Urine has 9.3 g of nitrogen per liter & 0.75 g of potassium per liter. You can't just continue to add urine to your compost pile as it will be WAY too high in nitrogen by spring. A good rule of thumb is that 3 fluid oz. of urine per square foot will increase soil N fertiity 40 ppm (for 4 to 6 weeks). FYI... An ideal vegetable garden has between 20 to 50 ppm of N available for plants. Plants such as legumes (beans, peas, etc. need only about 20 ppm of N. Corn requires 60 ppm of N. Potatoes require 105 ppm (and 100 ppm K). IMPORTANT: If you increase the soil fertility (i.e. N ppm) above a required amount for a plant, the plant will grow very fast & be lusciously green, but it very likely will produce low OR NO produce. In other words, you don't want to plant tomatoes in soil that has 105 ppm of N -- it wouldn't likely produce desireable results. The take away is---don't over do it peeman! :)
@@stephenantonicelli7069: Others do exactly what youv'e described. It's best to get your soil tested first though because some soils need additional phosporus & potassium added to them to provide optimal fertilization during application.
John Bishop my grand parents home n lands next to school they collect ( children)urines to watering lettuces any plants with green leaves even bonsais bananas palm green onion ...etc. work prrrefect
it amazes me that the compost pile does in fact smell good. Before I started composting a few years ago, I would have expected it to stink. But it does not.
@@MIDRaju there’s a company that’s making them but I can’t get any response from them, it’s been quite some time since they’ve made any contact. It seems to be the thing for most things that I get really excited for for my local state or some thing that needs to be changed or done often times gets forgotten about.
In the area that I was raised nearly everyone had a septic system which consisted of one or more 500 gal holding tanks and a subsurface lateral distribution field. In a sense we did what this guy did for many years. Although we could not pour directly onto haybails we could instead plant fruit trees or gardens over the lateral field. We planted a dwarf pear tree on the edge of the field and got BUSHELS for fresh juicy pears every year. One year the fruit was so heavy it broke some of the tree limbs. Also the tomatoes we planted were very prolific. Note well that we refrained from pour any toxic household chemicals down our drains that might have harmed the septic system or our plants. Even today I have a septic lateral field under my front yard and I never fertilize.
@meetman3: I, too, thought that urine would make my compost smell like.... well... like urine! I am happy to report that it soaks right in and I get no odd smell at all. And, yes, we happily gobble up our tomatoes and they are awesome.
My father used this method on his allotment in the fifties but after watering the urine on he would wrap the bale in plastic to help the straw decompose quicker and make a nice bed of humus to sew/plant on.
I never knew this. Oh man what a great idea. Once I would fill up a bottle I was taking it to the toilet to flush while in my back yard I have a good size compost bin and I take no drugs at all.
We collected ours and used it to compost down a huge pile of wood chips we were given, which it did in three months. We did this daily, before it started to smell. We made a square of wood chips then covered it in a layer of sand and made 4 evenly spaced holes in the top and poured in the urine in to each hole. We also added washing machine water to the pile via one of the holes and in less then three months we had well rotted compost. We never turned the pile or any of that sort of thing. We also use a dilute solution on garden beds that are "resting" after organic matter has been added prior to the seedlings being planted in or on any plant/s that does not want to thrive or needs a bit of a boost. You can see the results and the best part it is natural and free.
@PRLIBRENOWMAGNUS: Thanks for your insights. I don't add urine directly to seeds or plants (but some other gardeners do, in a very diluted form)... I only add it to compost (or straw bales that I am composting), typically months before I am planting, so I don't really worry about killing the seeds or plants.
Its fall time here in Ireland and the best compost you can have is Leaves and urine mix, i have done this for many years with great results, Its a shame when you see leaves being thrown on a landfill, coffee grounds and leaves are great too if your sensitive about using urine. Just do it
I've been amending my beds with urine prior to planting. Where I noticed the squirrels were having a field day in the loose soil before, since I started adding urine, I haven't seen any digging - and the beds are raked completely smooth, so I would notice any digging. I think I've stumbled onto something that will keep those guys away from my vegetables.
Many people do use this, sometimes it works other times it doesn't. Wild animals not use to be in contact with humans would be frightened away, Animals that in one way or another are in contact or around humans may not be frightened away. Like peole feeding squirrals in parks etc.
That’s what hunters do here in Africa where I’m. When they don’t have equipment or manpower and need to summon more they would urinate around the area keep animals away.
Urinate into a bucket (with a lid) of char as start to making biochar. The carbon will absorb the urine and keep it from smelling (similar to sawdust) if kept in bathroom. Then when full, store outside and gradually add/mix the char into the compost pile or bin to help keep nitrogen balanced at reasonable levels.
It seems gross to you that humans produce urine? Or that urine contains nitrogen? Or that compost needs nitrogen? Or that plants need compost/nitrogen? What is the gross part?
I'm always amazed that my friends who get upset when they find out I use human urine as fertilizer yet they have no problem throwing cow dung on their tomatoes. Smh
@@luiscook2665 *Exactly. Cow poo is okay but don’t mention humanure. That’s grosses people out. Kind of like saying you even [tasted] breast milk but guzzle cow’s milk or goat’s milk all day.🙄*
yup your right loll !!!Human urine fertilizer. This is a kind of fertilizer that is best for any kind of plant but is most tested in cases of tomatoes. The human urine contains nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium that are all enriching nutrients for the plants. Tomatoes fertilized by human urine are found to contain more protein and beta carotene. The same has been observed in cucumbers, maize, and barley. This can be prepared by combining human urine and wood ash.
I live in Malibu, CA....never gets cold here. Charlton Heston lived at the top of Coldwater Canyon in Beverly Hills...he prided himself on taking his morning pee in one of his gardens. Saved precious California water and fertilized the plants.
