the intro, with theory, then we go outside to the garden, then we come back inside for the final part. There is also text on screen with screenshot nuggits of info we need provided. I am a musician so I notice the format pattern of cyclic things. Viking Nate Rocks! A natural. 🇨🇦👊🏻👨🏻🏭✨🙏🌞
I’ve been watching gardening channels for years and when Nate started this channel he blew the others out of the water !!!
Thank you for your ideas and suggested ratios. I live in Australia, where water is valued as a precious resource. It’s not uncommon for men to urinate outside to avoid flushing the toilet, and the spot to go is often by a lemon tree. Every night the dog and I go for a wee outside before bed. I try to vary my spot and have used the compost heap and straight to the watering can. Eucalyptus leaves are very woody (high carbon content) and contain Eucalyptus oil which impedes breakdown, unless you combine with nitrogen.
Love and peace, sharing the knowledge. I finally had time to take notes. You are an excellent teacher, friend.
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!
Beautifully described process!
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.
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.
Here’s the info I want
Thank you for this info & the step by step part of it all.. Also extra thanks for not having any annoying back ground music
Man alive you weren't wrong about the aroma- got it cooking in the shed for next year's growing season, much to my wife's disgust.
Really, really good information, especially for when the trucks stop running. Thank you
I'm reasonably knowledgeable about plants and gardening but watching your videos has made things even clearer to me. Love your enthusiasm and tons of knowledge made easy for everyone to take on all the information and put it to good use.. Thanks brother!
Thank you for this honest and Illuminating presentation.
God Bless you.
I used to use urea when I gardened for myself, but we are building a market garden and this wouldn’t be a big seller to the public. I’ll be using it in compost for sure!
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
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!!!
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 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.
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. 😉
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!!
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!
Years now of yt vids and I have never added a comment.. So here go's
Sir, you make a very good video.
Very informative ,not to long. I enjoyed it.
Rog out
I am honored to receive your first comment ever!... thank you Roger
I really love your content and enthusiasm about the topic. Theres a lot to learn about (ancient) organic gardening. Regards from Germany, keep up the good work ✌
thank you for this positive feedback my friend!
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 just found your channel. Love your videos, brother! Keep up the great work!
that's very inspiring, who knew lol this will be my third year growing a garden and i've never used any chemicals, just plant-based commercial extracts like neem which is awesome against any pests. but i'm itching to try all natural, free, home-made preparations.
Do you know if neem oil will stop slugs in the garden
@@marlenepopos12 neem oil is active against insects. i doubt it will affect slugs.
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
If your gardening and eating and living a healthy life, you are flushing your money and health and down the drain. Great info!
Yes, iv bn tipping urine onto my compost heap and yr right, its first class compost!
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.
the stuff on the bottom of your 1 year aged urea is probably your stem cells that are found in your urine that multiply every day :) love this video. super informative. ive been using urine on my garden diluted and also the microbial solution. seeing it combined makes me so happy and excited to try it
LOL! Me, my grandparents and the old man that teaches JADAM, have been saying this for decades, grow your soil, everything else will fall in line! 🤗 The old man had another one I liked, evidence of what is seen, is evidence of what is not seen! LOL I wish I could find a place that would let me grow. I had to stop collecting cuz I already have several gallons that have been fermenting for over 4 years now and that's just a small tip of the iceberg of what I've accumulated, jonesing because I want to grow so bad.
I have been peeing on my compost and wood chip piles for years. My friends would come over and I would say "if you need to pee, go on the compost pile in the back yard. It really helped break things down faster. When the compost pile turned black is when I would stop. I will ferment some urine and test it out.
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!
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 started saving my urine this last weekend.
Yeah, we all need food Gardens all across rhe planet.
Dang it! And we're flushing it down the drain. Loving your videos. You explain things easy to understand for me. Thank you so much!
It’s polluting our water when we could be using it ourselves
What a smashing video! Thanks!
