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★ How to: Use Human Urine as Fertiliser (A Complete Step by Step Guide)
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- Опубліковано 18 сер 2024
- ★ How to: Use Human Urine as Fertiliser (A Complete Step by Step Guide)
In Today's Project Diary Video I will give you a brief history lesson on how urine has been used for many things throughout the decades, and showing you way to use human urine as a fertiliser in your garden.
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If you're here watching this it means you're part of the 2% of humanity that thinks outside of the box. Great job continue being unique 😀👍
Indeed.
It's mind blowing how if you told somebody about it, their close-minded asses say "eww" first thing that comes to their little head. Crazy world we live in.
In organics everything can be turned gold 💚🌱🦠
I mean... My dog pisses in the yard, I water it down, and that grass grows a foot taller than the grass around it...
Thank you 🙏🏼 😊
When my son was a little boy, I planted 4 citrus trees. At a family lunch, a relative mentioned 'the traditional method' of watering lemon trees & as a little boy he found it all very amusing, but never mentioned it again. Some years later, out in the back yard I pondered out loud about why our lemon tree was nearly 3 times the size of the other 3 sad little citrus trees that it had been bought, planted & grown with. My son informed me that he'd been nipping outside regularly to test 'the traditional method' on the lemon tree ever since he was little & it works.
haha! That's a awesome story. Indeed it does. It also helps pear trees :)
It’s awesome funny lol
What do you mean by traditional menthod? Is it simply urine or urine mixed with wood ash?
@ニーハオさおあ how do you mean
I am dying!!!!
I mean you're right, we flush perfectly good fertilizer each day and buy store bought stuff. Good tips to be more self sufficient
You're welcome :)
Me and my 5 kids have been collecting our urine in large yogurt containers everyday for the past month. Not only are our vegetables growing at a fast rate but even those that were on the verge of dying due to poor soil conditions are now THRIVING! You have to see it to believe it :)
When you say “collect it” do you mean use daily whatever the family makes? Or can you actually store urine for that long or any length of time? The author of the video say fresh urine and I know that it is sterile when leaving the body but corrupts shortly afterwards. So how long is TOO long???
@@annalisa6135 Storing/aging urine results in greatly reduced nitrogen due to microbes and stuff breaking it down, transforming it into a fertilizer with around 1-1-1 NPK ratio.
But the advantage of storing urine (for at least half a month onwards) is it also eliminates any potential pathogens in the urine.
@@zanaros2606 Bioavailable nitrogen might be reduced, but nitrogen itself is an element so it doesn't go anywhere.
Wonderful
I’m not disgusted at all. People have done this for centuries. It’s used for everything from tanning hides to fertilizer. It also keeps critters away. I used it to keep squirrels away from my garden. It works!!!!! Great advice
Indeed it does :)
When i was a kid my neighbors used to have a sunflower growing competition every year. The two brothers used to compete, but one brother kept on winning ever single time. The younger brother urinated on his brothers sunflower to stop it growing. It grew so big it ended up in the local newspaper. My dad (the neighbor) had 10 foot conifers as a fence and it stood taller than the conifers.
Last year someone who shall remain nameless weed eated my beautiful clematis plant! I was devastated! I had read about using urine as a fertilizer and decided to try it. I used a 10 to 1 ratio of 10 parts water to one part urine. I watered the clematis first, then I used a 1 gallon container with the 10 to 1 mixture. I did this once a week for 3 weeks. After a little more than a month the clematis was as big as it was before! I plan on using it more this year because I refuse to pay the fertilizer prices that are out there now!
Fertilizer companies hate him 😏
yeah! just like synthetic meds.. Why add more disease taking those synthetics if there's a real solution from nature..
@@thetruthseeker1239 the money that can be made....what else..lol
My partner and I keep a bucket of wood pellets, the kind used in hamster cages etc, next to our toilets and we layer our pee with the pellets... add some pellets, pee on them, add more pellets. The pellets absorb the pee, there's no odor and the carbon in the pellets helps balance out the nitrogen. We use it as top dressing and compost ingredients.