+JA D Urine will do damage to your plants if you put it directly on them. That being said, it's perfect for the compost because it helps to break it down (damage it). That and you don't have to worry about your tomatoes smelling like pee. I am aware of a woman who bought her produce at a farmers' market and they were apparently covered in dried urine, smell and all.
NITROGEN in normal human URINE: "Normal values range from 12 to 20 grams of Nitrogen per 24 hours." Thus, let's say urine's Nitrogen is 15 grams/day x 365 days/year = 5,475 grams/year = 12 pounds/year. That's GOT to help the compost. (especially if you have a mostly carbon-based compost like leaves or straw bales).
My straw bales on the front lawn are in full view of my neighbors, street traffic, etc., so I don't whip out my penis on my front lawn to pee there. Also, I would be going out there many times per day. It is MUCH easier to pee in a jug inside, and then make the trip out there once or twice a week. Very easy.
I started doing this one month ago because the wood chips were not breaking down or warming up enough. The piles have shrunk by 33% in that amount of time. The urine can trickle down 3-6 feet with no problem and I do not have to turn the pile. It was enough work moving 20 yds of oak wood chips/ with green leaves from the front yard to the back yard. I will likely get another load of wood chips from my local tree guy. Thanks.
I love gardening... but I don't think I'll ever love it as much as this guy does... Not that I'm judging. Just... what if someone came over and used your washroom? You'd be the next Patches O'Hoolahan ("It's sterile and I like the taste"). I would have no issue peeing in my compost directly... but storing it... dear God. Thanks for the video and the info, I landscaped in the summers for a few years and the pros say this is indeed a well-known and effective way of helping your compost!
@11atlantica Before I started, my main concern was whether the urine would smell, either in my bathroom or in the compost. But the good news is that the bathroom doesn't smell (I keep a cap/lid on the urine jug) and on the compost it soaks right in and I get no odd smell at all. Happy gardening!
Thanks for this video but have you noticed, it is so funny the way you say "HUMANE URINE". Keep up the good work and thanks for the videos and helping me learn!
I tried to subscribe, but , got a message that says I have too many subscriptions !!!! THANKS FOR making this great UA-cam video about fertilizers !!!!
@telby7 If you are already outside by the hale bale, pee away right onto it (except in my case it is on the FRONT lawn!). But urinating INSIDE the house in a jug is easier for me most of the time since it may be dark/rainy/cold outside, while I am inside, barefoot, etc. Happy gardening!
Great question.... I don't know. I did some calculations once based on electrolytes values published for normal human urine, but I didn't know how that compares with soil values. Maybe there's lots of great micronutrients in urine, but maybe the salts build up over time. But I pour my urine on compost, then feed that compost to a vermi/worm-compost bin to finish it off, so by the time I add it to my garden it should be fine.
Lots of interesting information about what passes through worms and what they pass on. Not to many things are passed on by the; bad bacteria etc. Worm castings are really interesting fertilizer, they process almost everything too.
I pee into a plastic jug too but keep it in the freezer so it doesn't ever smell. When full I just leave it on the back porch until thawed then pour onto compost pile. Of course, I live alone... ;)
@@VirantRoss People these days are crazy about bacteria and virus. But they don't realize their prescribed medicines and fertilizers are far more toxic and dangerous than bacteria and virus.
Get a Urinal container that is sold in one of those medical supply stores and they come with an attached cover lid, or make an ER visit and get it for free. LOL
@PRLIBRENOWMAGNUS: Actually, in human urine the Nitrogen is mainly in the form of UREA, but probably some gets converted to Ammonia (chemical symbol NH3). Both urea and Ammonia contain NITROGEN, which is much needed by plants. Some small percent of urine in the jug might convert to ammonia. Re: SMELL... Overall, I have been shocked at how smell has NOT been a problem, neither in my bathroom, nor at the compost heap or straw bale.
The fresh [healthy] urine is anti-microbial and so is best if aged at least a day, or diluted about 1:10, or used once every ten days in any certain area. The aging process gets stinky [not a problem at my farm] and probably can be solved by others - any suggestions for aging gracefully?
I add my favorite store brought mushroom one i definitely know to my urine container a small amount does alot, its my second fall season doing so but seem the compost break down faster and finer less then a quarter inch screen from fall to spring...awesome vid👍
I would not pour pure urine onto seedlings or plants. You could dilute it lots. Personally, I add the urine straight to the compost so I don't worry about it bothering the plants (the worms and bugs take care of it for multiple months before I add the compost to my garden).
@wheelori814 Personally, I am not on any medications. But in general, I would probably trust the composting process to convert your meds to its basic atoms (carbon, nitrogen, etc.) more than I would trust the municipal water treatment facility to get rid of those before the consider the water cleaned up enough to send it back to your home as tap water. Still, you probably would NOT want to compost your urine if you are taking oral/IV chemotherapy or similar strong toxins. Happy composting!
Using piss will not grow them better unless you water well first (80% of water used with Miracle Grow) and then apply the piss and lightly water again (10% of full water used with MG). You have to use the same amount of water to make it a fair test. Deduct the water for equal amounts of urine applied. Instead of doing this, I make compost pits throughout my gardens. It's where I dispose of my food scraps, my collected piss, and add dirt I dug out of the pit. These are layered and work great. Easiest way to compost in my opinion. I make these compost pits upon gardens I buried trees/limbs under. I have a family of 5. We live on a secret Colorado ranch and have a blast with outdoor chores. I've been measuring our recycle waste, paper/wood/textile waste, and unusual rubbish. I have determined by volume (using 42 gallon black garbage bags) that 70% is recyclable, more than 25% is compostable/fuel for heat, and less than 5% is rubbish (however I burn these mixed into my wood fuel burns also). Human kind with its pride and greed is its own worst enemy. Living like Yeshua is our only hope to prolong our self-inflicted, self-destruction. It's coming and we can either slow its arrival or help it arrive more quickly. The choice is each of ours to discuss and make. Our American Decree
I drink a LOT of beer ( 6 to 8 bottles) while I'm working in the garden. Ive always kept a gallon jug in my shop to pee in, next to to the garden. I can pee a 1/2 gallon in one day. When the jug gets half full of pee, I fill the rest of it with water and pour it on my lawn then hose it down with water.. Works wonders. OBTW: Did I mention, I drink A LOT of beer..??