I can't show my husband this. He's never going to go indoors again
I go indoors if it’s cold enough out
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!
pity that I can give only one Thumbs-up! Many thanks! I was just thinking why my compost doesn't want to work...
I wish you were my agricultural science teacher during my college days.
Life goes on within you and without you - George Harrison.
Dear thank you so much iam to start gardening due to your amazing gidance
Praise God,,I have4 bags of leaf mounds,am going to do what's on ur video.god bless.
Good luck!
Thanks!
thank you for the contribution my friend!!
TY for your advice !
This knowledge plus something like a biogas biodigester, 2 birds one stone. Epic content
You have answered a question for me. I enjoy your videos.
I've been adding a spurt of urine to about one gallon of water and dosing my plants with this about once a week. been doing this for about 10 years now to great results
perv 😎
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.
I'm convinced! Going to stop going in my neighbor's yard.
Just amazing. No question. Thanks.
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 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.
Fantastic content. You should be interviewed on main stream news as a counterpoint. To the bull sh*t they keep spouting about fertiliser shortages
Amazing information. Thank you for your time
Question. Where is better to keep it during the cold winter? Is it OK to leave outside and freeze? Or is it better to bring it inside? Thank you . Very happy to find your channel.
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
Thanks for your video! I’m starting my journey into natural farming methods and have already made my lactobacillus culture. I’m thinking of working on this next. I have a couple of questions though. If it takes months to ferment and the tub is outside, how do you take care of it in the winter? Do you bring the smelly jug in so it doesn’t break in freezing temperatures? What about the microbes will they survive the freezing temperatures in that tub? Thanks again!
its ok to leave everything outside during the winter... most my ferments I just don't refill with water at the end of the season so the barrels are about 1/3 full and they freeze solid for 2 months strait and no the microbes just go to sleep they don't die
make alot of it as it makes one of the main ingredients in gunpwder- going to ne needed when the designer powders are outlawed
Thank you. You are the best.
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
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 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.
Very useful
It was interesting about the leaf mold.
I have made it from all sorts of stuff.
I have very old samples.
Thank you for this great video!
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
Ok this is what i was looking 4 thanks,
My bladder is not as good as it used to be. I noted that i was going and flushing the toilet AT LEAST 12 x per day. With 50% of the world living without clean drinking water i could not justify flushing 5 l x 12 ie 60 litres of potable water down a toilet ea day soooo i bought a camping compost toilet fir $40 and i use that. At first i emptied it in the toilet at the end of the day and did 1 big 9 L flush. Then i discovered its fertilizer properties. Now it goes into the compost. I will have a go at fermenting it. Good idea. :)
Urine is also a human medicine
In Ayurveda and yogic practices the first urine is drunk in the morning as a health tonic
The body at night when resting makes this medicine as the perfect antidote for all health issues
It’s a tough practice , so I’ve done it once and struggle to do again but it’s a good thing to know 😊
If you use just a little common sense,you'll see that what you said is big pile of nonsense.Big one !
@@valevisa8429
I’m guessing you don’t know anything about Ayurveda or how to attune to nature
@@valevisa8429
I wonder why people like you wake up in the morning
Is it to guide the world with your infinite knowledge and wisdom ?
Urine is not good for humans to consume it's literally your body excreting waste so therefore it's stuff that we can't use drinking it is a bad idea
Me gusta tu canal, podrías permitir que los videos sean subtitulados al español? gracias.
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I'm definitely trying this
WOW. ...JUST WOW❤❤❤
I can't wait to try this!
You're just amazing
Thank you
I mix my urine with ash 1:1 and dig holes and cover it with thin layer of soil (sometimes layer it on cold compost pile). I see pumpkins loves it. I think urine and ash pH balance each other.
You rock. Thank you for your knowledge. Like this comment!
Thank you.
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!
gracias por ensenar lo que sabes chingon mi vikingo no entienso mucho ingles pero tus explicasiones son muy profecionales y son muy intendiblies gracias
Great information