Only freedom will do

elantan

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gardening-blog/2009/nov/13/composting-urine loads of people are at it

AlexLK

elantan wrote: »

Yep I was being serious

Urine is very good for compost ... I have heard so many people say male urine ... but I will admit to not knowing if that is correct ... maybe with females being on contraceptives etc it may give unrequired hormones or something ... but I don't u derstand the male part


http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/04/10/human-pee-added-to-compost-boosts-crops/



One of many many sites that talk about it

elantan wrote: »

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gardening-blog/2009/nov/13/composting-urine loads of people are at it

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ourcornercottage

Funny story, we were getting moles in garden and the BF is a bit fussy on 'his lawn' getting ruined so was talking up all ways (not nice) to get rid of the moles.

Anyhow I mentioned they they don't like unine, particularly men's so suggested that he puts some of his wee down the holes every day for a few days.

Think no more of it, the moles disappeared and we were discussing how it worked he mentioned it was lucky nobody saw him weeing in the garden. BF felt like such a fool when I said what I actually meant was to wee in a bottle and pour it down the holes. I'm really hoping the neighbours didn't see that , and I'm really hoping that there wasn't any molehills in the front garden.

It did work though!

handfull

Nice post, God bless you all

edinburgher

I have always felt very blessed that my journal is such a rich source of compost for new posters, although I really should stop adding so much :spam: Soon your account plant will have 10 posts and will be rich in link posting flowers

earthgirl

We do the seedwed compost and chicken droppings. Its great. Not done urine, just doesn't seem right!

greent

The urine one will be good when young J is potty training - empty the potty into the bin (yep - have done this myself)


KC - I would not recommend putting bramble bits of any sort in the compost - they seem to regrow from the tiniest viable bit Hot composting apparently can work with them, but regular style I've just not found worth the potential regrowth (we had a major bramble issue here) and I put them in my green garden bin (the council hot composts)


I compost most other things (dandelions being another exception - I give my guinea pigs the leaves and green-bin the roots and flowers) - kitchen waste, paper kitchen towel, shredded paper, coffee grounds, garden waste, some grass trimmings (depends on our ratio of green:brown at the time), guinea pig hutch contents, the odd piece of cotton fabric, hair from hairbrushes, chiminea ashes vacuum cleaner contents etc. I rarely compost cardboard (loo rolls and egg boxes being my usual ones which I do) as we get it collected for recycling and I often reuse boxes for other use (eg: ebaying) anyway


It's second nature here - have indoctrinated my kids re: recycling/ composting etc. We did an article for a local magazine years ago about low waste - we managed just under 1/2 a kitchen bin liner in a week for our family of non-recyclable stuff at the time. I remember my kids posing for pics emptying the kitchen compost pot into one of the 'daleks' with a title of 'The Green Family'


It was our fortnightly rubbish collection today. We produce (as a family of 6) less rubbish in our black bin than next door (a family of three) - usually about half the amount they do. I wouldn't say that I buy particularly 'green' nowadays, but I do wonder how some families produce the vast amounts seen at the roadsides in a fortnight (ok - everyone produces more occasionally - but week after week....?)




Am drooling over the Morso stoves...... would love one when everything else is done. We currently have a gas fire (but a full chimney even though house is < 20 years old, but suspect it would need lining etc) which we never use




Ed - have you considered baby led weaning for J at all? I haven't caught up on all of your diary, but about 5/6 pages back you were saying you'd made her lots of frozen meal cubes. I did the puree/ cubes etc thing with numbers 1-3. Did BLW with no 4 and thought it was amazing - none of this yucky pureeing of stuff, just simple, real food and baby can eat much the same as you and Mrs E. Less prep, less fuss - and gets them onto 'proper' solids straight away.


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another control freak/ perfectionist type here - although that has slackened off now - one physical breakdown and near mental breakdown at the same time (took a good couple of years to feel anywhere near normal) meant I had to learn to let the reins go at times. Now I restrict what I get OCD about

edinburgher

I think that 'baby led weaning' is one of those buzzwords that probably doesn't change how people have been trying to get their children to eat for generations.

It's common sense to give your child clutchable bits of adult food and to let them discover what they do and don't like, exploring as they go?

I know I've mentioned the cubes, but they are pretty much adult meals without salt given a little blitz to make it easier for DD's little mouth and tiny teeth. I can get her to eat 3 generous tbsps of say, a pulsed bolognese sauce, but I'd never get her to eat half of that if it was 'full sized' as I'd spend 50% of the meal carrying out emergency back pats to stop her choking! :rotfl:

AlexLK

Ed, the thing with parenting is it's full of "buzzwords" and "new" ways of doing things that have, in fact, been done for generations. Usually this comes from the mothers who seem to often want to interact with other mothers they likely would have nothing in common with apart from having a child at a similar time. Often the child becomes the only thing in their life, it's happened recently to one of my wife's friends who she now never sees despite my wife often calling her and going to see and stay the weekend with her when our son was younger. Personally, I don't think it can be healthy for the child to believe (s)he is the centre of the universe and for the parents to have no interests of their own.

edinburgher

I have plenty of interests Alex, just a lack of time!