1024truck oh my friend is going to be thrilled lol! He thinks back in the old days when they had those bowl/pots that were fancy for peeing in the night was great so now he can pee when he drinks his beer haha I can't wait to tell him, I've moved and am having my first garden this year!
@Riconnaissance: 1) My wife does have me put aside the urine jug from that bathroom when we have house guests using that bathroom. 2) Peeing the garden is fine too, BUT make sure that you are peeing onto COMPOST not onto fresh growing plants (you may need to dilute your urine for those) AND watch out for mosquitoes, etc. :-)
Hello, I'm growing veg in straw bales for the 1st time this year, the bales have been outside weathering , and I've been adding urine for a couple of weeks now, do you have any other vids or advice for planting the bales? Thanks :)
Thanks for the tip. Are you saying to let the urine "set" in the jug for weeks before dumping the jugful or urine on the compost? Or to let it "set" for weeks IN the compost before using the compost elsewhere?
@yes350yes There are LOTS of chemicals in human urine. Per NASA, the main things are (in order): Urea, Chloride, Sodium, Potassium, Creatinine, Sulfur - Inorganic, Hippuric Acid, Phosphorus -Total, Citric Acid, Glucuronic Acid, Ammonia, Uric Acid, Uropepsin (as Tyrosine), Bicarbonate, Creatine, Sulfur- Organic, Glycine, Phmolr, Lactic Acid, etc
If I kept a few weeks of urine around before dumping it on my compost... I would have many gallons of urine sitting around, raising my concerns that it would start to leach the plastic jug, or lose Nitrogen to air (ammonia gas), or, most likely, my wife would make me sleep in the shed. :-)
@CairnsFoodGarden: if you look in "ALL comments" for this video, there are some math calculations about the amount of Nitrogen, Sodium, etc., in urine (i.e., what you are adding to compost via your pee), but I don't know any other good links about this. Someone should do a mini-paper on this topic! Any graduate students out there?
There are a lot of salts in urine which can be bad for many types of plants. You might be increasing the salinity of your compost as well as adding nitrogen. I generally dilute my urine, 8:1 beforehand.
Fan Stanner some of those salts are potassium, phosphate, and nitrogen salts, not just sodium. Diluting doesn’t take away the ‘salts’. They are all still there when the water evaporates
The soil bacteria would out compete the bacteria from the infection. It wouldn't make it. Also, what possible consequences could there be from UTI juice on the ground?
personally I don't add urine directly to the plants, to the soil the plants are growing in, or to compost tea. I add urine to compost, and it is probably a year later by the time I use that compost. But I don't doubt that other systems could potentially be as good or better than mine
Surprisingly, it does not stick. Do you compost? Those who do not compost would think that rotting kitchen scraps would make compost stinky, but it does not. Same for pee in compost.
Urine does not need to be composted or aged, or anything like that.. The breakdown of Urea is a bacteriological process... One bacteria takes off a single hydrogen atom, leaving ammonia... Another bacterium takes over and takes another hydrogen atom, and then another until you have something the plant can absorb.. All those bacteria exist in the ground and atmosphere. The moment you expose urine to the natural world, this process begins naturally. They do suggest dilution of 10 to 1 with water.
@OrganicGarden123 You can put urine directly onto mature fruit trees without a problem. It helps if you have a thick layer of carbon rich mulch underneath them e.g. wood chips.
you will be throwing away your own, locally-produced, free source of nitrogen, while using/buying thousands of gallons of toilet water per year to flush it away for chemical treatment, and then you will go out and look for other sources of nitrogen instead? Seems like you are working against yourself.
actually, normal urine does have a yellow tinge. If it is totally clear like water, you're actually overhydrated. Pee into a 1-gallon jug, an opaque one, and see what it looks like. It will look WAY darker than your single stream going through the air on the way to the toilet, and WAY darker than it looks when diluted by a bowl of toilet water. (Then pour the jug on your compost and you are started in the right direction!)
@timwagoner1 Unlike poop/stool/feces, our urine is usually sterile (no bacteria). Most males like myself will go our entire lives without ever getting a urinary tract infection (UTI), and women will be UTI-free the vast majority of their lives, so it should be perfectly fine.
People are always saying that in order for composting to work, you have to keep your liquid separate from your solid, thus the design of composting toilets that divert the urine into another receptacle. But then they never explain the specifics of what to do with it. Why is it important to keep them separate if you’re just going to pour it back in later?
Don't mow your lawn. Use the grass seeds to feed your chickens and the grass straw for composting! I have a section in my backyard that I grow grass for seeds. I leave some of the grass uncut and they will fall to the ground and serve as a ground cover in the winter.
@Nicki1Von9Wicked87 LOL. I personally don't consider myself to be "playing" with my urine, BUT I do garden, which to me DOES include "playing" with the dirt, which DOES include compost made from my pee (and in a bigger picture it is all chemicals that have been reused and recycled on earth for at least thousands of years, and we're made of this stuff too!). Cheers with the Jello shots! :D
Human urine fertilizer. This is a kind of fertilizer that is best for any kind of plant but is most tested in cases of tomatoes. The human urine contains nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium that are all enriching nutrients for the plants. Tomatoes fertilized by human urine are found to contain more protein and beta carotene. The same has been observed in cucumbers, maize, and barley. This can be prepared by combining human urine and wood ash.
I don't mix the urine with water, but you should do so if you were to be putting this directly on/near your plants. I only put mine onto the compost pile.
@Aiondesa: I don't know if women have any easy way to collect their urine for composting. As a guy, it is VERY easy to pee into a jug and pour it on the compost when the gallon jug is full, a couple jugs per week. If women have any constructive tips/ideas for your gardening sisters, then please post them.
