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Mike Lyle · 15-07-2010, 09:34 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

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In article
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Dave Hill wrote:
On 15 July, 16:42, Derek Turner wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:39:31 +0200, David in Normandy wrote:
I vaguely recall urea is the main constituent of pee? I'm sure
someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

pedant You're wrong: the main constituent is water! /pedant

As I want to use it on around 1/2 an acre I don't intend drinking all
that much.
Pee might be OK for a small patch, but no way am I going round the
neighbourhood collecting from the neighbours.
There are enough people who come on here who take the p....

Yes, we're all good Ureapeons :-)

Returning, however, to our muttons, I Wikipeed, and found that
applications normally varied from 40 to 300 kg per ha, and it's "not
compatible with other fertilisers". So clearly some technical knowledge
is required here! I imagine one of the gumbie websites, such as DEFRA or
one of the Universities (Reading, Aberystwyth, Royal Ag Coll., etc),
would help...just remembered that Purdue in the US is very good on
agrihorty stuff.

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Mike.