Question about Urine

valk_scot

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I believe there is science behind it, but I have a feeling it's that male urine works harder and faster, or something like that.
I'm sure someone can work some sort of sexist joke into that.

Yes, I think you're right. But that doesn't mean that female urine is of no use whatsoever. And if it's all you've got....I'm not so fond of my allotment that I'm going to be caught carrying bottles of my OH's pee down to the compost bins, put it that way!

emiff6

irishwexford wrote: »

We have a shed on allotment so OH pops in there and wees into a plastic milk bottle. He has done this ever since he saw someone on Gardeners World adding wee to the plot. Glad Im not expected to do this.

He saw someone !!???! On Gardener's World???!!! Darn it, I must have missed that episode!

cootambear

r.a.i.n.b.o.w wrote: »

I've been doing some reading and have another question: is there any reason why a woman - who isn't on hormonal contraception/HRT etc - shouldn't use her urine?

Seems such a waste, if not...

maybe the pill stops plants fertilising? (particuliry eggplants).

Kay_Peel

Too much urine in a compost heap and you'll kill all the worms and bacteria. If your heap gives off ammonia fumes then stop adding urine - you're doing more harm than good.

It's best to 'activate' a compost heap with urine when you've got some fresh grass clippings mixed with cardboard, paper and twigs. It helps to heat it up. But when the compost heap is cool, during the Autumn and winter, it's best to encourage worms to chomp their way through the rotting matter. If you keep flooding the heap with urine, the worms will run a mile.

valentina

Re: Gardeners' World - might have been back in the day when Bob Flowerdew was on there (Geoff Hamilton's tenure), I remember Bob telling us about his Personally Instigated Soil System (something like that)

loucroft

What amusement I had reading your posts, all very sensibly posted but I have a warped sense of humour perhaps ha ha!

So pleased I don't have to squat on my compost heap, not sure the old fella's would appreciate it!

valk_scot

Talking of which....I remember a few years back deciding not to put the contents of my allotment loo bucket on the heap that day but to wait till I was next down with some lawn mowings etc. When I did go back, three days later, I found two little dead mice floating around in the bucket. They must have slipped in and drowned.

What a way to go, eh? I felt awful about it, I really did. I still put the pee on the compost bin though and the mice at the side of the incinerator. When I went over half an hour later to light a fire, something had eaten them.

It was an interesting day.

cootambear

They werent drowned, they were !!!!ed up