No...let it set in the jug....then dump it in the compost. You ought to be able to use the compost right away after you dump it on unless it is still composting. You might want to try liguid composting too...its much faster
@paromipatri Before I started, my main concern was whether the urine would smell, either in my bathroom or in the compost. But the good news is that the bathroom doesn't smell (I keep a cap/lid on the urine jug) and on the compost it soaks right in and I get no odd smell at all. I empty a gallon or two onto the compost a few times per week (mostly depends on when the jugs get full.... week's when I am away a lot for long hours at work, then I'm peeing less at home).
Sewage treatment doesn't need to use LOTS of chemicals. Clorine as a final treatment is all that is needed for treating the liquid stream and polymer to release excess water from the solids stream. I wouldn't consider that to be lots of chemicals. Also, some Sewage Treatment plants create a "Class A" biosolids which can be used to grow vegetables for your garden. It's an excellent product!!
@MrFlatline5 Yes, you may be right.... I could use to drink more fluids. BUT.... there is an optical illusion whereby when you put any urine (even dilute, watery urine) into a gallon-jug, which is also an opaque container, the urine looks MUCH darker than it would look if you pee'd it into a toilet bowel full of water. But I'll still agree with your advice to drink lots of water/fluid each day. Happy Gardening. Peace.
This is really cool thanks....you know, it sounds nasty but it's really not I mean think about it.....I'm home most days these days and I flush a lot and I've been realizing that that is such a complete waste....I think it's like almost 2and half gallons EVERY FLUSH! ....and for what? Especially when you can just add it to the backyard!! .... One thing I was wondering if anybody could help me to understand..I saw something on David the good's channel about watering the urine down before adding it.....is this a good idea??...or rather do you have to do this?? 🤔🤔🤔🐧🌵 Thanks for any input 🍟
How to get record cukes? In the same vein, my spouse learn the 'secret' ingredient her Asian friend had to grow some monster cukes she brought to work last year... She takes a dump in a bucket and let the whole thing ferment a month, then feeds the cukes and the garden. Lemme tell you that those cukes won't hit the juicer when she gives us some this year. In fact, they will most likely hit the compost pile directly ... without going through us. Cheers.
Ammonia is a nitrogen containing molecule and plants love it. Google the Nitrogen cycle; "Plants must use nitrogen in its fixed form, such as ammonia, urea, or the nitrate ion."
CountToBen Upon some research, urea is actually not a bioavailable form of nitrogen for plants it needs to be broken down further. The good news is that bacteria convert it to bioavailable forms quickly and easily. Time really shouldn't matter much, if you dilute urine to recommended levels you really cant go wrong.
Legumes have a symbiotic relationship with bacteria called rhizobia, which create ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen and help the plant. SOURSE: www.boundless.com › ... › Microbial Ecology › Microbial Symbioses
Urine has 9.3 g of nitrogen per liter & 0.75 g of potassium per liter.
You can't just continue to add urine to your compost pile as it will be WAY too high in nitrogen by spring.
A good rule of thumb is that 3 fluid oz. of urine per square foot will increase soil N fertiity 40 ppm (for 4 to 6 weeks). FYI... An ideal vegetable garden has between 20 to 50 ppm of N available for plants. Plants such as legumes (beans, peas, etc. need only about 20 ppm of N. Corn requires 60 ppm of N. Potatoes require 105 ppm (and 100 ppm K). IMPORTANT: If you increase the soil fertility (i.e. N ppm) above a required amount for a plant, the plant will grow very fast & be lusciously green, but it very likely will produce low OR NO produce. In other words, you don't want to plant tomatoes in soil that has 105 ppm of N -- it wouldn't likely produce desireable results.
The take away is---don't over do it peeman! :)
A B pee man lol
Would adding water to gallon of water and using it on lawn. I spread it to avoid smell
@@stephenantonicelli7069: Others do exactly what youv'e described. It's best to get your soil tested first though because some soils need additional phosporus & potassium added to them to provide optimal fertilization during application.
Yeah... I'm going to need a jug with a bigger opening.
@@stephenantonicelli7069 Not if it is fresh & diluted enough.
Thanks. In my country, Vietnam. Our ancestry used urine to water plants for hundred years ago.
That's good to know Hung Khuc, please will you share more about the traditional use of urine in Vietnam in the garden? Many thanks...
John Bishop my grand parents home n lands next to school they collect ( children)urines to watering lettuces any plants with green leaves even bonsais bananas palm green onion ...etc. work prrrefect
It’s good as long as you aren’t consuming chemicals and gmos
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You can compost your Poop too.
it amazes me that the compost pile does in fact smell good. Before I started composting a few years ago, I would have expected it to stink. But it does not.
I am surprised you havent switched over to a composting toilet..... good video, thanks.
@@leeii337 Well! That's what the world needs now. A composting toilet. Enough with the flushing ones for centuries that wreaked havoc on earth.
@@MIDRaju there’s a company that’s making them but I can’t get any response from them, it’s been quite some time since they’ve made any contact. It seems to be the thing for most things that I get really excited for for my local state or some thing that needs to be changed or done often times gets forgotten about.
In the area that I was raised nearly everyone had a septic system which consisted of one or more 500 gal holding tanks and a subsurface lateral distribution field. In a sense we did what this guy did for many years. Although we could not pour directly onto haybails we could instead plant fruit trees or gardens over the lateral field. We planted a dwarf pear tree on the edge of the field and got BUSHELS for fresh juicy pears every year. One year the fruit was so heavy it broke some of the tree limbs. Also the tomatoes we planted were very prolific. Note well that we refrained from pour any toxic household chemicals down our drains that might have harmed the septic system or our plants. Even today I have a septic lateral field under my front yard and I never fertilize.
