farming with wee anyone?

[Jack]

Gidday

Ann, No No No Not coal ash. Don't use it in the garden except on the paths.

But if you are wanting potash on the matoes use comfrey tea.

[Annpan]

Wow, OK Jack, I won't

As I said I need to find a supply of wood anyhows, I hate burning coal I have a dying tree at the top of the garden, I doubt it will last another winter without coming down but I tried to get it cut the other day and the guys were going to charge £250 just to bring it down (I'll log it myself) and that was on their lunch hour

I can't seem to find any comfrey on my plot, the grass is so long it is amazing I can find anything. I have some nettle tea brewing as we speak (as per urbanwookie recipe)

[magnuscanis]

I would have thought diluted, given that dog pee kills grass.

Only lady dog pee. Man dog pee does not....

Is that due to hormonal differences? If so, does the human product vary similarly?

In any case, I'm planning to dilute it and I don't have a lawn to worry abou anyway.

- Magnus

[the.fee.fairy]

its to do with how dog pee is made i think. something about it being more acidic in the lady to leave different scents depending on whether shes on heat or not.

i thught boy dogs pee killed things too! I read in the Vinegar Book, that adding vinegar to their water helps to stop it.

[Thurston Garden]

Brook pees on allsorts here, and it does not seem to burn:



He is/was a boy.

[the.fee.fairy]

aw, he's cute!!

Weve got a dead patch of grass under the tree where all the dogs have relieved themselves.

[autumnleaf]

Be careful about heavy meal contamination when using human manures. Your diet would need to be pretty clean to be relatively free of heavy metals.

[Jack]

Gidday

Well human pee may not normally kill plants and in fact be very god for them, like anything too much of a good thing can be a problem. When I was shearing, many years ago unfortunately, I noticed that a shearer's quarters with a porch was just to convenient not to walk to the end of it instead of lining up at a toilet in the dark at 4 in the morning. And after a week or two all the grass died right out to the extent of the best flow.

But it also grew back very quickly and with much more vigour after the shearers left.

[kimmysmum]

I read once that if you wee around the drip line of citrus trees it gives them a boost. So I get #1 son and my partner to do the honours a couple of times a week each and the trees are looking a lot better. So I guess it is working.

[catalyst]

ah, we have an orange grove, i'll have to give that one a try
thanks

[Sassinak]

If you add a tablespoon of tomato juice to your lady dog's food every day it stops the dead patches of grass. I once heard it as a snippit on the radio and tried it. I don't know why it works but it does seem to. Never had a male dog so I can't comment on the effect on him.

It was traditional in the Yorkshire woollen district for women to P in a bucket and this was used to clean and 'full' the wool. Male urine was not used at all.

[adekun]

My mother-in-law would never approve.

[the.fee.fairy]

It was traditional in the Yorkshire woollen district for women to P in a bucket and this was used to clean and 'full' the wool. Male urine was not used at all.

I was watching the lovely Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall last night, and he used his own urine to felt wool.

hmm...the lovely HFW...