Ingenious!
Wow 😮 👍
I love this, my brain has been going crazy with ideas. Such as using toilet paper in the compost as well. Instead of flushing it down the drain to the septic.
How about not using toilet paper in the first place? Use water instead - did that and never look back
this is nature for you. everything goes round and round. we i used to grow up, my grandma always ask us to do near the fruit tree. Children just happily do bush wee or backyard wee
haha! Indeed it helps with fruit growth :)
Makes my herbs, tomatoes, and peppers grow strong!
I live in North Carolina USA in the rural area. And we do have a gardening pest that we use human urine to discourage from entering and eating our produce. Deer seem to stay away from our gardening area when we spread urine around the outer edges of our gardening spots. I know this sounds strange but it really does work. Keep up the great work on your videos and dont let youtube discourage you. We really enjoy the wealth of knowledge you share with us. Praying for you and your granddad from nc usa!!!
Not strange at all. It's the hornones in the urine that puts them off. Especially if it's male urine. Thank you! Much appreciated :)
Interesting video. Thanks for being bold enough to do it.
I like the “here’s the science bit” Lol!
lad you enjoyed it :)
Not everyone's favourite subject but great to highlight, all part of a sustainable future. Great video!
Indeed it is :)
Most humans, if not all, are hypocrites in some subtle ways. This age-old fertilization practice has been successfully utilized for centuries. I'm doing it to speed up the chemical process in my compost heap. This is the way to go for people living on a tight budget so long as the vegetable gardens/fruit trees thrive with the appropriate use of their urine fertilizer. Knowledge is power! Thank you.
Yep. Wait till humans find out how much urine is used in cosmetics and perfumes lol!!!
I'm so glad you made this video! I'm always afraid to tell people I use it. I keep a wide mouth jar hidden by the toilet. Once I've finished urinating, I add an equal amount of water and add to the soil around the base of my plants. Great information Lee, as usual!
You're welcome Gale. Nice to know you're already head of the game :)
A coffee can is what I use. It is plastic with a snap on lid to. Will hold more than in pee. Just rinse out between uses.
So *you’re* the person in the office that’s doing it.
@@mildanimal5967 lol 😆 I needed that laugh! Thank you!
I use an 8 to 1 ratio. 🙂
We've been using it in our garden for the last few years. Works amazingly.
Good to hear :)
Project Diaries I'm vegan so the only animal I use is myself. I love the wood ash suggestion. Maybe this year we will try to incorporate that in our garden as well. Thank you!
Good to hear! I'm aiming most of my videos to Vegan Gardeners now :)
Project Diaries that is awesome. There are no channels in detail to really watch on veganic gardening. You are going in a really good direction and I wish you luck
I use it in my garden but I don't tell anybody because they won't want to eat my tomatoes anymore.
This is a great method to save water and help the plants. Appear to be working for my garden, thank you
This is helpful! Ive long suspected that urine can be a good fertilizer but haven't come accross any material that will validate this, until I saw this video. Thanks.
I started using my urine this year with really amazing results after subbing to Bealtine Cottage and seeing her geraniums. The geraniums, zucchini and tomatoes really are doing well. I planted everything from seeds I started indoors. Over the winter I added ash from our fireplace to all the beds. All the veg looks amazing compared to last year. We are in upper midwest USA zone 4. Our soil is heavy sand and we use the no dig method with wood chips. I just love how things look this year. Your presentations are great. New sub here. 👍🏻
Big yes from me.
Quite literally it's liquid gold.
My grandmother always used urine for her cedar hedge. She also told me in her childhood it was used for eye infections.
This works great. I started a couple months ago for my winter garden. It is free and organic. My vegetable plants are loving it.
Thank you. I will use the 10 to 1 formula on the plants and add the potash for good measure . In these days of scarcity
This works great as a free plant food. I'm experimenting with it on seedlings
This is a good video! Clear, well organized, all the info you need in one place.