@meetman3: I, too, thought that urine would make my compost smell like.... well... like urine! I am happy to report that it soaks right in and I get no odd smell at all. And, yes, we happily gobble up our tomatoes and they are awesome.
My father used this method on his allotment in the fifties but after watering the urine on he would wrap the bale in plastic to help the straw decompose quicker and make a nice bed of humus to sew/plant on.
I never knew this. Oh man what a great idea. Once I would fill up a bottle I was taking it to the toilet to flush while in my back yard I have a good size compost bin and I take no drugs at all.
We collected ours and used it to compost down a huge pile of wood chips we were given, which it did in three months. We did this daily, before it started to smell. We made a square of wood chips then covered it in a layer of sand and made 4 evenly spaced holes in the top and poured in the urine in to each hole. We also added washing machine water to the pile via one of the holes and in less then three months we had well rotted compost. We never turned the pile or any of that sort of thing. We also use a dilute solution on garden beds that are "resting" after organic matter has been added prior to the seedlings being planted in or on any plant/s that does not want to thrive or needs a bit of a boost. You can see the results and the best part it is natural and free.
@PRLIBRENOWMAGNUS: Thanks for your insights. I don't add urine directly to seeds or plants (but some other gardeners do, in a very diluted form)... I only add it to compost (or straw bales that I am composting), typically months before I am planting, so I don't really worry about killing the seeds or plants.
Its fall time here in Ireland and the best compost you can have is Leaves and urine mix, i have done this for many years with great results, Its a shame when you see leaves being thrown on a landfill, coffee grounds and leaves are great too if your sensitive about using urine. Just do it
Feed your lawn...FEED IT!
That was my concern, too. I am happy to say that there is essentially no smell at all.
I've been amending my beds with urine prior to planting. Where I noticed the squirrels were having a field day in the loose soil before, since I started adding urine, I haven't seen any digging - and the beds are raked completely smooth, so I would notice any digging. I think I've stumbled onto something that will keep those guys away from my vegetables.
Many people do use this, sometimes it works other times it doesn't. Wild animals not use to be in contact with humans would be frightened away, Animals that in one way or another are in contact or around humans may not be frightened away. Like peole feeding squirrals in parks etc.
That’s what hunters do here in Africa where I’m. When they don’t have equipment or manpower and need to summon more they would urinate around the area keep animals away.
Urinate into a bucket (with a lid) of char as start to making biochar. The carbon will absorb the urine and keep it from smelling (similar to sawdust) if kept in bathroom. Then when full, store outside and gradually add/mix the char into the compost pile or bin to help keep nitrogen balanced at reasonable levels.
I bury my pee 2feet deep.
It seems gross to you that humans produce urine? Or that urine contains nitrogen? Or that compost needs nitrogen? Or that plants need compost/nitrogen? What is the gross part?
Gross ... lol just kidding, I do this too. Sometimes even peeing directly onto my compost.
I'm always amazed that my friends who get upset when they find out I use human urine as fertilizer yet they have no problem throwing cow dung on their tomatoes. Smh
@@luiscook2665
*Exactly. Cow poo is okay but don’t mention humanure. That’s grosses people out. Kind of like saying you even [tasted] breast milk but guzzle cow’s milk or goat’s milk all day.🙄*
and to think...all those wasted gallons of piss that just went down my shower drain..
yup your right loll !!!Human urine fertilizer. This is a kind of fertilizer that is best for any kind of plant but is most tested in cases of tomatoes. The human urine contains nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium that are all enriching nutrients for the plants. Tomatoes fertilized by human urine are found to contain more protein and beta carotene. The same has been observed in cucumbers, maize, and barley. This can be prepared by combining human urine and wood ash.
Dude, save a step...just pee directly on the pile.
+JA D Do you realize that the compost pile is not "always" in house? It's a hassle to make multiple trips to the backyard especially in the winter.
I live in Malibu, CA....never gets cold here. Charlton Heston lived at the top of Coldwater Canyon in Beverly Hills...he prided himself on taking his morning pee in one of his gardens. Saved precious California water and fertilized the plants.
+JA D Urine will do damage to your plants if you put it directly on them. That being said, it's perfect for the compost because it helps to break it down (damage it). That and you don't have to worry about your tomatoes smelling like pee. I am aware of a woman who bought her produce at a farmers' market and they were apparently covered in dried urine, smell and all.
+JA D
Did you say it never gets cold there? I need to move there then. It's too cold here in Florida. (I'm a cold sissy man..😳)
keeps you fit !
Collecting urine in a milk carton kept in your bathroom is not exactly a pleasant notion. I think I'll just pee directly on my compost.
ElGatoLoco698 same
ElGatoLoco698 guests will be like wtf is wrong with u if u have a milk carton of pee
Agreed sir.
Get a hospital urinal from Walgreens, in-store out of sight like underneath the counter
@@luiscook2665 you can keep this out of sight too. The goal is to use less resources, not buying more and killing earth.
I keep a bucket in my garage, where I pee. Mostly I use it to turn leaf piles into leaf mold. I also water it WAY down and feed the garden.
I do the same but I Poop in it as well. Sometimes you can't always make it to the toilet.
Human, dog and cat waste can be used for flower gardens. Horse, chicken and rabbit for veggie gardens.
NITROGEN in normal human URINE: "Normal values range from 12 to 20 grams of Nitrogen per 24 hours."
Thus, let's say urine's Nitrogen is 15 grams/day x 365 days/year = 5,475 grams/year = 12 pounds/year.
That's GOT to help the compost. (especially if you have a mostly carbon-based compost like leaves or straw bales).
My straw bales on the front lawn are in full view of my neighbors, street traffic, etc., so I don't whip out my penis on my front lawn to pee there. Also, I would be going out there many times per day. It is MUCH easier to pee in a jug inside, and then make the trip out there once or twice a week. Very easy.
DICKS OUT FOR COMPOST
I’ve started to use a cat-litter jig. The milk jug is less comfortable to make deposits. The cat litter jug is also opaque.
