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Chris wrote:

On Jan 22, 1:20*am, (EVP MAN) wrote:
Save your money on expensive compost starters. *Beer and human urine
work wonders as a compost activator. *While I don't enjoy wasting money
by dumping beer into the composter, *I found it best to drink the beer
and then urinate into your composter. *This method really gets things
cooking! *It's best to either **** in a empty gallon milk jug and add it
to the compost OR **** into the composter after dark and late at night
when most neighbors are in bed sleeping. *After all, *we don't want to
**** off any of our neighbors now do we? *While some people may consider
urine wast matter, *it's packed full of vitamins, minerals and loaded
with nitrogen! *Sooooooo, *that also makes ****ing on your garden fine
also. *I do this while my garden is at rest and before it's planted the
following spring. *I do stop this practice a month before planting time
after which I till the soil after adding further amendments. *Shake it
easy and give your garden what mother nature has provided

In fact, there are no vitamins in urine. They have all been absorbed
in the digestive tract, unless you are taking megadoses of water-
soluble vitamins. There are also few if any minerals, since you
reabsorb virtually 100% of the sodium, chloride, calcium, magnesium,
manganese, and every other important ion. Look up any decent text on
kidney function, and see what gets reabsorbed in the proximal and
distal tubules of the nephron.

Unless, of course, you are taking a diuretic.


But yes, human urine contains significant of nitrogen in the form of
urea. I can think of better ways of adding nitrogen to my garden,
though.

What's better than "free", or are you saving it for . . . ?

Chris
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