I've used it for a couple years now. Does a great job. Will try it with the pot ash this year. I don't tell anyone. I call it my secret ingredient lol. I've seen a comparison video in 8 different raised bed gardens, four beds each, comparing it with miracle grow. They all ended up with around the same growth. You need pee in bottles, or something with a cap. In open containers it will lose some of its nitrogen content.
Yes! always best to use it fresh
i am absolutely not disgusted about the fact of using. in fact, i am confused on why people are using things like blood meal, bone meal, compost etc. and not using urine
Dr.Raghu Prasad Varma you can also use seaweed
Your right
I have read that male urine is less acidic than female urine, owing to our structure, this acidity assists in preventing UTIs.
So, I encourage my hubby to pee on the compost pile and am extremely grateful that it works out this way, as I’m missing the hose attachment for effortless dispensing.😉
People are getting those hose attachments installed every day. It's the latest thing in America!
omg your smile is contagious!! :D
Thank you! :)
Thanks for all your videos, a great help an eye opener full of facts. Well researched and presented.
Not grossed out at all. This has been really helpful and makes so much good sense. Thanks!
Thank you very much for this instructive video. I recently dryed my avocado Plant because of urine, now I understand that it should be dilueted before 20:1
I’ve been doing it! Just extra careful as I walk my “sample” through the house to my trees outside! 😂🤷🏽♂️👍🏽
I'm not grossed out at all, but really fascinated by how useful urine can be outside our bodies! I am really glad I came across your video and how informative it was! I want to try this someday and hopefully my water bill will go down a bit XD
You should do a video from planting the seed to harvesting and cooking the final product. It will take at least 6 months to make that one episode, but I think it is perfect. You may want to mix up some time lapse footage into it. I think that is a worthy video for you to make. Spring time is approaching, so I think this is the best time to start making it. That episode should be finished by October.
Do you have access to my private notes or something? This is exactly what I've been building up to for years. I'm not ready to start the cooking channel yet as I'm still developing Grandads Kitchen but I'm almost there...
I wished u showed us exactly how to mix it, and how u apply. I’m a newbie to gardening and I want my garden to grow. But I appreciate all the history behind it it’s interesting
As you stated, Lee, urine was used in the manufacture of gunpowder and it was regularly collected from towns and taken to the factories, This gave rise to the phrase 'taking the piss' as the carriers were a little ashamed of transporting it in barrels instead of wine or beer. It's use as a bleaching agent is mentioned in Samuel Pepys diaries in the 17th century. Hope you and Granddad are fit and healthy now. Have a good growing season.
Thank you Paul! You too! :)
I use as an accelerator for compost. I still don't understand why people get grossed out.
People can freak out over anything these days. It's just through the lack of information I think. Hopefully this will help :)
Cow poop is fine, though.
I can see why someone would freak out if it is put directly on a food product. It is after all human bodily fluids. You generally don’t want that on your food, regardless of how much stuff ends up on your food from major food producers that is actually worse, most people generally don’t like to hear about it.
If someone does freak out, tell them what the big food companies use as fertilizer or maybe something else natural that is grosser. The deer sometimes attack my cucumbers. So technically there could’ve been an animal slobbering on them before picking them. I usually wash my fruit before eating.
how? do you just pour the urine over the compost pile?
@@pby1000 Here here. Human urine is 100 percent completely sterile. Cow poop,,, I don't think so.
We’re taking this a step further with a composting toilet system for our new cabin. There will be no more wasting water by urinating or dedicating in it. With so many people around the world without access to fresh, pure water, I began to think it kind of unethical to internationally polite fresh water this way. We have begun experimenting with urinating in garden paths and tree guilds with excellent results. Thanks so much for addressing this topic. Making a difference in one’s own little corner of the world the with intentional changes, one effects the entire world for better. Thanks for effecting change for good.
I've been thinking about this lately because of the coming fertilizer shortage.
Have not tried this in pots, but to my plants in the soil love it, and when rainy I don't dilute.
I've found my hero! Definitely subscribed!!!!
Great info, never knew urine can be used this way, thanks!
absolutely!!! Excellent video Sir!!! I use usrine with woodash as a super boost to my compost especially good for hungry plants like tomatoes :)
Good stuff!