I started doing this one month ago because the wood chips were not breaking down or warming up enough. The piles have shrunk by 33% in that amount of time. The urine can trickle down 3-6 feet with no problem and I do not have to turn the pile. It was enough work moving 20 yds of oak wood chips/ with green leaves from the front yard to the back yard. I will likely get another load of wood chips from my local tree guy. Thanks.
I love gardening... but I don't think I'll ever love it as much as this guy does...
Not that I'm judging. Just... what if someone came over and used your washroom? You'd be the next Patches O'Hoolahan ("It's sterile and I like the taste").
I would have no issue peeing in my compost directly... but storing it... dear God.
Thanks for the video and the info, I landscaped in the summers for a few years and the pros say this is indeed a well-known and effective way of helping your compost!
If you use a cap with a few holes in it, it will spread more effectively (like a watering can)
@11atlantica Before I started, my main concern was whether the urine would smell, either in my bathroom or in the compost. But the good news is that the bathroom doesn't smell (I keep a cap/lid on the urine jug) and on the compost it soaks right in and I get no odd smell at all. Happy gardening!
Thanks for this video but have you noticed, it is so funny the way you say "HUMANE URINE". Keep up the good work and thanks for the videos and helping me learn!
Appreciate your video…so much easier for the guys to do this lol but we at the homestead here have all done our part…stay blessed
I tried to subscribe, but , got a message that says I have too many subscriptions !!!! THANKS FOR making this great UA-cam video about fertilizers !!!!
@telby7 If you are already outside by the hale bale, pee away right onto it (except in my case it is on the FRONT lawn!). But urinating INSIDE the house in a jug is easier for me most of the time since it may be dark/rainy/cold outside, while I am inside, barefoot, etc. Happy gardening!
Great question.... I don't know. I did some calculations once based on electrolytes values published for normal human urine, but I didn't know how that compares with soil values. Maybe there's lots of great micronutrients in urine, but maybe the salts build up over time. But I pour my urine on compost, then feed that compost to a vermi/worm-compost bin to finish it off, so by the time I add it to my garden it should be fine.
Lots of interesting information about what passes through worms and what they pass on. Not to many things are passed on by the; bad bacteria etc. Worm castings are really interesting fertilizer, they process almost everything too.
Do you add your poop to your compost pile.
We women can use the t.p. and throw the used paper on the compost heap, so no waste
I use a large yogurt container and then empty it into a gallon jug. You can bend the container to make a kind of spout to make pouring easy.
I pee into a plastic jug too but keep it in the freezer so it doesn't ever smell. When full I just leave it on the back porch until thawed then pour onto compost pile. Of course, I live alone... ;)
REpianist keep it away from my pork chops....lol
REpianist i worry about my neighbors seeing my pee jugs in the yard.
@@VirantRoss People these days are crazy about bacteria and virus. But they don't realize their prescribed medicines and fertilizers are far more toxic and dangerous than bacteria and virus.
Get a Urinal container that is sold in one of those medical supply stores and they come with an attached cover lid, or make an ER visit and get it for free. LOL
@PRLIBRENOWMAGNUS: Actually, in human urine the Nitrogen is mainly in the form of UREA, but probably some gets converted to Ammonia (chemical symbol NH3). Both urea and Ammonia contain NITROGEN, which is much needed by plants. Some small percent of urine in the jug might convert to ammonia. Re: SMELL... Overall, I have been shocked at how smell has NOT been a problem, neither in my bathroom, nor at the compost heap or straw bale.
Actually, compost needs water/liquid to some extent.
Every time he says "Human Urine" in the voice he uses when he says it just cracks me up so much I have to pause the video to finish laughing.
Betcha his yard smells lovely.............
***** Hahahaha but I bet his yard is super healthy! :P
LidiaJTube Hate to be his neighbor. lol
hahaha I think I could learn a lot from him hahaha
LidiaJTube I learned alot from him, and thats one way to keep visitors away. hahahaha i guess we can go on and on.......
The fresh [healthy] urine is anti-microbial and so is best if aged at least a day, or diluted about 1:10, or used once every ten days in any certain area. The aging process gets stinky [not a problem at my farm] and probably can be solved by others - any suggestions for aging gracefully?
I add my favorite store brought mushroom one i definitely know to my urine container a small amount does alot, its my second fall season doing so but seem the compost break down faster and finer less then a quarter inch screen from fall to spring...awesome vid👍
I would not pour pure urine onto seedlings or plants. You could dilute it lots. Personally, I add the urine straight to the compost so I don't worry about it bothering the plants (the worms and bugs take care of it for multiple months before I add the compost to my garden).
@wheelori814 Personally, I am not on any medications. But in general, I would probably trust the composting process to convert your meds to its basic atoms (carbon, nitrogen, etc.) more than I would trust the municipal water treatment facility to get rid of those before the consider the water cleaned up enough to send it back to your home as tap water. Still, you probably would NOT want to compost your urine if you are taking oral/IV chemotherapy or similar strong toxins. Happy composting!
me too, I just throw it on the compost heap. works fine. Also tried adding it to carton and compost that. works fine
Using piss will not grow them better unless you water well first (80% of water used with Miracle Grow) and then apply the piss and lightly water again (10% of full water used with MG).
You have to use the same amount of water to make it a fair test. Deduct the water for equal amounts of urine applied.
Instead of doing this, I make compost pits throughout my gardens. It's where I dispose of my food scraps, my collected piss, and add dirt I dug out of the pit. These are layered and work great. Easiest way to compost in my opinion.
I make these compost pits upon gardens I buried trees/limbs under.
I have a family of 5. We live on a secret Colorado ranch and have a blast with outdoor chores.
I've been measuring our recycle waste, paper/wood/textile waste, and unusual rubbish. I have determined by volume (using 42 gallon black garbage bags) that 70% is recyclable, more than 25% is compostable/fuel for heat, and less than 5% is rubbish (however I burn these mixed into my wood fuel burns also).
