Using urine as fertilizer

i am throwing my used cat litter into my garden

wood-pellet litter with solid waste strained out

nothing at all will grow in the soil that's out there now

[hoping for berries next year]

 

make sure it's just berries, no other food crops!

Cat litter has some very nasty things in it, like lysteria.

I would also make make sure you cover that stuff so it can't splash up.

Predator poo is a nasty thing.

 

i have been breathing the urine-soaked dust from cat litter for more years than i can count

it is everywhere

 

i had meant to mention this in your daikon thread but a trip to the grocery store so depressed me that i am unable to speak or even think about produce

[laughing smiley here]

 

hey, i won't get into it too much, but suffice to say that every organic blog/book/magazine I know of mentions cat litter specifically as a big no-no for food crops.

add to that: raw wood will take a long time to decompose. As it breaks down, it will pull nitrogen out of your soil.

I would consider composting the cat litter separately, and only using that for ornamentals. To do what you are doing safely you need tall berry bushes, and you need to bury that stuff deep.

My daikons are getting huge, by the way! I'm letting them go until we get a hard freeze. They are mulched up and cozy.

 

hopefully something will grow, if not, nothing grows there now

one of the main reasons i am hot on berries is we have obnoxious children playing in front of the house [it is a 'back house']

hopefully flower and fruit will attract hordes of stinging insects so we might get some peace and quiet next summer

 

I wouldn't count on that strategy paying off!

i use a sleep sound generator from hammacher schlemmer. works like a charm, and not just for sleeping. It's very good at washing out children's cries.

 

none of my strategies have EVER paid off...

 

I'm up surfing, reading thru all of this and this last bit has finally been enough. I'm ROFLMAO!!!


Cause I know that feeling!:cheers2:

 

that beer smiley is giving me an idea

[a urine-producing idea!]

 

Interesting alternative to my compost box...

 

not at all.

Nothing beats compost. Nothing. If you have lots of carbon rich material, however, you can use urine to kickstart the process. That's why cow manure composts so well. The cows pee all over it. A great way to reduce your environmental impact is to compost dead leaves and urine.

Also, if you are vermicomposting, worms won't like pee.