A Simpler Life 2018

amber03

Yep same here. Had to read it twice as wondered what it was on about.

Nargleblast

Ditto for me too. That blooming tinned luncheon meat gets everywhere!

PollyWollyDoodle

I think she-wee is just as good, it's just harder to apply! My male friend regularly 'waters' his compost bin after dark. I think I'd be arrested if I tried! :rotfl:

I know zero waste means no waste, I just meant I try and reduce landfill by recycling. I have read the zero waste blog but as I recall, she buys a lot of her food from a supermarket where you can buy loose food and put it in containers. I haven't got a hope round here. I shall go on doing what little I can, I reckon my black bin is never more than half full, and most of that is (non compostable) cat litter. It's always a compromise.

Kantankrus_Mare

So I have always understood that male wee is a good compost accelerator but there are too many hormones in womens.

Have I been peeing in my bucket in my shed at the allotment and slinging it over the fence in vain?

GreyQueen

Kantankrus_Mare wrote: »

So I have always understood that male wee is a good compost accelerator but there are too many hormones in womens.

Have I been peeing in my bucket in my shed at the allotment and slinging it over the fence in vain?

Mammalian pee (inc us) is a vital part of the life cycle of plants so it'd be a shame to waste it; I pee in a jug on the lottie and tip it into the compost bin so's not to waste the nutrients.

The hormonal profile of pee can be surprising, I recall reading about how somebody was reconstucting a recipe for dye from many centuries ago where the mordant (fixative for the dye) specified the inclusion of the urine of pre-pubescent boys. Chemical analysis revealed that there was something in (or not in, can't exactly recall) which meant that urine worked and no other kind did.

One wonders how many years of experimentation got to the point of finding that out originally.:rotfl:

Wastefulness is one of the great frustrations of my life and something I read about and think about more than is probably healthy. I also get very frustrated with the party line that unpackaged food is cheaper than packaged therefore you save money as well as the environment.

Not in my part of the forest it isn't. Tosspots carrots loose? 60p a kilo. Same store plastic bagged carrots 45p kilo. Plus many other examples. And the street market nearby is more expensive for veg then the Tosspots, even though its a metro store not a superstore. I think, for having read her blog and watched some media clips that Bea shops at Whole Foods. She also takes her totes and jars to the store by car. I wonder how she'd manage if she had to shop on foot, on foot inc public transport, or via pushbike with a couple of heavy bags full of glass jars?

If nothing else, all that clanking glass would make people wonder if she was a secret lemonade drinker..... :rotfl:

moneyistooshorttomention

Kantankrus_Mare wrote: »

So I have always understood that male wee is a good compost accelerator but there are too many hormones in womens.

Have I been peeing in my bucket in my shed at the allotment and slinging it over the fence in vain?

But would any difference between male and female versions vanish (or become very insignificant at least) come apres menopause? As the hormone balance certainly changes then - for both sexes I understand...

Errrm...though have to admit that I'd be wary of eating anything from a garden that's "watered" that way......(though...yep...I know it's harmless etc etc).

Though I've only "put my foot down" and refused to eat anything from a garden a former friend (for all sorts of "fings they did" reasons) let their dog crap on. Dog crap and potatoes for dinner = NO chance....

fuddle

I know money, it's something that I am primed to think eeeeeeeew about too but on reading a bit about the subject last night a gardener shouldn't wee water (and it should be well watered down too) produce that is going to be eaten in a month. So it seems there's a cut off point that is a little less eeeeeeeew but I do think I'll be adding a wee bit (terrible pun) to the dalek and over the winter I guess there no harm in adding it to my squash and pumpkim patch too.

Lots for me to learn on this!

moneyistooshorttomention

Is guessing my sorta "mushroom" type compost stuff I threw around on my garden/plonk in with large "permanent" type plants is probably doing some good personally. "Mycorrhizal" (is that the spelling of from memory) stuff.

Well I keep seeing mushrooms popping up in my soil now - so I presume that means it "took"...shame they're not edible ones:(

bouicca21

Vacuum cleaner contents are great for a wormery.

fuddle

bouicca21 wrote: »

Vacuum cleaner contents are great for a wormery.

Thanks for this. I will read up on it tonight. We have a wormery as DH is self sufficient in worm fishing bait.