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Nitrogen is an element, contained in ammonia, which gets used by bacteria and plants.
I drink a LOT of beer ( 6 to 8 bottles) while I'm working in the garden. Ive always kept a gallon jug in my shop to pee in, next to to the garden. I can pee a 1/2 gallon in one day. When the jug gets half full of pee, I fill the rest of it with water and pour it on my lawn then hose it down with water.. Works wonders. OBTW: Did I mention, I drink A LOT of beer..??
Do you see the gallon jug as half full or half empty?
maybe you're an alcoholic?
1024truck oh my friend is going to be thrilled lol! He thinks back in the old days when they had those bowl/pots that were fancy for peeing in the night was great so now he can pee when he drinks his beer haha I can't wait to tell him, I've moved and am having my first garden this year!
Tammy Lynn ,,pee on your compost pile, it will help speed up the composting.
Your pee is actually higher in Potassium from all the beer, those that don’t drink beer will have a higher sodium content.
Very nice! Pee is so underrated, it's liquid gold!
@Riconnaissance: 1) My wife does have me put aside the urine jug from that bathroom when we have house guests using that bathroom. 2) Peeing the garden is fine too, BUT make sure that you are peeing onto COMPOST not onto fresh growing plants (you may need to dilute your urine for those) AND watch out for mosquitoes, etc. :-)
Hello, I'm growing veg in straw bales for the 1st time this year, the bales have been outside weathering , and I've been adding urine for a couple of weeks now, do you have any other vids or advice for planting the bales? Thanks :)
Yeah, I saw your mud-walled hut model. Seems like a would be a cool room in the summer. Cheers!
Thanks for the tip. Are you saying to let the urine "set" in the jug for weeks before dumping the jugful or urine on the compost? Or to let it "set" for weeks IN the compost before using the compost elsewhere?
@yes350yes There are LOTS of chemicals in human urine. Per NASA, the main things are (in order): Urea, Chloride, Sodium, Potassium, Creatinine, Sulfur - Inorganic, Hippuric Acid, Phosphorus -Total, Citric Acid, Glucuronic Acid, Ammonia, Uric Acid, Uropepsin (as Tyrosine), Bicarbonate, Creatine, Sulfur- Organic, Glycine, Phmolr, Lactic Acid, etc
If I kept a few weeks of urine around before dumping it on my compost... I would have many gallons of urine sitting around, raising my concerns that it would start to leach the plastic jug, or lose Nitrogen to air (ammonia gas), or, most likely, my wife would make me sleep in the shed. :-)
@CairnsFoodGarden: if you look in "ALL comments" for this video, there are some math calculations about the amount of Nitrogen, Sodium, etc., in urine (i.e., what you are adding to compost via your pee), but I don't know any other good links about this. Someone should do a mini-paper on this topic! Any graduate students out there?
I think It is a good idea. But I wonder if it makes your yard smell like a parking garage in San Francisco?
It is best to let it set for several weeks and it will turn very ammonia like and be even better for the plants.
There are a lot of salts in urine which can be bad for many types of plants. You might be increasing the salinity of your compost as well as adding nitrogen. I generally dilute my urine, 8:1 beforehand.
Fan Stanner some of those salts are potassium, phosphate, and nitrogen salts, not just sodium. Diluting doesn’t take away the ‘salts’. They are all still there when the water evaporates
@haywoodfarm There's just something off putting about collecting menstrual blood to use as fertilizer. Not many gals will be going for that.
The soil bacteria would out compete the bacteria from the infection. It wouldn't make it. Also, what possible consequences could there be from UTI juice on the ground?
personally I don't add urine directly to the plants, to the soil the plants are growing in, or to compost tea. I add urine to compost, and it is probably a year later by the time I use that compost. But I don't doubt that other systems could potentially be as good or better than mine
Surprisingly, it does not stick. Do you compost? Those who do not compost would think that rotting kitchen scraps would make compost stinky, but it does not. Same for pee in compost.
Urine does not need to be composted or aged, or anything like that.. The breakdown of Urea is a bacteriological process... One bacteria takes off a single hydrogen atom, leaving ammonia... Another bacterium takes over and takes another hydrogen atom, and then another until you have something the plant can absorb.. All those bacteria exist in the ground and atmosphere. The moment you expose urine to the natural world, this process begins naturally. They do suggest dilution of 10 to 1 with water.
Man, if I lived alone I would do this in a heartbeat . . . I'm old so I don't my roommate to think I've gone around the bend.
@OrganicGarden123 You can put urine directly onto mature fruit trees without a problem. It helps if you have a thick layer of carbon rich mulch underneath them e.g. wood chips.
I bet your backyard smells wonderful!! All joking aside, I think this a great thing.
Great, informative video, thanks for sharing this. How long does it take for the straw to compost?
Hose down those veggies, boys!
you will be throwing away your own, locally-produced, free source of nitrogen, while using/buying thousands of gallons of toilet water per year to flush it away for chemical treatment, and then you will go out and look for other sources of nitrogen instead? Seems like you are working against yourself.
I use a watering can to dispense the pee. The showerhead spout distributes the pee nicely.
try diluting the urine jug with water to help dilute the natural salt in it
actually, normal urine does have a yellow tinge. If it is totally clear like water, you're actually overhydrated. Pee into a 1-gallon jug, an opaque one, and see what it looks like. It will look WAY darker than your single stream going through the air on the way to the toilet, and WAY darker than it looks when diluted by a bowl of toilet water. (Then pour the jug on your compost and you are started in the right direction!)
@timwagoner1 Unlike poop/stool/feces, our urine is usually sterile (no bacteria). Most males like myself will go our entire lives without ever getting a urinary tract infection (UTI), and women will be UTI-free the vast majority of their lives, so it should be perfectly fine.
