Lady Henevere: Year in review

[Marianne]

I used urine as a nitrogen source for my corn two years ago and it was amazing. The corn that got the pee was at least a foot or more taller than the corn that was fertilized per regular. Also did it with some of my rhubarb plants and broccoli and they grew twice as fast and larger than their near neighbors.

You know, now that I think about it, when I was whizzing in the coffee can, I poured the diluted whiz by my tomato plants. My tomatoes are a lot taller and have more tomatoes than the plants I gave my friend. I bought them all at the same time, they were the same height and we planted on the same day. In the years past, hers have always been about two weeks ahead of mine. We had our first tomatoes last night (picked 4), gobs of green ones on the plants, whereas she has just a few green ones on each plant, nothing even beginning to ripen. She uses the fertilizer stakes. Hmmmm.....

The Amish will dump a wagon load of manure over a tree stump to get it to rot out faster (high N). We were whizzing on top of the remains of a burned out tree stump for a while, trying to hasten the decomposition. We stopped doing it when we put a heavy layer of wood chips in the bed, but there's one chunk of the stump that still sticks out. We just bought a new toilet seat, so maybe I'll put the old one on top of a 5 gal bucket in the garage and have another cup of coffee.

Just a side note, the tp will be noticeable for a while, but it breaks down pretty fast.

 

[Marianne]

I would spend a bit of money and buy a pressurized sprayer. That way you can dilute the tinkle and get a good even saturation in the garden.

Go girl GO! (and that was supposed to be punny. )

Obviously, if you do that, don't put the tp in your container. I just did the bucket brigade.

Speaking of buckets, I can't believe that I forgot about the whiz in the garden. We have been finishing the upstairs bathroom (new construction) and had taken out the toilet. We're sleeping in a bedroom upstairs and the bathroom on the main floor is waaaay to far for me to sprint in the middle of the night or first thing in the morning (my velcro isn't what it used to be!). So I've had the toilet seat on a 5 gallon bucket for a couple weeks now. I could have been utilizing the whiz all this time.

 

[valmom]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks about using a valuable "freesource" like pee Although, I was trying to use it as a critter repellant around the border of my garden. Hold strong against the weird looks and family pressure about peeing in a container! (I caved and in a cut off your nose to spite your face moment I said I wouldn't be peeing in a container anymore, and the groundhogs can have the beans and squash and the fox can hang around the chicken coop! She can't actually get into the chicken fortress or I would be a lot more concerned). I can just picture my SO's face if I said I would "fertilize" her precious corn in her three sisters garden

 

[Marianne]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks about using a valuable "freesource" like pee Although, I was trying to use it as a critter repellant around the border of my garden. Hold strong against the weird looks and family pressure about peeing in a container! (I caved and in a cut off your nose to spite your face moment I said I wouldn't be peeing in a container anymore, and the groundhogs can have the beans and squash and the fox can hang around the chicken coop! She can't actually get into the chicken fortress or I would be a lot more concerned). I can just picture my SO's face if I said I would "fertilize" her precious corn in her three sisters garden

That's probably the same expression a lot of people would have when they first hear of it. When we first bought our property, my husband would whiz all around the place. He called it 'putting down snake repellent'. He also whizzed by the coop when we first got chickens to possibly keep predators away.

 

[Farmfresh]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks about using a valuable "freesource" like pee Although, I was trying to use it as a critter repellant around the border of my garden. Hold strong against the weird looks and family pressure about peeing in a container! (I caved and in a cut off your nose to spite your face moment I said I wouldn't be peeing in a container anymore, and the groundhogs can have the beans and squash and the fox can hang around the chicken coop! She can't actually get into the chicken fortress or I would be a lot more concerned). I can just picture my SO's face if I said I would "fertilize" her precious corn in her three sisters garden

Isn't it a shame that a great source of nitrogen like urine is SO misunderstood in this country. Urine, unlike poo, is almost sterile and so why NOT use it.

 

[Lady Henevere]

Go girl GO! (and that was supposed to be punny. )

Ha! You all crack me up.

I feel like some sort of criminal sneaking my liquid fertilizer to the backyard. The family isn't exactly on board with this one. And I can't imagine the neighbors would be either.

As of now, the plants seem perfectly content with their new fertilizer (meaning I haven't killed any of them yet). So far so good!

 

[framing fowl]

Can you imagine the laws they would have to enact to prevent this type of surely criminal behavior if anyone in authority found out? I'm not sure if you could count on us for bail though... I think OFG has us tapped.

 

[Lady Henevere]

Ooh, no kidding! I'd better lay low.

 

[Lady Henevere]

I just went out to water the garden and discovered that all the peaches on my little tree are gone but one. Just as they were getting ripe! I think the gardeners must have taken them (the guys who come and mow the lawn), since they are the only ones outside our family who are ever in my backyard. I am so mad!!!!

 

[framing fowl]

Can you call them and ask them? Maybe if they did do it and are called about it, they'll feel guilty and give them back if they know they're caught. If it was them, they better give them back or they'd be out of a job if it was my peaches. Why would anyone do that???