@@ProjectDiaries mixed with urine you've got your nitrogen and your potassium - and a couple of other important things too - it's also excellent to help break down wood chips
Information on using urine is usually limited to dilute it 1:10. Thanks for the valuable extra info on making it a full fertiliser.
As a child, I would pee in the garden in the summer, so there was one spot in the garden where the grass was 7 times taller than the rest. It was very entertaining to look at.
Thanks so much! I wish I knew this 17 years ago when I moved to the jungle.
As kids my mom made us throw the urine on the older plants and something about it made those plants flourish, now i know why.. Thank you
I have been using this for a couple of years, people do think is gross but I just tell them there eating recycled Miller Lite, that will make them laugh
haha! That's true. Even though I get extreme kidney pain when I drink any lite beers. Must have something to do with a chemical they use in those beers
I wonder if Stella Rosa Red Wine will work just as well. LOL...it can't hurt.
I think I'm right in saying pears need a lot more nitrogen than other fruits, so I put it around my pear trees. The wood ash really helps you get more apples and plums too.
Good information! thanks :)
My pear tree gets a lot of urine I cut around 200 mini fruit off and still had around 200 on the tree.
I found yeast and lactobacillus sprayed on the pear tree just as the tree starts budding helps produce loads more fruit as well.
Really informative presentation, thank you !
one thing you hadn't mentioned for urine use is some people swear by Urine Therapy ( I think its called)... and they use it when they are sick.. I've heard similar stories from the aborignals here in Australia with mothers and their sick childs poo... but the idea is that if you are ill with a disease you drink your urine, preferably the first in the morning, the urine has the properties in it that you need to actually cure what is going on inside you.. also i've heard if you wash your hair in it you can help cure baldness!
My biology teacher in college told us the same. Don't drink or eat after 6 pm then the first urine in the morning on the morrow drink it, you will cure any and every disease.
The quickest way to end a date; Honey, could you pee into this jug, I need to wash my hair.
Thank you for the video.
How often should we fertilise with urine during a season?
I fertilize my lawn twice a year. Once in spring and once in fall. Best looking lawn in neighborhood by far. I believe the potassium (which is absent in commercial fertilizers) makes a significant contribution. I just dilute 80/20(four gallons water and 1 gallon of urine). This translates to a concentration of 20% urine, or one-fifth. Easy to do with a five-gallon bucket. I use a pump that I purchased at Great Northern Tools and a 32 gallon plastic bucket to spray it on. Works great.
it works very well, i use it for indoor and outdoor plants; i dilute rather at the 1 20 ration, and use it at most every 2 weeks to be sure it won't burn anything.
For indoor plants… doesn’t smell…?
enjoyed the info thanks , its what ive been looking for
A great video, thanks. I got told many years ago about peeing on the plants was good, but not the science of it and how to make it work properly. I use urine on my leaf mould and the worms love it.
Good to hear! :)
heard about this before but thanks for clarifying it.
Interesting and informative. Well done, thank you.
I go off my porch into my canna beds during the summer. The ones closest are the tallest and have more vibrant foliage. Great vid!
Well observed :)
We've had dual flush toilets here in Australia for over 30yrs now. In recent years, due to our almost constant state of drought, they became compulsory in all new builds along with rainwater collection tanks & some other stuff. Owners of older homes, aren't expected to replace older toilets that still work, but all homeowners pay for the excess water they consume & past the basic amount, that excess gets passed onto rental tenants, too. Many people with older toilets just place a house brick or something similar inside the cistern to displace some of the water volume & prevent it from refilling again. It saves money over many flushes, maybe that's something you could do for Granddad, providing the unit is functioning ok? Another thing I do to save water is use naturally grown soapnuts instead of detergent in the washing machine, so there's no scary chemicals in the grey water & I divert that water onto my non-edibles & trees to re-use it instead of wasting it down the drain.
Well done on all accounts. Obviously I've now fitted the most eco friendly system at Grandads. keep up the good work :)
If it’s yellow let it mellow, if it’s brown flush it down!
