Posted on 08/19/2007 6:15:30 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
(MAYUGE) - If you are a farmer, you may want to think twice about flushing your urine down the toilet. Urine may be a waste product but it also has many uses, and the best part of it is that it comes with no price tag.
Farmers in various parts of the country use human urine as fertilizers and to fight crop diseases. The method started in Baitambogwe Village in Mayuge District but has now spread to over 21 districts. Through knowledge sharing via telephone Short Message System commonly known as SMS, farmers in Baitambogwe are propagating the method to their counterparts in various parts of the country.
"We no longer waste urine in our homes. Each member of the family is allocated a tin every night where she/he urinates then in the morning we pour it into a big container and ferment it for 28 days," said Mary Batwaweela in a recent interview. After that period (28 days), the urine, according to Ms Batwaweela, is then mixed with water at a ration of 1:1 and taken to the gardens and poured in rows so that the plant can feed on it from the soil.
The aim is to increase soil fertility so that the crop can have the necessary nutrients. As a result, the soil remains fertile and crops can be grown all year round supported by watering (irrigation). "You don't have to pour it directly on the plant because it will burn," she explained.
Ms Batwaweela said urine can also be used for spraying bananas against wilt. Before spraying her banana plantation, Ms Batwaweela mixes one jerry can of water with a jerry can of urine together with ash and red pepper. "I don't have money to buy the expensive chemicals so that is what I use. It is very effective and my bananas are doing well," she said.
The farmers are organised under the Busoga Rural Organisation for Development Initiatives (Brosdi). Brosdi gives a platform for rural farmers and facilitates them in areas of improving livelihoods.
At least 500 farmers countrywide are using the method to get high yields that has transformed their livelihoods. Fermented human urine can also be mixed with animal waste to make a paste, which acts as soil fertilizer. When planting a banana sucker, the paste is mixed with coffee husks and poured in the hole before planting.
In Mexico, human urine is fermented by placing one litre of urine in a container and adding a spoonful of black soil. It is left to sit for 28 days and the process is completed when the smell of ammonia becomes pervasive and colour changes from yellow to dark brown, making it ready for use in gardens.
Nearly the same as a six pack of Zima...
>> Nearly the same as a six pack of Zima...
Good point.
Save money! Just prime yourself by drinking one sixpack of Zima, and then put the ol’ system on recirc and party all night...
“And it helps grow orchids in Hawaii.”
In the voice of Chandler...must...not...make...joke...
Wonder if you can use urine to make ammonia-fuel explosives.
My uncle used to to coop farming — he’d farm land for people who had land but didn’t know how to farm, and they’d split the profits. He tells a story of being out fertilizing some dude’s field, and the dude comes out of his house and starts giving him lip about some stupid stuff. He said when he finished the field he just made three passes around the fellow’s house, and within a week the grass was waist high.
I believe the original ‘match’ was created using urine, and for many, many years a sufficient supply of the golden flow was needed for production.
I've tried this, but no matter how much beer I'd drink, I could only irrigate & fertilize a few acres.
I walk around my yard, pi$$ing where ever I please! Now my yard is totally brown! Less mowing!
LOL!!!!
Baker also has tonics that call for beer, some call for whiskey, and lots call for cola.
Ah, go ahead. A lot of plants especially orchids get fertilized that way in Hawaii.
I love his recipes, I’m not using all kinds of nasty chemicals on my fruits, veggies, and herbs.
I hear ya. An old trick that nurseries use sometimes is to take a pinch of epson salts with a lot of water like a gallon per small pince and put it on their plants to make them bloom. Just a very tiny amount will do with a lot of water. And don’t forget to leech, leech and leech your plants every so often. This rids them of salt and other crummy buildup.
leach.
I knew you’d be on this thread. Busted! And, no, I am not jealous!
Time to come in before I get pissed off!
I knew there was a “reason to exist” for all those bars I’ve frequented over the years!
>> I knew you’d be on this thread. Busted!
:-)
Whoops! Gotta “go”, Mrs. Tick caught me with my pants down!
If it turns to ammonia, that’s probably why. Ammonia cuts grease very well. If I have clothes or pillowcases that are perspiration stained, I soak them in clear ammonia over night and pour off the liquid in the morning and you’d be amazed at what comes out. I used plastic buckets; the kind that you can get from the bakery dept in any supermarket. All they do is throw them out anyway.
I hear it works for squirrels, too. I read it somewhere on a FR thread of all places.
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