Urinating on compost heap on radio 2

ixwood

I don't turn my heap. It's not essential. It just lets some oxygen in and speeds things up a bit. The reward to effort ratio is nowhere near high enough for me.

Anything organic will break down everntually, it's just a question of how long. I use woody stuff either as filler material at the bottom of new raised beds, or to keep air pockets in the compost heap. Anything left over goes into the woodpile for wildlife.

Rotting wood is vital for a lot of insects (including slug eating beetles) and is unusual these days.

Lotus-eater

moneysavingexpert79 wrote: »

Eco-Fairies R'us. Instead of weighing up the pros and cons of pee, my advice is to buy some fertilizer and use the toilet for what it's designed for.

Eco fairies :rotfl:

I can assure you I'm as far from being a fairy as it's possible to be, my wee keeps the foxes and badgers out of the garden, I'm an alpha male baby!

My advice is to go to a board where you know what you are talking about. Or listen to the advice on here

The interesting thing that you bought up, is what toilets are designed for, they are designed to take our waste, a composting toilet does the same job, just deposits the waste in a different place. Besides all of us aren't on mains sewarage and our waste ends up in the garden anyway :hello:

I advise you to read "The Humanure handbook", should be good reading for you and you may learn something Although I doubt it tbh.

Lotus-eater

I've been thinking about this and I reckon I wouldn't mind being an eco fairy.

What I would do with my magic wand:

Ban green waste collection.
Give tax credits to people growing their own veg (I don't know how that would work, I'm a fairy, I just wave my wand around)
Encourage people to "water" their own garden, by telling them the truth.
Ban those soap pump plastic pots, when was a bar of soap so bad?
Ban all packaging that wasn't made of cardboard or paper, ban any chemicals used to print it with that left any residues in the soil.

I can't think of anything else atm, but I'm sure you lot can.

I'm not under any circumstances dressing up in a fairy costume, that's only in private and at the weekend!

topicalcat

moneysavingexpert79 wrote: »

Eco-Fairies R'us. Instead of weighing up the pros and cons of pee, my advice is to buy some fertilizer and use the toilet for what it's designed for.

I am with Lotus-Eater on this. Why waste money on fertilizer when you can

1. save a flush of drinking quality water
2. save money if you are on a water meter
3 save money on fertilizer, pee is high in nitrogen and even more use 'on the heap' in summer when you need to keep the heap damp.

Its a money saving expert no brainer really

:beer:

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I've been thinking about this and I reckon I wouldn't mind being an eco fairy.

What I would do with my magic wand:

Ban green waste collection.
Give tax credits to people growing their own veg (I don't know how that would work, I'm a fairy, I just wave my wand around)
Encourage people to "water" their own garden, by telling them the truth.
Ban those soap pump plastic pots, when was a bar of soap so bad?
Ban all packaging that wasn't made of cardboard or paper, ban any chemicals used to print it with that left any residues in the soil.

I can't think of anything else atm, but I'm sure you lot can.

I'm not under any circumstances dressing up in a fairy costume, that's only in private and at the weekend!

You'll always be an eco fairy to me.

Banning green collection and your homegrowing ideas are fab, but probably penalise the porrest in society, in starter flats, sheltered housing and retirment flats with no access to gardens, in area where there are long waiting lists for allotments.


If we are eco fairies do we gets wings and wands? Can I wear heels as part of my outfit? Can my costume be worn all week long and in public?

Charco_2

Allowances can be made for those with no gardens in hise rises or whatever, provided they DO have some kind of useful salady or herby stuff growing on the kitchen windowsill... preferably lift it down off the windowsill to pee in it, rather than climbing up onto the sink!

lostinrates

Charco wrote: »

Allowances can be made for those with no gardens in hise rises or whatever, provided they DO have some kind of useful salady or herby stuff growing on the kitchen windowsill... preferably lift it down off the windowsill to pee in it, rather than climbing up onto the sink!

Thing is, I have grown on windowsills where ever I've lived, but for many, with little secutrity of tenure, this is hard, if not unfeasible, potentially moving every six months in the back of a car or worse.

Kimonokawaii

I am so excited about being able to use ladywee!!! I thought it was just manwee and I don't have a man! but I will of course be using a non transparent container kept in the bathroom My allotment is nowhere near my house!

I agree that NOTHING organic should be wasted, especially on an allotment. Even if you can't use it someone else definitely can. Council green waste collection is just encouraging people to throw away perfectly good organic material. I have a mind to 'skip-dive' in people's green bins! I do enjoy a good skip-dive.

Jake'sGran

Lotus-eater wrote: »

No no, it's all new stuff according to Mr Vine

Amazingly some people still haven't heard about it and are still buying those compost accelerators and tomato food from garden centres.
Maybe this will spread the word a bit.

I often find that information of various kinds is often mentioned on the radio as something very new when some of us gardeners have mentioned it a number of times in the past. I think it was Bob Flowerdew who first mentioned this a long time ago. Why are some people so prudish? Is it the "peeing " that offends them? When I have mentioned this in the past I have always used the word urine for the sensitive ones.

rhiwfield

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I've been thinking about this and I reckon I wouldn't mind being an eco fairy.

Done!

(not that you've been at the magic mushrooms )