@@bobmcdermott9535 That scary Northern Hemisphere Summer that has just passed, is completely normal & everyday to us - while we suffer historical & previously unrecorded winter rain & flooding atm, we remember almost non-stop heat & drought for most of the last 40yrs. You can't let anything mellow when your summer temp has increased to nearly 50degC/122degF & overnight temps of 30degC/86degF for days on end. In a climate where homes never really needed proper heating, the building industry standard has been to build homes in simple brick veneer (stud walls with 1 external layer of bricks & internal walls of unplastered Gyprock plasterboard on the studs). After 4-5 days & nights without a temperature drop or cooling breeze, most people haven't slept for days, so letting anything mellow would not only be stinky & unpleasant, it would be unhygienic at the very least.
Just the info I needed. Thanks!
Such a truthful video to open people’s minds 💚🌿🧤🙌
No one has actually said anything about medications until now - thank you for that!
You forgot to mention that urine can't be stored for a long period. You can store it in tightend bottles for about two weeks. But I find that a 1.5 litre bottle of urine is just the right amount for a 10 litre watering can, and this is used on the flower beds everyday gives a really lush growth. But thank you for the info about the amount of NPK there is in ordinary urine.
Actually the longer you leave urine the less nitrogen reminds, so it's always best to use fresh urine as a fertiliser
@@ProjectDiaries lacto fermentation of urine will lower ammonia and nitrate loss and makes it smell less and it can be stored longer.
@@gillenzfluff8380 how do u lacto ferment urine and what does the urea convert into over time? Thanks!
@@ProjectDiaries why wasn't that in your "step by step guide"?
Thank you for this useful info. I watered my sickly-looking rose bushes with 1/3 human urine and 2/3 water.. i have neglected them for 6 consecutive years during which time, all I did was give them a drink of plain water. To my amazement, every rose bush rewarded me with an abundance of flowers. I do not intend to use my urine on anything edible. My entire yard is surrounded with flowering plants and they will definitely benefit from human urine.Thanks again.
The environmentalist will like it the way I like your smile when you talk. Very warm & interesting. Thanks
Well, this was enlightening, I probably won't tell my kids if I start peeing on the veggies....lol
haha! :)
Hehe no my kids were grossed out enough at me putting the water from the fish tank in the garden lol.
@@smithy4121 someone suggested I do this. Does it help the garden?
@@DivinityinLove i don't really know it definitely didn't harm them xx
I've always used it. The best tomatoes I've grown were in a bathroom window and well fed. Excellent NPK fertiliser, but never enough since the pubs closed.
Year's ago the little lad next door used to wee though the fence on to our fennel plant sad to say it killed it
Alas,,, a sad day,, the closing of the pubs. What have we left?
many gardens are watered from waste water after treatment, a new toilet with washbasin in available which reuses the water used in the basin . in future the disputes will be regarding water and food. we need to save it .
your video makes a point , and i appreciate it
We are using this kind of fertilizing for some years now. Our onions are fanatastic, growing on a soil that was formerly very poor. People are suprised, but nobody knows how we do it. We tell nobody, because people are too much prejudiced. But this is pure nature, so why not.
haha! Exactly. Well done :)
Piss off mate!😂😂😂😂
Greetings from Nepal. Thanks alot for the detailed Info.Will put it into practice.
Aww, the doves cooing in the background is so comforting. Lovely birds. Thanks for all the info!
Thanks for another informative and useful video since I found this site I have learned and implemented many of the tips shown
I tried this on my garden last year and it works great. It worked great on my lettuce, kale, and other leafy greens in my winter garden. I didn't know about mixing urine and wood ash. I gotta give that a try. Thanks.
Side note: use straight urine on ants, works very well
I'm glad it works for you. good to know :)
Jar of Mayo ah red ants? Would love to kill them buggers! Lol
The red fire ants? I haven't tried it on them. I used pee on carpenter ants and the little black ants near my fruit trees. When I first moved to my place, there were 2 red ant hills and I used peanut butter mixed with Borax to get rid of them. Works very well. I find out about the pee technique barely 3 or 4 months ago from my grandfather. Give it a try and see if it works.