@ilsdmspjs I listed Urea, which is the form that Nitrogen is in within human urine. Urine is a GREAT source of nitrogen for compost/soil/etc. Cheers!
People are always saying that in order for composting to work, you have to keep your liquid separate from your solid, thus the design of composting toilets that divert the urine into another receptacle. But then they never explain the specifics of what to do with it. Why is it important to keep them separate if you’re just going to pour it back in later?
Don't mow your lawn. Use the grass seeds to feed your chickens and the grass straw for composting! I have a section in my backyard that I grow grass for seeds. I leave some of the grass uncut and they will fall to the ground and serve as a ground cover in the winter.
Thanks and is this something you did over and over and works or tlwas this your first time? I'm wondering like .. you don't have to dilute it?!?
@Nicki1Von9Wicked87 LOL. I personally don't consider myself to be "playing" with my urine, BUT I do garden, which to me DOES include "playing" with the dirt, which DOES include compost made from my pee (and in a bigger picture it is all chemicals that have been reused and recycled on earth for at least thousands of years, and we're made of this stuff too!). Cheers with the Jello shots! :D
Do you seriously not have smell issues at all?
lol, i just came back from the garden, turning the compost and peed on it, yt shows me this video...... I FEEL WATCHED xD
Human urine fertilizer. This is a kind of fertilizer that is best for any kind of plant but is most tested in cases of tomatoes. The human urine contains nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium that are all enriching nutrients for the plants. Tomatoes fertilized by human urine are found to contain more protein and beta carotene. The same has been observed in cucumbers, maize, and barley. This can be prepared by combining human urine and wood ash.
I don't mix the urine with water, but you should do so if you were to be putting this directly on/near your plants. I only put mine onto the compost pile.
@Aiondesa: I don't know if women have any easy way to collect their urine for composting. As a guy, it is VERY easy to pee into a jug and pour it on the compost when the gallon jug is full, a couple jugs per week. If women have any constructive tips/ideas for your gardening sisters, then please post them.
Aren't you supposed to dilute urine like 10:1 with water?
Only if you're using it as a fertilizer to water your plants. Not if you're using it for composting.
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Oh ok, good to know. Thanks!
Very good i am deciding to compost a wood chip so I'll add urine
No...let it set in the jug....then dump it in the compost. You ought to be able to use the compost right away after you dump it on unless it is still composting. You might want to try liguid composting too...its much faster
glass is a much better storage container to use because of hygeine issues, even if you empty it every day.
Should be encouraged
So swimming pool water will work great since no one ever seems to get out to go to the restroom!
@paromipatri Before I started, my main concern was whether the urine would smell, either in my bathroom or in the compost. But the good news is that the bathroom doesn't smell (I keep a cap/lid on the urine jug) and on the compost it soaks right in and I get no odd smell at all. I empty a gallon or two onto the compost a few times per week (mostly depends on when the jugs get full.... week's when I am away a lot for long hours at work, then I'm peeing less at home).
Damn bro! Don't place that piss jug on the sink!
Urine is an antiseptic!
And urea is good for your skin too!
Sewage treatment doesn't need to use LOTS of chemicals. Clorine as a final treatment is all that is needed for treating the liquid stream and polymer to release excess water from the solids stream. I wouldn't consider that to be lots of chemicals. Also, some Sewage Treatment plants create a "Class A" biosolids which can be used to grow vegetables for your garden. It's an excellent product!!
The City of Milwaukee creates a fertilizer called milorganite.
A lot of states spread the solids on pasture land and after so many months let cows eat the grass .
it happens over the winter. Autumn straw bales become spring time planting bales.
@MrFlatline5 Yes, you may be right.... I could use to drink more fluids. BUT.... there is an optical illusion whereby when you put any urine (even dilute, watery urine) into a gallon-jug, which is also an opaque container, the urine looks MUCH darker than it would look if you pee'd it into a toilet bowel full of water. But I'll still agree with your advice to drink lots of water/fluid each day. Happy Gardening. Peace.
I am doing this and my bales are getting a lot of mushrooms. Is this good or bad?
Any odor problem come summer?
Neighbors complain?
I'm sure guests will love seeing that. Lol I'm gonna try it in my leaf pile
This is really cool thanks....you know, it sounds nasty but it's really not I mean think about it.....I'm home most days these days and I flush a lot and I've been realizing that that is such a complete waste....I think it's like almost 2and half gallons EVERY FLUSH! ....and for what?
Especially when you can just add it to the backyard!! ....
One thing I was wondering if anybody could help me to understand..I saw something on David the good's channel about watering the urine down before adding it.....is this a good idea??...or rather do you have to do this?? 🤔🤔🤔🐧🌵
Thanks for any input
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actually if you dilute urine and spray it on your seedlings about once to twice a week it will help them to be healthier and more resistant to disease
The title says "start to finish". So you only grow compost with it or is there a 2nd part to this where you show us some vegetables?
How to get record cukes?
In the same vein, my spouse learn the 'secret' ingredient her Asian friend had to grow some monster cukes she brought to work last year... She takes a dump in a bucket and let the whole thing ferment a month, then feeds the cukes and the garden. Lemme tell you that those cukes won't hit the juicer when she gives us some this year. In fact, they will most likely hit the compost pile directly ... without going through us. Cheers.
What about the ammonia in Urine.
Ammonia is a nitrogen containing molecule and plants love it. Google the Nitrogen cycle; "Plants must use nitrogen in its fixed form, such as ammonia, urea, or the nitrate ion."
***** I have heard that Urea is preferable for plants so it is advised to use the urine within 24 hours before it turns to ammonia. Thoughts?
CountToBen Upon some research, urea is actually not a bioavailable form of nitrogen for plants it needs to be broken down further. The good news is that bacteria convert it to bioavailable forms quickly and easily. Time really shouldn't matter much, if you dilute urine to recommended levels you really cant go wrong.
Legumes have a symbiotic relationship with bacteria called rhizobia, which create ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen and help the plant.
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