There was a reason traditional cottage gardens had extraordinary fertility, they used human poop as well as urine.
Do I ask my son to occasionally pee in a bottle for the compost? Yep, mostly when starting a new batch. Though generally I add nettles for nitrogen once it is up and going.
I have the most dreadful habit of holding on and holding on when I’m in the middle of a gardening task but need to pee. To the point where it all gets a bit desperate. Not so bad when I’m wearing gardening clogs which I can just slip off as I makea dash for the loo.
If, however, I’m wearing wet, caked-in-mud wellies which are impossible to remove when hopping around cross-legged - well then I’ve been known to use a bucket in the shed which is rinsed out into the compost bin.
Most men seem to actively enjoy peeing outside. OH is strongly encouraged in this endeavour if he aims it into the bins.
Warned you🤭
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
@Jessum, I doubt if it makes any difference to the compost whether you have xx or xy chromosomes. It's the nitrates that count. The book I mentioned in my first post says it's important to use the pee when it's fresh, no more than an hour old. As soon as it's exposed to air, the nitrates start to turn into ammonia, which apparently plants and bacteria can't use. It also smells horrid.
@Jessum, I doubt if it makes any difference to the compost whether you have xx or xy chromosomes. It's the nitrates that count. The book I mentioned in my first post says it's important to use the pee when it's fresh, no more than an hour old. As soon as it's exposed to air, the nitrates start to turn into ammonia, which apparently plants and bacteria can't use. It also smells horrid.
I know I read somewhere that male pee is supposed to be superior for the compost. (hence why I enlist help from my son). No idea if it is true, probably in one of my quite old gardening books, so could be a total myth.
Well, I bit the bullet and did the deed- thanks to my granddaughter's potty! My compost heap has now been "anointed" with liquid gold!!! How often should this happen? Is about once a week enough?
@GemmaJF are you confirming that when comes to taking the p#+* men are better than ladies !!!! Oh at last something we mere foolish men can be proud of 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@GemmaJF are you confirming that when comes to taking the p#+* men are better than ladies !!!! Oh at last something we mere foolish men can be proud of 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well perhaps, but there is no denying you are better equipped when it comes to doing the job in this case
I've heard the thing about male urine being better than female. Probably a Victorian holdover?
Seems I remember something about Native Americans using female urine for 'tanning' animal skins to soften them. They needed to leave it sit for an extended period of time first though. 🤢
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Do I ask my son to occasionally pee in a bottle for the compost? Yep, mostly when starting a new batch. Though generally I add nettles for nitrogen once it is up and going.
I have the most dreadful habit of holding on and holding on when I’m in the middle of a gardening task but need to pee. To the point where it all gets a bit desperate. Not so bad when I’m wearing gardening clogs which I can just slip off as I makea dash for the loo.
If, however, I’m wearing wet, caked-in-mud wellies which are impossible to remove when hopping around cross-legged - well then I’ve been known to use a bucket in the shed which is rinsed out into the compost bin.
Most men seem to actively enjoy peeing outside. OH is strongly encouraged in this endeavour if he aims it into the bins.
Warned you🤭
How often should this happen? Is about once a week enough?