Project Diaries thanks and keep up the great work. You should do one on human manure. It's a very interesting subject.
Jar of Mayo thanks for the info! I'll try it!
Great vid! Used this and had great results I’ve the years. Loved the wood ash idea, didn’t know about that:) love learning tips such as these!
Loved the video, last year we built a compost toilet and have been discarding the urine. We will no longer. What ratio of urine to wood ash would you recommend? To make a complete feed?
I was hoping someone would ask this question. I hope he answers us.
One of the most useful videos on the internet.
Fantastic!! Should be at the top of every school curriculum!
Great and informative. Thank you!
Great video! Thanks
Tremendous amount of info in this video. I am having a Nitrogen def in my plants right now but when I use fertilizer it burns them. I am going to try this with the wood ash. Thanks so much.
Very helpful information. Was hoping to hear how long urine can keep before putting it on my trees. But I found out things I hadn’t thought about. Thank you!
Great video! You really did your research! Modern society has turned us against natural things and makes us think we need to spend money on everything which is really sad! I always thought urine was a good fertiliser because when my dog was alive he used to pee in certain areas of the garden, the grass would die but the area around where it was more diluted the grass was really lush and green! What ratio would you recommend for lawn feed? 10:1?? Thanks 👍🏼
I use 4:1 (water to urine) on my lawn and it works great!!!
Thanks for being brave enought to broach this interesting topic. Very inteesting indeed!! Thanks mate.Well done.
You're welcome. It's a shame that the people now promoting drinking your own urine as a health benefit (Really dangerous by the way) haven't seen this video. I may do a follow up video just to clear up some of the bad information high profile youtubers are now giving out and years later becoming seriously ill.
Very insightful knowledge. Thanks for sharing!
Happy you told me the ratio to use my urine cause i was about to go and piss on my garden like a happy camper...LOL Thanks buddy. Great vid.
That would work if you do it just before it rains?
Great video.👍 The key thing is to normalize this style of living.🤔 Between recycling urine and composting toilets. And biocompatible soaps. Gray water can be recycled whether it's Reverse Osmosis/RO. And the remainder of gray water can be used for the garden. 🧐
Side note. The other day I learned that you can make fire logs out of animal manure.💩 Just more ways a farm can be self-sustaining.
Kind of an irony to it. Cows eat the grass. You enjoy the milk and the meat. And then the unnecessary levels of manure are turned into a heat source for the winter. 👍
Works great last year I grew a 15 lb pumpkin with urine. My squash and tomatoes love it also
Nice to know from the colour scale I'm not dehydrated! We used pee on our tomatoes plants one year and the fruits grew MASSIVE (one gardeners delight was the size of a Bramley apple!) but I think they were more acidic than usual. I don't think we diluted it enough!. Hope you are well :) Thanks for the vid. Very interesting.
That's good to know and good to hear! You're welcome :)
Thank you for the tips about how to use human urine on plants. It's my first time to learn about this.
Really great. Well presented, informative and useful. And fun!
Very interesting and useful answer to my question about using urine. Thanks!
Just found your channel and I love it. New subscriber 👍
I collect it and add it to bagged leaves to speed up making leaf mould.
It really pisses off the ticks!
Amazing video
Thanks!
I'm so glad I found this video...doesn't make me feel that weird anymore! It really works on compost pile! Hehehe. 😎
been weeing in my compost heap for years
Just because or did you know it helped? ;)
I knew dad told me years ago
I thought I smelled something...
Pee DOES help a jelly sting!! I got stung on my face once and was in such excruciating pain.. Out of desperation i ran to the bathroom peed on my hands and splashed it in my face. 2 times until the pain and welts completely went away in seconds. So not a myth!!!💕
True. I know loads of people that have done this. Urine apparently breaks down the proteins in the sting I think. Also urine is used in many cosmetics so it has to be good for the skin lol.