Expediting compost with urine
Once
I started collecting my own urine (with the quick and dirty contraption
shown here), I suddenly had a lot more to play with. In fact, I
ran out of projects dying for an immediate dose of nitrogen and ended
up wandering around the garden with a jug of liquid gold in my hand.
Aha! The fall
compost pile was sitting there doing nothing, mostly because I'd made
it completely out of late summer weeds, which have a higher C:N ratio
than spring weeds and decompose very slowly on their own. Time to
see if a regular dose of urine will speed up the composting process.
That's all of our urine
experiments for now, but I'm sure I'll come up with more as the pee
starts piling up again. Have you gotten inspired and started to
use your urine in your garden? What's your favorite method?
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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